Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

A release candidate for the upcoming Grouper v1.1 is now available for 
download. It is available from the Grouper software download site 
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+Software+Download>.

We anticipate releasing Grouper v1.1 on Friday, November 3rd (2006!), 
barring the revelation of any particularly nasty bugs in RC1.

Grouper v1.1 is mostly a maintenance release: some outstanding bugs were 
fixed and there's been a little internal reorganization. But the public 
API has been extended in 3 ways:

. Several new GrouperQuery filters have been added, particularly to 
facilitate provisioning of Grouper groups to external containers.

. The XML import/export capabilities of the XML Import/Export Tool have 
been incorporated into the API by the XmlImporter, XmlExporter, and 
XmlReader classes. But please note that we consider this portion of the 
API to be experimental and subject to change.

. An existing method to assign a new subjectId to an existing Member has 
been complemented with another to assign it a new sourceId as well.

Two other changes are noteworthy. First, by default Hibernate caching is 
now disabled. It can be enabled by a declaration in the 
grouper.properties file.

Second, and more importantly, the column order in one table in the 
underlying database has been changed, producing a substantial 
performance improvement for certain operations. Grouper 1.1 will work 
with a Grouper 1.0 database, but to reap the performance improvement it 
is necessary to make a corresponding conversion to the database. Details 
of how to accomplish this will soon appear in the Grouper wiki. I'll 
notify the list when it's there.

Tom