Sakai 2.5.0 Update: Official Release Week of 10 March 2008

[Peter Knoop]

Greetings,

The official release of Sakai 2.5.0 is being delayed to the week of 10
March 2008 due to continuing complications in upgrading our build
management software.  As a result of the delay we will also be
incorporating a few recently added performance improvements in to the
release.  These and several other fixes, which have been tested in
production at several universities, have been added to the 2.5.x
maintenance branch:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/branches/sakai_2-5-x/

We will likely provide another release candidate RC3 from this branch on
Monday, which will incorporate these fixes, while we continue to work on
the build management process.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

-peter
Sakai Project Coordinator

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Knoop, Peter
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:08 AM
> Subject: Sakai 2.5.0 Update: Official Release Week of 3 March 2008
>
> The official release of Sakai 2.5.0 is being delayed to the week of 3
> March 2008 due to unforeseen complications in upgrading our build
> management software.  In the meantime, a second release candidate for
> Sakai 2.5.0 is now available from the Sakai source repository:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-0_RC02a
>
> This release candidate incorporates 26 additional bug fixes since the
> last release candidate, eliminates all remaining blocking issues
> associated with the functionality of the release itself, and will be
> very close, if not identical, to the official 2.5.0 release.  At this
> point we are simply working on the mechanics of and documentation for
> the release.  Indeed, the University of Cape Town has been running
> Sakai 2.5 in production since it became available as a beta release,
> and has contributed a great deal of assistance and leadership in
> vetting the release and managing the 2.5.x branch.
>
> For an overview of new and enhanced functionality in Sakai 2.5, please
> see:
>
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/R5E
>
> For a more detailed view, you can also check out the "Sakai 2.5.0"
> filters in Jira, our issue management system:
>
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira
>
> Where you will note that so far the Sakai development community has
> addressed over 1200 bugs and completed over 300 enhancements for the
> 2.5 release.  There are also currently 306 unresolved bugs affecting
> Sakai 2.5, and I'm sure we'll continue to get new bug reports,
> however, for those that do not have the resources to follow along and
> locally incorporate bug fixes from the 2.5.x maintenance branch, there

> will be maintenance releases.  The maintenance releases will be tagged

> from the maintenance branch at periodic intervals, with the first one
> likely to be released in April or May.  The maintenance branch and
> releases will be maintained for Sakai 2.5 for a period of two-years
> after it is release, or longer, if there is sufficient community
interest.
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
>
> -peter
> Sakai Project Coordinator

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