[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release available

[Pieter Hartsook]

Release Date: 15 October 2009

The *Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release* provides a set of bug fixes,
language/locale updates and performance enhancements that improve upon the
Sakai 2.6.0 release. Over 200 issues have been addressed by 2.6.1. Roughly
half involve bug fixes while the remainder involve textual updates to
language translation property bundles. In particular, important fixes have
been applied to the assignment, chat, portfolio, Tests & Quizzes and
site-manage modules while updates for Catalan, French, Russian, Spanish and
Swedish translations have also been provided.

Sakai 2.6.1 utilizes core service updates provided in the recent Sakai
kernel (K1) 1.0.12 maintenance release. Portfolio users will appreciate a
performance enhancement made to the kernel's ContentHostingService
that reduces portfolio assembly times (see
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14165).  For all the changes in (K1)
1.0.12 see -  <http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL/fixforversion/11551

*Documentation and Overview*
Sakai 2.6.1 Documentation (Overview, Installation, Configuration, etc.) is
available at: <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6>

*Source*
The source Tag for 2.6.1 is available from Subversion at:
<https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.6.1/<https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.6.1/>
>

* Demo, binary, source artifacts:*
Links for these are available in the Downloads section
at:http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/
2.6.1/

*Older versions of Sakai*
Users of *pre-2.5 versions* of Sakai are strongly encouraged to update to
the Sakai Community-supported Sakai 2.6.1 or Sakai 2.5.5 releases** in order
to take advantage of the feature, performance and security enhancements
provided by the Sakai 2.5 and Sakai 2.6 series.

The Sakai open source community develops, tests, and maintains the code for
all Sakai releases. For the most current release and the immediate prior
release, the Sakai Foundation uses its resources to oversee and manage the
development, QA testing, patching, and releasing of incremental numbered
versions.

For earlier versions, the Foundation no longer provides this oversight and
coordination of the community contribution to the codebase. This does not
mean that these earlier versions are not used and maintained by some
institutions in the community, they are. Institutions running an older
version may of course continue to do so, applying patches, bug fixes, and
enhancements as they wish. These modifications are committed to the Sakai
SVN code repository and are available for others to use if they wish. But
the Foundation does not coordinate testing or validation of the code
changes, and does not create a concomitant roll-up into an incremental
release.

**see the previous Announcement email (7/23/2009) for details on the 2.6.0
and 2.5.5 release: Sakai 2.6 and 2.5.5. Release
Announcements<http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/announcements/2009-July/000071.html>
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