Monthly Archives: June 2018

Sakai 12.2 Maintenance Release Is Available

This post is taken from a Wilma Hodges note to the Sakai mailing lists.

Dear Community,

I’m pleased to announce on behalf of the worldwide community that Sakai 12.2 is released and available for downloading [1] !

Sakai 12.2 has 105 improvements [2] in place including

  • 21 fixes in Assignments
  • 18 fixes in Tests & Quizzes (Samigo)
  • 8 fixes in Gradebook
  • 6 fixes in Forums
  • 6 fixes in Portal

Other areas improved include:

  • Chat Room
  • Lessons
  • Membership
  • Messages
  • PostEm
  • Preferences
  • Profile
  • Resources
  • Site Info
  • Statistics
  • Worksite Setup

There were 2 security issues fixed in 12.2 (details will be sent to the Sakai Security Announcements list).

Please also note the upgrade information page [3] for important notes related to performing the upgrade. 2 Quartz jobs need to be run to complete the conversion steps for Sakai 12, including a new one for the Job Scheduler in 12.1.

[1] Downloading information available at – http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/12.2/

[2] 12.2 Fixes by Tool –  https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+12.2+-+Fixes+by+Tool

[3] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+12+upgrade+information

Deprecate and Remove support for IMS LTI 2.0 from Sakai

At this point, all the major LMS vendors that support LTI 2.0 have quietly decided to move away from LTI 2.0 and towards LTI 1.3 and ContentItem and follow-ons.

LTI 2.0 has a few good features and a lot of bad ideas.  Sakai’s LTI 2.0 (and almost LTI 2.1) is one of the best in the industry and one of only two formally certified LTI 2.0 LMS’s.

But even with all those positives, LTI 2.0 in Sakai is many lines of intricate code that if never used is a liability for security and maintenance – and as new features like LTI 1.3, its services, and new follow-on specs emerge – it is nice to clean up a large amount of code to make space for new stuff.

So at this point LTI 2.0 is deprecated in Sakai 12.x and will be removed in an upcoming release of Sakai.

If you have any concerns – or tools that require LTI 2.0 – please note them in this JIRA:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-40065

Or let me know using some other channel.