[Announcements] Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release available

[Pieter Hartsook]

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Release Date: 15 October 2009

The Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release provides a set of bug fixes, language/locale updates and performance enhancements that improve upon the Sakai 2.6.0 release. Over 200 issues have been addressed by 2.6.1. Roughly half involve bug fixes while the remainder involve textual updates to language translation property bundles. In particular, important fixes have been applied to the assignment, chat, portfolio, Tests & Quizzes and site-manage modules while updates for Catalan, French, Russian, Spanish and Swedish translations have also been provided.

Sakai 2.6.1 utilizes core service updates provided in the recent Sakai kernel (K1) 1.0.12 maintenance release. Portfolio users will appreciate a performance enhancement made to the kernel's ContentHostingService that reduces portfolio assembly times (see http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14165).  For all the changes in (K1) 1.0.12 see -  <http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL/fixforversion/11551

Documentation and Overview
Sakai 2.6.1 Documentation (Overview, Installation, Configuration, etc.) is available at: <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6>

Source
The source Tag for 2.6.1 is available from Subversion at:  <https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.6.1/>

Demo, binary, source artifacts:
Links for these are available in the Downloads section at: http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.6.1/

Older versions of Sakai
Users of pre-2.5 versions of Sakai are strongly encouraged to update to the Sakai Community-supported Sakai 2.6.1 or Sakai 2.5.5 releases** in order to take advantage of the feature, performance and security enhancements provided by the Sakai 2.5 and Sakai 2.6 series.

The Sakai open source community develops, tests, and maintains the code for all Sakai releases. For the most current release and the immediate prior release, the Sakai Foundation uses its resources to oversee and manage the development, QA testing, patching, and releasing of incremental numbered versions.

For earlier versions, the Foundation no longer provides this oversight and coordination of the community contribution to the codebase. This does not mean that these earlier versions are not used and maintained by some institutions in the community, they are. Institutions running an older version may of course continue to do so, applying patches, bug fixes, and enhancements as they wish. These modifications are committed to the Sakai SVN code repository and are available for others to use if they wish. But the Foundation does not coordinate testing or validation of the code changes, and does not create a concomitant roll-up into an incremental release.

**see the previous Announcement email (7/23/2009) for details on the 2.6.0  and 2.5.5 release: Sakai 2.6 and 2.5.5. Release Announcements

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