[Deploying Sakai] Release announcement: Profile2 v1.3.9

[Steve Swinsburg]

I am very pleased to announce a new release of Profile2 in the 1.3 series.

Version:
Profile2 1.3.9

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:
This release requires a minor database upgrade. You will need to apply the relevant upgrade script 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/profile2-1.3.9/docs/database/

Availability:
	SVN: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/profile2/tags/profile2-1.3.9/
	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 1.3.9
		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 1.3.9 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 1.3.9 tag
		4. Apply the database patch

Highlights:
This is an essential upgrade for users of the 1.3 series as it contains a critical fix to the Twitter integration. 
For more details on this resolved issue, see: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-94

This release also contains a number of internationalisation enhancements including a French and Indonesian translation bundle, 
an updated Dutch translation, as well as a number of important accessibility improvements.

For full details of the features and fixes in this release, see:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10500&fixfor=11870

And as always, for full installation and configuration instructions, see:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2

Known issues:
Since this release changes the Twitter behaviour, user's will need to re-link their Twitter account in the Preferences page of Profile2 (PRFL-94)

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

Mark Breuker (LOI) - Dutch translation
Jean-François Lévêque (UPMC) - French translation
Frédéric Dooremont (UL) - French translation
Denny (ANU) - Indonesian translation
Brian Richwine (Indiana) - accessibility review
Mary Stores (Indiana) - accessibility review
Adrian Fish (Lancaster) - bug fixes
Chris Dunstall (CSU) - testing

License:
Profile2 is released under the Educational Community License Version 2.0

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