Sakai 2.9 release notes

Sakai 2.9

Released: November 2012

Release Dates

Sakai 2.9 release dates:

2.9.0 - 7 November 2012

2.9.1 - 11 February 2013

2.9.2 - 01 June 2013

2.9.3 - 22 August 2013

About Sakai

Sakai software 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. The 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 the 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, the Sakai relies on a back-end student information system (SIS) to provide it with student and course information, which the Sakai consults via provider APIs.

What's new

OVERVIEW

Sakai 2.9 contains significant performance improvements, updated technical infrastructure, hundreds of bug fixes (over 600 bug fixes and over 20 security improvements), and it sports a new, updated look and feel, including smoother navigation, with a new neo-portal skin. Significant features have been added to the Resources, Gradebook, and Section Info tools in core Sakai. Major additions and improvements have been made to the “Indies,” including Lessons, which is now turned on by default, Samigo Test & Quizzes, Profile 2, Forums and Messages.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

Accessibility

• CK editor inclusion improves accessibility
• Accessibility improvements to the brand new NeoPortal
• Significantly improved the accessibility of dynamic menus in the resources tool
• For a complete and in-depth analysis of all accessibility improvements to Sakai 2.9.0 visit the Accessibility Working Group’s webpage http://bit.ly/sak-awg

Assignments
• Instructor can submit assignment on behalf of a student - SAK-7475 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Basic LTI (IMS Learning Tools Interoperability)
• Support for Basic LTI was upgraded from version 1.3 to 2.0 in Sakai 2.9.0 and 2.9.1
• Support for Basic LTI was upgraded from version 2.0 to 2.1 in Sakai 2.9.2 . Please see LTI - Release 2.1.0 Notes

Support for Basic LTI was upgraded from version 2.1 to 2.1.1 in Sakai 2.9.2 . Please see LT - Release 2.1.1 Notes

Delegated Access

• Delegated Access Tool - not OOTB - new Contrib Tool

Forums
• Statistics and Grading (check all cases where you can grade (bulk grading, etc))
• Require users to post before they can read posts - setting per forum - MSGCNTR-411 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Word count for messages
• Improved permissions settings layout - MSGCNTR-542 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Checks for, and prevents, duplicate Forum and Topic names
• Profile picture displays next to each post - MSGCNTR-584 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Option to set open (show) and close (hide) dates - MSGCNTR-309 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Options to duplicate forum and duplicate topic
• The term "threads" changed to "conversations" throughout UI
• In Topic menu, "Display Entire Message" option changed to "Display Message Content"
• Topic menu always displays at top of Topic screen (previously, it displayed beneath breadcrumbs when in "Display Subject Only" mode and at the top when in "Display Entire Message" mode.

Gradebook
• Drop highest, drop lowest and keep highest grade options - SAK-19964 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Hide/show columns in All Grades page - SAK-19731 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• PDF export option added - SAK-20118 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Institutionally defined final course grade export, in addition to existing grade export options - SAK-22204 - Getting issue details... STATUS (New in Sakai 2.9.2)

Groups
• Ability to define and import a group with a CSV file. - SAK-21407 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Randomly assign users to a set of groups (maintainer specifies the desired group size or the desired number of groups) - SAK-22253 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Help Documentation (new for Sakai 2.9.1 and updated in Sakai 2.9.3)

• Sakai online Help has been updated to reflect tool changes between 2.8.x and 2.9.x

Languages

• Ability to set a language different than the system default on a site level.

Lessons - Lessons (formerly Lesson Builder)
• New part of core Sakai !!!
• Student-centric features added including allowing students to create pages and comment on pages.
• An anonymous option is available.
• Support for IMS Common Cartridge import. Version 1.1 for 2.9.0 and version 1.2 for 2.9.1. Support for IMS Basic LTI tools have been added.

Messages

• New permissions settings to allow finer-grained control over who may send to generic recipient groups - MSGCNTR-401 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• Ability to hide groups from specified roles. An example use case is to have a group with learning disabilities which may need private communications. - MSGCNTR-438 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• BCC (blind cc option)

NeoChat - experimental tool - being piloted at smaller installations. For information contact sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org

• NeoChat is a new social network chat tool which has not been thoroughly vetted for performance at large scale.

Neo-portal and updated skin - (for more information see Sakai 2.9 portal changes and see Sakai 2.9 and Sakai 10 skin guide for updates in Sakai 2.9.2)
• Provides an improved user interface design, including collapsible toolbar navigation enhanced with descriptive icons, and direct navigation to a tool from the site navigation bar.

Profile 2
• Once logged in, a user can go to profile settings from My Workspace or by clicking the icon in the top right corner.
• Ability to create a new site with selected connections. - PRFL-388 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• More flexiblity with preferences, searching and privacy.

Resources
• Provides zip expansion of uploaded files. - KNL-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Allows export of files to zip format. (System property setting required.
• Optional URL shortening for resource access

Section Info
• Ability to select a date when the sections tool is open for student viewing. - SAK-20612 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Now allows students to view their section information.

Sites
• Unpublished sites can be published with a single click. - SAK-22732 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Language preferences are now supported at the local worksite level, overriding system-wide language default.
• Import from Site updates links to content correctly - SAK-16568 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Tests & Quizzes (Samigo)
• Easier distinction between published and working copies of quizzes. - SAM-894 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Ability to set score for students who have not submitted their work. - SAM-904 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• After a Test has been published, random question ordering option within Part. - SAM-1328 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Can now place due date on Schedule tool - SAM-1121 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• A new matrix survey question type has been added.
• Scientific and complex number notation support. - SAM-1221 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• Grader's comments included in Export - SAM-1323 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Additional enhancements

Turnitin Integration

• Add the new options from TII 2.9.2 in the Assignments Tool.
• Target a repository, target databases
• An institution can choose which settings are available via sakai.properties

Updated Editor
• CKEditor 3.6.2 has replaced the FCKEditor as the default.
• CKEditor provides major accessibility improvements, speed increases, Word-format-stripping by default, and works better with most mobile devices.
• Addition of Math Editing in CK Editor - Added in 2.9.2 - SAK-23266 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Web Content Tool (updated in 2.9.2)
• Technical upgrade to Web Content Tool, using JSR-168 Portlet - SAK-12563 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Improved management of embedded web sites - SAK-21624 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Administration and System Management

• Improved stability, security, and sustainability.
• Tomcat 7/Java 6 recommended configuration and support for Java 7.
• Well over 700 bug fixes and several dozen security fixes.
• New security infrastructure introduced in Sakai 2.9.2 (off by default, to allow piloting) - KNL-1015 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• Support for delegated administration has been added. (Not OOTB, but support to plug in feature is included.)
• Ability to host uploaded content on a separate domain. - Implementation Documentation
• Improved caching for performance - KNL-532 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Has been enhanced to support Polls, Basic LTI, Questions Pools and Assignment supplements.
• Bulk CSV user management support has been added.
• Improvements to configuration management and system documentation.

Detailed Feature List

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Project	Key	Summary	Description

BasicLTI
BasicLTI	BLTI-119	Improve IMS Learning Tools Interoperability Support (Basic LTI, IMS CC 1.1 Support, Full LTI)	This is an umbrella JIRA to capture a series of improvements to the LTI support in Sakai. At a high level, the following are the tasks: - Build an administrator user interface that allows creation of new Basic LTI tools without using an XML descriptor - Build an instructor user interface to create BLTI virtual tools for placement in Lesson Builder - Add support for BLTI to Lesson Builder, integrated with the new LTI Service - Add support for importing and exporting BLTI placements - similar to what was done for Moodle 2.1 - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20534 - Add support for dynamic URL remapping and instructor custom parameter configuration per the soon-to-be released Basic LTI 1.1 best practices. The UI for this will look a lot like the Moodle Basic LTI Module and the ATutor Basic LTI support. In particular you can see the use cases of the Administrator UI and the Instructor UI. ATutor is more like what the Sakai UI will be like as ATutor supports instructor custom properties ( new Basic LTI 1.1 best practice) as well as instructor configured tools. Moodle: http://www.vimeo.com/9957979 ATutor: http://www.vimeo.com/18074396 This will also lay down some workflow and data model elements that will be needed for Full LTI - mostly about tool lifecycle. I won't yet build the Full LTI user interface, profiles, and services - but I will put elements in place and have UI hooks that will make Full LTI provisioning, launch, import, and export come in pretty easily.
BasicLTI	BLTI-104	Version specified for provided jars	the root dependency management specifies versions for servelet-api and commons-logging - both of these are provided by sakai-standard-tool and intorduce risk of dependency drift in the future
BasicLTI	BLTI-123	Add Support for new IMS POX-Style Services	Add support for the emerging IMS Plain Old XML (POX) services for outcomes, roster, etc.
BasicLTI	BLTI-156	Site info External Tools generates 'unexpected error'	Error in Site info: When the user clicks on External Tools the page says an unexpected error has occurred. Please find the screenshots of the error in the attachments.
Kernel-K1
Kernel - K1	KNL-934	Authz performance issues	Here is the patch file for our (VT) local changes to the authz service to support that query change (discussed in the TCC meeting). Since the parameter order had to be tweaked to accomodate our change, and since we implemented a static role-key cache to support the hardcoding of role key values into the query, the patch is somewhat complicated. There's also a change to ehcache.xml that I'm not certain is related to the function of this patch at all, but I wanted to get this patch to you right away rather than spending a bunch of time verifying things. Will and I worked together on redesigning the query itself, starting from a suggestion by Richard Quintin. Jihane did most of the work on implementing the role key cache, I believe. This patch tweaks the query for all DB implementations, but Oracle is the only one we've tested at production scale. I'm guessing some actual stats on the improvement this query makes in performance would be worthwhile. I will try to dig those up from my email archive or I might resort to recalculating them if need be. It should be relatively straightforward to do so. The patch applies cleanly against kernel 1.2.6 (the one paired with Sakai 2.8.1). My understanding is that this query or the role key cache would need to be made optional if this were to be included in 2.9. I'm guessing Will and/or Jihane are better equipped to help out with that effort than I would be. Otherwise, let me know what else I can do to help the effort to get this work into the community code.
Kernel - K1	KNL-970	Update default role permissions in sakai_realm.sql for Lesson Builder, SiteStats, and roleswap	When you first add Lessons to a site - in this case a project site - the default permissions are still missing. I know we talked about this a while back and was not sure if this was done in kernel configuration scripts or conversion scripts - but I tried this on the current 2.9 Longsight Server today and it is still unfixed. I checked out a copy of 2-9-x last week and it was still unfixed. So I am putting it in because I could not find the JIRA that tracks this and I just don't want us to forget about it.
Kernel - K1	KNL-629	Allow content from CHS to be filtered when served	SAK-13492 has details of how the kernel can filter served up content. This is useful initially to add headers and footers to HTML fragments created by the FCKEditor in resources.
Kernel - K1	KNL-742	Add new Messages permissions to sakai_realm.sql	A new feature was added to the Messages tool in MSGCNTR-401 that introduced new permissions that need to be added to the sakai_realm script: msg.permissions.allowToField.allParticipants msg.permissions.allowToField.groups msg.permissions.allowToField.roles Patch attached for sql additions. Please let me know if there is a different route I need to take to get these permissions added for ootb sakai. Thanks!
Kernel - K1	KNL-897	Admin Worksite Setup - Unpublished sites not appearing in list	While experimenting on the nightly server (http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal/), I noticed that a new site I created as "unpublished" was not appearing at all in My Workspace > Worksite Setup. It was appearing as a "tab" up top, since I called the site "A test site" so it was alphabetically available. However, it should also be listed in the "Worksite Setup" area since an admin should be able to view all sites, not just published sites. (Like a faculty member can see his/her published and unpublished sites if they are the site owner/maintain/instructor role.) I opened a new browser and could reproduce the behavior. I logged out and logged back in and it still happened. I created a new site ("A test site 2"), also unpublished, and it wasn't listed either. I created another ("A test site 3"), this one published, and it did appear in the list. Please see the screenshot for the visual.
Kernel - K1	KNL-807	ContentHosting should post an event whenever a change is made in the availability of a resource	Please add a new event "content.upd.visibility" that will be posted whenever a previously shown resource becomes hidden, whenever a previously hidden resource becomes shown, and whenever release and/or retract dates for a resource are added, changed or deleted.
Kernel - K1	KNL-919	Delegated Access Sakai patches	The following patch need to be in Sakai for the delegated access tool to work properly https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/delegatedaccess/trunk/delegatedaccess_kernel.patch This patch do not modify the user experience in any way unless the system has enabled the delegated access tool.
Kernel - K1	KNL-946	Standardize parsing of property values in sakai.properties	There currently are multiple strategies invoked for parsing property values in sakai.properties. One of the side-effects of these multiple approaches is that they split comma-separated parameters up in different ways with regards to white-space, some of which are not as well equipped variations as others (e.g., SAK-9447). We should standardize on how white-space is treated in sakai.properties, and provide developers with uniform methods for parsing their parameters.
Kernel - K1	KNL-342	Allow ToolListener to be configured to use a path other than /tools/	I was doing a little bit of development and had ny tool registration files in /WEB-INF/tools/ which is wrong (should be in /tools/) the ToolListener doesn't warn when it can't find the folder (or it doesn't register any files). So I've added some logging at WARN level as if you have the ToolListener but not tool registration files you can probably remove the listener (or add a tool registration file in the correct place. I also allowed for the tool registration folder to be configurable with a context init parameter (defaulting to /tools/), context listeners can't have configuration directly so we have to use a context init parameter.
Kernel - K1	KNL-356	Automatically remove dropboxes for users who aren't members of the site	SAK-7964 Was the original issue. When a user is added to a site a dropbox is created for them, however if they leave the site the dropbox remains even if the user didn't ever upload anything into it. The attached patch removes empty dropboxes of users who are no longer members of the site.
Kernel - K1	KNL-655	Upgrade to Ehcache to 1.7.2	We're using ehchache 1.6.0 at the moment. This is now 2 year old. Also later versions have a smaller memory footprint: "Update: Ehcache 2.0 will introduce a new implementation for MemoryStore based on a custom ConcurrentHashMap. This version provides fast iteration and does away with the need for the keyArray thus bringing memory use back down to pre 1.6 levels. And with other memory optimisations made to Element in 1.7, memory use will actually be considerably lower than pre 1.6 levels." http://ehcache.org/documentation/faq.html#Why_does_Ehcache_1.6_use_more_memory_than_1.5 http://ehcache.org/changes-report.html
Kernel - K1	KNL-885	The group property to enable Site Info to see groups should be moved out of site-manage and into kernel-api	In order for a group to show up in the Manage Groups part of Site Info, it must have the property: group_prop_wsetup_created=true This is defined in: site-manage-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/util/SiteConstants.java: public static final String GROUP_PROP_WSETUP_CREATED = "group_prop_wsetup_created"; Therefore, other tools that want to create groups with this property must either take a chance that the property won't change and hard code it themselves, or use the constant from the site manage utils, creating a hard dependency. Ideally, this property would be moved to the kernel.
Kernel - K1	KNL-893	KNL-532 AuthenticationCache cache not serialized	Click here for more information.
Kernel - K1	KNL-895	No way to override/clear the force.url.secure property	I have an installation defined with the property force.url.secure=443 in sakai.properties I also have a local.properties and security.properties file for specific overrides. On a particular instance I want to disable the force secure setting as I am running http only. However there is no way to do that. If I set the value to a blank value (in local or security.properties, ie as an override) in an attempt to clear it, then it throws a NumberFormatException. So once the setting has a value it must always have a value, AND forces URLs to be https. The code should be adjusted so that a blank value negates any previous value that has been set.
Kernel - K1	KNL-817	rename method in BaseContentService is actually copy/remove	The "rename" method in BaseContentService does not actually rename resources or collections. It copies them and then removes the old copy. This may work all right for relatively small files and collections, but for large files and collections this can create I/O throughput issues as well as potential risks in multi-volume storage setups, when all that is needed is to update a few fields in existing database records. We've recently been experiencing performance problems on application servers struggling to keep up with multiple large "rename" activities on directories full of multi-gigabyte files, which quickly saturates the NFS I/O throughput available on that application server.
Kernel - K1	KNL-705	CLONE - The ability to move a site to a recycle bin and then purge it after a set period of time	This is a set of patches that add some interesting behaviour to site deletions. It adds the capability for sites to be softly deleted, and after a set period of time, purged from the system. The way it works is thusly: A maintainer of a site deletes that site. If this is enabled, the user receives a message about this instead of the normal message. The site is then, for all intents and purposes, deleted. It does not show in any lists and users cannot navigate to it. However the site still exists and is completely intact with all content and user lists. Users with the appropriate permission (site.visit.softly.deleted) can manually navigate to the url. They get a message that the site is due to be purged but can still act on the site, perhaps retrieving content. Normal users of a softly deleted site cannot access the site at all. After a configured grace period, a Quartz job purges softly deleted sites from the system. In addition, another permission is added, site.del.softly.deleted. This allows users with this permission to issue another removeSite call, perhaps from a webservice or similar, and that will manually purge the site from the system. The sakai.properties: # enable soft site deletions when a site is deleted normally # if true, they will be softly delete and then purged after 30 days # if false, thet will be deleted immediately # defaults to false. site.soft.deletion=true # the number of days to keep softly deleted sites until they are purged. # if not set and site.soft.deletion=true, defaults to 30 days. site.soft.deletion.gracetime=30 There are a couple of components touched by this, and for trunk, there are two patches per component (I haven't merged the patches together sorry). Simply apply the -trunk patch, then the -trunk-2 patch.
Kernel - K1	KNL-976	MultiRefCacheEntry is not serializable	Click here for more information.

Lesson Builder
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-32	Lesson Builder has dependencies on contrib tools	The LessonBuilder code has dependencies on contrib tools (yaft and mneme). Core tools should never depend on contrib tools -- see lessonbuilder/pom.xml: <sakai.yaft.version>1.2.1-SNAPSHOT</sakai.yaft.version> <sakai.mneme.version>1.2-hack</sakai.mneme.version> These dependencies should be removed for the 2.9 release
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-69	Regression : Change links broken in current 1.4.x @107763	On 2.9.0-b05 it works if you create a quiz, hit "Change quiz", however on 1.4.x after what I believe after this commit: https://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn?view=revision&revision=107525 nothing happens clicking this link. I don't think it's only limited to quizzes. This only happens in the 1.4.x when lessonbuilder.use-new-popups=false It works in the trunk and on the 2.9 QA servers (running b05) It looks like this is because there is an onclick="return false" in the anchor now. And the jquery click handler is stopping it now in ui.js. $('.add-quiz-link, #change-quiz').click(function(event){ if (!picker) return true;
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-15	Revise LB poms so that we can perform separate API and tool releases	As discussed in the LA project planning meeting one change we intend to make for 2.9+ is to perform API releases independently and ahead of tool releases. In the case of LB, sometime after code freeze we would release sakai-lessonbuilder-api-1.0 (or 1.2 whatever you want). In order to do this we will need to replace the api's current <parent> (the LB base pom) with a purepom-like "sakai api" pom that will be released first so that an LB api release can actually be performed (currently, you can't do a release of an api that has a snapshot dependency on its own project base pom). Ideally, once we hit code freeze, we release the kernel apis, then all the tool apis. We should then be able to better reflect version-wise the actual steady state of most project apis. LB tool 1x tool releases should then be able to bind to lessonbuilder-api-1.0 for the life of the 1x series.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-11	Prep LessonBuilder poms for off-cycle releases	Prepping LessonBuilder poms to utilize the release plugin. Also tidy up the poms as necessary. 1. Change the <groupId> to org.sakaiproject.lessonbuilder. LB's coordinates will adhere to the pattern adopted for other indies, which is reflective of broader Maven naming practices including that practiced by Apache. 2. Change trunk versionId to 1.3-SNAPSHOT. This is necessary because it reflects accurately the unstable nature of trunk and is required in order for Maven to deploy snapshot artifacts to the snapshot repo. 3. Set up LB so that we can deploy binaries to the snapshot repo. Basically boilerplate additions to the base pom. Add <distributionManagement>, <repositories>, <pluginRepositories> and <reporting> declarations to base pom. Update the current Jenkins job to deploy snapshot updates. example: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/pom.xml 4. Add an assembly which provides a Tomcat-overlay zip of LB. As I noted in LA we will not substitute an assembly for a full source check out of LB but the assemblies have proven quite useful to msub deployers such as Steve Swinsburg. Plus, if we ever get the app store concept going a zip of LB binaries will prove quite useful. Again, this code, a pom file and deploy.xml is largely boilerplate. It takes about 5 minutes to write. example: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/basiclti-assembly/ 5. Set LB up to use the release plugin. Involves swapping out the master pom for the edu-tool purepom like other indies. We have 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 versions of purepoms. I expect that LB will benefit from use of the release plugin (which the purepoms provide) which provides the ability to generate off-cycle releases in a simple, nay trivial manner. 6. Tidy up the poms. For example, substitute standard Maven variables such as ${project.groupId} and ${project.version} where appropriate for LB's own "internal" dependencies. 7. Delete tool/src/maven2 folder. It is now redundant as updated sakairsf 0.8-SNAPSHOT artifacts exist.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-7	Breadcrumb trail titles and Index titles don't update when user changes page titles in settings	Breadcrumb trail titles and Index titles don't update when user changes page titles in settings See short screencast video of Rutgers instance: http://www.screencast.com/users/midonz/folders/Default/media/aacce2f4-058e-4a79-8db8-322bd4d6656f (Attached screenshots of Ithaca College's instance.)
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-8	Inconsistent and icorrect use of Custom Sakai Maven variables	The tool pom references version properties from master/pom.xml. As maven variables have a scope of the pom their in this will cause some plugins to fail. Also the versions are inconsistent and sometimes incorrect: <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.samigo</groupId> <artifactId>samigo-qti</artifactId> <version>${sakai.samigo.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.samigo</groupId> <artifactId>samigo-hibernate</artifactId> <version>${sakai.version}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> sakai.version <> sakai.samigo.version <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.msgcntr</groupId> <artifactId>messageforums-api</artifactId> <version>${sakai.version}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.msgcntr</groupId> <artifactId>messageforums-hbm</artifactId> <version>${sakai.version}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> sakai.version <> message center version Dependency management should be used rather than inheriting custom variables
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-28	Oracle auto ddl problem with LessonBuilder tables	I've seen those errors in my log: 2011-08-12 16:47:32,905 WARN main org.sakaiproject.springframework.orm.hibernate.AddableSessionFactoryBean - Unsuccessful schema statement: create table lesson_builder_comments (id number(19,0) not null, itemId number(19,0) not null, pageId number(19,0) not null, timePosted timestamp not null, author varchar2(36 char) not null, comment clob, UUID varchar2(36 char) not null, html number(1,0) not null, primary key (id)) java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00904: : invalid identifier at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:112) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:330) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:287) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.receive(T4C8Oall.java:753) 2011-08-12 16:37:33,902 WARN main org.sakaiproject.springframework.orm.hibernate.AddableSessionFactoryBean - Unsuccessful schema statement: alter table lesson_builder_comments add comment clob java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00904: : invalid identifier at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:112) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:330) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:287) all the error seems to be related with clob fields.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-59	Common Cartridge Import - Issue	While CC import, 1. IMS CC 1.1 - error: Unable to create file while importing Common Cartridge: 100 copies already exist: 2. IMS CC 1.0 - Assessment is migrated in to tests and quiz but no question appeared. Note: IMS cc 1.1 working fine in BlackBorad 9.1
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-80	Help pages displaying underneath when adding text	When the instructor starts with a brand new 'Lesson', and clicks 'Add Text', 'Add Assignment', etc, the help page for Lesson Builder displays behind the add item. From Site Info -> Edit Tools, add Lessons Click on Lessons -> Add Text Add text and save The help page is displayed while adding text and after text has been added. In order to get rid of the background help page, the browser needs to be refreshed.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-107	Fatal Error Showing When Adding Student Comments Tool in Lessons	Click here to for more information.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-97	MP3s are not uploadable in Lessons	Tried to add an mp3 file to lessons, both under Add Multimedia and Add Resource. Received the following error: Unable to add resource: org.sakaiproject.exception.ServerOverloadException id=failed to write file from stream to database I then recorded a file on Win7, which Windows saved as a wma file. This file uploads, and when clicked on, opens a new window, a pop-up displays asking if I want to open with the Windows Media Player. Of course, this does not work on the MAC. Currently, there seems to be no way to make audio files available to all students. MP3 files should be supported in case the instructor wants to give audio instructions or wants students to upload audio recordings. To reproduce: Click on Lessons, then either choose Add Multimedia or Add Resource Upload an mp3 file Error message displays
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-120	Comments tool displays a page or more of unrelated content	Tested on trunk.sakaiqa.org - Sakai Revision: 114139 (Kernel 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT)- Server sakai-nightly.uits.iupui.edu Tested also on qa29-3.sakaiqa.org - tags/sakai-2.9.0-rc01 QA on Oracle - Built: 09/27/12 11:28 - Sakai tags/sakai-2.9.0-rc01 (Kernel 1.3.0-rc01)- Server qa3-us To reproduce: 1) Add Lessons tool to a site 2) Choose "More Tools" -> "Add Comments Tool" Results: Text editor box with two Submit buttons followed by a number of things including the text below, preceeded by the two Submit button comment entry and followed by a number of things which I've enclosed as screenshot page3.png, page4.png, page5.png, page6.png. Page "2", text on page with Comment submission: Require that the student submit this assessment. Require that the student submit this assignment. Require that the student submit a posting to this topic. Require that the student use this item Require that the student receive points on this assessment. points on this assignment. Require that the student <b>Pass</b> this assignment Require that the student receive at least a Require that the student receive a Checkmark Title must not be blank. This must be a Youtube URL Item Name must not be blank Page Title must not be blank. "iframe" "img" Edit Quiz Edit Quiz Settings Edit Assignment Edit Forum Topic Edit external tool Number of pages must be a number Title must contain a number Site CSS System CSS Points must be set to a valid number. The width and height must be positive numbers, i.e. "500" or "500px," or a percentage below 100% You may not have a height or width larger than 100%.
Lesson Builder	LSNBLDR-24	Allow subpages to be time released independently of their parent pages.	Allow subpages to be time released independently of their parent pages. Currently the only way to time release content is to have each branch of material in a LB tool placement. This could get very unwieldy.

