Sakai 2.5.0 Update: Official Release Week of 3 March 2008

[Peter Knoop]

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://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MGT/Sakai+2.5+Release+Hi
ghlights

OR

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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