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Academus 2.1

Why Upgrade to Academus 2.1?

To gain the benefits of improved stability, robustness, and supportability, achieved by adopting a better underlying uPortal and a number of Academus-specific improvements.

Academus 2.1

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Improvements in Academus 2.1 are cumulative with those in Academus 2.0.8

Academus 2.1 includes the fixes and improvements in the patches to Academus 2.0.0 through Academus 2.0.8. If you are considering upgrading to Academus 2.1 from Academus 1.5, see all of the great enhancements in Academus 2.0.

Academus 2.1 is built on a better uPortal

Academus 2.1 contains the latest available general-audience release of uPortal as of its release, uPortal 2.5.3.

Among the specific improvements achieved by this upgrade are:

  • Improved JSR-168 support including support for expiration caching and improved performance and robustness
  • Java 5 support
  • Memory leak fixes
  • WSRP consumption support
  • Core performance enhancements
  • Greater stability and robustness
  • Improved data access performance
  • Improved logging
  • Improved APIs for development of custom IChannels

Academus 2.1 uses Java 5 and Tomcat 5.5

Upgrading the versions of these two software applications improves performance and monitorability.

Academus 2.1 aligns your portal with opensource uPortal 2.6

Unicon is making available the changes to uPortal itself present in Academus 2.1 to the uPortal opensource project for inclusion in uPortal 2.6. This is intended to re-align Academus and uPortal making uPortal development, conversation, insight, and support more applicable to Academus instances. While you will continue to benefit from Unicon Academus support and access to Unicon developers, you will be more empowered than ever before to supplement that support with self-service activities in the JA-SIG uPortal community.

Academus 2.1 support will be offered under the exciting new Unicon Cooperative Support Program

In keeping with improved alignment of the Academus software with opensource uPortal, Academus support after June 2006 will align better with uPortal support. A model of bundled hours along with opportunity to purchase additional hours of support helps to align the level and amount of service provided with each institution's local needs. Institutions needing only pointed support on rare issues will be able to control support costs and even apply efforts to directed development of the platform. Institutions needing broader or more thorough support will be able to scale up support activities as needed. In general Academus customers will be empowered to obtain from Unicon the support they need and to forgo support that they do not need.

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