Mailsender
Mailsender	MSND-60	When an email has an attachment, a stracktrace is thrown	Click here for more information.

Messages & Forums
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-403	Grading Forums - Easier way to view all messages from one person and enter grade in one screen, or view list of all users with counts of posts and grade entry box	Make grading by Forum/Topic easier
Messages & Forums	SAK-14081	The word count of the messages (threads) text in forums has to be evaluated and stored in the database	Strip the html tags from the text and evaluate the word count for all the messages in the forums. Add an additional column in the table 'mfr_message_t', to store the word count of the messages.
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-516	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9	Updates to the catalan translation
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-652	3.0 conversion scripts missing semicolon	The following statement is missing a semicolon in the 2.8 --> 3.0 conversion scripts (and incidentally the 2.9 sakai conversion scripts): --MSGCNTR-569 alter table MFR_TOPIC_T modify CONTEXT_ID varchar(255)
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-86	Permission level names are not internationalized	Customizing the permision levels in DF for instance by changing the owner permission to: -- owner type INSERT INTO CMN_TYPE_T VALUES (null, 0, '00000000-0000-0000-1111-000000000000', 'admin', SYSDATE(), 'admin', SYSDATE(), 'org.sakaiproject.component.app.messageforums', 'sakai_messageforums', 'Manager Permission Level', 'Manager Permission Level', 'Manager Permission Level'); and -- owner permission level INSERT INTO MFR_PERMISSION_LEVEL_T VALUES ( null, 0, '00000000-0000-0000-0000-111111111111', SYSDATE(), 'admin', SYSDATE(), 'admin', 'Manger', '00000000-0000-0000-1111-000000000000', 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1); On gets the following errors: 1) roles are not mapped to the default permission level as defined in sakai.properties 2) setting a role to the permission produces errors in the UI.
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-109	Display photo alongside name in Forums tool when viewing responses to thread	Like Moodle, 'twould be good to have ones photo (from 'Profile') displayed in miniturised form alongside ones name in the Forums tool. This would be on the page where one views responses to a posed topic, ie, next to Re: TOPIC_HERE - Marshall, Adam (Jul 17, 2007 10:04 AM) I leave it to the tool author to decide upon positioning!
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-683	Performance issue due to duplicate forums iterated over in the DiscussionForumTool.getForums()	In org.sakaiproject.tool.messageforums.DiscussionForumTool.getForums(), a List of DiscussionForum's called 'tempForums' gets populated with duplicates and soon gets iterated over: for (DiscussionForum forum: tempForums) { This loop has a nested loop that iterates over topics, so for some sites with lots of topics, the tempForums loop takes an excessive amounts of time often causing users to wait several minutes to do most actions within the forums tool. By removing duplicates (in java code), I've cut the loading time for a forum with 500 topics from ~1 minute to ~5 seconds.
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-711	Search Content producer needs to implement PortalUrlEnabledProducer	As it returns real urls it needs to implement this method
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-426	Page size incorrect with new CKEditor	The page size is doing the double window iframe issue when the page has the new CKEditor
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-231	Ability to create Forum Topics/Forums based on groups.	Private, group based discussions are a common use of Forums across institutions. Unfortunately the permissions that need to be configured for each Forum/Topic are complex and tedious. To configure a private group Forum/Topic requires setting all student's (and any other group) permissions' set to none and then to set the specific group to be a contributor. These steps are multiplied by the number of groups. This is a relatively common task that is very complex. Would it be possible to simplify the process to "create a group topic" that simply presented a list of existing groups/roles and then assumes all of these settings? I appreciate your consideration. --- Updated Wednesday June 16, 2010 - Denver Sakai Conference
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-529	MSGCNTR-528 Add conditional descriptive text in entry page to guide users	The entry page is where a site organizer (or similar role) structures the forum interaction. Although the auto-created default forum and topic are a help, we have found that users still need a bit of guidance. Propose to add help text/links that will the user in the following circumstances: 1. Default forum and topic "Use Forum Settings and Topic Settings to change the title and other details of this forum. New forums and topics can only be created by you or someone with your level of access. Use Template Settings to set up a template for all new forums." 2. Childless forum (displayed below childless forum) "You need to add at least one topic for the forum above to be active. <link>Create a topic?</link>" 3. No Forums (either defaults have not been created or all have been deleted) "No forums have been created. <link>Create a forum?</link>" 4. All forums are draft "Note: All forums are draft. Forums saved as drafts cannot be seen by all participants. " 5. All topics are draft "Note: All topics are draft. Topics saved as drafts cannot be seen by all participants. " 6. No topics "Note: You need to add at least one topic." (displayed below childless forum) "You need to add at least one topic for the forum above to be active. <link>Create a topic?</link>" 7. All Forums or all topics are draft, or there is just forums (no topics). Stock MSGCNTR does not display a message to access user saying that no forums are available. (displayed to access type user)"There may be forums that are not yet available for participation. Contact the site owner if you have questions about the status of a forum." For reference to BRD: Req 1 "Add conditional descriptive text to guide users through topic creation"
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-555	register Messages tool as group-aware when starting PermissionHelper	This is cloned from SAK-19819: Permission helper will only show group options if invoked with "groupAware" attribute set to Boolean.TRUE
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-636	More than 1000 topics in Forums causes Oracle failure	We're seeing an ORA-01795, which can be caused by any query that has IN (.....) list, in production. Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:67) at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:43) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2220) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2108) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2103) at org.hibernate.loader.hql.QueryLoader.list(QueryLoader.java:378) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.list(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:340) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.performList(HQLQueryPlan.java:172) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1122) at org.hibernate.impl.QueryImpl.list(QueryImpl.java:79) at org.sakaiproject.component.app.messageforums.PermissionLevelManagerImpl$4.doInHibernate(PermissionLevelManagerImpl.java:677) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:419) ... 101 more Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-01795: maximum number of expressions in a list is 1000 This can be traced back to line 677 of org.sakaiproject.component.app.messageforums.PermissionLevelManagerImpl This query needs to check for more than 1000 taskIds, and if so, break the query into several IN () statements, for example: ... IN (x,y,z) OR IN (x1, y1, z1) OR IN (x2, y2, z2) ...
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-647	Create sequence statement missing from conversion script	Click here for more information.
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-691	NPE caused Forum messages not searchable under server-client search config	Click here for more information.
Messages & Forums	MSGCNTR-524	Strange behavior when grading forum postings	Create a forum and topic. Link your topic to a gradebook item. Make a post to the topic. The grading behavior seems strange. First, click on the topic and then "Display Entire Message". Click the "Grade" link for the message. A new browser window opens with the grading widget. If you then enter a grade and submit, the window refreshes with a success message and all of the form fields are empty. Now try grading from the actual message view. The grading thickbox appears, but it is cut off and has a scrollbar. You are unable to scroll enough to use the buttons. See screenshot. This occurs in both FF and Safari using Nightly - sakai/trunk on Oracle - Built: 06/21/11 12:00 - Sakai Revision: 93919.
Polls	POLL-151	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9 (polls)	Updates to the catalan translation.
Polls	POLL-137	Accessibility: Polls tool brings up the FCKEdit instead of the CKEditor	The polls tool didn't switch over to the CKEditor on qa1-nl when the default WYSIWYG editor was set to the CKEditor. To reproduce: 1. Log into qa1-nl 2. Verify other tools use CKEditor (go to add an assignment page and check the WYSIWYG editor) 3. Switch to the polls tool and go to the "Add a poll" page. 4. Check the WYSIWYG editor
	KERN-149	Ability to set privacy settings on different parts of profile	You should be able to specify for each key in your profile file whether it's publicly visible or visible for your connections only.
Profile2	PRFL-388	Allow user to create a worksite containing a selection of users from their connections	[we decided to limit this to a user's connections and forget about search results for now] [note: Sakai administrators should specify the default tool set required for sites of type "project" in toolOrder.xml and/or use sakai.properties with the wsetup.home.toolids properties (seeSakai 2.8 configuration)] Allow user to create a worksite containing a selection of users from search matches. It seems to make sense to be able to select a number of hits from a connection search and just click a button to create a project site with those members. The site could be created and site invites (maybe including a connection request) could be sent out via emails containing a link signalling assent. A quartz job could periodically check for positive responses and add the user into the site. Something like this would really enhance the research collaboration aspects of Sakai.
Profile2	PRFL-776	2.9 Oracle conversion script has an error	This sql: -- PRFL-612 add avatar image url column to uploaded and external image records alter table PROFILE_IMAGES_T add RESOURCE_AVATAR varchar2(4000) not null; Gives this error: >[Error] Script lines: 701-703 ---------------------- ORA-01758: table must be empty to add mandatory (NOT NULL) column Script line 703, statement line 2, column 13
Profile2	PRFL-632	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9 (profile2)	Catalan translation updates for sakai
Profile2	PRFL-695	Update Spanish translations files in trunk, 1.5.x	I can provide different patches or you can assign me the Jira to make the changes in _es.properties. The goal is to have Profile2 fully translated to spanish in Sakai 2.9+
Profile2	PRFL-730	Searching on Common interest is case sensitive	When searching profiles, search term is case-sensitive and should be case-insensitive Click on Profile -> Search Select Common interest and enter a term you know will be found, but use a different case Click Search - no results found Now enter the same term in the correct case and click Search Now results display E.g.: Searched on rollins because a couple of users had this as a favorite author No results found Entered Rollins and now I have results

Reset Password & Account Validation
Reset Password & Account Validation	RES-25	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9 (reset-pass)	Catalan translation updates for sakai
Samigo
Samigo	SAM-1236	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9 (samigo)	Updates for catalan bundles
Samigo	SAM-1542	2.8 2.9 conversion for mysql missing ;	there is a semicolon missing after the SAM-1255 update
Samigo	SAM-1793	Regresion: GradingService.validate no longer accepts , as a decimal	All UI documentation indicates that , is a valid numerical separator for numbers in numeric questions but as of 2.9 these are no longer accepted. More seriously accessing the answers of a test where , was used by a student results in a UI error
Samigo	SAM-1401	"Delivery Date is not of correct format" is seen even if the date is in correct format	Here is how to reproduce: 1. Login to Sakai. 2. Without going to Assessment Settings page. Create an assessment and add some questions. 3. In Edit Assessment page, click on "Publish" link directly. 4. You will see an error asking you to select a retract date. 5. Select the date and click on "Save and Publish". 6. The error "Delivery Date is not of correct format: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss:aa." is seen. Note: this error can only be seen if there is an error happens at step 4.
Samigo	SAM-691	Exported assessment does not want to import again	Exported an assessment, when trying to import it into another site, get error: There was an error importing this assessment. Ensure that the file is correctly formatted IMS QTI. Error details:org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.services.qti.QTIServiceException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: resourceId is null Attach content package
Samigo	SAM-822	Timer does not continue to count down when 5 minutes popup window appears.	Click here for more information.
Samigo	SAM-998	Audio recordings play automatically in Safari on Mac.	This is reported by Stanford (CW-2708): In Safari on a mac, if you go to the grading page to grading audio questions, all audio recordings play back at the same time, e.g. An instructor loads a grading page with 10 answers and all audio files play simultaneously.
Samigo	SAM-1099	Samigo uses old version of Apache Poi	Samige uses poi-3.5-Final this version of poi is now more than 2 years old and there have been significant bug fixes and performance improvements. It seems the latest stable release (3.7) is compatible with Samigo
Samigo	SAM-1232	Accessibility: Many Question Types Marked-Up Entirely As a Level 5 Heading	The entire markup for many question types as delivered in Test and Quizzes are the child of the level 5 heading that starts at the question number text. This might have been an accident, but if it was done to make the entire question appear in bold font it is inappropriate. Some adaptive technologies include all of the child text as the heading; this means the JavaScript code that appears in the child script elements is also announced (see TQHeadingsListExample.png (attached)). Also, as the screen-reader user navigates through the parts of the question, each part is announced as a level 5 heading which is very distracting and adds to the chatter that they have to tune out when trying to decide what is the real content they need to pay attention to. Suggestion: Only have the "Question x of y d.dd Points" part be the level 5 heading that precedes the question text. Use CSS as appropriate to keep the existing bold font styling.
Samigo	SAM-1347	Importing assessment with (large) attachments as ZIP file fails with error message	This is reported by Stanford (CW-2812): Steps to repro: 1. Create an assessment with at least one part, at least one question in the part, and at least one attachment for each part and question. 2. Export the assessment as a ZIP file. 3. Import the exported assessment. Observe: Get error message on page: "There was an error importing this assessment. Ensure that the file is correctly formatted IMS QTI. " Expect: No error, ZIP imported Expected result: UI change on student side For File Upload question type: -Change the limit to 100MB. There is slight change in wording "(Maximum file size: 100MB)". Please see attachment "StudentFileUploadModified.png". Please note, the limit (100MB) is set in the sakai.properties. So it can be changed. UI change on instructor side -The current error message appears on the landing page (please see attachment "ImportErrorOriginal.png") -The modified error message should appear on the Import Assessment page (please see attachment "ImportErrorModified.jpg") -Text of error message: "<ZIP file name> could not be imported because there is a file size limit of 100MB per import." -Please also change the instructional text to say "Choose an IMS QTI-compliant XML file or an IMS Content Packaging ZIP file from your computer." (please see attachment "Import.jpg")
Samigo	SAM-1435	When a student is dropped from a site/course, s/he is still included in in-progress and submitted counts	If a student drops a course or is manually removed from a site, his or her attempts are still reflected in the submitted and in-progress counts shown for published assessments on the main Assessments screen. As a result, when the instructor access the total scores page, the number of students who have submitted will be < than the "submitted" account, which is concerning to instructors. To reproduce. 1. Publish a new assessment. 2. Log in as a student and take the assessment. 3. Log in as instructor and note the submitted count is 1 and one student has a submission on the total scores page. 4. Now remove the student from the site. 5. Return to T&Q. Not that teh submitted count is still 1. However, when you click the link to go to the total scores page, no submissions are visible.
Samigo	SAM-1429	if instructor takes an assesment in student/access view, in-progress and/or submitted count is incremented	While in student/access view mode, if the instructor starts an assessment, this will cause it to count as an in-progress assessment. If the instructor submits in student view, the submission count is incremented by 1, which can be misleading. The in-progress and submitted counts shown on the main assessment screens should not include attempts made by the instructor in student view. Reproduction: 1) Create an assessment and publish it 2) Click on 'Enter student view' 3) Take the publish assessment and save an answer but do not hit submit 4) Logout and close browser 5) Go back into the course as the instructor 6) In T&SB it shows an In Progress of 1 now 7) Now return to student view and submit the assessment. The "Submitted" count us incremented by one on main assessments page.
Samigo	SAM-1512	problems with "show feedback" and "feedback immediate" on character "	Hi If we have a test configurated with "feedback inmediate" and it has a fill in blank question whose correct answer contains the character ", when student, during assessment, selects "show feedback" it always shows the wrong feedback because the question's correct answer has been stored with " instead of character ". The question text to reproduce this could be: 'How many fingers do you have in your hand? {"five"}' Sometimes the question's correct answer that it's stored is "five". When it happens, if student, during assessment, selects "show feedback" always gets the wrong feedback despite of writing the correct answer. We think it is a bug. Thanks
Samigo	SAM-1734	Duplicated explanation for buttons	The following explanation for buttons is duplicated: Random access to questions from a Table of Contents. (There are "Next" and "Previous" buttons on each page for navigation.) (There are only "Next" buttons to go forward. There is NO Table of Contents page.) in random_access of AssessmentSettingsMessages.properties
Samigo	SAM-1139	Calculated questions	At the moment the calculated question type is missing in Samigo, i.e. the ability to have questions which contains variables, a method of setting the range of those variables and the number of questions to be generated of that type. eg. what is {x} + {y} where 0 < x < 100 and 0 < y < 50 i.e., integration with equation editors.
Samigo	SAM-1257	Move action labels to CommonMessages bundles	At AuthorBean.getPendingSelectActionListX (X=Æ, 1, 2) methods I've seen that two properties bundles are used: AuthorMessages and CommonMessages. From my point of view, it would better if the AuthorMessages key would be moved to CommonMessages because that will ease translationa&updates and i18n testing. Additionally, all of them are related to actions (print, preview and so on), so they can probably general, which is the purpose of CommonMessages.
Samigo	SAM-1278	SAM-1277 Cleanup Javascript imports	A Javascript import should just be: <script type="text/javascript"> Some tags are just <script>. Others add the deprecated Language="JAvaScript". This patch cleans it up.
Samigo	SAM-1620	statistics do not show when random draw from pool is used	When an assessment involves random draw from pool, no statistics link shows. This is a problem. Both total score and score per question are still meaningful, although interpreting them is slightly different than if you're not using a random draw.
Samigo	SAM-1130	Emailing test takers in Chrome or Safari causes stacktrace	The feature that allows instructors to email test-takers in Tests & Quizzes causes a stacktrace in Chrome or Safari. To reproduce: In Chrome or Safari, go to Tests and Quizzes and view the scores of a published test. (At least one user must complete the test first.) Click on the "Email" link under one of the users' names. Click "Send" This will cause a stacktrace. I did some poking around and found the problem is caused by the "clickEmailLink()" javascript function on the totalScores.jsp (and some other pages as well). The problem boils down to the fact that the script tries to submit a form and then also load a different web page in the same script. Firefox and Internet Explorer seem to be able to handle this, but Chrome and Safari won't. They'll either load the page or submit the form, but not both. In the current configuration, Chrome/Safari don't submit the form. Since the form isn't submitted, Sakai doesn't know who the recipient of the email is supposed to be. When it tries to send it, it finds a null email address which causes a stacktrace. I tried to reshuffle the script to make it work in Chrome/Safari, but almost any changes caused the script to break in Firefox. Firefox would tend to stop navigating back to the totalScores page with any change. I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of Tests and Quizzes to know what other solution to attempt.
Samigo	SAM-1140	NPE from mailer	Click here for more information.
Samigo	SAM-1237	Show images attached when viewing printable version	Show images attached when viewing printable version, in this way, users can print the complete quizz with referenced images included.
Samigo	SAM-1249	Email feature in Submission Status sends feedback to wrong address	See the following screencast: http://screencast.com/t/C9GAEJP2OFD If a user forgets to click send or cancel a previously started message and clicks on the Email link in Submission status, the previous addressee gets the message. Observed on QA3 http://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086/portal and on our Delaware production environment (Sakai 2.8.0 (Kernel 1.2.1)) UD Jira reference: UDSAKAI-433
Samigo	SAM-1255	Grading default should be that student's identities can be seen by graders	During the LA conference we had discussions after the SAMigo BoF about how anonymous grading is still the default OOTB for Samigo, which causes much instructor confusion. I think may agreed that the default should be that student's identities can be seen by graders. I'd be interested to hear use cases around why anonymous grading (something I perceive to be a bit of an edge case) should be the default OOTB.
Samigo	SAM-1385	Importing Tests from Site doesn't clear out "Release To" info	When you import tests from another site, the Release To information doesn't get cleared out and set to the current site. This prevents students from viewing the test if the test is published from the direct drop down "Publish" link. To Reproduce: 1) Create 2 sites 2) 1st site: create a test with at least 1 question 3) 2nd site: import from 1st site (Site Info) 4) In dropdown, click publish and publish test 5) Become student in the 2nd site and notice the test doesn't show up
Samigo	SAM-1398	Default the "Release to" to Site if the imported assessment release to group	This is similar to https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1383. Here are how to reproduce the issue: 1. In site A, create an assessment and release it to groups. 2. Export that assessment. 3. In site B, import that assessment. 4. Go to the setting page of the imported assessment. You will see nothing is selected in the "Release To" section. Desired behavior: The "Release To" should be set to the site.
Samigo	SAM-1555	Anonymous setting still reveals some identifying info	I have a survey in Samigo which I set to anonymous, however when I go through and have a look at the answers in a response, I see at the bottom a link to email the person who submitted it, with their first name.
Samigo	SAM-1779	IE9: Student unable to record for audio question	Using IE9, a student cannot record for an audio question. Tested on both http://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086/portal and http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal/. To reproduce: As the instructor, create a test with an audio question Publish the test As the student, log in using IE9 Open the test and try to record for the audio question
Samigo	SAM-1216	HTTP Status 500 Error when downloading audio file from audio question in Tests & Quizzes	Click here for more information.
Samigo	SAM-1468	Duplicate file name breaks donwload zip	We had a case where a student uploaded 2 files with the same name as part of an file upload question. This causes the download zip to fail with an error: 011-11-10 15:37:56,013 ERROR TP-Processor236 org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.servlet.delivery.DownloadAllMediaServlet - duplicate entry: Pretorius_Willem-petrus_prtwil005_IS2011B_PRTWIL005.accdb java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: Pretorius_Willem-petrus_prtwil005_IS2011B_PRTWIL005.accdb at java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry(ZipOutputStream.java:175) at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.servlet.delivery.DownloadAllMediaServlet.processOneMediaData(DownloadAllMediaServlet.java:334) at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.servlet.delivery.DownloadAllMediaServlet.processNonAnonymous(DownloadAllMediaServlet.java:292) at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.servlet.delivery.DownloadAllMediaServlet.doPost(DownloadAllMediaServlet.java:131) at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.servlet.delivery.DownloadAllMediaServlet.doGet(DownloadAllMediaServlet.java:81) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627) 1) the download all shouldn't assume the name us unique. 2) The catch needs to finer so that subsequent files get added to the zip
Samigo	SAM-1641	Float comparison errors	Findbugs identifies a number of places where floats are compared using == in the form: data.getFinalScore() != originalFinalScore Due to the way floats are represented in binary this could fail as no precision is specified. Suggestion: use commons-math Precision.equals(Float 1, Float 2, Float eps) The question is what degree of precision should we allow?
Samigo	SAM-1841	Calculated questions does not accept valid Formula, and doesn't report why, either	I created this calculated question: Two cars left from the same point at the same time, one traveling East at {x} mph and the other traveling South at {y} mph. In how many minutes will they be {z} miles apart? Round to the nearest minute. {{abc}} For the abc formula, I used: SQRT({z}^2/({x}^2+{y}^2)) * 60 The system rejects that, saying that it is missing a parenthesis. It isn't. When I adjusted it by removing the outermost pair of parens (just as a test even though I think that makes the calculation not work) the formula field was still pink, but there was no error explanation for why.
Samigo	SAM-1905	samigo / FCK editor question text always appears bold	The question text in samigo always appears in bold. If a instructor wants to place emphasis (by using bold) on a word or statement in the question it does not render properly on the student/preview assessment side. While creating the questions it appears that the text shows up properly. Using the headings of h4 or h5 also do not render properly. There is a notable difference when using h2 and h3. Replication: 1) Create an assessment 2) In the question text bold a choice word or small statement but not the entire question 3) Save the question - NOTE: it appears properly when creating the assessment. 4) Next preview the assessment / publish assessment and login as a student 5) The question is bold and the emphasis you placed in earlier is not noticeable
Samigo	SAM-1234	email command compromises anonymity	We set up a test to be graded anonymously, as part of a survey. When grading, at the bottom of each test is a link "email ...." where .... is the name of the person submitting the test. This is a bad idea.
Samigo	SAM-1393	Timer starts even if the username and password is not correct	This is reported by IU: 1) Create a timed assessment using a username and password (under the high security in settings). 2) As a student attempt to take this assessment entering the incorrect username and password combination 3) Wait a few minutes and try step 2 again but this time use the correct username and password 4) Notice that the timer had already started prior to you accessing the assessment
Samigo	SAM-1205	SAMigo integration with Respondus LockDown Browser	SAMigo integration with locked browsers. Contributed by Respondus.
Samigo	SAM-1440	Samigo has some heavy queries when a user first enteres the tool, we need to make sure these queries limit by SITE_ID	We have identified the following Samigo queries when a user first clicks on the tool inside of a site. These queries are not limiting by SITE_ID and thus are pulling all published assessments, this is not scaling at all in our environment where we have thousdands of sites and tens of thousands of published assessments. Here are the problem queries that we have identified: select publishedf0_.ASSESSMENTID as col_0_0_, publishedf0_.FEEDBACKDELIVERY as col_1_0_, publishedf0_.FEEDBACKAUTHORING as col_2_0_, publishedf0_.EDITCOMPONENTS as col_3_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWQUESTIONTEXT as col_4_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWSTUDENTRESPONSE as col_5_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWCORRECTRESPONSE as col_6_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWSTUDENTSCORE as col_7_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWSTUDENTQUESTIONSCORE as col_8_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWQUESTIONLEVELFEEDBACK as col_9_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWSELECTIONLEVELFEEDBACK as col_10_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWGRADERCOMMENTS as col_11_0_, publishedf0_.SHOWSTATISTICS as col_12_0_ from SAM_PUBLISHEDFEEDBACK_T publishedf0_ select assessment0_.PUBLISHEDASSESSMENTID as col_0_0_, count(assessment0_.ASSESSMENTGRADINGID) as col_1_0_ from SAM_ASSESSMENTGRADING_T assessment0_ group by assessment0_.PUBLISHEDASSESSMENTID select publisheds0_.ASSESSMENTID as col_0_0_ from SAM_PUBLISHEDSECTION_T publisheds0_, SAM_PUBLISHEDSECTIONMETADATA_T publisheds1_ where publisheds0_.SECTIONID=publisheds1_.SECTIONID and publisheds1_.LABEL='AUTHOR_TYPE' and publisheds1_.ENTRY='2' group by publisheds0_.ASSESSMENTID
Samigo	SAM-1120	Audio Files in Assignments get cut off when played in Firefox/Quicktime	This is reported by Stanford (CW-2740): There has been a longstanding issue with Firefox cutting off playback of audio recording files (.au). I just got a ticket from Ken Romeo, reporting that he had students upload mp3 files using the File Upload question type. These files also experience the same problem as the audio recording files, in that they play for a few seconds then get cut off when using the Firefox browser.
Samigo	SAM-1259	Bad concatenation procedure	Jean-François Levêque has found some issues related with concatenating strings to make a complete UI message: samigo-app/src/webapp/jsf/author/publishAssessment.jsp has: <h:outputText value="#{assessmentSettingsMessages.cancel_message_1} <b>#{commonMessages.cancel_action}</b> #{assessmentSettingsMessages.cancel_message_3}" escape="false"/>
Samigo	SAM-1835	Student able to submit second assessment after due date	The setting for late submissions accepted states that late submissions will only be allowed for students who do not have a prior submission: Late submissions WILL be accepted after the due date. However, this applies only to students who have not submitted their work prior to the due date. They will be given one chance to do so and their submission will be tagged as late. Currently, with this option checked and a due date, students can submit another submission after the due date even if they have a previous submission. To reproduce: Create an assessment with a due date, 2 submissions and Late allowed Publish the assessment As the student, take and submit the assessment before the due date Before the due date, start the test a second time Leave the test open until the due date passes After the due date has passed, submit the assessment Student is allowed to submit even though it is after the due date and one submission was already made before the due date.
Samigo	SAM-925	NPE occurs in DeliveryBean.timeExpired	Click here for more information.
Samigo	SAM-1828	Unexpected Error with Partial Credit with Multiple Choice	Click here for more information.
Samigo	SAM-1693	NPE exporting to spreadsheet	Seen in production: caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.bean.evaluation.ExportResponsesBean.getSpreadsheetData(ExportResponsesBean.java:208) at org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.ui.bean.evaluation.ExportResponsesBean.exportExcel(ExportResponsesBean.java:180) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
Samigo	SAM-787	Incorrect internationalization in survey questions	1) Select language to english. 2) In any assessment add a question of survey type. Select Answer: Disagree, Agree. 3) Change the language (for example spanish) 4) Edit the above assessment. You can see the answer with values: Disagree, Agree instead of En desacuerdo, de acuerdo witch is the same in spanish.
Samigo	SAM-2004	sam.assesment.remove logged with null context	When a working copy is deleted a null context is passed to the event service: \| 455106270 \| 2012-11-04 09:20:26 \| sam.assessment.remove \| assessmentId=13953 \| ~vula2a~dhorwitz \| m \| NULL \|
Samigo	SAM-1783	Unable to record in IE9 or FF	On http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal, I tried to record an audio question, both on IE9 and FF9. IE9 will NOT allow me to record, but no errors pop up. On FF9, I did receive an error and am wondering if this may be part of the problem in SAM-1779. I'm uploading a screenshot of the error which displays on nightly2, (which does not appear when recording using FF on 2.9 b07). To reproduce: Create a test with an audio question and publish it As the student, begin the test, click on 'Click to record your answer...' Click the 'Record' button in the pop-up

