Current project status:

(Last updated on May 25, 2003 by Don Baccus)

4.6.3 Status

Important dates:

  • 2003-05-12 Beta1 release (done)
  • 2003-05-25 Beta2 release (done)
  • 2003-06-01 Final release

2003-05-11 We are planning a bug-fix 4.6.3 release in May. This release will officially support PostgreSQL 7.3.2 (we missed some things in 4.6.2.) Also included will be a relatively small number bug fixes uncovered after 4.6.2 was released.

4.6.2 Status

Important dates:

  • 2003-03-15 Feature Code Freeze - only bug fixes should be added to 4.6.2 after this date
  • 2003-03-22 Code Freeze - beta1 tarball created, only fixes for major bugs found in testing should be committed after this date
  • 2003-03-30 Beta1 release
  • 2003-04-06 Beta2 release
  • 2003-04-11 Final release

2003-03-11 We are planning a 4.6.2 release with a code freeze in the last half of March. This release will officially support PostgreSQL 7.3.2. Also included will be some significant enhancements to the APM, and many bug fixes uncovered during the dotLRN test effort.

4.6.1 Status

2003-03-10OpenACS 4.6.1 has been released.

2003-03-06 The second beta is out and can be found at http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download. It will be released Real Soon Now unless problems are found.

2003-02-04 We decided to hold off on the 4.6.1 final since Jeff and Don have both found performance issues that probably should be addressed (with foreign keys and with permissions scalability (more details on the projects page writeup). The important part of the foreign key work is done but Don is still working on his stuff.

2003-01-24 We are planning a 4.6.1 release with a beta on Monday (2003-01-27) and a final on Friday (2003-01-31). It is mostly a minor bug fix release but will also include a major improvement to the scalability of the permissions subsystem, other performance work, and lots of patches which came in during the 4.6.0 freeze and release cycle. The plan going forward is to do such releases at regular intervals to prevent the 4.6 release from getting too stale and to limit the datamodel changes to necessary bug fixes so that a production site on 4.6 can stay up to date without potentially painful datamodel changes.

4.6.0 Project Timeline:

We did it!!!!

Milestone Date Did we make it?
Code Freeze September 17th, 2002  Finally froze on 9/27
Beta Release October 14th, 2002  Released on 12/21
Final Release October 28st, 2002  Released on 1/6

If you spot any errors or omissions in this list, or if you just have a question, please contact Janine Sisk (janine@furfly.net).