6.3.0

• Fixed a bug where the wrong file would be downloaded when downloading a version from a content item’s version history.
• Fixed 2 XSS issues in the left hand navigation component.
• Improvements to the content REST APIs, as well as clean-up of their output.
• Consistency improvements of configured skinning values for the left hand navigation.

6.2.0

• A tenant administrator can now become any user on their tenant for support and helpdesk purposes. This feature will initially only be available through the REST APIs, but will become available from the administration UI later this month.
• Widgetization of the administration UI, bringing a more responsive administration UI and some visual improvements. It also makes the administration UI fully internationalizable. Whilst this does not add any user-facing administration UI features, it puts the foundations in place for a new set of administration UI features later this month.
• Improvements to the back-end search API, laying the ground work for significant improvements in administrative search as well as browsing experiences that are planned for future releases.
• Time ago statements in the activity feed and content comments will automatically update every minute.
• Improvements in spam scoring for emails sent by OAE.
• Back button improvements when following a link to your own profile.
• Fixed a bug where the content preview of an uploaded image would unnecessarily refresh after its thumbnail has been generated.
• Fixed a bug where the profile picture would not immediately update when setting a profile picture for a user that didn’t have one before.

6.1.1

This upgrade fixes a bug where the authentication button for Google Apps authentication doesn't show when it's the only enabled external authentication strategy.

6.1.0

• When following a link to an item that requires authentication, users will now be correctly redirected to the item after signing in
• Authentication buttons for which the text is longer than a single line will now correctly wrap to multiple lines

Emperor Penguin

• A fully responsive UI, making sure that OAE works well on mobile and tablet devices
• Authentication buttons for Shibboleth and CAS can now be skinned through the admin UI
• A range of small usability improvements
• A complete Portuguese, Brazilian translation

Desert Sparrow

OAE Desert Sparrow is a mostly technical release, upgrading OAE from CQL2 to CQL3. Next to that, OAE Desert Sparrow also adds full-text search of content comments and discussion posts.

Changelog

CQL3 Upgrade

Apereo OAE has been upgraded from CQL2 to CQL3. CQL2 has been deprecated in Cassandra 1.2 and will be removed in the next major Cassandra release. While CQL2 provides an SQL-like abstraction to Thrift in Cassandra, CQL3 goes a step further to provide a more natural row-column model. A detailed overview of the differences between CQL2 and CQL3 can be found on the Datastax website.

Whilst this upgrade is not a user-facing improvement, it still warrants a new major release because of the amount of underlying changes involved and the need to migrate any existing data. However, the migration can happen without requiring any downtime.

Message searching

When searching for content items, the full text of all comments on those content items will now be included for searches. Similarly, the full text of all discussion posts will be considered when searching for discussions. This includes both global searches and searches within content and discussion libraries and should make it even more likely that relevant results will be returned.