Search
Search	SRCH-53	Catalan translation for sakai 2.9 (search)	Updates the catalan bundless
AdminX and AdminLite
Contrib: AdminX and AdminLite	ADMX-11	update the pom.xml files to make adminlite compile with recent 2.9+ sakai code	This is to update the group id of several project, e.g. velocity, courier, etc inside the pom.xml.

Big Blue Button
Contrib: Big Blue Button	BBB-88	Email link to a meeting will always show status unavailable	This was tested on 1.0.7-rc2 I created a project site (BBB demo for Walsh), added Meetings, created a meeting, invited sean. The BBB notification email is below. After I started the meeting, sean clicked on the link which is supposed to take him to the meeting. he logged into Sakai and went to the correct project site and meetings tool, but the meeting which was in progress for me was listed as unavailable to him. See screen cap "from email link". If he clicked into the project site, navigated to meetings and clicked on the meeting, it showed as available. See screen cap "same session directly" So it looks like email notification links don't work but you have to log into Sakai and navigate to the meeting.

BlogWow
Contrib: BlogWow	BW-126	Create a BlogWow 1.1.0 tied to Sakai 2.9-SNAPSHOT	Poms need to be modified to build against Sakai 2.9
Contrib: BlogWow	BW-131	Blogwow tool fails to startup in sakai 2.9.x due to missing jar	read the comments in EVALSYS-1170 to understand the issue. The spring jar is no longer in shared after 2.9, so you must include it in your war file
Dashboard
Contrib: Dashboard	DASH-230	generate a build profile to make trunk dashboard code build-able with Sakai 2.9	There is some compile problem with current dashboard trunk code and sakai 2.9.x code base. Need to add a build profile to support 2.9 build
Contrib: Dashboard	DASH-246	change the Dashboard 1.0.x pom.xml files to use Sakai 2.9-SNAPSHOT version	The Dashboard 1.0.x branch now refers to Sakai 2.10-SNAPSHOT. We agreed to have it point to Sakai 2.9-SNAPSHOT and create new tag after merging recent fixes. Hence Sakai 2.9 users can download the new Dashboard tag without pom.xml modifications.
Contrib: Dashboard	DASH-231	dashboard build problem with Sakai trunk code after purepom changes	Due to some recent Sakai trunk change related to purepoms, the Dashboard trunk can no longer build with Sakai 2.10 trunk. Here is the explanation from Matthew Jones: "Quick summary: - If you have an indie, switch parent from purepoms to master. If you have some apis dependencies inherited through compile scope, these might be overridden by dependencyManagement in master so you may need to define more dependencies. 2) Purepoms were removed from 2.9 and trunk after 2.9.0-b03 a few months ago. If your contrib tool still uses a purepoms for 2.9 or 2.10 snapshot it will no longer be able to find these artifacts. (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21564) Old artifacts for 2.9-SNAPSHOT and 2.10-SNAPSHOT were in source.sakaiproject.org/maven2-snapshots. These artifacts were up to 5 months old. We had changed to deploying all artifacts releases and snapshots to maven central/sonatype, so if your tool had this repository defined you need to update it. Ideally your tool can use a fixed release version of 2.9 (like 2.9.0-b05). That would be ideally what your parent looks like: <parent> <groupId>org.sakaiproject</groupId> <artifactId>master</artifactId> <version>2.9.0-b05</version> </parent> You can use the version 2.9-SNAPSHOT which is in the repository, but 2.10-SNAPSHOT currently would require your users to download and build sakai-trunk-all to use. (As mentioned in Step #1) It was also noticed that some projects had dependencies defined in their "api's" with no scope defined (so it got compile) and when the api was a dependency in something else (like the impl or the tool) those other dependencies would be pulled in as transisitive dependencies. However, since all api's are now defined in the master dependencyManagement as "provided", your tools dependencies may have to have these api's explicitly defined. Confused? Say you're the dashboard project and you used to inherit from purepoms. Switching to master alone will cause some dependencies to not be found. This is because in the dashboard-api there is: <dependency> <groupId>org.sakaiproject.assignment</groupId> <artifactId>sakai-assignment-api</artifactId> <version>${sakai.version}</version> </dependency> After switching to master, this scope becomes "provided" instead of "compile" as it isn't defined here, and it won't work when you include it in impl. So you'd need to define these as provided in impl. https://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/longsight/dashboard/trunk/impl/pom.xml?root=contrib&r1=79394&r2=79398 "

Evaluation System
Contrib: Evaluation System	EVALSYS-1170	Evaluation tool fails to startup in sakai 2.9.x due to missing jar	In sakai 2.9.x, the spring-webmvc jar is no longer deployed to shared, and RSF depends on that jar being available. For 2.9 and later, evaluation-tool war needs to include the spring-webmvc jar.
Contrib: Evaluation System	EVALSYS-1151	Pom issues in 1.4 evaluationtag 1.4.0-B01	The current evaluation 1.4.0-B01 tag has a couple of issues: There is no profile for sakai 2.9. The evaluation dependencies in the poms are for the 1.3 version of Evaluation.
Contrib: Evaluation System	EVALSYS-1208	Admin Search Feature displays nothing	Admin Search feature appears to be broke -- how to reproduce: 1) Select Administrate 2) Select Search 3) empty page is displayed Nothing is displayed in logs as far as I can see

Sakai Kaltura Extension
Contrib: Sakai Kaltura Extension	SKE-35	Add support for HTML5 playback of media	Need to add support for the Kaltura HTML5 compatible player (which does not use flash). The flash player will be used by default when flash is supported but the kaltura player will be used otherwise.
Textbook
Contrib: Textbook	TXB-222	textbook trunk is not compilable with Sakai 2.9 code base	I tried to compile tbook trunk with sakai 2.9.x, and got the following error: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] /Users/zqian/dev_29x/sakai/tbook/impl/src/test/org/sakaiproject/tbook/logic/test/stubs/FakeUser.java:[28,7] org.sakaiproject.tbook.logic.test.stubs.FakeUser is not abstract and does not override abstract method getModifiedDate() in org.sakaiproject.user.api.User [ERROR] /Users/zqian/dev_29x/sakai/tbook/impl/src/test/org/sakaiproject/tbook/logic/test/stubs/FakeSite.java:[40,7] org.sakaiproject.tbook.logic.test.stubs.FakeSite is not abstract and does not override abstract method setSoftlyDeleted(boolean) in org.sakaiproject.site.api.Site [INFO] 2 errors [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------

RSF
RSF	RSF-3	Release RSF 0.7.6 to provide support for site language	SakaiRSF 0.7.5 has not supported site language in Sakai 2.9. Currently, it is reported as a issue via SAK-22392 and LSNBLDR-94. SakaiRSF 0.7.6 will resolve those issues by the fix of https://github.com/rsf/SakaiRSF/commit/afe1b0572fe20820becfb18f1f76597be87d0a0e . So, could you release it?

