Released Apr 17, 2008

3.0.0 GA announcement JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.0. uPortal 3.0.0 GA is the culmination of a significant effort by many people in the uPortal community to take a revolutionary step with the uPortal code base. Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview. The release notes page includes links to the milestone and two release candidates that preceded this GA release. This release includes the following new features and fixes: A standard project structure and build management system using Maven 2 with Ant utility scripts. Use of the Pluto 1.1 portlet container which provides future-proofing for eventual JSR-286 support. A single Spring application context with much of the portal application configuration residing in this context. Database import and export utilities using Cernunnos scripts. Thanks to Andrew Wills from Unicon for this work. A new theme and skin along with a more understandable directory structure for layout and skin related files. The new skin is also using jQuery to provide drag and drop features which are enabled by default. Thanks to Gary Thompson from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. Layout cache friendly dynamic title support for channels and portlets. Dynamic titles for channels and portlets work on every render now. Thanks to Nick Bolton from Unicon for this work. Quickstart generation scripts. Quickstart generation is now as simple as running an Ant task. Consistent cache scheme and configuration based on Spring-Modules Caching API. Most existing dynamic caches have been converted to use the new API and it is currently backed by EHCache though other caching frameworks can easily be used. CAS 3.2 is bundled with uPortal and is used as the default authentication mechanism. Thanks to Scott Battaglia from Rutgers, Andrew Petro from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. CAS Proxy tickets are available to JSR-168 portlets as a user attribute. Thanks to Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. New default content that provides a better first-impression and demonstration of the uPortal framework. Over 150 bugs, improvements, new features, and tasks resolved since 2.6 Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All Release page. JavaDocs and developer-centric materials are available on the project's Maven site This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable. A more press-release centric announcement will follow tomorrow on the uportal-user and other lists along with the uPortal web-site and other locations. uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer, -Eric Dalquist

Release Summary

Enhancements in 3.0.0 not present in any 2.6.x release

• Maven 2 build management system which provides dependency management, build, test, and packaging functionality. An integrated Ant build script is also included to support all of the necessary Ant tasks from previous uPortal versions.
• A single, consolidated Spring application context has been created and all new development for the framework is being done in a managed Inversion of Control fashion. This includes refactoring of some uPortal service classes and factories to provide the implementations via the Spring application context.
• Deprecated code removal. Much of the code marked as deprecated in uPortal 2.6 has been removed and legacy static factory classes are being marked as deprecated where appropriate.
• Aggregated Layout Manager (ALM) has been removed from the uPortal 3.0 code base. The ALM code has been moved into the contrib directory in version control to allow interested parties to continue development against the code.
• Switch to the stand alone Person Directory library. The Person Directory code has been removed from uPortal and replaced with the API compatible stand-alone version of the code.
• Upgraded to Pluto 1.1. This change involved removing and re-writing all JSR-168 portlet support code. This change provides more complete portlet support and aligns uPortal with the Pluto JSR-286 work.
• Refactored rendering pipeline and channel rendering management code removing many instance scoped variables in favor of request attributes.
• Moved all URL processing code into a dedicated request parameter processing pipeline which executes before the rendering pipeline starts.
• A new XHTML/CSS based theme and skin that has a straight-forward directory and file structure.
• Revised default content that better demonstrates the features and functionality of uPortal.

Enhancements in 3.0.0 that may also appear in a 2.6.x release

• Data import and export tools. Andrew Wills has provided Cernunnos based scripts to import and export all uPortal data. These scripts provide a data migration patch when upgrading between versions of uPortal including uPortal 2.5 or 2.6 to 3.0

