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Release Date: 29 January 2010

The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce the latest maintenance release for Sakai 2.6.x and 2.5.x.

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The Sakai 2.6.2 maintenance release provides a set of bug fixes that improve upon the Sakai 2.6.1 release. Over 80 issues have been addressed by 2.6.2.

Fixes have been applied to the following tools/services: assignments, blogger, citations, common, email archive, forums, messages, polls, post'em, preferences, providers, schedule, search, section info, site info, sites, syllabus and worksite setup.

• Sakai 2.6.2 Release Documentation (Overview, Installation, Configuration, etc.) is on the wiki at: <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6>
• Sakai 2.6.2 fixes are listed with details at: <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.6.2+Fixes>
• Sakai 2.6.2 Release Artifacts (source, binary and demo versions) are available at: <http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.6.2/>

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The Sakai 2.5.6 maintenance release provides a set of bug fixes and security enhancements that improve upon Sakai 2.5.5. Over 130 issues have been addressed in this release.

Fixes have been applied to the following tools/services: announcements, assignments, blog, calendar, content service, entity service, entitybroker, event service, forums, gradebook, mailtool, messages, post'em, polls, portal, portfolios, profile, providers, reports, resources, roster, rwiki, schedule, search, section info, site info, sites, syllabus, Test & Quizzes, user service, web content, webdav and worksite setup.

• Sakai 2.5.6 Release Documentation (Overview, Installation, Configuration, etc.) is on the wiki at:  <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.5>
• Sakai 2.5.6 fixes are listed with details at: <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+2.5.6+Fixes>
• Sakai 2.5.6 Release Artifacts (source, binary and demo versions) are available at: <http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.5.6/>

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Older versions of Sakai
Users of pre-2.5 versions of Sakai are strongly encouraged to update to the Sakai Community-supported Sakai 2.6.2 or Sakai 2.5.6 releases in order to take advantage of the feature, performance and security enhancements provided by the Sakai 2.5 and Sakai 2.6 series.

The Sakai open source community develops, tests, and maintains the code for all Sakai releases. For the most current release and the immediate prior release, the Sakai Foundation uses its resources to oversee and manage the development, QA testing, patching, and releasing of incremental numbered versions.

For earlier versions, the Foundation no longer provides this oversight and coordination of the community contribution to the codebase. This does not mean that these earlier versions are not used and maintained by some institutions in the community, they are. Institutions running an older version may of course continue to do so, applying patches, bug fixes, and enhancements as they wish. These modifications are committed to the Sakai SVN code repository and are available for others to use if they wish. But the Foundation does not coordinate testing or validation of the code changes, and does not create a concomitant roll-up into an incremental release.