Sakai
Sakai	SAK-19964	Gradebook drop highest and/or lowest to keep highest grade for student	Add keep highest, drop highest/lowest feature to gradebook
Sakai	SAK-20118	Build a new portal for Sakai 2.9	Generate a pdf from the Gradebook for printing
Sakai	SAK-19813	Build a new portal for Sakai 2.9	Build a new portal for Sakai 2.9 while retaining the current portal. Make it possible to stay with the current portal with a mer property change. Take inspiration from the OAE design experience as well as other LMS products. http://www.slideshare.net/csev/sakai-29-portal-road-map-plans This is a high-level JIRA and the task will evolve over the next six months as design ideas are proposed, prototyped, and adjusted.
Sakai	SAK-22236	Update default skin	Rutger's new skin for 2.9 is the inspiration for this new update.
Sakai	SAK-8589	Ability to upload a zip file containing documents and grades for a particular assignment - the reverse of the current Download All feature	See attachment on this page: SAK-8589 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Sakai	SAK-800	Upload, download and extract Zip archive files in Sakai Resources Tool	In situations where WavDAV cannot be used to manage resources, it would be useful if a number of files and folders could be uploaded and downloaded into/from the Resources tool using archive files (e.g., .zip, .gz, .sit). The zip archive would then be extracted automatically on the server, resulting in the addition of the files and folders that constituted the contents of the zip archive. If one wanted to download a collection of files and/or folders, then one could go through a picking process, select the desired items, choose the type of archive, and then download it.
Sakai	SAK-22392	Changing language in course site when refreshed in Site	Set site language to French France. Enter site Info tool (Information du site), click on 'page order' (ordre des pages) and then click the refresh button and the language changes to English for all items within this tool.
Sakai	SAK-3186	Add dynamic language support and add language (locale) choice to user preferences	Currently Sakai can support only one language locale, statically configured at system startup. There is great demand (e.g. Europe, Canada) for the ability to dynamically display different languages from the same Sakai instance. I've attached a document describing the functionality and design.
Sakai	SAK-21183	QuickPublish option for sites	Allow the '! Unpublished Site' badge that is shown at the top of the tool menu to be a link so that when the instructor clicks on it, the course gets published. We've inserted this link with xsl-portal and I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like. At it's most basic, the js that makes this work is: function publishSite(siteId) { var reqUrl = '/direct/batch?_refs=/direct/site/'+siteId+'/edit&_method=PUT'; var resp = $.ajax({ type: 'POST', data: 'published=true', url: reqUrl, success: function() { location.reload(); } }).responseText; }
Sakai	SAK-21201	SAK-17880 Set CKEditor as default for 2.9 release	Following TCC vote, the CKEditor has been chosen as the default rich text editor for the 2.9 release. This needs to be set as the default in the config module as well as the EditorRegistry in portal.
Sakai	SAK-20713	Provide 2.9 compatible set of example skins	2.9 Neo portal is temporarily hardwired to a skin in portal for development. Provide a set of example skins analogous to the ones in the standard portal for the Neo Portal. Then the Neo portal can be modified to participate in skin selection. The neo portal will add a prefix to the site skin of "neo-" - so the too.css URL when the neo portal is in effect will be /library/skin/neo-default/tool.css If you make a site skin "engineering" the path under neo will be /library/skin/neo-engineering/tool.css And if you go back to the old portal the URL will be: /library/skin/engineering/tool.css This way, if you install 2.9 and set the portal back to the old templates, you do not have to move your skins at all. If you want to use neo, you need new skins with the "neo-" prefix for each skin. There is also a new property (yay) to allow you to change the prefix that is added to the skin name to be something other than "neo-": portal.neoprefix=neo- As an example, you might want to put all the neo skins in a subfolder - so you would change the prefix to be portal.neoprefix=neo/
Sakai	SAK-20612	Allow closing section info tool until a release date	Our instructors want to able to close section join until to a release date. In this way, student won't be able to join to a section until that date happens.
Sakai	SAK-21564	Clean up POMs for 2.9	Upon discussion with various institutions and SCAs, the decision has been taken by the CLE team to flatten the POM hierarchy for the tools within the CLE release. Combined with work such as SAK-21389, SAK-21397, and KNL-861, this is expected to help rationalize the release process. There is substantial rationale and there are various suggestions (to be detailed here and in Confluence), but the first step is to re-parent all tools in the release to master. This should have very little impact on the the tool POMs other than allowing significant duplication to be removed (repositories, dependencyManagement, and plugin configuration). Other likely steps include: 1. Splitting materials to differentiate between the "corporate POM" (used to set base organization and configuration information) and the actual version/dependency management -- both are in master now, forcing configuration like source layout on projects wishing to simply defer version management. 2. Using POM imports to include dependencyManagement sections across projects without inheriting or forcing shared items into master. 3. Setting up "dependency aggregation" POMs for the most common/useful sets of dependencies. These can be added as a simple dependency that transitively includes others. The best example is an analogue to sakai-edu-tool, where a single dependency could provide compile-time support for all of the modules covered by purepoms. -- more to come here --
Sakai	SAK-21160	SAK-21135 Sakai 2.9 Schedule Accessibility Review	Perform an accessibility review of the Schedule tool as released in Sakai 2.9
Sakai	SAK-22783	SAK-22707 Unify applicationContext.xml files in gradebook 2.9	Two different applicationContext.xml files are present in gradebook. They startup order is not defined so either may be chosen when Sakai starts up. For the 2.9 release they will be merged to be identical. For 2.10 one should be eliminated.
Sakai	SAK-21136	SAK-21135 Sakai 2.9 Home Tool Accessibility Review	Perform an accessibility review of the Sakai 2.9 release's home tool.
Sakai	SAK-21859	add shortened url properties to 2.8 and 2.9 branches	add shortened url properties to 2.8 and 2.9 branches. These are only present in trunk but the tool is available since 2.8 so the default properties in both 2.8 and 2.9 need to be updated.
Sakai	SAK-21328	2.9 portal chat doesn't seem to keep users up	I connected to a site from two browsers with different users, one the site owner and the other Access. New users show in "in this site" for about 30 sec and then disappear. Is this expected? I also had Sakai Administrator show in my site for 30 sec. Unless someone else was logged in as admin, I don't think that's real.
Sakai	SAK-20669	Add catalan translation for 2.9	Catalan translation for trunk
Sakai	SAK-21138	SAK-21135 Sakai 2.9 Assignments Accessibility Review	Perform an accessibility review of the Assignments Tool
Sakai	SAK-21137	SAK-21135 Sakai 2.9 Announcements Tool Accessibility Review	Perform an accessibility review of the announcements tool.
Sakai	SAK-22667	Synoptic Announcements ordering issues	Both in 2.8 and 2.9 trunk. Announcements in the Synoptic center are not being displayed in a chronological order. In 2.8 we see messages are being grouped by sites and in 2.9 the order seems random (message from 12.58 is above message from 12.59)
Sakai	SAK-22444	Edit tools no longer highlighting when adding tools (regression from 2.8)	On 2.8 (and likely before) when tools were added with Edit Tools, a span highlight were added around tools that were added. The text even indicated that the tools added were highlighted. However in 2.9 and trunk there is no longer the span added no highlighting for newly added tools, they look the same as tools that exist in the site. So something was lost between 2.8 and 2.9 somewhere. Tested on nightly and qa29.longsight.com (doesn't work) as well as 2.8.x instance (works).
Sakai	SAK-20544	problem of returning to Site Info default view in new neo portal	Update: The current plan is to disable this and mark as as "experimental" for both 2.9 and trunk. The new neo portal introduced a "Add Tool" link at the bottom of tool navigation panel. Click on it, it would direct user to Edit Tools page. Refresh the page to return to Site Info list view (default view). Choose Edit Site Information, save change and finish. The page refreshes, but show the Edit Tools view.
Sakai	SAK-21224	When adding a portfolio template, the numbers are missing from the steps	Checked 2.8.1 and 2.9 - neither version has the #s for the 'Steps' when adding a portfolio template. To duplicate: 1) Click Portfolio Templates from the menu 2) Click Add Only 'Step' displays This version, 2.7.2 contains the 'Step # of #' when adding a portfolio template. http://qa5-us.sakaiproject.org/portal/site/port27_0927 LocalSakaiName - RELEASE - Sakai 2.7.2 - Server localhost
Sakai	SAK-21664	Please add lesson builder name to tools_es.properties	Please add lesson builder to tools_es.properties. I'd appreciate doing it in both 2.8.x and 2.9. I believe the correct name is "Lecci\u00F3nes".
Sakai	SAK-22331	Activate short urls for resources by default	As per https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/TCC+CLE+2.9+Action+Items Short urls for resources will be enabled by default including the randomised URL shortener.
Sakai	SAK-21648	100% fr_FR translation for portal	Please merge this translation back into 2.9 and 2.8. If the subversion merge fails, please replace the old file with the new one from trunk.
Sakai	SAK-21251	Modify configuration option to enable/disable neoportal chat to default to false	The new chat functionality deployed with the Sakai 2.9 neoportal needs to be configurably enabled/disabled, with the default option disabled. The property (already defined) is: portal.neochat=false
Sakai	SAK-21024	Gradebook 1.0 All Grades Row Alignment Issue in Select Browsers	ISSUE: When there is a long name in the gradebook (version 1.0), the name field will wrap to a second line, but the corresponding grade row for the student does not expand in kind in Internet Explorer (and some also report issues with Firefox 5.0 on PC). Therefore, the gradebook table is out of alignment as the professor scrolls down the list of names. It looks like this issue had been addressed in the past (?) but is back or some other change may have overwritten the specific fix? Sakai Environments: Can reproduce this issue on our local Sakai 2.8.1 instance as well as the nightly 2.9 server (http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal). Client Operating Systems: Windows Vista Windows 7 32-bit Windows 7 64-bit (IE 8 32-bit, IE 8 64-bit, IE 9) Client Browsers (with issues): Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit on Windows 7 - compatibility view off): Yes -- seeing the problem Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit on Windows 7 - compatibility view on): Yes -- seeing the problem Internet Explorer 8 (64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit - compatibility view off): Yes -- seeing the problem Internet Explorer 8 (64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit - compatibility view on): Yes -- seeing the problem Firefox 5.0.x (Windows Vista): a reliable info systems faculty member reports the issue; we don't have other Vista systems to test Firefox 5.0.x (Windows 7 32-bit): Mixed results; a reliable support staff member reports the display issue, our tests on other system so far cannot replicate Client Browsers (gradebook displays fine): Firefox 5.0.x (Windows 7 32-bit): Mixed results; a reliable support staff member reports the display issue, our tests on other system so far cannot replicate Firefox 3.6.x (Windows 7 32-bit): no issue (the gradebook rows expand properly) Safari 5.1 (Windows 7 32-bit): no issue (the gradebook rows expand properly) Chrome Beta Channel (Windows 7 32-bit): no issue (gradebook rows expand properly) Firefox 5.0.1 (Mac 10.6): no issue (gradebook rows expand properly) Safari 5.1 (Mac 10.6): no issue (gradebook rows expand properly) See screenshots for how the problem appears in the Gradebook in Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows 7 64-bit. Same behavior happens in IE9, too. Thank you for addressing this "All Grades" display issue.
Sakai	SAK-20089	Require Java 1.6	This is a parent issue to track the work for requiring Java 1.6 in Sakai 2.9. From the list: DH: 2.8: recommend 1.6 - code compiles in 1.5 2.9: require 1.6 - no guarantee that code will compile/run in 1.5 AW: If we want to drop 1.5 then we need to make sure that the code compiles after adjusting Maven's compiler plugin settings from 1.5 to 1.6. Last time I checked (early December) the kernel failed to build due to an issue with kernel util's validater.java due to "unmappable character for encoding UTF-8 (53 cases)." SS: Yep lets get any required modifications committed into trunk, and enforce 1.6 as soon as possible so we can iron anything out early. JFL: Let's make this a 2.9 blocker and work on this at least as soon as 2.8.0 is released.
Sakai	SAK-21517	Site Info group helper accepts empty site title	Create a group in adhoc groups with the title " " (1 empty space) Sakai 2.8 and before: group is saved 2.9 and later a stack trace is thrown from the kernel about an empty name Solution:the group helper should trim the imput before checking if a value has been entered
Sakai	SAK-21842	Port CKEditor support to 2.7.x	There is some desire to run CKEditor with CLE 2.7.x. This functionality should not be committed to the maintenance branches, but could be used from feature branches. Ideally, those wanting this functionality would upgrade to 2.8 or 2.9, where it is already present, but this may not be possible for local reasons.
Sakai	SAK-22179	Release Sakai 2.8.2	This will track everything for the 2.8.2 release. Release process: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/~steve.swinsburg/sakai-2.8.2+release Release order: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Indie+release+order+-+pre+2.9 The above release order is being reviewed and condensed onto the 2.8.2 release page above.
Sakai	SAK-21369	Create compatibility patch for IE10	We decided on the email list that issues relating to IE9 should attempted to be fixed for Sakai 2.9. The best fix for this seems like it would be to set compatiblity mode to IE9 so that when IE10 comes out we're at least ready for that.
Sakai	SAK-22709	Possible NPE in GradebookServiceHibernateImpl	Seen when calling code in a custom entityProvider: 2012-10-02 14:52:20,614 INFO TP-Processor3 za.ac.uct.cet.sakai.gradebook.entityproviders.GradebookEntityProvider - entityExists(fe7927a0-ae7b-416a-adea-f6ceb5640e62) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.sakaiproject.component.gradebook.GradebookServiceHibernateImpl.fixingPointsEarned(GradebookServiceHibernateImpl.java:2136) at org.sakaiproject.component.gradebook.GradebookServiceHibernateImpl.getTotalPointsEarnedInternalFixing(GradebookServiceHibernateImpl.java:2036) at org.sakaiprojec In edu-services 1.1.6 (2.8.2) though code analysis shows its still present in trunk and 2.9 if(gradeMap != null) { Double rightPercent = gradeMap.getValue(letterGrade); BigDecimal rightPercentBD = new BigDecimal(rightPercent); If gradeMap.getValue(letterGrade); returns null this will NPE
Sakai	SAK-22288	Move trunk Portal, Skin, Tutorial Tool into the 2-9-x branch	At the TCC meeting in Atlanta, we decided to move the current trunk of portal into the 2-9-x branch to get the new skin as well as all of the fixes to many JIRAs. Of course there is some likelihood of regression so this will require special vigilance in QA for the 2.9 tag that incorporates the new trunk of portal. Things to watch: - CSS tweaks need to be verified as to not having regressions - Another accessibility pass would be nice - I don't think there are too many accessibility regressions - Tools functioning in the PDA portal since the inlining algorithm has been adjusted We need a dev test pass and then some focused QA once the branch is moved into 2-9-x.
Sakai	SAK-21165	please add a pattern to the PDA portal exception list	Please add the pattern /uvbview$ to the list of URLs that the PDA portal should pass through unchanged. This URL is created by the Ajax feature in RSF. As far as I can tell, all users of RSF's built-in Ajax support will match this pattern. Without this change, RSF's Ajax calls do not work when the PDA portal is in use. (More realistically, we have to ask all sites to add a property to sakai.properties.) This is a problem for version 1.4 of Lesson Builder, but could come up in any tool using RSF. UVBProducer, which produces this URL, is referred to in Assignment 2, Evaluation, Gradebook, and Lesson Builder. However I haven't tested the applications other than Lesson Builder to see whether it's actually an issue and this pattern actually fixes them. Since 2.8.1 is intended to be friendly to Lesson Builder, it would be useful to retrofit this to 2.8.1, as well as trunk and 2.9.
Sakai	SAK-19760	SAK-19083 Review the order of styles and scripts in the portal (portalstyles.css portal.css)	There are a number of Web Page performance optimizations recommendations via Chromes Developer tools. One of the critical recommendations is to optimize the order of styles and scripts. This allows parallelization of downloads by the web browser. See: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#PutStylesBeforeScripts If the optimization is just a question of re-ordering a Velocity template then it is well worth the effort. If not this Jira can be considered documentation for the Sakai 2.9 life cycle. Doing some really rough maths. 50 ms saved per page x 3,000,000 users x 20 (logins) x 50 pages ~ 42,000 hours saved per year. Generated by Chrome - Developer tools - Audit The following external CSS files were included after an external JavaScript file in the document head. To ensure CSS files are downloaded in parallel, always include external CSS before external JavaScript. portalstyles.css portal.css
Sakai	SAK-20843	Prep portal for off-cycle releases	In order to perform off-cycle releases of OSP and other major CLE capabilities, a number of CLE projects that OSP is either directly or transitively dependent upon will also need to be prepped for off-cycle releases so that SNAPSHOT dependencies can be eliminated prior to performing an OSP release. Portal is one such project. Both OSP (osp/xsltcharon, osp/portal) and Metaobj (tool & util -> portal-api) are dependent on the portal. Leaving aside the issue of moving osp's portal stuff to the portal project (which has been suggested in the past), I would like to make the following changes to the portal trunk poms: 1. Change the <groupId> to org.sakaiproject.portal. Portal coordinates will adhere to the pattern adopted for other indies, which is reflective of broader Maven naming practices including that practiced by Apache. <artifactId> and <version> would not be changed. It's also easier to debug/review binaries in the repo (either local or remote) when they all can be found in maven2/org/sakaiproject/portal like: http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/basiclti/ then the current scattered arrangement of maven2/org/sakaiproject/ portal-base portal-render portal sakai-portal-api/ sakai-portal-impl/ sakai-portal-render-api/ sakai-portal-render-engine-impl/ sakai-portal-render-impl/ sakai-portal-render-pack/ sakai-portal-service-impl/ sakai-portal-service-pack/ sakai-portal-shared-deploy/ sakai-portal-util/ 3. Set up portal so that we can deploy binaries to the snapshot repo. Basically boilerplate additions to the base pom. Add <distributionManagement>, <repositories>, <pluginRepositories> and <reporting> declarations to base pom. Update the current Jenkins job to deploy snapshot updates. 4. Add an assembly which provides a Tomcat-overlay zip of LB. As I noted in LA we will not substitute an assembly for a full source check out of Sakai trunk but the assemblies have proven quite useful to msub deployers such as Steve Swinsburg. Plus, if we ever get the app store concept going a zip of portal binaries will prove quite useful. Again, this code, a pom file and deploy.xml is largely boilerplate. It takes about 10 minutes to write. 5. Set up portal to use the release plugin. Involves swapping out the master pom for the purepom like other indies. We have 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 versions of purepoms. I expect that portal will benefit from use of the release plugin (which the purepoms provide) given the advent of the new neo portal. The release plugin, as you know, provides the ability to generate off-cycle releases in a simple, nay trivial manner. 6. Tidy up the poms. For example, substitute standard Maven variables such as ${project.groupId} and ${project.version} where appropriate for portal's own "internal" dependencies. 7. Portal is bundling up a copy of the portlet-api-1.0.jar (available in /shared/lib) in the following .wars. Include portlet-api in <dependencyManagement> and adjust the <scope> to "provided" in order to eliminate bundling up the jar in the .war files. sakai-portal-render-pack sakai-portal-service-pack portal.war 8. Update portal dependency declarations in other projects: master, metaobj and OSP. 9. Implement any necessary build profiles. As discussed in LA one change we intend to make for 2.9+ is to perform API releases independently and ahead of tool releases. In the case of portal, sometime after code freeze we would release the portal apis. In order to do this I envision replacing the api's current <parent> with a purepom-like "sakai api" pom that will be released first so that a portal api release can actually be performed (currently, you can't do a release of an api that has a snapshot dependency on its own project base pom). Ideally, once we hit code freeze, we release the kernel apis, then all the tool apis. We should then be able to better reflect version-wise the actual steady state of most project apis. We'll need some additional build profiles to better segregate releasing apis and then everything else. The lead portal comitter, Chuck Severance, supports this effort.
Sakai	SAK-18654	Forms : problem with date format when editing the date field with jsf date widget if your locale is fr_FR, XsltFunctions.java don't test the format date for europen locale param.	context : If your locale is fr_FR when you want to use the date widget to add a new date in a OSP form , if you click on the date widget icon, the date format wich is returned is always mm/dd/yyyy even if you want an other format like dd/mm/yyyy. I found that the calendar2.js is always called, regardless of the local parameter. I think that the problem is in the file : XsltFunctions.java /metaobj/metaobj-util/tool-lib/src/java/org/sakaiproject/metaobj/utils/xml/XsltFunctions.java in version 2.6x, line 171: we find if (format.getLocaleDateFormat() == DateWidgetFormat.DD_MM_YYYY()) after having modify with: if (format.getLocaleDateFormat().equals(DateWidgetFormat.DD_MM_YYYY())) the format detection is correct and the good : calendar1.js is called for europeens (fr_FR, es, nl etc..)
Sakai	SAK-18952	Web services for Samigo	Add web services to interact with Samigo.
Sakai	SAK-19847	problem in error workflow in adding rosters in Site info	Click here for more information.
Sakai	SAK-19909	ical files are invalid if an event description contains a newline	I exported an ical file from Sakai and ran it through: http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ I got the following error: Error: Error was: Error at line 254: Illegal property [SARAH] Cause: Caused by: Illegal property [SARAH] Context for line 254: 251: UID:98ad7fcc-c63d-47f7-aeda-c68422302cd8 252: DESCRIPTION:Timetable for the induction is attached but may change. A har 253: d copy will be available in your induction packs on the 5th October. Sarah 254: LOCATION:ORCRB 255: ORGANIZER:CN=Sarah%20Norman http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/organizer.html defines what should appear in organizer field - it should be a URI
Sakai	SAK-20674	Parse OpenURL requests to add book to reading list	Enhance the citation helper to allow it to parse citation addition requests in a similar way to the Google Schoolar integration that exists at the moment. http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards?step=2&gid:ustring:iso-8859-1=&project_key:ustring:iso-8859-1=d5320409c5160be4697dc046613f71b9a773cd9e - OpenURL specification. Sir Louie project: http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sirlouie
Sakai	SAK-20801	sendTemplateUseNotification has institution specific data in the email that is sent when a site is created from a template	The sendTemplateUseNotification method in SiteAction is called when a site is created from a template, and sends an email to the tempalte owner. However the email contains information that is institution specific: buf.append("Cheers,\n"); buf.append("Alliance Team\n"); It just so happens that we (ANU) contributed this feature in SAK-12868, however it has not been converted over to the email template service so this issue remains. This line should be removed, but ideally this should be converted to use email template service like the rest of the emails in Site Manage.
Sakai	SAK-20958	config.extraPlugins seems to have stopped loading	The ckeditor config.extraPlugins doesn´t appear to be loading plugins. I used the new feature, "wysiwyg.editor=ckeditor" to load the ckeditor, but as I try to load the wiris plugin, nothing is loaded. I´ve inspected the stack at that point and the plugin name is being provided correctly, but does not load the external js n such. Thanks, Dan /* Copyright (c) 2003-2011, CKSource - Frederico Knabben. All rights reserved. For licensing, see LICENSE.html or http://ckeditor.com/license */ CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config ) { // Add WIRIS to the plugin list config.extraPlugins += (config.extraPlugins.length == 0 ? '' : ',') + 'ckeditor_wiris'; // Add WIRIS buttons to the "Full toolbar" // Optionally, you can remove the following line and follow // http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Toolbar config.toolbar_Full.push(['ckeditor_wiris_formulaEditor', 'ckeditor_wiris_CAS']); };
Sakai	SAK-20957	Users deleted from the system throw errors in the logs	If you create a user, add them to a site then delete them from the system via the Admin Users tool, then go to the site you will get: 2011-08-02 13:54:33,838 WARN http-8081-Processor22 org.sakaiproject.site.util.SiteParticipantHelper - SiteParticipantHelper.prepareParticipants: user not defined b52ec79d-940d-4124-9f21-29092796616c The same thing for external users (i.e. from LDAP)
Sakai	SAK-21110	Remove cacheTTL code from JLDAP provider as it has no bearing in the JLDAP cache	Steps to replicate: 1) Set a very high cacheTTL in jldap-beans.xml 2) Start sakai 3) Go to memory tool 4) Look for JLDAP cache and notice TTL is still set to default 300
Sakai	SAK-21407	Allow import of group membership from CSV file	This is a patch to add an Import from file option in the Group Membership page of Site Info to take CSV of group membership. If the group exists (match on title) the users are added. If the group does not exist, it is created and the users added. The users must first exist in the site they are being added to. This work was completed on behalf of Ultraline Technologies (http://www.ultralinellc.com/)
Sakai	SAK-21303	Internal variable names are displayed.	When no realms match the search condition, "$topMsgPos - $btmMsgPos of $allMsgNumber" is displayed. See attached NoRealms.PNG. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to Admin workspace / Realms 2. Enter a search term (e.g. "abc") and press Enter. This issue has occurred since the fix via SAK-18807.
Sakai	SAK-21313	Date/time is displayed using system locale.	See attached PodDate.PNG. In spite of having set site language to English, the date/time is displayed in Japanese. It should be displayed using site language (or preference).
Sakai	SAK-21403	The group property to enable Site Info to see groups should be moved out of site-manage	In order for a group to show up in the Manage Groups part of Site Info, it must have the property: group_prop_wsetup_created=true This is defined in: site-manage-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/util/SiteConstants.java: public static final String GROUP_PROP_WSETUP_CREATED = "group_prop_wsetup_created"; Therefore, other tools that want to create groups with this property must either take a chance that the property won't change and hard code it themselves, or use the constant from the site manage utils, creating a hard dependency. Ideally, this property would be moved to the kernel.
Sakai	SAK-21430	Allow for customisable tool icons	This is a request to allow customisable tool icons. Currently, every tool of the same type gets the same icon. For example, if you have a number of web content tools, they all have the same icon. See screenshot. I propose that when rendering the tool list, the portal checks for a tool property (tool-class). The value of this is then output into the markup for the tool, e.g.: <span class="toolMenuIcon icon-sakai-iframe TOOL-CLASS-HERE">Web Content</span> Corresponding CSS would need to be added to portal.css for the actual styling to occur. This is the approach taken in uPortal.
Sakai	SAK-21495	Allow guest access on a site by site basis	Currently, you can control guest access on a system-wide basis with the sakai.properties setting nonOfficialAccount=true/false (introduced in SAK-13389 ). However, sometimes you want to make exceptions on a course-by-course basis. The attached patch will allow a site property ( AllowedNonOfficial ) to override the sakai.properties setting and allow guest access on a site-by-site basis.
Sakai	SAK-21009	Cannot set section time while use non-English locale.	While setting time of a section in non-English locale, it will generate a RuntimeException. Its hint is "A bad date made it through validation! This should never happen!". But unfortunately, it happens. In /sections/sections-app-util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/tool/section/jsf/JsfUtil.java convertStringToTime(String str, boolean am), An suffix either "AM" or "PM" is added according to the param. And the result string will be parsed to date by user locale(new ResourceLoader().getLocale(), line 197). Since not all locale use AM/PM (zh_CN for example), it will cause a "never happen" exception. The solution of this bug is just change the line 197 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, new ResourceLoader().getLocale()); to US locale which use AM/PM SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, Locale.US);
Sakai	SAK-21395	Page Order tool allows adding of tools to a site that are not appropriate for the site type	The Page Order helper within Site Manage allows you to add ANY tool to a site, including those designed only for My Workspace. It seems to bypass the configuration. For example I can add the Account, Profile and user Preferences tool to a normal project site. In addition the list doesn't show the normal site tools that I am allowed to add (like Forums for example) IMO the ability to add pages via Page Order is redundant as you can do the same using Site Info > Edit Tools.
Sakai	SAK-21428	Bad formatting of navbar in 'new template' view	If you click 'New template' in Email Template Service you get a half rendered nav bar. This is because of <div class="navIntraTool"></div> which should not be present for that particular page.
Sakai	SAK-21500	SAK-21352 OSP Wizards: Adding page to wizard causes unexpected error	1. Log in to QA3-US 2. Create a project site with OSP Wizards tool 3. In Wizards, create a new wizard (either sequential or hierarchical), follow basic wizard creation routine 4. On "Step 3: Add Pages," add a page to your wizard 5. Give the new wizard page a title 6. Click "Save Changes" Sakai will display an unexpected error. When you refresh the Wizards tool, the wizard will be successfully created, but the page will not have been added. Wizard page adding is working properly on Rutgers's implementation of 2.8.1. Importing a sequential wizard that has pages does not cause the error. Adding more pages to the imported wizard also causes the error.
Sakai	SAK-21929	SAK-19842 'Secure Connection Failed' error when clicking "what's this" under Resources -> Copyright Alert	Under Resources, clicking on "what's this" beside Copyright Alert gives the following error: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long) URL of pop-up: https://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086//access/copyright I tried editing the URL and getting rid of the second '/' after 8086, and pasting it in a new window (can't edit the pop-up), but still get the same error.
Sakai	SAK-21582	Simplified Chinese translation for Announcement 2.8.1	Based on 2.8.1 Translate all keys according to default properties. Remove unused keys according to default properties. Improve translation. /announcement/announcement-tool/tool/src/bundle/announcement_zh_CN.properties /announcement/announcement-tool/tool/src/bundle/permissions_zh_CN.properties
Sakai	SAK-21595	SAK-21594 Get common to build site "site:site" mvn target	mvn release are failing because there are two empty tests in common. These empty tests cause failure in Maven sites See: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JXR-32 I am deleting the commented-out tests
Sakai	SAK-21910	i18n date/time enhancement and swedish language bundle - patches	Umbrella issue for all internationalization patches coming from UMU/SU in Sweden.
Sakai	SAK-22073	RIS files starting with Byte Order Mark (BOM) fail to import the first citation.	A text file which starts with a Byte Order Mark (BOM) doesn't import correctly, the first citation in the list fails to import. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark As mentioned in the Wikipedia article Notepad on Windows will add a BOM to UTF-8 files. Attached is the same list twice, once with a UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF) and one without. You can see the BOM in a hexdump of the file: $ hexdump -n 16 Paleo6a-bom.txt 0000000 ef bb bf 54 59 20 20 2d 20 4a 4f 55 52 0d 0a 41 0000010
Sakai	SAK-22282	Proposed patch to support group submissions.	Ability to turn on/off Group Submission feature (assignment.group.submission.enabled=true must be set in sakai.properties) This patch makes changes allowing Site Groups to act as submitters of an Assignment instead of an individual. Any individual in the group may make submissions/changes and all members of the group are emailed notifications on submissions. All behaviors on individual submissions can be applied to Group Submissions such as Grading, Resubmissions, Grade Release, Downloads, Uploads, etc. One grade is designated for the entire Group and all individuals receive this grade in the Gradebook (A future patch is expected to include a mechanism to alter an Individual's grade from the Group's grade). Ability to turn on/off Visible Date feature (assignment.visible.date.enabled=true must be set in sakai.properties) This patch also includes an optional visible date feature. If visible date set, student can see assignment but can not submit/save yet. This feature is driven by a need for us to show students upcoming tasks but not allow them to act on them until the open date.
Sakai	SAK-22439	Updated mongolian translations for some tools	Migrated from SAK-22097. Bayanaa added a comment - 30-Jul-2012 17:13 I've fixed and attached translation bundle files for the following: basiclti entitybroker lessonbuilder mailarchive msgcntr osp portal roster samigo site I kindly request your assistance in putting them into the trunk version. Thank you.
Sakai	SAK-22476	Some projects reference caret Maven repositories and if they are down they slow the build	Some projects are still referencing the caret maven repos. They are currently down and its taking me ages to build Sakai with a clean repo. They are referencing RSF which has been migrated to the Sakai repo anyway so they are redundant and unnecessary. All references to them should be removed. eg [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building sakai-gradebook-app-ui [INFO] task-segment: [clean, install, sakai:deploy] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [clean:clean {execution: default-clean}] [INFO] Deleting directory /Users/erkel/dev/sakai/src/2.8.x/gradebook/app/ui/target [INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}] [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources. [INFO] Copying 1 resource Downloading: http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven2/uk/org/ponder/pure-poms/standard-war/POM-3/standard-war-POM-3.pom [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'uk.org.ponder.pure-poms:standard-war:pom:POM-3' from repository CARET-Maven2 (http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven2): Error transferring file: Operation timed out Downloading: http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven2dev/uk/org/ponder/pure-poms/standard-war/POM-3/standard-war-POM-3.pom [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'uk.org.ponder.pure-poms:standard-war:pom:POM-3' from repository caret-dev (http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven2dev): Error transferring file: Operation timed out Downloading: http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/uk/org/ponder/pure-poms/standard-war/POM-3/standard-war-POM-3.pom 995b downloaded (standard-war-POM-3.pom)
Sakai	SAK-20443	The transformation between xserver fields and sakai fields does not bear in mind the code ' 020 ' that corresponds to ' ISBN '	On having recovered a book from a server xserver, this sends to us the ISBN in the code 020 , but on having examined the register of the citation there appears the field empty 'ISBN'. Examining the file xserver2sakaibrary.xsl we see that 022 identifies the code both with ISSN and with ISBN, when it corresponds to this one 020. The soluction has been: <!-- GET ISSN/ISBN --> <xsl:for-each select="datafield[(@tag='022' or @tag='020') and @ind1=' ' and @ind2=' ']/subfield[@code='a']"> <isnIdentifier> <xsl:value-of select="text()" /> </isnIdentifier> </xsl:for-each>
Sakai	SAK-20765	Catalan translation of OSP:Matrix needs to be upgraded	Catalan translation of OSP:Matrix needs to be upgraded. There are minor mistakes in the translation.
Sakai	SAK-20766	Catalan and Spanish translation of Roster need to be upgraded	Catalan and Spanish translation of Roster need to be upgraded.
Sakai	SAK-20908	Upgrade Java version to JDK 7.x	Relase of JDK 7.0 is right atound the corner with a a lot of anticipated feature including JVM support for other languages. I have tried to complied 2.8.x FRAMEWORK against release candidate and it was SUCCESSFUL with unit tests. Full profile for sakai 2.8.x failed. I see one error here which may be just package location movement. I am anticipating no more than a couple for more errors in compilation. deployment may be another deal. Here is the relevant build log. [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[49,31] error: package com.sun.image.codec.jpeg does not exist [ERROR] /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[50,31] error: package com.sun.image.codec.jpeg does not exist [ERROR] /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[143,6] error: cannot find symbol [ERROR] class ProfileUtils /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[143,33] error: cannot find symbol [INFO] 4 errors [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Compilation failure /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[49,31] error: package com.sun.image.codec.jpeg does not exist /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[50,31] error: package com.sun.image.codec.jpeg does not exist /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[143,6] error: cannot find symbol class ProfileUtils /home/mustansar/source/sakai-2.8.x/profile2/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/util/ProfileUtils.java:[143,33] error: cannot find symbol
Sakai	SAK-20961	Common project release fails due to errors when rendering Maven reports	The release plugin fails on common (trunk, 1.0, 1.1) when generating Javadocs with the following error. This is due as Matthew points out to the presence of two commented out test classes. [INFO] Loading source files for package org.sakaiproject.api.common.type... [INFO] Loading source files for package org.sakaiproject.api.common.edu.person... [INFO] Constructing Javadoc information... [INFO] 1 error [INFO] 2 warnings [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] Error during page generation [INFO] [INFO] Embedded error: Error rendering Maven report: [INFO] Exit code: 1 - javadoc: warning - No source files for package org.sakaiproject.api.common.type [INFO] javadoc: warning - No source files for package org.sakaiproject.api.common.edu.person [INFO] javadoc: error - No public or protected classes found to document. [INFO] [INFO] Command line was: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/jre/../bin/javadoc -J-Xmx1024m -J-Xms168m "-J-Xms168m -J-Xmx1024m -J-XX:PermSize=128m -J-XX:NewSize=64m" @options @packages [INFO] [INFO] Refer to the generated Javadoc files in '/home/arwhyte/svn/common/branches/common-1.0.x/target/checkout/target/site/testapidocs' dir. [INFO]
