[Deploying Sakai] Release announcement: Profile2 v1.3.11

[Warwick Chapman]

Will this make it into 2.7.1?

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am proud to announce a new release of Profile2 in the 1.3 series.
>
> *Version:*
> Profile2 1.3.11
>
> *Description:*
> Profile2 is a complete re-design and re-development of the existing Profile
> tool in Sakai. It gives you more of a Facebook style interface for editing
> your profile.
> In addition you have a comprehensive set of Privacy controls to allow you
> to choose who can see what part(s) of your Profile.
>
> With Profile2 you can post updates (integrated with Twitter), search for
> people with common interests, view their profiles, view their connections,
> add them as a connection, and much more.
>
> Profile2 can be run seamlessly alongside the existing profile in Sakai and
> integrates with the Roster tool.
>
> *Works with:*
> Sakai 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
>
> *Database upgrade:*
> There is no database upgrade required that is specific to this release.
> However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 1.3.9, you will
> need to apply the relevant upgrade script for 1.3.9 that is located in the
> /docs/database
> directory of the source code, or from here for those using the automatic
> binary installation:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/profile2/tags/profile2-1.3.11/docs/database/
>
> Please note that a bug in the Oracle version of this upgrade script,
> present in 1.3.9, has been fixed so you should use the version bundled in
> the 1.3.10 release or later.
>
> *Availability:*
> SVN: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/profile2/tags/profile2-1.3.11/
> Binaries:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/profile2/
>
> Deployers running Sakai 2.7 should perform the following steps to upgrade:
> 1. Update the <sakai.profile2.version> in $SAKAI_SRC/master/pom.xml to
> 1.3.11
> 2. Remove profile2-help-*.jar and profile2-api-*.jar from
> $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib
> 3. Rebuild/redeploy the core-deploy project to fetch the new release and
> install it into Tomcat
> 4. Apply the database patch
>
> Deployers building from source should perform the following steps:
> 1. Checkout the 1.3.11 tag using the SVN link above
> 2. Remove profile2-help-*.jar and profile2-api-*.jar from
> $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib
> 3. Build and deploy the 1.3.11 tag
> 4. Apply the database patch
>
> *Highlights:*
> This is an essential upgrade for users of the 1.3 series as it addresses an
> issue with the searching capabilities, present in kernel 1.0.18 and later.
> It also adds a Simplified Chinese translation.
>
> For full details of the features and fixes in this release, see:
>
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10500&fixfor=11872
>
> And as always, for full installation and configuration instructions, see:
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2
>
> *Known issues:*
> None
>
> *Acknowledgements:*
> Thanks to the following Sakai community members (in no particular order)
> for their involvement in this release:
>
> Gao Jun (Fudan University, China) - translations
> Johan Zaxmy (University of Skövde, Sweden) - bug reports
>
> *License:*
> Profile2 is released under the Educational Community License Version 2.0
>
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