Re: uPortal 3.0.0-RC2 Release Announcement

Congrats Eric, and great job to everyone involved...

Eric Dalquist wrote:
>
> JA-SIG is proud to announce the release of uPortal 3.0.0 Release
> Candidate 2. This is the second release in the uPortal 3.0.0 line
> based on the core uPortal code base and the first 3.0.0 release
> candidate based on the core uPortal code base. Full release notes are
> available http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0.0+RC2^ along with
> a uPortal 3.0 release overview
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0^
>
> This release includes the following new features and fixes:
>
>     * 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.
>
> Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All

> Release^ <http://www.uportal.org/release/allReleases.html> page. The

> generated Maven site which includes JavaDocs and other interesting is
> available as well:
> http://developer.ja-sig.org/projects/uportal/3.0.0-RC2/^
>
> This Release Candidate is Feature Complete. At this point the only
> changes that will be made before a General Audience release are bug
> fixes. I would encourage everyone to try the release and please file

> bugs that you find in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker^
> <http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10020&issuetype=1&Next%3E%3E=Next%3E%3E>

>
> 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.
>
> uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer,
> -Eric Dalquist
>

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