Sakai	SAK-21015	Announcements - please restore the listing of announcements to show newest to oldest	ISSUES: In previous versions of Sakai (even earlier versions of 2.8), the Announcements tool would always list the most recent announcement first (sorted descending order by date). Now, it appears that this default behavior has shifted to showing oldest to newest instead (sorting ascending order by date). REQUEST: I am writing to ask that the previous behavior -- sorting in descending order -- be returned to Sakai 2.8.x and 2.9.x. This is desired behavior which helps site managers and participants stay aware of the most recent information first. This is generally accepted as best practice for organizing announcement information, especially in classes. At our campus, faculty have complained about this new sorting and I expect that faculty at other campuses would have the same response. NOTE: In an earlier build of Sakai 2.8 (rc3 on http://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086 as of Aug 12, 2011 at 12:30 PM US Pacific) still has the previous sorting enabled. I am not sure where the bug or change was introduced, but hope that this information helps the community fix this display problem. Thank you so much for looking into this issue.
Sakai	SAK-21168	SAK-21124 Identify the config by changing the SCS to support tracking of config items	Find all the config values by updating the SCS to allow tracking Also update the SCS to allow change listeners and live config changes
Sakai	SAK-21284	DAV "MOVE" operation is implemented as copy/remove	The doMove() operation in DavServlet.java implements a move as a copy followed by a remove. This causes all files so "moved" to be recreated in the storage volume before the old copies are deleted. And so in every case, the application server must read the full content of each file and write it back out again. In a shared storage situation, particularly a multiple-volume one, this creates several risks. And when multiple MOVE operations are issued in sequence (eg a user using a DAV client to move 10 folders to another location), several threads are kicked off which can result in complete saturation of the server's I/O system and/or NFS connection. ContentHostingService provides a "rename" method which may or may not be appropriate for the needs of the DAV server, and in addition that method is also implemented in this manner (copy then remove-- see KNL-817), however, this implementation presents a big risk when dealing with multiple multi-gigabyte files.
Sakai	SAK-21353	chat took down our system	chat took down our system this evening. On some of the front ends, we found ClusterEventTracking at 100% and not much else happening. We also had continuing GCs, which I assume are related, though I can't prove it. Note that I'm just guessing that the following patch will solve the problem. It's an unambiguously good idea, but I find it hard to believe that this alone caused all the problems. As far as I can see, one ChatDelivery is created for each message, and I don't think we have that high a rate of message deliveries for this alone to kill us, but I've found that fixing the problems I know about makes it easier to find the ones I don't know about... The problem was in org.sakaiproject.courier.impl.BasicCourierService.deliver(BasicCourierService.java:137). This code inserts items to be delivered (ChatDelivery objects) into a list for each destination. It checks to see if a given message is already in the list, using contains. Contains uses equal. One thinks of equal as low-overhead, but in this case it it not. ChatDelivery objects have the message to be delivered. It is either the ID of a message or the actual object. Equals on ChatDelivery objects checks whether the underlying message ID's are equal. Unfortunately it does this using getMessage().getId(). This causes the message to be loaded if what you currently have is just the ID number. Since all we want is the ID number in the first place, this is unnecessary. The problem is that this code is called from inside the event handling systems's event delivery code. That code is single threaded, and has to be fast. It shouldn't be doing DB queries, particularly via Hibernate. The solution is obvious. Add a method getMessageId which returns the ID if we have it, and does getId() if what we have is the object. So no DB queries.
Sakai	SAK-21377	Feed causes NPE.	NullPointerException is caused when the feed icon is clicked. See attached NPE.PNG. It is caused because the rome library was upgraded to 1.0 via SAK-20125. rome-1.0.jar needs to be placed into the class-path (e.g., CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib) as reported to http://java.net/jira/browse/ROME-129 .
Sakai	SAK-21421	CLONE - Bug in JSF i18n	The options to select the amount of items shown always appear in English, all the tag releases I've tried have this bug. This happens because the page renderer file ("PageRenderer.java") calls a bundle file that does not exist ("org.sakaiproject.jsf.bundle.pager"). It exists in the trunk version though, but there are two groups of i18n files there. There are two options to solve the problem, to add the "bundle" folder to the tag versions or to modify the PageRenderer file and make it point to the other files ("org.sakaiproject.jsf.Configuration"). Either way, one of the bundles should be removed, for simplicity and correction's sake. This affects some pages in Samigo, Assignments and some more tools probably. --- CLONE is above --- Issue: The paging widget in Section Info shows only English. See attached SectionInfo.PNG. It has occurred since r93466 via SAK-20294.
Sakai	SAK-21507	Accessibility: The three skip navigation links do not work in Safari or Chrome	(1) In Safari and Chrome the focus will never stop on the skip navigation links. (2) Even when the skip navigation links are activated using the access key assigned to them, the display scrolls to the link's target but the focus does not. And yes, I configured Safari to "Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage" to do my testing. In both Safari and Chrome, the other links (tools list, etc.) do get focus.
Sakai	SAK-21502	Accessibility: Skip Navigation links aren't visible to allow access to sighted keyboard only users	The three skipNav links (Jump to content, Jump to tools list, and Jump to worksite list (located at the top of the portal body)) do not become visible when they receive keyboard focus. The skipNav links work great for screen-reader users. However they aren't very usable to another important class of keyboard only users -- those who can see and don't use screen-readers. This means that they can't tell what the links are for and are left to wonder why tabbing into the window doesn't seem to do anything. As a compromise between keeping the visual design free of the skip navigation links, and making them accessible to keyboard only users, CSS can be configured to hide the skip navigation links until they receive focus. An example of this technique can be found on the ATAC's Web site: http://iuadapts.indiana.edu/ (visit the page and then press the tab key until the "Skip Main Navigation" link text appears). Once a keyboard only user starts tabbing through the page, the skip navigation link will receive focus and CSS can make it become visible. An example of how to code CSS to do this in Sakai would be to replace the empty #skipNav rule in portal.css with: #skipNav a.skip:focus, #skipNav a.skip:active { height:auto; width: auto; outline: black dotted thin; position: static !important; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1.5em; }
Sakai	SAK-21553	Unable to invite guest reviewer by email for matrix cell	When trying to invite a guest reviewer by adding the user's email, I just receive an error message stating: 'The user agschmidt120@gmail.com was not found' To reproduce: As the coordinator, create a matrix allowing users to choose their own reviewers As the participant, do some work in the matrix cell, adding a reflection, adding a file, etc Click Request Feedback On the Request Feedback page, enter the email address of someone not associated with the site or server under the 'Invite Reviewers by User ID or invite guests by Email Address' section Click Add Error message displays
Sakai	SAK-21754	disable presence in !error site	I recommend disabling presence in !error in both the default configuration and upgrade scripts. insert into SAKAI_SITE_PROPERTY values ('!error', 'display-users-present', 'false'); It's not a good idea to show users the names of other users, except in their own site. While probably not technically a FERPA violation, because other users can't tell much about them, some universities allow students to hide themselves completely for cases like stalking. So it's really a bad idea to show the names of other users who are online.
Sakai	SAK-21846	Typo when copying a URL in Resources	When selecting a URL for copying, the following alert is presented, complete with typo: Remeber to click Ctrl+C. This link only selects the URL.
Sakai	SAK-21857	Gradebook Entity Provider missing from 2.8.x	The gradebook entity provider is not initializing on 2.8.x instances of Sakai. It is appearing properly in 2.8.1. This is being caused by the bean definition for the entity provider being missing from gradebook/app/sakai-tool/src/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml. This definition has been missing in all 2.8 versions, however it was working in the past because during build-time the applicationContext.xml at gradebook/app/ui/src/webapp/WEB-INF was actually being used instead. This can be confirmed by building a 2.8.1 and 2.8.x gradebook separately and then inspecting the applicationContext.xml files in the src/ and target/ locations for gradebook/app/sakai-tool and gradebook/app/ui.
Sakai	SAK-22021	Accessibility: The ARIA Landmarks presented by the Neoportal are not all unique	The ARIA landmarks as presented by the Neoportal are very useful. However, multiple "navigation" landmarks are present and are not distinguished. Landmarks should be meaningfully and uniquely labeled so the user can tell them apart and can tell which navigation landmark they want to move to. For example of what a screen-reader user will see currently, see the attached image unLabeledLandmarks.png. Suggestion: The ARIA landmarks can be easily labelled by adding an aria-label attribute to each element that has the role="navigation" attribute. For example: <h1 class="skip" id="sitetabs" role="navigation" aria-label="Worksites begin here">Worksites begin here</h1>
Sakai	SAK-22118	Add method to get assignment list from CategoryDefinition	The gradebookservice provies two methods for getting the categories, List<Category> gradebookService.getCategories and List<CategoryDefinition> gradebookService.getCategoryDefinitions However the Javadocs for the getCategories method says: This method cannot be used outside of the gradebook because it returns the org.sakaiproject.tool.gradebook.Category object. If you require info on the categories from a consumer outside the gradebook, use getCategoryDefinitions(String) The issue here is that using getCategoryDefinitions does not provide a corresponding getAssignmentList method like the Category does. And you can't use the Category method outside of the gradebook since it isn't shared.
Sakai	SAK-22111	Move all of the 'custom' plugins for CKEditor to an external plugins directory	It looks like we can create an external plugins directory according to this guide: http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18876 And then do something to add all of these external directories like it describes. This would make it so it's still easy to upgrade CKEditor and that the plugins are separate. // get path of directory ckeditor var basePath = CKEDITOR.basePath; basePath = basePath.substr(0, basePath.indexOf("ckeditor/")); (function() { CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal('helloworld',basePath+'myplugins/helloworld/', 'plugin.js'); })();
Sakai	SAK-22138	Assignments - URL Submission Attachments	Assignments - URL Submission Attachments When a student attaches a URL for an assignment submission, the attached URL works in Sakai's interface. However, the confirmation email notification sent to the student for the submission breaks the URL's link by hyperlinking two more characters: "(1" is appended to the URL which breaks the link. See screen captures (assignment_submission_url.jpg & assignment_confirmation_url_email.jpg).
Sakai	SAK-22168	Clean up Web Services	This will hold a few changes to web services in the name of cleanup.
Sakai	SAK-22199	Improve the PDA Portal in its detection of Situations to not inline the tool content	Currently, the PDA portal loks at the request URI and applies a regular expression to the URL and if the Regex matches - do not do inlining. There is a property that allows sites to adjust the regex without patching or recompiling: portal.pda.bypass=.jpg$\|.gif$\|... You can also do a tool-by tool bypass portal.pda.bypass.sakai.web=regex... This turns out not to be sufficient. We also need a regex that will allow inline-bypass based on the existance of something in the query string, or even the requested or returned content type. SO this JIRA adds two new properties with suitable defaults: portal.pda.bypass.query=wicket:interface portal.pda.bypass.type=^application/\|^image/\|^audio/\|^video/\|^text/xml\|^text/plain Both of these can be scoped down to a tool by adding a Sakai tool id to the property name. You will know that these need adjustment when you are testing a tool in the PDA portal and start to see broken images, missing CSS, missing Javascript, or failing AJAX requests that are using local URLs that get turned into /pda/porta/... I will check this code in and leave the JIRA open so folks can do a bit of testing.
Sakai	SAK-20428	Options form of incorrect type can be saved on a presentation, which cannot be corrected by user	When a user uses multiple tabs or windows within the same session, it is possible to save the wrong type of form as the options form for a presentation. This will typically make the portfolio non-functional due to violating an expectation of the template that the form will be of a given schema. This also cannot be corrected by the user, since there is an implicit options form per presentation, and it cannot be detached. Steps to reproduce are: 1. Create a portfolio against a template with an options form type selected. 2. Complete the options (Required Settings). 3. Complete a content form in the portfolio. 4. Return to the Summary page (TAB 1). 5. In another window or tab (same browser/session), navigate to the Add/Edit Content page for that portfolio (TAB 2). 6. Begin editing the options form (TAB 1). 7. Begin editing the content form (TAB 2). 8. Click Save on the options form (TAB 1). Results: The form that should belong to the presentation is saved and attached as the options form. If the form for the item is of a different type than the options form, the portfolio will be unrecoverable. Each time the user attempts to edit the options form, the other form will be edited, and cannot be detached. The user then has to create a new portfolio and reselect all artifacts. Solution: Check the type of the form attempting to be saved as the options form for a presentation. Expected Result after fix: An error report should occur and the portfolio should remain functional. If the stack trace is visible, there will be a message about simultaneous editing. Notes: This isn't a perfect solution in that it doesn't resolve all of the errors that can arise from editing forms in multiple tabs. However, it does avoid the situation where the user cannot continue to work on a given portfolio.
Sakai	SAK-20521	Upgrade to Quartz 1.6.6; leverage quartz in <dependencyManagement> in master pom; remove <version> declarations in tools to avoid version drift	There are a few projects (osp, syllabus, warehouse, samigo) that declare a dependency on Quartz 1.5.2 while all other projects have updated to Quartz 1.6.6. Update these dependencies (including <groupId> to org.opensymphony.quartz) and leverage quartz's inclusion in the master pom's <dependencyManagement> removing the version in relevant projects to avoid version drift.
Sakai	SAK-20565	Portal now has a dependency on Profile 2 & Presence service	The PCServiceEntityProvider in the new portal has a runtime dependency on profile2 - this is a specific tool implementation and schools should be able to run Sakai without Profie2 in their build. It also breaks the Cafe build The presence one is more ambiguace - I would think we may want to premote the service to kernel for 2.0
Sakai	SAK-20598	Adjust SAKAI_PERSON_T hibernate mapping for type="text" and larger size	From recent discussions, the SAKAI_PERSON_T table is not created on MySQL5InnoDBDialect. Hibernate is not setting the column types as text, even though: <property name="notes" column="NOTES" type="string" length="4000" /> It was proposed that the type be changed to text and length increased to 75000. This will force a mediumtext on MySQL and clob on Oracle. From the list: On 19/05/2011, at 12:11 PM, John Bush wrote: increasing the length while using type of string breaks oracle, increasing length while using type of text works universally. current settings break mysql when using the innodb5 dialect. im suggesting type=text length=75000 or more, which requires oracle start using clobs but works for mysql all dialects, db2 , and oracle Need some investigation into the feasibility of using clobs directly. And also a conversion for both MySQL and Oracle.
Sakai	SAK-20715	Slowness/performance issues in Matrices tool	We are experiencing severe performance issues using the Matrices tool, primarily when clicking on Edit properties, but also when a user just tries to click on the matrix link to open it. Data has been collected from 3 different computers, using 2 different matrices from 2 different sites. I am attaching images of the two matrices, an exported zip file from the matrix causing us the most significant problems and a spreadsheet outlining the tests and times it took for certain matrix functionality. The design of the matrix including the number of rows and columns, number of users, and forms is also provided.
Sakai	SAK-22376	From value checked for null but not empyt	The check on the template from value checks for null values but not empty ones.
Sakai	SAK-22484	Sakai 2.9.x randomly sends users to Mobile View	Hi, just a few minutes ago we observed this bug. In the log just 2012-08-14 13:26:30,743 WARN ajp-bio-8019-exec-14 org.sakaiproject.util.ResourceLoader - bundle 'sitenav' missing key: 'sit_toggle_nav_exp' from: org.sakaiproject.util.ResourceLoader.get(ResourceLoader.java:159) appears and I don't believe that the missing key message is related to this bug. What I did was to be inactive in Sakai for about 55 minutes. I dismissed the logout warning and the next clicks on any link within Sakai caused the mobile view to be displayed (even the "Options" buttons within tools). Cheers, Wolfgang -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: sakai-dev-bounces@collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces@collab.sakaiproject.org] Im Auftrag von Omer A Piperdi Gesendet: Montag, 13. August 2012 23:37 An: sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org Betreff: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.x randomly sends users to Mobile View We upgraded our Sakai to 2.9.x last week.. Things seem normal.. We are seeing odd behavior, when I user in inactive for a while and click any link, it switched to 'Mobile View' in the user browser.. Have anyone seen this before? Thanks Omer
Sakai	SAK-22567	Accessibility: There are multiple accessibility issues with required fields on the new user page of the Users Tool	Issue 1: the meaning of the asterisk / required field indicator is not explained before the form that uses it. POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Include text before the form explaining the the required field indicator. (e.g., All required fields are marked with an asterisk () ) Issue 2: The required form field indicator is not part of the form control's label. POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Move the asterisk inside the label. Change this: <p> <span></span> <label for="eid">User Id</label> <input type="text" id="eid" name="eid"> </p> To: <p> <label for="eid"><span>*</span> User Id</label> <input type="text" id="eid" name="eid"> </p>
Sakai	SAK-19001	Remove Mercury Portal from Sakai 2.8	Remove the mercury portal from the build for 2.8.
Sakai	SAK-19149	The long description is listed as required but is not when editing.	In the Glossary tool, to An asterisk indicates the long description field that is required but no check is made on that field. The problem exists only when editing but works correctly when creating. This problem exists because the FCKEditor code in place a <br />. Even if the long description field is blank, verification based on the length of character finds a few and ignore the white. Here as an attachment a patch that solves this problem.
Sakai	SAK-19162	Visual indicator on tool icon when site is minimized needs to be stronger.	When in minimized mode for a site and moving between tools. The tool icon on the left hand side is not strongly highlighted. Perhaps a small border will help with navigation. This is a nice to have/must have, as it helps peoples internal model of where they are in the application.
Sakai	SAK-19267	Rename properties in SAK-12489 (Captcha for new user accounts)	Because eventually we might want to add captcha support to other tools, the property names in this SAK should be prefixed with "user.". Then they can be toggled independently of other captcha's Change to: user. recaptcha.enabled=false user.recaptcha.public-key=acsiiPublicKey user.recaptcha.private-key=acsiiPrivateKey
Sakai	SAK-19301	Show Last updated timestamp in Site Info	The University of Virginia adds the "Last Updated" timestamp to the bottom of the participant list in Site Info (just under the "Update Participants" button). This patch is contributed for consideration.
Sakai	SAK-19354	Long title for a presentation throws errors including JDBC Exceptions	Click here for more information.
Sakai	SAK-19476	Update Webdav instructions for 2.8	The Aula virtual environment is used by 9000 spanish students. The dev team spent a considerable time updating instructions in Spanish to be totally reliable for their population which includes Linux and other environments. I will ask for their webDav instructions to be placed here and then perhaps Rutgers can review and upate for 2.8.
Sakai	SAK-19518	Hierarchical wizard: Problem adding multiple categories, subcategories	Unable to add another top-level category in hierarchical wizard Clicked Wizards -> Add -> Hierarchical Wizard Completed first two steps Step 3 of 3: Click 'Add Category', fill out title and click Save Add a page or two under category 1 Beside Wizard name, click on 'Add Category' link again, fill out title and click Save Step 3 of 3 page loads again and category 2 does not display One subcategory can be added to a category, but trying to add more than one does not work
Sakai	SAK-19559	Accessibility: "Jump to Worksite List" Skip Navigation Link Present on Login Page	The portal includes three "Skip Navigation" links (Jump to Content, Jump to Tools List, and Jump to Worksite list). These links are very useful and should be maintained. However, no worksite list is present until a user has logged in. The "Jump to Worksite list" skip navigation link should be suppressed until a user has logged in.
Sakai	SAK-18011	Page title does not support special characters	When creating a page with title léon, the title is converted to léon where as the description, keywords etc are not.
Sakai	SAK-19831	Text input for alias e-mail address in mail archive allows text greater than 99 characters.	The text input for the e-mail address is allowed to be greater than the checked for limit of 99 characters. Please limit this via the GUI as well.
Sakai	SAK-19866	Auto-groups - ability to assign users randomly	Ability to randomly assign students in a site to a group automatically based on either specified number of groups per site, or specified number of students per group. This would greatly facilitate creating small groups (i.e. peer review or collaborative student groups) in large classes.
Sakai	SAK-20236	Can trigger java.lang.StackOverflowError via crafted e-mail address input	Click here for more information.
Sakai	SAK-18838	Conditional Release doesn't appear to be working for any conditions that are based on Gradebook settings	After putting in Chuck's patch for CR-4 I was able to test the specific conditions. The only ones that work are grade is greater than, grade is less than, grade is blank, and grade is non-blank. The others do not work. Items with the following conditions always seem to be displayed to students: due date has not passed is not included in the course grade is not released to students Items with the following conditions never seem to be displayed to students: due date has passed is included in the course grade is released to students (I thought it odd that all three of the 'nots' always show ...)
Sakai	SAK-17572	Add basicLTI propert settings to *.sakai.properties	Add the following default properties. Do not define a secret. # BASICLTI PRODUCER # Enable the Producer # Default=false imsblti.producer.enabled=false # BasicLTI Producer-enabled tools imsblti.producer.allowedtools=sakai.announcements:sakai.singleuser:sakai.assignment.grades:blogger:sakai.dropbox:sakai.mailbox:sakai.forums:sakai.gradebook.tool:sakai.podcasts:sakai.poll:sakai.resources:sakai.schedule:sakai.samigo:sakai.rwiki # BasicLTI Producer secret #imsblti.producer.lmsng.school.edu.secret= # WEBSERVICES # Indicates whether or not we allow web-service logins. # Default=false so folks are forced to add this in their local properties file. #webservices.allowlogin=true # BasicLTI Producer setting #webservices.allow=.*
Sakai	SAK-18655	mvn -Ppack-demo install fails for Windows Vista on the 2.7.0 source code	Running mvn -Ppack-demo install fails with the error Could this be todo with the path transversal / and \ for C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo/target/pack-demo INFO] Building Sakai Pack Demo [INFO] task-segment: [install] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [site:attach-descriptor] [INFO] [install:install] [INFO] Installing C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo\pom.xml to C:\Users\Alan\.m2\repository\org\sakaiproject\pack-demo\2.7.0\pack-demo-2.7.0.pom [INFO] [antrun:run {execution: pack-demo-clean}] [INFO] Executing tasks [delete] Deleting directory C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo\target\unpack [unzip] Expanding: C:\Users\Alan\.m2\repository\tomcat\tomcat\tomcat\5.5.28\tomcat-5.5.28.zip into C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo\target\unpack [delete] Deleting directory C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo\target\unpack\apache-tomcat-5.5.28\webapps [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo\target\unpack\apache-tomcat-5.5.28\webapps\ROOT [echo] Executing cd ../;mvn clean [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] An Ant BuildException has occured: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: mvn -Dmaven.tomcat.home=C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\sakai-2.7.0\pack-demo/target/pack clean error=2
Sakai	SAK-18742	Selecting two column layout for a page throws an Exception with a bug report for the end user - 2.6.x DEMO	Click here for more information.
Sakai	SAK-18870	Add method to AnnouncementService API to get merged announcements	With the current AnnouncementService API you can get the messages for a given channel. However, this does not include any merged announcements, ie from other sites. In addition, getting the announcements for a user's channel returns nothing. The logic to merge the lists is inside AnnouncementAction.getMessages. This should be split out into an API method.
Sakai	SAK-18910	Matrices / rendering bug	The problem is that simple and nested lists (both unordered and ordered) in the cell guidance fields are not being indented at all, even when a list is nested within a list. The lists display properly in the FCK editor and in the Edit Cell view but not when the cell is rendered to the end user. I have attached a document with screen shots and some sample FCK source to reproduce the problem.
Sakai	SAK-18924	invited reviewers who are not a member of the site cannot see or open the attachment.	If a participant adds a form to a matrix cell and the form contains an attachment, invited reviewers who are not a member of the site cannot see or open the attachment. Reviewers should be able to see everything a participant adds to a cell. To reproduce: 1. Create a new matrix. 2. In Matrix properties, set the default reflection form to "Reflection - Standard". Then set the default feedback form to "Feedback - Standard" and enable the setting: "Allow participant to send feedback invitations to additional reviewers" 3. Publish the matrix. 4. Log in as a participant. 5. Open a cell and add a reflection form. Type some text in the FCK editor and add an attachment to the form. 6. Save the reflection. 7. Click Request Feedback and request feedback an oncourse user that is not in the site. 8. Log out 9. Log into the email of the the invited Reviewer. 10. Locate the feedback invitation and click the link. You should be prompted to log in. Be sure to use the login and password for the invited reviewer. 11. You should be taken directly to the cell with the reflection form. Open the form. The attachment link is not visible.
Sakai	SAK-16568	Copied content links point to original site when 'Import from Site' option is used	The new option in the Rich Text Editor, Sakai Entity Link, is not working properly when imported through sites. It points to the original site and any students that do not have permission to that site will be given an error. The links always refer back to the originating site.
Sakai	SAK-21059	Upgrade Assignment 1 Integration with TurnItIn 2.9.2	Add the new options from TII 2.9.2 in the Assignment 1 UI. Also, make it so an institution can choose which settings are available via sakai.properties
Sakai	SAK-21675	Help tool contents (html) should be overridden easier	The help tool contents (help documents) are stored in jar files in shared/lib. If someone wants to modify the contents of these they have to either repackage the jars or rebuild the tools help files. It would be nice if the help tool would check for modifications to individual files from a local path something like: ServerConfigurationService.getSakaiHomePath() + "/help/"+help.location Ideally a new registration could also be provided here would could override all of it, but this would satisfy a lot of customization that we have that are just minor text changes without actually adding/removing help documents.
Sakai	SAK-21922	SAK-21908 In wiki tool, non-latin (Japanese/Chinese) characters are not supported while export site members in PDF file.	To show the bug: 1. Create a Wiki page contains non-latin(Chinese, in my case) content. You can just copy some Chinese characters from zh.wikipedia.org 2. Enter "info" page of the Wiki page. In "Views and Feeds", click "PDF". The exported PDF file render Chinese characters incorrectly. Screen shots can be found in attachment. Patch: In folder rwiki/rwiki-impl/impl 1. Modify sakai.properties Add an entry: fop.pdf.default.font=AR PL UMing CN "AR PL UMing CN" is a Chinese font. In Linux, it can be installed via "ttf-arphic-uming' Admin can set this to any font he/she like, only if the font is installed in the OS. 2. Modify pom.xml Update Apache FOP version from 0.9.3 to 1.0 3. Modify src/java/uk/ac/cam/caret/sakai/rwiki/component/service/impl/fop.cfg.xml Add some code to let FOP auto detect System fonts. 4. Modify src/java/uk/ac/cam/caret/sakai/rwiki/component/service/impl/xhtml2fo.xslt Set fo:root font to DEFAULT_FONT 5. Modify src/java/uk/ac/cam/caret/sakai/rwiki/component/service/impl/BaseFOPSerializer.java Update the FOP related code to couple with FOP 1.0. 6. Modify src/test/uk/ac/cam/caret/sakai/rwiki/component/service/impl/test/XSLTEntityHandlerTest.java Remove a test case which would not pass compile check due to changes of FOP API I modify the code based on Sakai 2.8.1. The source and "diff" are in the attachment(without sakai.properties). Also, you can see the effect after fix the bug as attachment
Sakai	SAK-22379	wrong email sender/receiver for the official site creation notification email	Before SAK-20801, when the official instructor of a course creates a course, an email is sent from the instructor to the system support account. However, now the same email is sent from the support account to the instructor instead, which result the loss of bookkeep emails in the system support queue.
Sakai	SAK-21739	Enforce uniqueness on template key + locale	Uniqueness is not being enforced on template key + locale. If only one of each template should be present in the db, we should enforce uniqueness in the db.
Sakai	SAK-21389	Calendar & Assignment have circular dependencies	The CalendarAction and AssignmentAction classes have circular API dependencies, which prevents an automated, indie build process. The CalendarAction class needs the assignments to grab assignment attachments. Could the Calendar have the Assignment attachment reference at the time the Calendar entry is created? Or maybe there's a different approach that would separate these two.
Sakai	SAK-21683	Remove duplicate descending indexes for mysql	Email Archive and Announcement contain ascending and descending versions of the same index. However, according to mysql http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-index.html An index_col_name specification can end with ASC or DESC. These keywords are permitted for future extensions for specifying ascending or descending index value storage. Currently, they are parsed but ignored; index values are always stored in ascending order. The DESC indexes are therefore duplicates that serve no purpose in mysql and should be removed. mailarchive-impl/impl/src/sql/mysql/sakai_mailarchive.sql CREATE INDEX IE_MAILARC_MSG_DATE ON MAILARCHIVE_MESSAGE ( MESSAGE_DATE ASC ); CREATE INDEX IE_MAILARC_MSG_DATE_DESC ON MAILARCHIVE_MESSAGE ( MESSAGE_DATE DESC ); and announcement-impl/impl/src/sql/mysql/sakai_announcement.sql CREATE INDEX IE_ANNC_MSG_DATE ON ANNOUNCEMENT_MESSAGE ( MESSAGE_DATE ASC ); CREATE INDEX IE_ANNC_MSG_DATE_DESC ON ANNOUNCEMENT_MESSAGE ( MESSAGE_DATE DESC );
Sakai	SAK-15832	site unavailable message should mention how to join a site (if the site is itself joinable)	if a non site participant goes to a joinable site before joining, there should be instructions on what to do.
Sakai	SAK-10393	Worksites need to support locale preferences	Worksites (especially course-sites) need to support a language/locale preference that trumps the language/locale of the user and of the system. Specific application for this include language-based courses. Suggested implementation: Set new SAKAI_SITE_PROPERTY flag: org.sakaiproject.site.LOCK_LOCALE = [locale-identifier] The LOCK_LOCALE property could be set in the Worksite Setup tool using a checkbox. If set, the locked locale would be equal to the user's current language/locale preference.
Sakai	SAK-22592	Accessibility: Page Reorder Tool in Customize Tabs Has Visual Indication of Keyboard focus Issue	Once a site has been moved from the "Favorite Sites" column to the "Active Sites" column, it can't be moved back to the "Favorite Sites" column using only the keyboard when it is in the top position of the "Active Sites" column. The keyboard interaction bugs effectively make it unusable for keyboard only users on the "Customize Tabs" page of the "My Workspace: Preferences" tool. Here is a brief (1 minute) video of the issue: http://screencast.com/t/e9y0AqeFv I'm guessing the problem is because of the locked "My Workspace" entry in the "Favorite Sites" column is locked into position preventing the normal insertion of a site in first position of the "Active Sites" column's attempt to move into the "Favorite Sites" column. Update: The issue is 99% solved. However, there is no visual indication of focus when using the keyboard to navigate between sites in IE 9. In Firefox a dark black outline signifies the active site. Recommended remediation: provide visual indication of focus for active site in IE, similar to Firefox.
Sakai	SAK-22748	SAK-22747 Accessibility: Tabbing of of the "X" close icon in the more sites drawer closes the drawer	The more sites drawer in the neoPortal worksites menu closes when a user attempts to use a keyboard to move focus off of the "X" close drawer icon. Why it's an issue: The keyboard only user and screen-reader user should be able to navigate to and explore all of the controls in the more sites drawer. One common technique used by screen-reader users to learn about the available controls is by tabbing through them. The screen-reader user needs to be able to cycle through all of the options in a modal dialog simply by tabbing through them. Controls should never be activated simply by tabbing onto the control or by tabbing off of the control. Solution: The only keyboard interaction that should activate the close icon to close the drawer is when the enter key is pressed while the close icon has focused. This will happen by default, as it is the default browser operation to activate the onclick handler on links and buttons when the enter key is pressed on them. The following piece of code should be removed: jQuery('#otherSitesMenu a').last().keydown(function (e) { if(e.keyCode == 9 && !e.shiftKey) { closeDrawer(); } });
Sakai	SAK-17891	Upgrade to Tomcat 6	We should spend some time investigating the deployment of Sakai on Tomcat 6, possibly for 2.8 or 2.9. References: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM31/01+Tomcat http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/sakai-with-java-6-and-tomcat-6/ http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/sakai-on-tomcat-6-revisited/
Sakai	SAK-11098	Stuck threads use excessive CPU	Click here for more information.
Sakai	SAK-18760	Upgrade to Tomcat 7	Since release of JPA2 and Servlets 3.0. More so because of Servlet 3.0 there are major changes anticipated in existing web frameworks as perhaps new frameworks are on the way. The most compelling feature seems to beAsynchronous processing support in Servlet 3.0. Since as of now there is no success of moving to tomcat 6 at least it is pre QA. Sakai team could perhaps move to Tomcat 7 directly . It may take a short while for many web frameworks to catch up to tomcat 7 and there may be more child Jiras associated with this update/feature but it will significantly reduces technical debt of sakai. http://www.tomcatexpert.com/blog/2011/08/10/end-life-announced-apache-tomcat-55
Sakai	SAK-18337	container login with two buttons only works for the main portal page	We're looking at support for CAS. But we have some users who aren't in CAS. I turned it on with two login buttons. It works OK for the main portal page. But if you go directly to a URL, you are sent to CAS. That won't work for people with local accounts. The attached file has a prototype patch. I doubt you want to use it as is, but it will give you an idea of what needs to be done: 1) Login should go directly to CAS for the main portal, otherwise to xlogin. 2) Xlogin needs the two buttons, unless it's called from the main portal. I do the two buttons as links. xlogin still has the local login form, but it starts out hidden. The local login button unhides the form using Javascript.This is almost certainly not the way you want to do it for real. Of course this means that you don't get transparent SSO into URLs, which may defeat some of the reason to use CAS. My sense is that CAS may need a way to put an extra button on it that calls back to the application. Or possibly login should check for the cookie indicating a CAS ticket, and go directly to CAS if it finds one. (Of course that could cause problems for our privileged users. They may have a CAS ticket from another application, but want to login to Sakai as an admin.) It seems to me that if we're serious about CAS it needs more thought.
Sakai	SAK-21204	My Workspace -> Preferences -> Notifications have missing keys	On the Notifications page, (My Workspace -> Preferences -> Notifications), Announcements and the Email Archive both have a "missing key" Announcements: [missing key (mre): annc-noti-prefs prefs_description] Email Archive: [missing key (mre): mailarchive-noti-prefs prefs_description]
Sakai	SAK-22551	need a way to bypass PDA hacking for RSF application	with Lessons 1.4 trunk, set agent string to IOS. Add comments to a site. Comments won't display. We need to do an ajax call to Comments.html. It used to do /sakai/sakai-lessonbuildertool-tool/faces/Comments with an argument to tell my producer what site it is in. However with the newest RSF, RSF itself needs to know the site. The only way I've been able to do that is to use /portal/tool/NNNN/Comments. That works OK except that if the browser is IOS, the portal mangles the result. I tried using faces/Comments with various extra parameters to specify the tool ID, but couldn't find anything that works. the situation is complicated because I'd like this to work with 2.8 without requiring sites to patch the core code.
Sakai	SAK-22739	Email template insert violate unique key and hence stops tomcat restart	Click here for more information.

