uPortal 4.3.2

Brings some Security and Accessibility fixes backported from uPortal 5.

For a full list of changes see uportal-4.3.1...uportal-4.3.2

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 10

Milestone 10 brings a full upgrade to Spring 4, a new search results API and UI, as well as performance improvements to Gradle build.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 9

Milestone 9 brings fixes to jGroups configuration, allowing use with PostgresSQL, and decreasing time to join a cluster.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 8

Milestone 8 moves the less variables stylesheet to common, simplifying skinning process.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 7

Milestone 7 allows the CONFIGURE permission to be modified from the portlet manager, allows configuring the database from Spring properties, and new provides more generous default caching settings.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 6

Milestone 6 brings improved default caching configuration, and fixes to jGroups that allow use with MS SQL server.
In addition the bundled portlets have been updated bringing improved database configuration.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 5

Milestone 5 adds a graceful fallback mechanism that attempts to generate a displayName and username for a person if those values are not provided.

Issues with missing displayName and username have historically been among the most common troubleshooting topics on the uportal-user list.

uPortal 5.0.0 Milestone 4

Milestone 4 brings support for adding a uPortal skin from uPortal-start.

uPortal 4.3.1

Summary

Version 4.3.1 is a maintenance release of uPortal 4.3. It has been six months since the release of 4.3.0, and there are a large number of updates. In total, 32 JIRA tickets are resolved in this release. The vast majority of these are bug fixes, tasks, and modest improvements to existing features.

Addresses CVE-2016-1000257 (an open redirect vulnerability).

Highlights

• 14 Bugs
• 8 Improvements
• 3 Tasks

uPortal 4.3.0

Version 4.3.0 is the newest minor release of uPortal, and it is the product of a significant amount of brand new work. A total of 122 JIRA issues resolved or closed for this release, including 96 that are not a part of the 4.2.2 (or any other) release. If I had to sum up this release in one word, it would be this one: "Polish." uPortal 4.3.0 brings a large number of performance enhancements, improvements to user experience, and bug fixes. uPortal 4.3 also includes support for Java 8 & Tomcat 8.

Highlights

• Support for Java 8
• Support for Tomcat 8
• Addresses a potential security vulnerability (https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP-4643)
• Ability to manage BROWSE permission in the Portlet Manager
• Performance fixes & improvements for permissions evaluation & JPA PAGS
• Numerous improvements to the Tenant Manager
• Portlet Marketplace improvements
• New & updated REST APIs
• Ad hoc PAGS groups (based on membership/non-membership in other groups)
• Fixes & improvements to Respondr
• Updates to "Hover" Chrome (options for no-chrome portlets)
• New menu for small displays, plus optional "flyout" menues (like Universality offered)
• Allow fragment owners to manage fragment layouts regardless of restrictions
• Update Bootstrap to version 3.3.5
• Version updates to the bundled CAS and several bundled portlets