[Building Sakai] Profile2 1.4.5 release announcement

Mon Nov 21 01:31:06 PST 2011

Hi Steve,

I tried the upgrade. It worked perfectly on my laptop. I went to the
test server. When I upgraded, on startup I'm getting errors. However,
when I reverted back to 1.4.3, tomcat starts up fine and profile 2 is
working. 

I am attaching the stack trace. 

Regards,

Nguni

From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 6:38 AM
To: sakai-dev at collab. org; production List;
announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Profile2 1.4.5 release announcement

I am pleased to announce the 1.4.5 release of Profile2.

Release Date:

21st November 2011

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 2.8, 2.9

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/profile2-1.4.5/docs/da
tabase/

In addition, if you are upgrading from Sakai 2.7 or Profile2 1.3 there
are database conversion scripts you need to run. For migrating from
Sakai 2.7, run the normal database migration scripts.

Availability:

SVN: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/profile2/tags/profile2-1.4.5/

Binaries: 
https://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/profile2/

Deployers running Sakai 2.8 should perform the following steps to
upgrade:

1. Update the <sakai.profile2.version> in $SAKAI_SRC/master/pom.xml to
1.4.5

2. Remove profile2-help-X.jar and profile2-api-X.jar from
$CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib (where X represents older version numbers)

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

4. Apply any database patches as necessary

Deployers building from source should perform the following steps:

1. Checkout the 1.4.5 tag using the SVN link above

2. Remove profile2-help-X.jar and profile2-api-X.jar from
$CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib (where X represents older version numbers)

3. Build and deploy the 1.4.5 tag

4. Apply any database patches as necessary

Highlights:

This is a recommended maintenance upgrade for anyone running the 1.4
series of Profile2. Of note is that the conversion process has been
improved to allow the import of profiles from a CSV file, for easy
migration of user information into the Sakai CLE.

For full details of the features and fixes in this release, see:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=
10500&fixfor=12549

And as always, for full installation and configuration instructions,
see:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2

Acknowledgements:

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

Christian Bond

Ivan Ho

License:

Profile2 is released under the Educational Community License Version 2.0

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