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University of Michigan	UMICH-614	update MyCourses trunk pom files for latest Sakai artifact versions	MyCourses trunk cannot build with Sakai 2.9(.x). Several dependencies inside the pom.xml need update. coursemanagement-api is one example.
University of Michigan	UMICH-590	Site Types for creating new sites should not include Portfolios and should include GradToolsStudent sites	The site-manage/site-manage-tool/tool/src/webapp/tools/sakai.siteinfo.xml should be modified to customize the default UM site types as follows: <configuration name="siteTypes" value="course,project,GradToolsStudent" /> <configuration name="privateSiteTypes" value="GradToolsStudent" /> This UM custom changed was missed in the 2.7.2A upgrade and needs to be re-instated. Until this regression is fixed, users are incorrectly given the option to create portfolio sites and are not given the option to create GradTools sites. Note that for the 2.9 release, we can put modified tool registrations in ${sakai.home}/tools - thanks to KNL-342

Sakai 2.9.3 Changes

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Summary of Highlights

Over 100 Jira issues resolved!
AntiSamy security infrastructure is now on high setting by default (most secure setting). It was introduced in Sakai 2.9.2 but off by default until proven in production
WebDav - Improved WebDav-client support and compatibility
Gradebook API fix - A problem in the Gradebook API was introduced in 2.9.1 and discovered after the release of 2.9.2. It primarily affected Contrib tools (like JForum and Mneme) and when using groups with gradebook items, it also affected the Lessons tool. SAK-23733 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Lessons - better support for multimedia types and compliance with software license requirements. The removal of the JW Player library, which had a license incompatible with ECL v2 (Educational Community License version 2, a variant of the Apache version 2 license). LSNBLDR-216 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Lessons - better support for group management and sub-pages. LSNBLDR-255 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Samigo Fill-in-the-blank question type did not properly handle student feedback if the instructor manually changed the student grade for the item. SAM-973 - Getting issue details... STATUS .
Assignments - instructor not able to assign grades for unsubmitted assignments when using groups - SAK-23755 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Help documentation updated
Basic LTI changes - LTI - Release 2.1.1 Notes

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Sakai 2.9.2 Changes

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Over 160 Jira issues resolved!
Addition of AntiSamy security infrastructure (off by default until proved in production environments).
Support for Math symbols in the Rich text editor (aka CK Editor)
Institutional gradebook export function
Export of quizzes using IMS QTI browser is fixed for Chrome browsers (still works in other browsers)
Fix of serious WebDav bug which can result in data exists in 2.9.0 and 2.9.1 was discovered and fixed. May occur when moving or renaming a file or folder.
Fixed Roster tool. Threw error in many sites after upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9.

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Sakai 2.9.1 Changes

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System requirements

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Operating system (OS) choices

Sakai is OS neutral. It is typically run on any of the numerous Linux distributions. Examples of common Linux distributions include as CentOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SuSe Linux, Ubuntu. Sakai can also run on Mac OS X server, Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris. Operating systems other than Linux are not nearly as well tested, and all of the community QA servers are running Linux, so this is generally the recommendation.

Java

Sakai 2.9.0 has been tested most thoroughly with Oracle's Java SE 6, a.k.a. Java 1.6 . It also should be compatible with Java SE 7, aka Java 1.7 . Certain files, such as *.jsp and *.jws, require compilation so downloading and attempting to use only the run time environment (JRE 6.0 or JRE 7.0) will not suffice. If you find Sun's version and naming conventions confusing, see Sun Java SE Naming and Versions for an outline of their practices.

