AAI Portal

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.4.0

Notes:
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                       AAIportal Distribution
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This is the AAIportal distribution.

AAIportal is a web application which mediates between one Shibboleth 
Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAI) and non-shibboleth
external resource providers like WebCT e-Learning platform.

Currently the AAIportal support the SWITCHaai Federation 
(http://www.switch.ch/aai), based on Shibboleth middleware software 
(http://shibboleth.internet2.edu)

The project is developped and supported by SWITCH - The Swiss Education & 
Research Network (http://www.switch.ch).

AAIportal is an  open source project hosted on SourceForge
(http://aai-portal.sourceforge.net).

This application was primary developped by the Computer Networks and Distributed
Systems Group (RVS) (http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~rvs) at the Institute
for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IAM) (http://www.iam.unibe.ch)
at the University of Berne, Switzerland (http://www.unibe.ch).

The project was sponsored by Swiss Virtual Campus (SVC)
(http://www.swissvirtualcampus.ch).

CONTENT
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  README                This file
  CHANGE-LOG            The change log 
  VERSION               Version information
  GPL                   GNU General Public License 
  +--config             Configuration files
  +--web                The public web application files (PHP)
  |  +--user            The user part of the portal
  |  +--admin           The administrator part of the portal
  |  +--adapters        Resource adapters
  |  \--lookandfeel     The look & feel specific libraries / components
  +--include            The libraries need by the web application
  +--i18n               Localized messages used in the web portals
  |  +--en              English messages
  |  +--de              German messages 
  |  +--it              Italian messages
  |  \--fr              French messages
  +--db                 Database SQL creation and update scripts
  +--tools              Admin PHP scripts
  \--doc                Documentation

LICENSE
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AAIportal is released under the GNU General Public License. Please refer
to the license text 'GPL' in this distribution. 


INSTALLATION
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see 
  doc/aai-portal-installation-guide.html 
  http://aai-portal.sourceforge.net


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Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.swissvirtualcampus.ch)        (c) 2003
SWITCH (http://www.switch.ch)                             (c) 2004-2006
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Changes:
Release 1.4.0 - 2006-09-30
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- Security fixes: Prevent SQL injections.
- Admin UI: New 'Events Viewer' view added for Portal administrators.
- Admin UI: In all views, dates are shown descending when sorted.
- Admin UI: Bug fixed with the Email/SMS composer quoted characters problem.
- Resource Adapter: Bug fixed for WebCT CE6 (Application Pack 1).
- Resource Adapter: New WebCT Vista + Gridlab course adapter. Thx Thomas Bernoulli.
- Resource Adapter: New WebCT CE6 + Gridlab course adapter. Thx Thomas Bernoulli.
- Portal: Events added in the system.
- Portal: Shibboleth attribute values are checked if empty.
- Portal: Bug fix for PHP > 4.4 and return NULL functions.
- Portal: The CSS are not linked anymore. PHP for Windows doesn't handle symlinks correctly.
- DB: New table Event added to store the events.
- Bug fixes: some minor bugs.