Open Academic Environment

The Apereo Open Academic Environment (OAE) project team is pleased to announce the second minor release of the OAE Phoenix release; OAE Phoenix 1.2.

OAE Phoenix 1.2 upgrades the Hilary back-end to Node.js 0.10 and brings some user-facing improvements like Administration UI improvements, CAS authentication mappings and a number of bug fixes. In the background, ongoing work on performance testing, automated UI testing and automated cluster deployment has been going on, which is now nearing completion.

Try it out

The source code has been tagged with version number 0.2.2 and can be downloaded from the following repositories:

Back-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/tree/0.2.2
Front-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/3akai-ux/tree/0.2.2

Documentation on how to install the system can be found at https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/blob/0.2.2/README.md.

The repository containing all deployment scripts can be found at https://github.com/oaeproject/puppet-hilary.

Changelog

CAS Authentication mappings

It is now possible to map the OAE display name, e-mail, locale and timezone against CAS attributes released by a CAS authentication server. All of this can be configured on the fly through the Administration UI.

Administration UI improvements

A tenant's host name can now be modified on the fly through the administration UI.
A number of browser caching and back-end caching consistency bugs in the Tenants API have been fixed.
Added appropriate validation when creating new tenants
Refactored the Tenants API and increased test coverage

Mime type recognition

Improved mime type recognition has been put in place for uploaded files, ensuring that files uploaded from any browser will be appropriately recognized.

Accessibility improvements

All modal dialogs that have a type ahead component as the first focusable element will now receive appropriate focus when opening the modal. Next to that, a number of text alternatives for non-textual content have been added.

API improvements

All feeds that support paging now return a `nextToken` parameter that can be used to request the next page of results. This takes away the need to know which field to use for paging and should make it easier to use the REST APIs. A number of improvements have been made to the OAE UI APIs as well.

UI translations

Node 0.10 upgrade

The Hilary back-end, as well as the activity and preview processor nodes, have been upgraded from Node.js 0.8 to 0.10 after extensive performance testing.

Production improvements

A bug that was preventing Etherpad documents from being published when using multiple Etherpad servers has been resolved.

Get in touch

The project website can be found at http://www.oaeproject.org. The project blog will be updated with the latest project news from time to time, and can be found at http://www.oaeproject.org/blog.

The mailing list used for Apereo OAE is oae-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org. You can subscribe to the mailing list at http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev.

Bugs and other issues can be reported in our issue tracker at https://github.com/oaeproject/3akai-ux/issues.

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