[Announcements] Sakai CLE Polls 1.3.12 released

[David Horwitz]

A new version of Polls  1.3 has been released.  This is primarily a bug-fix release aimed at supporting production deployments at the University of Michigan and Cape Town

Version:
polls-1.3.12

Highlights:
This is a maintenance release that includes bug fixes that may be desirable to the community.

For full details of fixes in this release, see:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10582&version=12188

For general info, see:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/POLL/Home  <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/nxMQB>


Works with:
Sakai 2.7  (tested against sakai-2.7.x)



Database upgrade:
There is no database upgrade required that is specific to this release.  <https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msgcntr/tags/msgcntr-2.7.4/messageforums-hbm/src/sql/mysql>


Availability:
Tag: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/polls/tags/polls-1.3.12/

Binaries:http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/polls/  <http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/msgcntr/>

2.7.x maintenance branch deploys msgcntr-2.7.4 as of r90848.

Installation:

I. Deployers running Sakai 2.7 should perform the following steps to upgrade:
1. Update the property<sakai.polls.version>  in $SAKAI_SRC/master/pom.xml to 1.3.12
2. Remove the following Polls folders and files from Tomcat:

                     $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
                   polls-too.war
                  /polls-tool

                    $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib/
                  polls-api-*.jar
                  polls-hbm-*.jar
                  polls-help-*.jar

                   $CATALINA_HOME/components
                 /polls-pack

3. Rebuild/redeploy the core-deploy project to fetch the new release and install it into Tomcat


II. Deployers building from source should perform the following steps:
1. Checkout the 1.3.12 tag using the SVN link above
2. Remove the Message and Forums folders and files from Tomcat as described ABOVE.
3. Build and deploy the 1.3.12 tag


Known issues:
None

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to the following Sakai community members (in no particular order) for their involvement in this release:

Development/QA/Release
Alan Berg, Sakai Foundation
Anthony Whyte, Sakai Foundation
Steve Swinsberg, ANU
David Horwitz, UCT
Matthew Buckett, Oxford
Jean-François Lévêque, UPMC
Zhen Qian, UMICH
Gao Jun, Fudan


License:
Polls is released under the Educational Community License Version 2.0

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