[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.6.2 and 2.5.6 maintenance releases available

[Pieter Hartsook]

Release Date: 29 January 2010

The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce the latest maintenance release
for Sakai 2.6.x and 2.5.x.

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The *Sakai 2.6.2 maintenance release* provides a set of bug fixes that
improve upon the Sakai 2.6.1 release. Over 80 issues have been addressed by
2.6.2.

Fixes have been applied to the following tools/services: assignments,
blogger, citations, common, email archive, forums, messages, polls, post'em,
preferences, providers, schedule, search, section info, site info, sites,
syllabus and worksite setup.

   - *Sakai 2.6.2 Release Documentation* (Overview, Installation,
   Configuration, etc.) is on the wiki at: <
   http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6>
   - *Sakai 2.6.2 fixes* are listed with details at: <
   http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6.2+Fixes>
   - *Sakai 2.6.2 Release Artifacts* (source, binary and demo versions) are
   available at: <http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.6.2/>

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The *Sakai 2.5.6 maintenance release* provides a set of bug fixes and
security enhancements that improve upon Sakai 2.5.5. Over 130 issues have
been addressed in this release.

Fixes have been applied to the following tools/services: announcements,
assignments, blog, calendar, content service, entity service, entitybroker,
event service, forums, gradebook, mailtool, messages, post'em, polls,
portal, portfolios, profile, providers, reports, resources, roster, rwiki,
schedule, search, section info, site info, sites, syllabus, Test & Quizzes,
user service, web content, webdav and worksite setup.

   - *Sakai 2.5.6 Release Documentation* (Overview, Installation,
   Configuration, etc.) is on the wiki at:  <
   http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.5>
   - *Sakai 2.5.6 fixes* are listed with details at: <
   http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.5.6+Fixes>
   - *Sakai 2.5.6 Release Artifacts* (source, binary and demo versions) are
   available at: <http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.5.6/>

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*Older versions of Sakai*

Users of* pre-2.5* versions of Sakai are strongly encouraged to update to
the Sakai Community-supported Sakai 2.6.2 or Sakai 2.5.6 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.
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