GridSphere 3.1

GridSphere 3.1 is a maintenance release. Several bugs were fixed and improvements made so we decided to make it a 3.1 release instead of 3.0.9.

For a full list of fixes see the bugtracker .

Also please read the INSTALL.txt and README.txt which are in the archive.

The major change maybe is that all custom files are now stored in ~/.gridsphere directory of the user who started the server. This change was made due to the nature of the WEB-INF directory where no one should ever write to since you don't know if this directory will be even persistent on the server (this is a servlet container implementation detail). While it appears to be ok with Tomcat 5.5.x other containers like Jetty expand wars into a temp directory and deleting them after shutting down the server resulting in a data loss (GridSphere does not yet work with Jetty!). You can override this location if you configure your JNDI environment to contain "gridspheresettingsdir" with the desired path where you want to store your settings.

All other documentation of GridSphere v3.0  does apply to that release.

GridSphere 3.1 is available from http://www.gridsphere.org/gridsphere/gridsphere/loggedin/download/r/ or from svn.

Note: There is a bug in the deployment scripts for 3rd party portlets in GridSphere 3.1. There is a quick fix in SVN. if you want to fix it by hand you would have to remove the dbtask element from the generated build.xml file in your project and the project will compile and deploy. This also means that the automatic database creation will not work.