Release 6.8.8
went live on Friday afternoon. This is the first public release of the Shibboleth link - there's a new option to log in "via institution". We're using the UK Federation's WAYF service for now; will implement a custom directory service when we support a client outside the federation.

For the moment it's time to shift focus onto the S3 migration. The site is now pulling all wordmaps, links, keywords, feature lists and page images from the appropriate service. There may still be a few locations which refer explicitly to local page images (cover thumbnails are a case in point) but there's enough there for testing.

Initial testing reveals that retrieval of uncached pages is too slow, owing to the round-trip between servers as we calculate the link rectangles. Once cached, the timing is fine.

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Labels: release, s3, shibboleth

- posted by Tim Bruce @ 11:03 PM