Oracle's Sun Java J2SE 5.0 (a.k.a Java 1.5) has completed the EOL process and is no longer supported. If are still running Java 1.5 please note that security vulnerabilities exist in JDK/JRE 5.0 updates 1.5.0_17 and earlier.

Application server choices

Apache Tomcat 7 is the recommended, and most thoroughly tested servlet container, and is most often used with a web server like Apache Http Server. Several schools run their Tomcats with Windows IIS and nginx proxies without issue. A few schools such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Universidad de Guadalajara report have deployed Sakai on JBoss, in the past.

Sakai 2.8.0 and previous releases require Tomcat 5.5 out of the box but can be configured in custom builds to run under Tomcat 7. Tomcat 7 is the requirement for running Sakai 2.9.0+. There are some changes to the Tomcat configuration required to get Sakai to startup in the source or binary form under Tomcat 7. Please see this page for more information!

Websphere deprecated

In Sakai 2.7.0 a Websphere module was included in the release in order to facilitate deployment to a Websphere/Db2 production environment; however, support has waned and the Websphere option is currently considered deprecated.

Database choices

Sakai production installations typically run either Oracle 10g/11g or MySQL 5.1/5.5. It should be noted that Sakai is not limited to these database choices and integration with other RDBMS systems is not difficult. In the past at least one installation used Microsoft SQL Server while requests for PostgreSQL integration are occasionally raised on the Sakai developers list. However, to date no one in the Sakai Community has stepped forward to support alternatives to either Oracle or MySQL, a prerequisite for adding additional database options to the release.

IBM DB2 Deprecated

Support for IBM Db2 was added for the Sakai 2.7.0 release but for 2.8.0 DB2 conversion scripts were not updated or tested and are currently considered deprecated, including for 2.9.x.

A demo version of Sakai includes HSQLDB; it should never be deployed in production.

Clustering, file storage and load balancing strategies

A typical Sakai cluster is comprised of one or more application servers running one or more instances of Tomcat 7 operating either in standalone mode or behind the Apache HTTP 2.2 web server. Each Tomcat instance runs a full copy of the Sakai. The cluster is backed by a single database providing a transactional store of information.

Storing binary content outside the database is a configurable option in Sakai and highly recommended from a performance standpoint. Most Sakai schools with sizable user populations opt for network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) solutions. Load balancing is provided by Apache (using mod_jk, mod_proxy_balancer or mod_proxy_ajp) or dedicated hardware solutions such as F5 BIG-IP, NetScaler or Zeus.

External Authentication choices

The Sakai can integrate with a variety of external authentication services including CAS, Kerberos, LDAP, Shibboleth and WebAuth.

Integrating with student information systems

Sakai Community institutions have integrated their Sakai installations with Banner, Datatel and Peoplesoft as well as a variety of home-grown student information systems (SIS).

Sakai has two basic approaches to integrating data from external systems. Most sites use a combination of these approaches. The first approach is to use the internal Sakai "provider" APIs. These APIs are places for Sakai to "consult" while Sakai is running. There are APIs for User Identity, User Directory, Course Listing and User Roles.

User Identity API: allows Sakai to call local code to validate users when they log into the system. This commonly uses Kerberos, Active Directory or LDAP to validate the user's credentials.

User Directory API: allows user information such as name and e-Mail address to be retrieved from an external system such as LDAP or X.509. The User Directory API has provisions to allow the local site to make decisions when to display student information in order to meet FERPA requirements. Each institution has different interpretation of FERPA so the precise FERPA decisions are delegated to the User Directory API.

Course Listing API: consulted when the instructor is creating a course site - this API returns the list of externally stored rosters for which the current user is the instructor. The user can select from one or more of these external rosters to associate with the course they are creating.

User Role API: is consulted when users log in to determine which external rosters they user is a member of and what their role is within those rosters. The Sakai internal configuration is updated if there are any changes to an individual's roster status.

The above API's are "pull" APIs--they are consulted when the user logs in or tries to take some action. The Course List API described above does not auto-populate courses.

If there is a desire to "push" information into Sakai there are two approaches - Quartz and web services.

Sakai utilizes an internal batch system called Quartz that provides a cron-like capability within Sakai. Quartz is used by creating a Java class that does the necessary work and then having Quartz schedule the regular execution of that Java code.

A more common approach to pushing configuration information into Sakai is through web services. Any of Sakai's APIs can be accessed by web services. Web service access points have been developed for many of the common Sakai APIs used for configuration. These SOAP web services can be called from PHP, Python, Perl, Java, .NET or any other language. Sakai web service data structures are kept simple to insure the widest possible interoperability with as many languages as possible. Administrators often build scripts to pull data from their SIS system and populate Sakai with that data. These scripts may be automated using cron or manually executed by the administrator at the proper time during a semester.

This combination of pull/push configuration capabilities allows for a very wide range of integration possibilities for the Sakai.

Browser compatibility

Sakai 2.9 is designed to work with modern browsers. You should be safe with the latest versions of Firefox (Mozilla), Safari (Apple), Chrome (Google), and with IE 10, IE 9 (Microsoft Internet Explorer aka IE) and IE 8. Sakai CLE does not work with IE 7 and earlier nor with Firefox 10 and earlier.

Downloading

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Download Info

For information about downloads please see the release page: http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.9.1/

There are two ways to acquire Sakai source code. You can choose to download a packaged *.zip or *tar.gz file from Sakai's release page or check out the code directly from our code repository using Subversion's (SVN) source control management system.

Demo archive
The Sakai Demo is a pre-built version of Sakai with Apache Tomcat and a simple configuration, perfect for a quick and easy demo of Sakai. The demo is NOT intended for large scale implementations. It is suitable only for evaluating the software and running small pilot implementations on a single server.

Binary archive
The Sakai Binary is a pre-built version of Sakai without Apache Tomcat, jar dependencies, or extra configuration files. Download the Binary release if you want to just drop the Sakai bundle into a pre-existing Tomcat environment.

Source archive
The Sakai Source includes Sakai portal, tool and service source code. Start from Source if you plan to make any code-level changes to your Sakai system.

Source checkout
Sakai source code can also be checked out anonymously from our SVN repository. The latest development work is located in /trunk; stable releases can be found in /tags, while maintenance, experimental and other work are located in /branches.

For example, to checkout a stable Sakai 2.9.1 release tag issue the following Subversion terminal command:

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.9.1/ sakai-2.9.1

Maintenance branch
The latest bug fixes for a particular release can be found in our maintenance branches. Please note that certain maintenance branch fixes require database schema changes. You can check out the maintenance branch by issuing the following Subversion terminal command:

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-2.9.x/ sakai-2.9.x

2.9 Indies

Information on 2.9 indies can be found here: Indie release order - 2.9

Installing

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Installation tip

Sakai is highly customizable for your local institution's needs It is recommended that you review the default Sakai properties to get the most out of your experience. Comments explaining the properties often point to a more detailed explanation in Jira.

Default Sakai Properties for 2.9.3

Default Sakai Properties for 2.9.2

Default Sakai Properties for 2.9.1

Default Sakai Properties for 2.9.0

Lessons tool - special installation instructions

Lesson tool

Sakai 2.9.3

For large installations with a million Lessons items or more, Lessons may break since the id generated cannot go high enough. To fix you can use the following statements. Please see LSNBLDR-284 - Getting issue details... STATUS for more information.

mysql
alter table lesson_builder_items modify gradebookId varchar(100);
alter table lesson_builder_items modify altGradebook varchar(100);

oracle:
alter table lesson_builder_items modify gradebookId varchar2(100 char);
alter table lesson_builder_items modify altGradebook altGradebook varchar2(100 char);

Sakai 2.9.4 (and a note about Lessons with 2.8.x)

If you are running the Lessons that comes with Sakai 2.9.x, database upgrades are handled automatically. No special instructions are needed.

If you install Lessons yourself, we recommend using the most recent tag. This is currently 1.4.2. If you install it yourself, you need to be concerned about database schema updates. We recommend starting once with auto.ddl on. That will handle most database updates for you. The exceptions are in the following files:

If you are moving from a copy of lessons older than the 1.4.0 tag:

* simplepage.pre29-to29.sql

If you are moving to the 1.4.2 tag from any previous version, and are using mysql:

* simplepage.for-2.9.2.sql [mysql only]

If you are unable to use auto.ddl, see the README files in the Lessons source. It will explain how to generate a database update script to go between any two versions of the source.

For the convenience of sites running 2.8, we generate binaries for 2.8. See https://sakai.rutgers.edu/stats/lb-281/

Deprecations, Removals and Warnings

Release	Capability	Status	Notes
2.9.0	Citations/Google Scholar	retired	Google has discontinued Sakai support in Google Scholar with the new Google Scholar UI introduced earlier this year. This was confirmed directly with Google. For more information, see a sakai-dev post from May 2012: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2012-May/017347.html For now, the problem can be fixed by adding a "sciui=2" parameter to the Google Scholar URL to force the old Google Scholar UI, but it's not clear how long Google will keep the old interface available.
2.9.0	NeoChat	disabled	NeoChat is a new feature in 2.9.0. We recommend leaving neochat disabled in a production environment until performance and usability tests are completed

Open 2.9-related issues worth noting

Release	Fixed	Tool/Service	Ticket	Issue
2.9.0	2.9.1	Help documentation	SAK-22891 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Sakai's context sensitive help was not updated in 2.9.0 and therefore contains the 2.8 release help information.
2.9.0	2.9.1	Site creation	SAK-22994 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Worksite Setup tool won't display extra site types from SiteTypeProvider during the new course site creation
2.9.0	Conversion script issue	Samigo (Test and Quizzes)	SAM-787 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Not all languages are included in the conversion at this time, only English, Spanish and Catalan.
2.9.0	n/a	Firefox browser with WebDav instructions	SAK-22588 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Links to OS specific instructions don't work on Firefox. Mozilla issue, not a Sakai issue.
2.9.0	2.9.0 w/note	Switching languages may require clearing browser cache	SAK-22568 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Some Sakai features require clearing your browser cache for the change to be reflected.
2.9.0	no fix for Citations Helper planned	CKEditor - Some plugins not supported	SAK-17886 - Getting issue details... STATUS SAK-21667 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Currently Citations Helper and Entity Picker plugins are not supported in CKEditor. It's expected that iSyllabus SAK-22283 - Getting issue details... STATUS will replace the functionality of the Entity Picker, but no news on what will happen with Citations.
2.9.0		CKEditor - Configuration Changes	SAK-22113 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Because we wanted to try to make it easier to configure CKEditor via an external file, the ckeditor.launch.js configuration for external plugins moved to the bottom of the file, and external plugins have their own folder in "ckextraplugins". These include wordcount, an updated movie player and support for After The Deadline (if you set up the server)
2.9.0	2.9.1	Error in Mysql Conversion Script	SAK-22911 - Getting issue details... STATUS	MFR_AREA_T is wrong case and can cause issue in conversion script, use conversion script in trunk or 2.9.x
2.9.3		Samigo	SAM-2201 - Getting issue details... STATUS	AssessmentGradeInfoProvider isAssignmentDefined results in many thousands database queries

Heads up for planned changes post 2.9.0

Release	Tool/Service	Ticket	Issue
2.10	Events	SAM-658 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Major change to events.

Open 2.x tickets

For listings of all open 2x-related issues see:

Blocker Critical Major Minor, trivial

Upgrading

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Configuring

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New properties, permissions

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New Feature

Ability to host uploaded content on a separate domain

Below are the properties you'd want to set to enable this functionality:

# turns on the functionality

#content.separateDomains=true

# the FQDN of the Resources Domain in your environment.

#content.chs.serverName=files.sakaiapp.org

# the full schema and domain name for constructing URLs in your environment

#content.chs.serverUrl=http://files.sakaiapp.org

As an example, Indiana University has this setup:

8 "normal" app server nodes serving OLTP, under https://oncourse.iu.edu

3 "resource" app server nodes serving only file content, under https://resources.oncourse.iu.edu

So, our settings are these:

content.chs.serverName=resources.oncourse.iu.edu

content.chs.serverUrl=https://resources.oncourse.iu.edu

The below settings are what IU runs in production (and are the defaults), but you are welcome to change as you feel necessary.

# These are the configured defaults, so no reason to override unless you intend to change them

#content.login.urlprefixes.count = 4

#content.login.urlprefixes.1 = /access/login

#content.login.urlprefixes.2 = /sakai-login-tool

#content.login.urlprefixes.3 = /access/require

#content.login.urlprefixes.4 = /access/accept

# These are the configured defaults, so no reason to override unless you intend to change them

#content.chs.urlprefixes.count = 2

#content.chs.urlprefixes.1 = /access/

#content.chs.urlprefixes.2 = /web/

# Exceptions to the content.chs.urlprefixes patterns

# These are the configured defaults, so no reason to override unless you intend to change them

#content.chsexception.urlprefixes.count = 3

#content.chsexception.urlprefixes.1 = /access/calendar/

#content.chsexception.urlprefixes.2 = /access/citation/export_ris_sel/

#content.chsexception.urlprefixes.3 = /access/citation/export_ris_all/

1.0 Property additions/changes

NOTE: The new Neoportal has a number of property additions which are listed at Sakai 2.9 portal changes

Release	Tool/Service	Property	Default	Ticket	Change
2.9.2	Portal	portal.showSubsitesAsFlyout	false	SAK-22703 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# The flyout subsites menu is off by default. Grouping the subsites into a flyout menu can be very # useful if you have a wide and shallow site hierarchy. To turn it on, set the following property to true. # portal.showSubsitesAsFlyout=false
2.9.2	Kernel	session.max.per.user	0 (representing unlimited sessions)	KNL-1035 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Limits the maximum number of session on a per user basis # If a user exceeds this number of sessions then the oldest ones will be expired # when a new one is established until the total is at the max again # Default: 0 (unlimited number of sessions per user) #session.max.per.user=100
2.9.2	Lessons/Security	lessonbuilder.filterhtml (NOTE: this has not yet been updated in default.sakai.properties.)	true	SAK-23523 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Should instructor content be filtered for dangerous html? false is filtering off. true is filtering on. # If antisamy is enabled, filtering will be done with level low # If antisamy is enabled, explicit filtering levels can also be used: default, none, low, high # May be overridden for one instance of Lessons using an instance property of filterhtml # Default=true; # THIS IS CHANGE FROM RELEASES BEFORE tag Sakai 2.9.2, which default to false # lessonbuilder.filterhtml=false
2.9.2	Security	content.cleaner.use.legacy.html	false	KNL-1015 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Force the use of the legacy html content processor (used in versions before and including 2.9), # if this is not overridden then the antisamy html cleaner will be used # Default: false (use AntiSamy) #content.cleaner.use.legacy.html=true
2.9.2	Security	content.cleaner.default.low.security	false	KNL-1015 - Getting issue details... STATUS KNL-1029 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Force the user of a lower security profile for content processing and scanning, # if this is not overridden then high security settings are used. # The standard high and low files are located in "kernel/sakai-kernel-impl/src/main/resources/antisamy/" # Override the standard files by placing your own files in: # ${sakai.home}/antisamy/high-security-policy.xml # ${sakai.home}/antisamy/low-security-policy.xml # NOTE: only works if AntiSamy is enabled (see content.cleaner.use.legacy.html) # Default: false (use high security - no unsafe embeds or objects) #content.cleaner.default.low.security=true
2.9.1	Search	searchServer@org.sakaiproject.search.api.SearchService	true	SAK-23166 - Getting issue details... STATUS SRCH-96 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Controls access to the Admin page within search. This should only be activated on the actual search server node and all other nodes should have this turned off to restrict access.
2.9.0	Profile2	profile2.profile.change.email.enabled	false	PRFL-692 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Email notification to a specific user whenever someone changes their profile.
2.9.0	Profile2	profile2.profile.change.email.eid	admin	PRFL-692 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Announcements	sakai.announcement.reorder	true	SAK-8005 - Getting issue details... STATUS	994 Note that a tool property also needs to be set enableReorder=true (the default is false)
2.9.0	Announcements	enableReorder	false	SAK-8005 - Getting issue details... STATUS	see row above
2.9.0	Content	content.zip.enabled	false	KNL-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS	995
2.9.0	Content	content.zip.expand.maxfiles	1000	KNL-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Content	content.zip.expand.enabled	false	KNL-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Content	content.zip.compress.enabled	false	KNL-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Assignments	assignments.instructor.submit.for.student	false	SAK-7475 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Allows an instructor or any user with assignments management permissions to submit the assignment on behalf of a student who has no submission yet (via the View Assignment list by student)
2.9.0	Configuration	config.dereference.on.load.initial	true	KNL-924 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# ######################################################################## # CONFIGURATION # ######################################################################## ... # Control the dereferencing of configuration values on initial load # (values are always dereferenced but this affects whether they are done on config load or not) # Dereferencing values means that all values like "${property.name}" are replaced # with the value from the config item of that name (unmatched ones are left as is) # Default: true (dereference all values loaded from the config properties files) #config.dereference.on.load.initial=false # Default: false (do not dereference all values including those loaded from other sources - e.g. database) #config.dereference.on.load.all=true
2.9.0	Configuration	config.dereference.on.load.all	false	KNL-924 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Same as above
2.9.0	Assignments/Turnitin	turnitin.repository.setting.value	1	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Default value for "Submit papers to the following repository"
2.9.0	Assignments/Turnitin	turnitin.repository.setting		SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Example: turnitin.repository.setting.count=2 turnitin.repository.setting.1=0 turnitin.repository.setting.2=1
2.9.0	Assignments/Turnitin	turnitin.report_gen_speed.setting.value		SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Default value for "Generate Originality Reports" ex. turnitin.report_gen_speed.setting.count=1 turnitin.report_gen_speed.setting.1=2
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.s_paper_check	true	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Option appears in GUI to check paper against Turnitin.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.internet_check	true	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Option appears in GUI to check paper against Internet (web search).
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.journal_check	true	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Option appears in GUI to check paper against Journals.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.institution_check	true	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Option appears in GUI to check paper against Institutional repository.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.s_paper_check.default	false	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	The default checkmark in the Turnitin option in the GUI.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.internet_check.default	false	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	The default checkmark in the Internet (web search) option in the GUI.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.journal_check.default	false	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	The default checkmark in the Journal option in the GUI.
2.9.0	Assignment/Turnitin	turnitin.option.institution_check.default	false	SAK-21059 - Getting issue details... STATUS	The default check mark in the Institutional repository option in the GUI.
2.9.0	Entity Broker	entitybroker.batch.enable	false	SAK-22619 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Property to disable direct batch servlet
2.9.0	Portal2	portal.use.profile	true	PRFL-757 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Allows disabling of the Profile2 tool in Neo-portal
2.9.0	Login	login.log-failed	true	SAK-22430 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Log failed login attempts
2.9.0	My Workspace	myworkspace.show	true	SAK-22386 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Globally hide "My Workspace"
2.9.0	Portal	portal.portlet.tidy.warnings	false	SAK-22335 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Still false by default - when true - it runs Tidy in noisy mode. It does not take the output of Tidy - just checks the portlet output and then uses it unchanged.
2.9.0	Portal	portal.portlet.tidy	false		This is now ignored. We cannot use the output of Tidy as the markup.
2.9.0	Basic LTI	basiclti.provider.*	n/a	SAK-22229 - Getting issue details... STATUS	blti.producer was the old prefix.
~~2.9.0~~ 2.9.2	Gradebook	course_grade_details_export_course_grades_institution_control		SAK-22204 - Getting issue details... STATUS	originally thought SAK-22204 was in 2.9.0, but was not completed until 2.9.2
2.9.2	Gradebook	course_grade_details_export_course_grades_institution		SAK-22204 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.2	Gradebook	userid=Student ID usereid=Student unique ID useremail= Student Email username= Student Name sortname= Student Name coursegrades= Course Grade gradeitem= Grade Item siteid= Site ID sitetitle= Site Title		SAK-22204 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Email	notify.email.from.replyable	false	KNL-920 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Email notifications reply from preference # Set this to true to send notifications from the triggering user email addresses for announcements # instead of from a general server email address (no-reply@...) # OLD (deprecated) config value: emailFromReplyable@org.sakaiproject.event.api.NotificationService # Default: false (use the no-reply@... instead) #notify.email.from.replyable = true
2.9.0	Account Validator			RES-42 - Getting issue details... STATUS	#if you don't want to use ui.service as the Production name, use: reset-pass.productionSiteName #sets the toke expiration date accountValidator.maxDays #sets the max number of resends before it expires the token accountValidator.maxResendAttempts
2.9.0	URL	shortenedurl.implementation=org.sakaiproject.shortenedurl.api.RandomisedUrlService	off	SAK-21859 - Getting issue details... STATUS	#Uncomment this to use the built in URL randomiser/shortener (recommended) #shortenedurl.implementation=org.sakaiproject.shortenedurl.api.RandomisedUrlService
2.9.0	URL	shortenedurl.resources.enabled	true	SAK-22331 - Getting issue details... STATUS SAK-21848 - Getting issue details... STATUS	enable the UI in various tools for presenting shortenedurls
2.9.0	URL	shortenedurl.implementation shortenedurl.implementation.bitly.login shortenedurl.implementation.bitly.key	off	SAK-21859 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# ######################################################################## # Shortened URLs # ######################################################################## # https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SHRTURL # Note: short URLs are disabled by default ## RANDOMISED # Uncomment this to use the built in URL randomiser/shortener (recommended) #shortenedurl.implementation=org.sakaiproject.shortenedurl.api.RandomisedUrlService ## BIT.LY # Uncomment this to use the bit.ly URL shortner #shortenedurl.implementation=org.sakaiproject.shortenedurl.api.BitlyUrlService # You must also have a bitly account. So signup, navigate to http://bit.ly/a/your_api_key, # retrieve your details, uncomment and set the following: #shortenedurl.implementation.bitly.login=johnsmith #shortenedurl.implementation.bitly.key=123qwe456asd789zxc ## EXTERNAL URL SHORTENING # By default, external URLs (ie a URL for another site) cannot be shortened using the /direct/url entity provider # You can change this by setting the following to true. #shortenedurl.external.enabled=false
2.9.0	URL	shortenedurl.external.enabled	false	SAK-21859 - Getting issue details... STATUS	see previous row for comments.
2.9.0	Password Reset	siteManage.validateNewUsers	false	SAK-22014 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	PDA Portal			SAK-22199 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Sakai Tutorial Tool	portal.use.tutorial	true	SAK-22243 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Worksite setup			SAK-21707 - Getting issue details... STATUS	new sakai.properties: ================ #For each worksitesetup.sort.key property that is specified, the associated worksitesetup.sort.order property must also be specified #The following are all comma separated values. If these properties are not present, the drop-downs will be sorted as they were sorted before (on eid, then title). #The key on which the sessions are sorted. Possible values are authority, description, eid, endDate, startDate, title worksitesetup.sort.key.session= #The key on which the courseSets are sorted. Possible values are authority, category, description, eid, parent, title worksitesetup.sort.key.courseSet= #The key on which the courseOfferings are sorted. Possible values are academicSession, authority, canonicalCourseEid, courseSetEids, description, eid, endDate, startDate, status, title worksitesetup.sort.key.courseOffering= #The key on which the sections are sorted. Possible values are authority, category, courseOfferingEid, description, eid, enrollmentSet, maxSize, meetings, parent, title worksitesetup.sort.key.section= #The following are all comma separated lists of sorting orders that correspond to the above keys. They have values of 'asc' or 'desc' for ascending/descending #The order on which the sessions are sorted worksitesetup.sort.order.session= #The order on which the courseSets are sorted worksitesetup.sort.order.courseSet= #The order on which the courseOfferings are sorted worksitesetup.sort.order.courseOfferings= #The order on which the sections are sorted worksitesetup.sort.order.section=
2.9.0	Forums	msgcntr.editor.rows	22	MSGCNTR-523 - Getting issue details... STATUS	22 rows is the default. Specify the size of the CK Editor in Forums.
2.9.0	Calendar	calendar.default.view	week	SAK-20724 - Getting issue details... STATUS	property can equal day, week, month or year
2.9.0	Portal	portal.neochat	false	SAK-20373 - Getting issue details... STATUS	# Controls the portal chat feature # portal.neochat=false # Controls whether or not an individual user's profile image will appear in the portal chat # portal.neoavatar=true
2.9.0	Portal	portal.profiletool=sakai.profile2 portal.preferencestool=sakai.preferences portal.worksitetool=sakai.sitesetup		SAK-20373 - Getting issue details... STATUS	#The tool ids for the tools that end up in the top bar and slide out drawer # set to 'none' to suppress the top bar linking behavior portal.profiletool=sakai.profile2 portal.preferencestool=sakai.preferences portal.worksitetool=sakai.sitesetup
2.9.0	Portal	portal.neoavatar	true	see above	see above
2.8.0	Session Timeout	timeoutDialogEnabled=true timeoutDialogWarningSeconds=600	defaults	SAK-22878 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Entity Broker	user.explicit.id.only	true	SAK-21654 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Allows for finer control over the way user lookups occur in Entity Broker user endpoint. The current implementation is preserved by default but this property will adjust it to never attempt an ID lookup unless it was requested explicitly (using "id=" as the prefix for the id). "user.explicit.id.only=true" Set this to true to disable id/eid failover checks (this means lookups will only attempt to use id or eid as per the exact params which are passed or as per the endpoint API) In other words, the user id must be prefixed with "id=", otherwise it will be treated like an eid.
2.9.0	Worksites	portal.always.display.active_sites	false	SAK-15769 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Whether to always show the "My Active Sites" tab, even if there is not an "overflow" of worksites.
2.9.0	Caching	precache.users.run.startup	false	KNL-826 - Getting issue details... STATUS	This contributed code improves performance by pre-caching Sakai users. So the full improvement of user caching does not require waiting for a second user interaction. This user pre-caching is done optionally on servlet container (Tomcat) restart and is also done optionally according to a configurable daily schedule.
2.9.0	Separate Domain for Content	content.separateDomains=true content.chs.serverName=resources.oncourse.iu.edu content.chs.serverUrl=https://resources.oncourse.iu.edu content.login.urlprefixes.count = 4 content.login.urlprefixes.1 = /access/login content.login.urlprefixes.2 = /sakai-login-tool content.login.urlprefixes.3 = /access/require content.login.urlprefixes.4 = /access/accept			used the raw redirecting code in RequestFilter.java. The end result is pretty simple, and you can actually host it on just 1 app node if you have multiple domain names pointing to it from Apache [1].
2.9.0	Forums	msgcntr.forums.showProfileInfo *also requires profile2.profile.link.enabled=true	false	MSGCNTR-584 - Getting issue details... STATUS	displays user profile images and info next to the user's posts

