[WG: Sakai QA] sakai-2.8.0-rc02 now available

Anthony Whyte arwhyte at umich.edu
Fri Mar 11 05:15:31 PST 2011


The sakai-2.8.0-rc02 release candidate is now available.  It includes all fixes merged to the 2.8.x branch as of r89671 as well as a number of fixes made to core Indie tools.  Spanish message bundles have also been updated.  QA admins supporting the 2.8 release should provision their servers with the new tag at their earliest convenience.


TAG

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.8.0-rc02/


SERVLET CONTAINER: TOMCAT 5.5.33

Please deploy this tag to Tomcat 5.5.33: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi


DEMO

The sakai-2.8.0-rc02 demo *.zip/tar.gz archives include Tomcat 5.5.33.

cd sakai-2.8.0-rc02
mvn -Ppack-demo install

Generated demo archives will be found here: sakai-2.8.0-rc02/pack/pack-demo


KNOWN ISSUES

1.  2x open blockers: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12708

sakai-rc02 

2. 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 rc02 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.

3. Supplementary "CREATE INDEX" conversion scripts for tools using Hibernate: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20005

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've created supplementary conversion scripts that will include at a minimum the missing index statements.  However, not all tools have been fully audited yet.

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

The conversion scripts require another round of testing.

5.  Automatic file encoding detections: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-589

Patches have been supplied by Sam Ottenhoff; one remains to be tested before being committed to kernel trunk and merged to kernel-1.2.x.

6. Deprecate and/or remove WAS project and Db2 scripts:  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20243

Currently the Websphere/DB2 option for the Sakai CLE 2.8.0 is unsupported.  The TCC is currently discussing deprecation as well as the possibility of removal of the WAS module from the sakai-2.8.0 release.


TAG INFO (Indie versions, 2.8 team leads).

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/sakai-2.8.0-rc02/


NEXT TAG

23/24 March 2011 (if necessary)


RELEASE DATE 

31 March 2011 (tentative)


Cheers,

Anthony
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