WISE v4.8 Release Notes

Table of Contents Release Schedule Goals Unresolved Issues Major additions/changes Minor additions/changes Updating instructions (for people upgrading from v4.7) 1. Queries to merge sail_database and vle_database into wise_database 2. Other queries

Release Schedule

Release dates:
Stable: early 2014
RC1: early 2014

Goals

1. Merge "VLE" and "PORTAL" projects into one "WISE" project: https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE
   1. Reduce memory footprint by merging the two projects
   2. All configurations will be done in one "wise.properties" file
2. Create simpler workflow for developers who want to contribute
   1. Require less setup (use HSQLDB, one config file)
   2. Write up git workflow to check out project, make changes, and commit
3. Create a Generic JS/HTML5 step type https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wise4-dev/WXKRETtmj8I/YeHyduXMR2wJ
4. New Authoring Tool
5. IE11 Compatibility

Unresolved Issues

1. Use one import.sql file for HSQLDB and Mysql

Major additions/changes

1. Merged "VLE" and "Portal" codebase into "WISE": https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE
   1. Merged "vle_database" and "sail_database" into "wise_database"

Minor additions/changes

1. Minor additions go here

Updating instructions (for people upgrading from v4.7)

1. Queries to merge sail_database and vle_database into wise_database

In v4.8, all of WISE's database is stored in "wise_database". In v4.7 and older, VLE data was stored in "vle_database", and PORTAL data was stored in "sail_database". We'll need to merge the two into "wise_database".

First, we'll need to create a new 'wise_database' and give appropriate privileges to the wise4user like so:

# log into mysql as root
$ mysql -u root -p     

# create new database called 'wise_database'
mysql> create database wise_database default character set=utf8;

# give wise4user access to the new database
mysql> grant all privileges on wise_database.* to 'wise4user'@'localhost' identified by 'wise4pass';

mysql> flush privileges;  
mysql> exit;

Next, we'll dump vle_database and sail_database into backup files, and them import them into wise_database

# dump vle_database into vle_database.sql
$ mysqldump vle_database --user=wise4user --password=wise4pass > vle_database_dump.sql

# dump sail_database into sail_database.sql
$ mysqldump sail_database --user=wise4user --password=wise4pass > sail_database_dump.sql

# import vle_database.sql into wise_database
$ mysql wise_database --user=root --password=wise4pass < vle_database_dump.sql 

# import sail_databse.sql into wise_database
$ mysql wise_database --user=wise4user --password=wise4pass < sail_database_dump.sql 

2. Other queries

Run these queries in your database:

# update portal settings
mysql> INSERT INTO wise_database.portal (id,settings,sendmail_on_exception,OPTLOCK) VALUES (1,'{isLoginAllowed:true}',1,0);