2.0 New/changed permissions

Release	Tool/Service	Permission	Notes
2.9.0	Site Creation	site.add.portfolio	KNL-703 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Site Creation	site.add.project	KNL-952 - Getting issue details... STATUS
2.9.0	Site Stats	sitestats.admin.view	Admin access to statistics across all sites. Change for this setting?
2.9.0	Site Stats	sitestats.view	Use Site statistics tool. change for this setting?
2.9.0	Sites	site.roleswap	change for this setting?
2.9.0	Lessons	lessonbuilder.read	Access and read lessons.
2.9.0	Lessons	lessonbuilder.upd	Create and update lessons.
2.9.0	Messages	msg.permissions.allowToField.allParticipants	If msg.permissions.allowToField.allParticipants is set to true , then "All Participants" is an option in the "To:" field when sending a message. if chosen then all site participants will recieve the message.
2.9.0	Messages	msg.permissions.allowToField.groups	If msg.permissions.allowToField.groups is set to true , then all groups which have been defined are available as options in the "To:" field when sending a message and for each group selected, all group members will be sent the message.
2.9.0	Messages	msg.allowToField.roles	If msg.allowToField.roles is set to true , then all roles which have been defined in the site (such as instructor, teaching assistant role, etc) are available in the "To:" field when sending a message and the message will be sent to all the site participants assigned that role.
2.9.0	Messages	msg.permissions.viewHidden.groups	If msg.permissions.viewHidden.groups is set to true , then users with this role will be able to view groups which have been marked as hidden in the settings

3.0 Stealthed Tools

The OSP community recommends stealthing the OSP Wizards tool and the OSP Layouts - SAK-22857 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Update the property stealthTools@org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ActiveToolManager by adding osp.wizard,osp.presLayout

Database support

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The Sakai CLE supports the following production-grade databases:

Database	Driver	Notes
MySQL 5.5.x	MySQL Connector/J 5.1.13+	Sakai requires transaction support. In the case of MySQL you must implement the `InnoDB` storage engine to ensure proper transaction handling.
MySQL 5.1.x	MySQL Connector/J 5.1.13+	Sakai requires transaction support. In the case of MySQL you must implement the `InnoDB` storage engine to ensure proper transaction handling.
Oracle 11g	OJDBC	Oracle recommends using the latest 11g driver if you are using Java 6 with either 10g or 11g; with Java 6 in combination with the 11g driver, it's recommended that you use kernel-1.2.1+ (2.8), kernel-1.1.11+ (2.7) or kernel-1.0.x (r87324+) in order to include the fix for KNL-637. Recommend but not required - convert longs to clobs - SAK-7977 - Getting issue details... STATUS Only tested on Oracle 11.2.0.3 - https://github.com/daveadams/sakai-tools/blob/master/convert-longs-to-lobs.sql . By default it will scan your tables for LONG and LONG RAW fields but it won't change anything. Add "CONVERT" to the command line to actually perform the conversion and rebuild the indexes in the involved tables. Please be sure you understand what the script will be doing before you run it, and always always test thoroughly on a non-production environment before you attempt to run this on your production system.
Oracle 10g	OJDBC	Both Oracle 10g AND 9i users must use the 10g driver; the latest 10g "Release 2" (10.2.x) or higher is recommended. Oracle recommends using the latest 11g driver if you are using Java 6 with either 10g or 11g; with Java 6 in combination with the 11g driver, it's recommended that you use kernel-1.2.1+ (2.8), kernel-1.1.11+ (2.7) or kernel-1.0.x (r87324+) in order to include the fix for KNL-637.
DB2		Deprecated

Choose the appropriate MySQL or Oracle JDBC driver (or connector) for your installation. For MySQL, download the *zip/*tar.gz archive, extract its contents and copy the mysql-connector-java-<version>-bin.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. For Oracle download the ojdbc14.jar file and copy it to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib.

You will not need to create Sakai database objects (tables, indices, etc) when setting up your database. Sakai generates its own database schema automatically during the Tomcat setup process via the autoDDL setting in sakai.properties.

In actuality, Sakai is not limited to these database choices and integration with other RDBMS systems is not difficult. In the past at least one installation used Microsoft SQL Server while requests for PostgreSQL integration are occasionally raised on the Sakai developers list. However, to date no one in the Sakai Community has stepped forward to support alternatives to either Oracle or MySQL, a prerequisite for adding additional database options to the release.

1.0 Configure the database

2.0 Set the database username and password

3.0 Set the database connection

4.0 Set `auto.ddl=true`

5.0 Install MySQL 5.5 / 5.1

5.1 Set MySQL environment variables

5.2 Create a `my.cnf/my.ini` configuration file

5.3 Create a "sakai" database and user account

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Indie Versions

2.9.3 Indie versions

Detailed POM file from which the information below is derived

Kernel - 1.3.3

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) - 2.1.1
Entity Broker - 1.5.3
Lessons - 1.4.3
Mail Archive - 2.9.3
MailSender - 1.7.4
Message Center (Forums and Messages) - 3.0.3
Polls - 1.5.3
Profile2 - 1.5.3

Samigo - 2.9.3
Search - 1.4.3
Shortenedurl - 1.1.3
Sitestats - 2.3.6

2.9.2 Indie versions. Click here to expand...

Detailed POM file from which the information below is derived

Kernel - 1.3.2

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) - 2.1.0
Entity Broker - 1.5.2
Lessons - 1.4.2
Mail Archive - 2.9.2
MailSender - 1.7.3
Message Center (Forums and Messages) - 3.0.2
Polls - 1.5.2
Profile2 - 1.5.2

Samigo - 2.9.2
Search - 1.4.2
Shortenedurl - 1.1.2
Sitestats - 2.3.5

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Detailed POM file from which the information below is derived

Kernel - 1.3.1

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) - 2.0.1
Entity Broker - 1.5.1
Lessons - 1.4.1
Mail Archive - 2.9.1
MailSender - 1.7.2
Message Center (Forums and Messages) - 3.0.1
Polls - 1.5.1
Profile2 - 1.5.1

Samigo - 2.9.1
Search - 1.4.1
Shortenedurl - 1.1.1
Sitestats - 2.3.3

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Detailed POM file from which the information below is derived

Kernel - 1.3.0

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) - 2.0.0
Entity Broker - 1.5.0
Lessons - 1.4.0
Mail Archive - 2.9.0
MailSender - 1.7.1
Message Center (Forums and Messages) - 3.0.0
Polls - 1.5.0
Profile2 - 1.5.0

Samigo - 2.9.0
Search - 1.4.0
Shortenedurl - 1.1.0
Sitestats - 2.3.0

Known issues

Lessons tool - special installation instructions

Lesson tool

Sakai 2.9.3

For large installations with a million Lessons items or more, Lessons may break since the id generated cannot go high enough. To fix you can use the following statements. Please see LSNBLDR-284 - Getting issue details... STATUS for more information.

mysql
alter table lesson_builder_items modify gradebookId varchar(100);
alter table lesson_builder_items modify altGradebook varchar(100);

oracle:
alter table lesson_builder_items modify gradebookId varchar2(100 char);
alter table lesson_builder_items modify altGradebook altGradebook varchar2(100 char);

Sakai 2.9.4 (and a note about Lessons with 2.8.x)

If you are running the Lessons that comes with Sakai 2.9.x, database upgrades are handled automatically. No special instructions are needed.

If you install Lessons yourself, we recommend using the most recent tag. This is currently 1.4.2. If you install it yourself, you need to be concerned about database schema updates. We recommend starting once with auto.ddl on. That will handle most database updates for you. The exceptions are in the following files:

If you are moving from a copy of lessons older than the 1.4.0 tag:

* simplepage.pre29-to29.sql

If you are moving to the 1.4.2 tag from any previous version, and are using mysql:

* simplepage.for-2.9.2.sql [mysql only]

If you are unable to use auto.ddl, see the README files in the Lessons source. It will explain how to generate a database update script to go between any two versions of the source.

For the convenience of sites running 2.8, we generate binaries for 2.8. See https://sakai.rutgers.edu/stats/lb-281/

Deprecations, Removals and Warnings

Release	Capability	Status	Notes
2.9.0	Citations/Google Scholar	retired	Google has discontinued Sakai support in Google Scholar with the new Google Scholar UI introduced earlier this year. This was confirmed directly with Google. For more information, see a sakai-dev post from May 2012: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2012-May/017347.html For now, the problem can be fixed by adding a "sciui=2" parameter to the Google Scholar URL to force the old Google Scholar UI, but it's not clear how long Google will keep the old interface available.
2.9.0	NeoChat	disabled	NeoChat is a new feature in 2.9.0. We recommend leaving neochat disabled in a production environment until performance and usability tests are completed

Open 2.9-related issues worth noting

Release	Fixed	Tool/Service	Ticket	Issue
2.9.0	2.9.1	Help documentation	SAK-22891 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Sakai's context sensitive help was not updated in 2.9.0 and therefore contains the 2.8 release help information.
2.9.0	2.9.1	Site creation	SAK-22994 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Worksite Setup tool won't display extra site types from SiteTypeProvider during the new course site creation
2.9.0	Conversion script issue	Samigo (Test and Quizzes)	SAM-787 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Not all languages are included in the conversion at this time, only English, Spanish and Catalan.
2.9.0	n/a	Firefox browser with WebDav instructions	SAK-22588 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Links to OS specific instructions don't work on Firefox. Mozilla issue, not a Sakai issue.
2.9.0	2.9.0 w/note	Switching languages may require clearing browser cache	SAK-22568 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Some Sakai features require clearing your browser cache for the change to be reflected.
2.9.0	no fix for Citations Helper planned	CKEditor - Some plugins not supported	SAK-17886 - Getting issue details... STATUS SAK-21667 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Currently Citations Helper and Entity Picker plugins are not supported in CKEditor. It's expected that iSyllabus SAK-22283 - Getting issue details... STATUS will replace the functionality of the Entity Picker, but no news on what will happen with Citations.
2.9.0		CKEditor - Configuration Changes	SAK-22113 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Because we wanted to try to make it easier to configure CKEditor via an external file, the ckeditor.launch.js configuration for external plugins moved to the bottom of the file, and external plugins have their own folder in "ckextraplugins". These include wordcount, an updated movie player and support for After The Deadline (if you set up the server)
2.9.0	2.9.1	Error in Mysql Conversion Script	SAK-22911 - Getting issue details... STATUS	MFR_AREA_T is wrong case and can cause issue in conversion script, use conversion script in trunk or 2.9.x
2.9.3		Samigo	SAM-2201 - Getting issue details... STATUS	AssessmentGradeInfoProvider isAssignmentDefined results in many thousands database queries

Heads up for planned changes post 2.9.0

Release	Tool/Service	Ticket	Issue
2.10	Events	SAM-658 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Major change to events.

Open 2.x tickets

For listings of all open 2x-related issues see:

Blocker Critical Major Minor, trivial

Security policy

Sakai Project Security Policy

version 3.1

NOTICE: If you uncover a security vulnerability in Sakai software please do not voice your concerns on any public listserv, blog or other open communication channel but instead notify the Sakai Security Working Group immediately at sakai-security@apereo.org . Please provide a callback telephone number so that we can contact you by telephone if it is deemed necessary.

INTRODUCTION

Sakai is an open-source software initiative that promotes knowledge sharing and information transparency. However, when dealing with security vulnerabilities the integrity of existing Sakai installations can be compromised by the premature public disclosure of security threats before the Sakai Community has had time to analyze, develop and distribute countermeasures through private channels to institutions and organizations that have implemented Sakai software. Recognizing this danger, the Sakai Security Working Group (WG) has developed a security policy that seeks to safeguard the security of existing Sakai installations as well as provide full public disclosure of Sakai security vulnerabilities in a timely manner.

REPORTING SECURITY ISSUES

Security vulnerabilities in Sakai should be reported immediately to the Sakai Security WG at sakai-security@apereo.org . When contacting the WG, please provide a callback telephone number so that we can contact you by phone if it is deemed necessary. Sakai Security WG and community developers, working with the original reporter of the vulnerability, will investigate the issue, determine versions affected, and, if necessary, develop and distribute as quickly as is possible a security update for the Sakai Community and general public.

GENERAL POLICIES

Issues identified as security-related are prioritized and addressed differently than functionality or other issues classified as bugs. Access to issues flagged as security vulnerabilities in Sakai's JIRA issue tracking system will be restricted to Sakai security contacts and members of the Sakai Security Work Group (see below). Discussion, analysis, code development and testing relevant to reported security vulnerabilities will be treated as confidential information.

The Sakai Security WG will work with Sakai Community members to develop fixes for both vulnerable released versions and vulnerable branches (up to a particular date or release number). Code commits for security-related fixes will seek to mask the nature of the vulnerability. This usually takes one of two forms: (1) the commit is held until a patch can be tested, distributed and implemented in known sites or (2) in the case of a fix to a less significant threat the commit may be checked in with limited commentary.

During our QA and release cycles security-related issues will receive priority. At a minimum, the Sakai Security WG will review outstanding security issues before the start of each QA cycle.

The Sakai Security WG will issue security advisories and security updates to the general public once existing Sakai installations have been notified and given time to patch their systems.

SECURITY WORK GROUP

The Sakai Community has instituted a Security Work Group (WG) composed of senior members of the community to respond to reports of security vulnerabilities and who operate using private channels of communication. Besides working to resolve known security vulnerabilities the Security WG will also operate in a pro-active manner, reviewing existing tools and services from a security perspective; defining Sakai security requirements; devising QA/testing models that identify potential security weaknesses; producing security-related documentation; and helping educate developers on web-related security vulnerabilities.

SECURITY DOCUMENTATION

Public information regarding security vulnerabilities will be documented in security advisories, Sakai software release notes and readme files included in demo, binary and source distributions as well as online at the following locations:

Sakai Issues Tracking: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/
Sakai Release page: http://source.sakaiproject.org/release

Release documentation for security updates will identify the Sakai version affected including code branches and provide information on how to close the vulnerability. Security vulnerabilities will be ranked by the threat level index listed below:

Critical Risk

Security vulnerabilities classified as a critical risk involve the possible exposure of data to unauthorized viewing, modification, deletion or acquisition as well as attacks that could result in data corruption.

Major Risk

Security vulnerabilities classified as a major risk involve logical attacks that could compromise the availability of Sakai or otherwise degrade system performance, disrupt or circumvent normal application flow control of Sakai tools and services or use Sakai as a platform for attacks on other systems.

Minor Risk

Security vulnerabilities classified as a minor risk involve threats that (1) can be eliminated by updating existing configuration files to reflect a default secure state (e.g., sakai.properties), (2) are considered extremely difficult for attackers to exploit and/or (3), if exploited, are of minor consequence to the operation of Sakai installations.

SECURITY ADVISORIES

Whenever Sakai security vulnerabilities surface, the Sakai Security WG will execute a three-step security advisory protocol in order to alert (1) Apereo Foundation partners and designated security contacts associated with known Sakai implementations, (2) the wider Sakai Community, and (3) the public at large regarding security issues.

The first step in our protocol involves providing alerts to our partner institutions and organizations as well as to our security contacts throughout the Sakai Community via the use of private communication channels. We delay deliberately the issuance of community-wide and public security advisories in order to allow time for security updates to be devised, tested, distributed and, if necessary, applied to Sakai installations that are known to the Foundation. Once these systems are patched the wider Sakai Community is alerted and time provided for Sakai implementers unknown to the Sakai Security WG to identify themselves, designate security contacts, and patch their systems before we proceed to the third and final step in our security advisory protocol, the general public announcement.

SECURITY CONTACTS

The Sakai Secuirty WG encourages institutions and organizations that download and install Sakai software to consider contacting the Sakai Security WG and providing the name(s) and contact details of one or more individuals to serve as security contacts. Security contact information should be emailed to sakai-security@apereo.org.

As noted above, Sakai security contacts receive security updates in advance of public release in order their institution or organization time to patch their Sakai installation before any Sakai security vulnerability becomes general knowledge. Designated security contacts are also provided access rights to view, comment and address issues flagged as security items in Sakai's JIRA issue tracking application. Security-related JIRA issues are hidden from public view. We do not grant access to these JIRA items lightly and we verify the identity and role of each person who is designated as a security contact.

Email traffic sent to sakai-security-contacts@collab.sakaiproject.org should be treated confidentially and should not be forwarded to other Sakai or public email lists or discussed elsewhere in order to help protect institutions and organizations running Sakai from security-related exploits or attacks.

Older Releases

The Sakai 2.7 series is now unsupported. The release of Sakai 2.9.0 marks the end of official community support for the Sakai 2.7 series. Organizations running Sakai 2.7 (or earlier versions) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of Sakai 2.8 or 2.9 in order to take advantage of continued maintenance support.

License

The Sakai 2.9 series is licensed under the Educational Community License version 2.0.

Sakai 2.9 release notes

Sakai 2.9

What's new

Detailed Feature List

Project

Key

Summary

Description

BasicLTI

Lesson Builder

Mailsender

Messages & Forums

Reset Password & Account Validation

Search

Big Blue Button

BlogWow

Evaluation System

Sakai Kaltura Extension

RSF

Sakai

Mailsender

Sakai 2.9.3 Changes

Sakai 2.9.2 Changes

Sakai 2.9.1 Changes

System requirements

Operating system (OS) choices

Java

Application server choices

Database choices

Clustering, file storage and load balancing strategies

External Authentication choices

Integrating with student information systems

Browser compatibility

Downloading

Installing

Demo install

Binary install

Source install

Lesson tool

Sakai 2.9.3

Sakai 2.9.4 (and a note about Lessons with 2.8.x)

Deprecations, Removals and Warnings

Open 2.9-related issues worth noting

Heads up for planned changes post 2.9.0

Open 2.x tickets

Upgrading

Configuring

New properties, permissions

New Feature

1.0 Property additions/changes

2.0 New/changed permissions

3.0 Stealthed Tools

Database support

1.0 Configure the database

2.0 Set the database username and password

3.0 Set the database connection

4.0 Set auto.ddl=true

5.0 Install MySQL 5.5 / 5.1

5.1 Set MySQL environment variables

5.2 Create a my.cnf/my.ini configuration file

5.3 Create a "sakai" database and user account

Indie Versions

Known issues

Lesson tool

Sakai 2.9.3

Sakai 2.9.4 (and a note about Lessons with 2.8.x)

Deprecations, Removals and Warnings

Open 2.9-related issues worth noting

Heads up for planned changes post 2.9.0

Open 2.x tickets

Security policy

Critical Risk

Major Risk

Minor Risk

Older Releases

License

4.0 Set `auto.ddl=true`

5.2 Create a `my.cnf/my.ini` configuration file