Overview and summary of Open Source Support (OSS) performed by Unicon on behalf of its clients and the community.

1. Unicon Open Source Support
uPortal Briefing, Q1 2016
James Wennmacher/Unicon

2. Agenda
Releases
Sustaining Engineering
● Completed items
● In-progress items
● Current/Suggested priorities
Community Updates
● Events
Open Forum

3. Releases
● 4.2.2 - Apr 21 https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.2.2
○ Support for Java 8, Tomcat 8
○ Ability to manage BROWSE permission in the Portlet Manager
○ Performance fixes & improvements for JPA PAGS
○ Security fixes
● 4.3.0 - Apr 24 https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.3.0
○ Above, plus more performance improvements
○ Portlet Marketplace improvements
○ New & updated REST APIs, esp. /api/v4-3/dlm/layout.json
○ Ad hoc PAGS groups (based on membership/non-membership in
other groups)
○ Better web mobile experience (move, hover chrome, off-canvas menu)
○ Optional "flyout" menus (like Universality offered)
○ Allow fragment owners to manage fragment layouts regardless of
restrictions
○ Single build: Portal and bundled portlets use property overrides files

4. Demo
● Mobile Web improvements

5. uPortal Completed Items
● UP-4483: Poor SQL Performance for DB-based PAGS
● UP-4566: Search fails when you have a lot of portlets
● UP-4459: Manage Portlets Ad-hoc PAGS UI
● UP-4610: Tenant Management data in quickstart
● UP-4615: Tenant layout owners see other tenant’s portlets
● UP-4626: Enhance import/export for
<portlet>fname</portlet> for permissions
● UP-4578: Portlet Manager option to disable portlet events
● UP-4643: Security: Apache Commons Collections v3.2.2

6. ● UP-4648: Performance: EntityPersonAttributesGroupStore
caching the results of evaluating membership
● UP-4644: Performance: Quartz task that pre-loads the
cache with certain permissions evaluations related to
portlets
uPortal Completed Items

7. Portlet Completed Items
● EMAILPLT-183: Security vulnerability in email preview
● EMAILPLT-173: Java 8 runtime support
● EMAILPLT-179: ability to build using Java 8
● EMAILPLT-186: Update dependencies to leverage new
Spring Framework features
● CAP-199: Portlet initialization failure
● WIDGPT-76: App Launcher remove some default configs

8. In-progress Items
● UP-4075/UP-4553: Spring 4.0.5
● UP-4652: Script to add BROWSE to portlet definition files
to help users upgrading from 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2 to 4.3
● UP-4649: Remove dead/unused code identified with tools

9. Current/Suggested Priorities
What’s important to you????
Vote at https://unicon.zendesk.com/forums/21566838-uPortal
● Suggestions:
○ UP-4075 issues: Spring 4.0.5

10. Community Updates
Events
Open Apereo 2016
May 22-25, NYU Campus
http://conference.apereo.org/
uPortal Community Call
May 11

11. Questions/Discussion
Next OSS Call: Wed Jul 13, 1:00pm EDT
Open Forum