Apereo News

April 13, 2026 —

"Do more with less." It's been the ask of higher education for the last 15 years (at least), and in the age of AI, that expectation has only grown. In 2017, my open-source authoring platform HAX (Headless Authoring Experience) employed four developers with formal responsibility for supporting online course development. By 2023, post-pandemic, we had one (me). Development of HAX should have slowed to a crawl, yet by 2024, we saw an explosion of output.

What changed? My teaching.

April 8, 2026 — The CAS community has released the latest version, CAS v7.3.6.

April 8, 2026 — uPortal v5.17.2 is now available on Maven Central. This is a patch release focused on dependency updates and build infrastructure.

March 31, 2026 — The Call for Proposals is now open for the 2026 Sakai Virtual Conference, which will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026. This year's theme is Interoperability!

March 30, 2026 —

Join Apereo on April 8th at 11:00 AM ET for an engaging conversation with Evelien Renders, President of EUNIS and Advisor on the Internationalization of Education at SURF, as we explore the critical role of open standards and interoperability in shaping the future of higher education. As institutions navigate increasingly complex digital ecosystems, the ability to connect systems, share data, and maintain flexibility has never been more essential.