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  <author email="taylor@apache.org">David Sean Taylor</author>
  <title>News and Status</title>
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<h4>22 April 2004 - Jakarta Jetspeed 1.5 Released</h4>
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* New Features *
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 1. Security refactored to allow assigning roles within groups
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 2. Jetspeed 1.5 Tutorial moved off of Bluesunrise and converted to Maven documentation format.
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 3. Jetspeed Maven Plugin for creating and working with Jetspeed-based projects
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 4. Build converted to Maven. Ant build deprecated.
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 5. Jetspeed site converted to use Maven, and moved to http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1
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 6. Jetspeed becomes a part of the Apache Portals project http://portals.apache.org
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 7. Email Portlet
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 8. Redirect Portlet
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 9. Enhanced portlet filtering on the layout customize
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10. New skins and updated look and feel of the default portal
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11. Portlets and decorators (controls) can now be completely hidden if user doesn't have secure access to the portlet.
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12. GenericMVC portlet now can render in parallel with other portlets on the page
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13. Added filtering on portlet registry browser
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14. Drag and drop controller for the layout designer  
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15. Upgrade to Torque 3.1 and Torque Plugin
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<h4>25 March 2004 - Apache Portals Project Launched</h4>
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The Apache Portals project is officially launched at the Apache Software Foundation
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<a href="status/2004-03.html">March 2004 Status</a>
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