[WG: Sakai QA] sakai-2.8.0-rc01 available (use Tomcat 5.5.33)

[Anthony Whyte]

The sakai-2.8.0-rc01 release candidate is now available.  QA admins supporting the 2.8 release should provision their servers with the new tag at their earliest convenience as another test fest will be held on Friday, 25 Feb. 2011.


TAG

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.8.0-rc01/


2.8.0 RELEASE BRANCH

2.8.x has been branched to a 2.8.0 branch in order to prep for the final release.  This includes updating pom versions for "non-indie" projects such as assignments, osp and rwiki from 2.8-SNAPSHOT to 2.8.0.  

The two branches are sync'd as of r89041.  From this point onwards, 2.8.x will begin to diverge from the 2.8.0 release branch since only release blockers will be merged from trunk to the latter branch.  The 2.8.x branch poms will continue to be versioned as 2.8-SNAPSHOT for the life of the branch, per current Sakai versioning conventions.  The final release will be cut from the 2.8.0 release branch.

Indie releases such as basiclit, msgcntr, profile2 and samigo utilize the Maven release plugin to generate their releases and do not require separate release branches.


TOMCAT 5.5.33 UPGRADE

Please deploy this tag to Tomcat 5.5.33.

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi


DEMO

The sakai-2.8.0-rc01 demo *.zip/tar.gz archives include Tomcat 5.5.33.

cd sakai-2.8.0-rc01
mvn -Ppack-demo install

Generated demo archives will be found here: sakai-2.8.0-rc01/pack/pack-demo


KNOWN ISSUES (NON-SECURITY)

1. Site caching: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-652

Site caching is not working properly and appears to be an issue of long standing, affecting the Sakai CLE from version 2.5.0 onwards.  A fix has been provided by the University of Michigan and is in production at UCT.  However, the kernel team is divided on whether or not the the fix should be applied so late in the kernel-1.2.0/sakai-2.8.0 release cycle.  As a result the fix is not included in rc01 although it could be applied to later pre-release tags or bumped to 2.8.1.  

Production data relative to the fix is rather thin at present.  UCT has been running the code in production for approximately 10 days with no reported negative effects but is currently unable to ascertain if the patch actually addresses the caching issues.  The University of Michigan is at present not in a position to provide useful test results on their patch before the end of March.

2. Hibernate index generation failures; example: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-546

Hibernate 3.2.7.ga stubbornly refuses to generate defined indexes for auto-generated (auto.ddl=true) 2.8.0 databases.  This is not new to 2.8.  Seth and I have also noticed instances where Hibernate also ignores column NOT NULL attributes.  I plan to create a supplementary conversion script that will include at a minimum the missing index statements.

3. Conversion scripts: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19088 

The conversion scripts require a final round of testing.

4.  Post-2.80-rc01 fixes: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12536

These fixes were committed after sakai-2.8.0-rc01 was tagged.

5. 2x open blockers: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12708

Note: only SAK-19945, SAK-19088 (both conversion script testing tickets) and POLLS-137 (discovered late last night) are items of interest.

6. 2x open critical tickets: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12709


TAG INFO (Indie versions, 2.8 team leads).

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/sakai-2.8.0-rc01/


NEXT TAG

8/9 March 2011 (if necessary)


RELEASE DATE 

31 March 2011 (tentative)


Cheers,

Anthony


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