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Sakai 2.5 Final Release Planned For 18 Feb 2008

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jlewis | 02/13/08

According to Peter Knoop, Sakai Project Coordinator, the final release of Sakai 2.5 is now planned for 18 February 2008. This is after a much more rigorous set of betas and release candidates than Sakai has ever tested before. So far, JIRA indicates there are 328 new enhancements or features and 1,230 bugs have been found and fixed.

Some highlights from this new release:

  • Numerous improvements to usability, accessibility, and internationalization across the entire system
  • New XSLT-based portal layer available
  • New iFrame-less portal layer designed for mobile devices (smart phones / PDAs)
  • Site and Tool categorization capabilities
  • Initial support for JSR 170 (Java Content Repository) for the Content service
  • Login IDs can now be different from the Sakai EID
  • iCal export and import (no reoccurring events yet)
  • Test and Quizzes (Samigo) and OSP promoted from provisional to core status
  • Lots of added functionality in core tools like Roster, Schedule, Section Info, Resources, Assignments, Test & Quizzes (Samigo), Chat, Forums, Messages, Citation Helper, OSP, Help
  • Lots of added functionality in provisional tools like Data Warehouse, Linktool, Page Order Helper, Podcasts, Polls, and Search
  • Lots of performance and scalability enhancements

Full details on all the changes that are included in Sakai 2.5 are available here.

Sakai 2.5.0 delayed to the week of 3 March 2008.

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Submitted by apetro on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 10:54.

As Peter Knoop writes on the Sakai announcements email list:

The official release of Sakai 2.5.0 is being delayed to the week of 3 March 2008 due to unforeseen complications in upgrading our build management software. In the meantime, a second release candidate for Sakai 2.5.0 is now available from the Sakai source repository...

Sakai 2.5.0 delayed to week of 10 March 2008

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Submitted by apetro on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 12:38.

As Peter Knoop writes on the Sakai Announcements email list:

Greetings,

The official release of Sakai 2.5.0 is being delayed to the week of 10
March 2008 due to continuing complications in upgrading our build
management software. As a result of the delay we will also be
incorporating a few recently added performance improvements in to the
release. These and several other fixes, which have been tested in
production at several universities, have been added to the 2.5.x
maintenance branch:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/branches/sakai_2-5-x/

We will likely provide another release candidate RC3 from this branch on
Monday, which will incorporate these fixes, while we continue to work on
the build management process.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

-peter
Sakai Project Coordinator

Sakai 2.5.0 anticipated week of 24 March 2008

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Submitted by apetro on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 14:17.

As Peter Knoop writes on the Sakai announcements list:

Greetings,

The official release of Sakai 2.5.0 is anticipated for the week of 24
March 2008. Continuing complications in upgrading our build management
software have been the main cause for delay. As a fallback, and in
order to avoid further delays, we will manually build the release, if
necessary. We do not, however, anticipate making any further changes to
the code prior to the release, as the only remaining work is
build-related and has nothing to do with Sakai functionality. So the
last release candidate (2.5.0-rc4a), which was created earlier this
month, is essentially what the release will contain. You can obtain the
source code for it from the Sakai source repository:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-0_RC_04a

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

-peter
Sakai Project Coordinator