Bugs known to afflict uPortal 3.0.0 GA

JASIG Issue Tracker (47 issues)
Pr	Key	Summary
	UP-2088	ProxyServlet fails to return when remote content-type check fails
	UP-2041	NPE from template user change after a user has previously logged in
	UP-2113	jsr168_portlet_spec.css in uPortal3 theme contains conflicting style
	UP-2109	Portlets fail to render if charactrer caching is disabled
	UP-2101	ChannelRuntimeData.isRenderingAsRoot() method returns wrong value the first time a channel is rendered.
	UP-2099	Portlet titles are not rendering consistently
	UP-2070	Portlet chrome displays incorrectly in IE
	UP-2019	Importing existing layouts fails to properly update them
	UP-1965	Reducing the number of columns "loses" unremovable and unmovable channels from the layout
	UP-155	download worker does not handle timed out session
	UP-2028	Storing portlet preferences fails over SSL
	UP-2033	uPortal-3.0.0-quick-start doesn't start when CATALINA_HOME is set
	UP-2104	NullPointerException thrown in org.jasig.portal.portlet.session.PortletSessionExpirationManager when portlet times out
	UP-2092	PortalHttpServletRequest Causes StackOverflow When RemoteUserPersonManager is Configured
	UP-2085	Fix import-entity-type.crn so that imported entity types exist in memory as well as DB
	UP-2083	crn-export of type user-prefs fails
	UP-2082	crn-export of type layout syntax error
	UP-2076	Include JSR-168 portlet spec CSS
	UP-2072	MapCachingDoubleCheckedCreator never adds created obects to Map
	UP-2064	Restore CacheLdapSecurityContext
	UP-2063	AJAX menu radio buttons unselectable in IE6
	UP-2061	uP_args not encoded when redirected by LoginServlet
	UP-2051	SimpleLdapSecurityContext fails in up3
	UP-2037	Active tab does not change when interacting with the "Jump to" list.
	UP-2035	https URLs cause PortletSecurityException in PortletURL API
	UP-2034	loading.gif is missing
	UP-2026	MergingUserInfoService fails when a UserInfoService returns null
	UP-2024	Windows Extractor results in broken quickstart
	UP-1933	cw_person attributes not passed on every call to proxy
	UP-2107	car files in the default directory (WEB-INF/cars) do not work
	UP-2025	Google Search Portlet Drag & Drop Fails in Firefox & Safari
	UP-2069	PortletHttpRequestWrapper does not pass the most recent merged copy of the query string and the request parameters.
	UP-2043	uPortal-3.0.0 does not unzip to uPortal-3.0.0 folder
	UP-2086	User Manager Channel (password management) has an emply list when trying to change the selected user
	UP-2084	User Manager Channel (password management) barfs when used by an administrator who is not a local user
	UP-2081	Instructions for the portal log file misleading
	UP-2071	Setting locale in uPortal does not affect getLocale() in portlet
	UP-2059	AJAX channel adding UI fails to reload when a channel can't be instantiated
	UP-2058	Add content error after removing the first channel on a tab.
	UP-2055	Missing portlet app results in vauge NPE
	UP-2054	Missing portlet results in message at the start of page
	UP-2052	uPortal fails to start if there is a space in the file system path
	UP-2048	Setting server.webapps in build.properties has no effect
	UP-2038	Add Content popup always selects the first option in Safari 3.1.1
	UP-1891	Extra space in tester-class element in PAGSGroupStoreConfig.xml causes ClassNotFoundException
	UP-2067	inconsistent newlines
	UP-2057	UserInstanceManagerImpl incorrectly calls PersonManagerFactory

Issues addressed in uPortal 3.0.0 GA

(Note that this is in addition to issues addressed in uPortal 3.0.0 milestone 5, release candidate two, and release candidate three.)

JASIG Issue Tracker (44 issues)
T	Pr	Key	Summary
		UP-1988	Export then Import doesn't work
		UP-2018	AJAX Menus collapse in Internet Explorer
		UP-1971	Channel placement problem in focus mode
		UP-2021	PortletSessions are not invalidated when the portal's session is invalidated
		UP-2020	PortalApplicationContextLocator may not be threadsafe
		UP-2016	Newly created users are not in any group
		UP-2015	AdminNav channel fails to initialize
		UP-2014	Channel Manager presents About option for portlets
		UP-2013	ResourceLoader.getResourceAsFile fails on resources in the uPortal .jar
		UP-2010	User agents that don't map to a profile cause Programming Error
		UP-2007	Not all unit tests are run by maven
		UP-2006	Portlet prefrences are shared for guest users
		UP-2005	PortletContainerUtils should be an interface
		UP-2002	Revert Layout option has no affect
		UP-2001	export-user.crn does not honor template-users
		UP-2000	Revert to default layout fails
		UP-1999	User Locales selector fails
		UP-1996	Portlet Control Icons, i.e. minimize/Maximize/Confgiure/Edit/etc. do not appear in IE7 but do in Firefox
		UP-1995	Failed unit test does not cause build to fail
		UP-1992	Un-maintained i18n data causing incorrect channel titles
		UP-1991	Some channel entity xml files have inconsistent data
		UP-1990	CAS related stack trace during login
		UP-1987	Export scripts don't create file names similar to the packaged entity files
		UP-1986	channel-export.crn script fails on portlet preferences
		UP-1985	JDK6 compile targeted for 1.5 does not run on 1.5
		UP-1984	Channel Export fails with SQLException
		UP-1983	Missing link to move a channel to a different location in User Preferences channel
		UP-1979	JMX portal DataSource exposes too many fields
		UP-2017	Failed CAS login results in stack trace
		UP-1989	Layout export drops siblings of missing channels
		UP-1981	Layout changed when drop&drag content between columns
		UP-1980	Unable to add content on the "Browse Channels" tab of the "Add Content" window
		UP-1897	Re-evaluate the balance of duties between user- and layout-oriented scripts
		UP-2004	CasFilteredSecurityContext enhancements
		UP-1969	Better file names for exported entities
		UP-1936	Give uPortal DLM the ability to process URLs that target tabs directly
		UP-1710	Name default template user "template" with no personal layout content
		UP-2008	Some tests expose a JUnit TestSuite
		UP-2012	Ensure offline build/deploy/run works
		UP-2011	Review delete-* script functionality
		UP-2009	Remove custom JDBC pooling code
		UP-1978	Reorganize default layouts
		UP-1982	Include later versions of Oracle JDBC drivers in dbloader.xml
		UP-1973	Skin flyout and tab dropdown menus