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New GitHub organizations for uPortal

In which I articulate a path forward for migrating uPortal GitHub repositories out of the legacy "Jasig" organization and into new organizations. Problem to be solved Currently, uPortal and some related Git repositories are in the Jasig GitHub organization. Jasig is a deprecated brand, with Apereo its successor.

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Apereo Newsletters Collected

In which I scratch my itch for a page that lists recent Apereo newsletters. Notes here are selfishly focused on aspects of Apereo most relevant to me. Ordered most recent to least recent. 2016 February and March (Posted to Apereo Announcements Google Group.) ESUP-Days 21 / Apereo Europe 2016 happened. Slides

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Follow up on Open Apereo 2015 uPortal BoF

In which I follow up on the Open Apereo 2015 conference as regards uPortal project and product vision. Lead-in At the Open Apereo 2015 conference, I facilitated a couple of birds-of-a-feather sessions on uPortal project and product vision. Face-to-face discussion is a wonderful thing for its high bandwidth. It is,

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Vision for Productized uPortal

In which I articulate a vision for a uPortal that feels much more like a product. Executive Summary The next generation of uPortal should be more like a product and less like a construction set. Most adopters will adopt pre-fabricated ready-to-go artifacts (think: Docker containers). They will point it at

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uPortal 4.2.0 Milestone 1

uPortal 4.2.0 Milestone 1 release Big picture uPortal 4.2.0-M1 is uPortal 4.1 but Better. It's got a better Marketplace that's much more attractive and closer to feature-complete (possibly even usable by real users!) It's got better JSON APIs and other APIs for building upon. It

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Citizens for a Better uPortal Tomorrow Tomorrow

In which I articulate some code quality steps I'd like uPortal to take. These are steps about being a better environment for development of the open source product, not steps about being a better open source product for adopters. Though of course these are related: the better an open source

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Making alternate profile selection sticky

In which I share a design for making ad-hoc profile selection sticky in uPortal. What problem is being solved? See also: Pull request proffering code implementing this design JIRA issue UP-4223 uportal-dev@ thread Users can specify a desired profile key on their login request. Profiles essentially select uPortal themes. So,

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Pipelines need Valves

In which I articulate preliminary design for uPortal rendering pipeline plugins to enable branching and terminating in redirects. Update This solution is now coded and deployed to MyUW test tiers and configured to apparent good effect. The generic, re-usable, composable components in this solution potentially applicable across many uPortal adopters

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uPortal should adopt Semantic Versioning

uPortal should adopt Semantic Versioning. uPortal should also adopt some other practices supported and improved by Semantic Versioning. This is mostly just moving a decimal point, but it is the right move for the decimal point to make at this juncture. Semantic Versioning is about nomenclature and what changes go

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Recovering from a broken staged Sonatype Maven repository

The uPortal 4.1.1 release process staged a broken Maven repository in Sonatype. I only noticed this after pushing the 4.1.1 release commits and tags to GitHub. This is the story of how I recovered. What went wrong In the uPortal release process, the release engineer runs

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uPortal CVE-2014-5059 Workaround

In which I share instructions on how to fix your uPortal security.properties to immediately block the CVE-2014-5059 vulnerability. Structure of this blog post This blog post provides: Why you should care How to determine if your uPortal deployment is affected How to compose a fix for your security.properties,

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CVE-2014-4172 Workaround Filter

In which I share a Java Servlet Filter that blocks the CVE-2014-4172 illicit proxy vulnerability to which old Java CAS client libraries are prone, as an alternative to upgrading to the latest Java CAS Client 3.3. What problem is being solved here? On August 11th 2014, the CAS project

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uPortal 4.1.0 Now Available

I had the pleasure of serving as the release engineer for the uPortal 4.1.0 release. Here's a blog post about what's in it. uPortal 4.1 is a "big" "minor" uPortal release including a bunch of features. Responsive Design! uPortal 4.1 ships with