About Sakai
Sakai CLE 10 release dates: 10.0 - 27 June 2014 10.1 - 22 August 2014 10.2 - 14 October 2014 10.3 - 19 December 2014 10.4 - 17 February 2015 10.5 - 07 July 2015 10.6 - 28 December 2015 10.7 - 22 April 2016 Additional Information: |
Sakai is a Java-based, service-oriented web application that provides a variety of capabilities supporting teaching and learning, portfolios, research, and ad-hoc project collaboration. Sakai is typically deployed using Apache Tomcat as its servlet container and scalability is achieved by running multiple instances of Tomcat in a clustered environment, each deploying a copy of Sakai. It integrates with a variety of external authentication services including CAS, Kerberos, LDAP, Shibboleth and WebAuth. A single database, usually MySQL or Oracle, provides a transactional store of information while file storage is typically delegated to NAS or SAN solutions. In most production settings, Sakai relies on a back-end student information system (SIS) to provide it with student and course information, which Sakai consults via provider APIs. |
Sakai 10 builds on the solid work of the Sakai 2.9.3 release. We have two new tool contributions, better support for audio and video using HTML 5, infrastructure improvements, about 50 security fixes, performance improvements, a number of new features, and close to 2,000 fixes! Highlights include, but are not limited to:
IMS Common Cartridge (CC) improved support. Support for reading CC files is able to read CC versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and it can export data in CC version 1.1 or 1.2, user selectable
Distributed Cacheing provides support for JCache/JSR-107 which includes improvement to the default cache sizes and better control by configuration. Session replication to failover from one server to another without losing session data. Overall provides better performance for large Sakai installation (though please note that these features are not turned on by default OOTB).
Sakai 10.2 changes
Security policy
With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support for Sakai 2.8 ceases. Organizations running Sakai 2.8 (and earlier versions) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of Sakai 10 or Sakai 2.9 in order to take advantage of continued maintenance support.
The Sakai 10 series is licensed under the Educational Community License version 2.0.