Hosting Moodle

3.9.2
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
14 September - 330MBSecurity

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.



Changes and Bug Fixes

Workshop rubric display issue in grid view

Atto editor undo/redo (crtl-y/z) can sometimes wipe all content

Byte order mark at the beginning of import groups file fail the process with the confusing error message

Gradebook single view has a hard coded name format in grade view

Numerical question in lesson - decimal fractions problem

Reopened assignment shown as graded by student themselves

Badge and user profile picture using an svg file doesn't display

Allow microphone and camera to be accessed from content iframe

Activity chooser does not display if site contains plugins missing from disk

Email-based self-registration confirmation email is not re-sent

The Message reply box is not fixed

list bullet points are cut off in some browsers

Question manual grading: floating point issues can lead to valid grades being rejected

Contact request email must respect the receiver's language

Condition: "Completion of other courses" is set without the course creator intervention

Import grades with an empty identifier causes bad upload but it doesn't show error message

Export labels from feedback

Backup step 2 show type options missing activity names

\core\task\analytics_cleanup_task extremely slow on Postgres site.

Unable to edit user overrides if assignment is not available to student

"Alternate image" gets removed upon editing course category settings.

After editing a forum post, a user is unsubscribed from the discussion

Assignfeedback_editpdf sending infinite request when page ready is not equal to page number of combined pdf

File-based Assignments shouldn't accept submissions without any files

Recently Accessed Items block uses stock LTI icon even if it has been customized

load_fontawesome_icon_map web service does not respect current theme

3.9 regression - "Drag and drop onto image" flips in RTL lang.

Collapsing columns in dynamic tables no longer functions

Single and double quotes encoded in HTML characters in downloaded files

Forum idnumber update not working

Admin can get stuck on the Plugin dependencies check failure page

Calendar accessibility followups

Book's chapter title not showing max length limit

The 'backup_cleanup_task' task deletes records related to incompleted adhoc tasks

LTI Names and Roles Provisioning Service generates Link headers with incorrect format

Portfolio "export whole discussion" button should not be visible if the user has inadequate permissions

Forum too eager to mark messages as read (threaded view)

Pressing cancel on a resource activity settings page may result in a file download

Participants page pagination doesn't reset when applying filters

Complete user report incorrectly shows last modified time of quiz attempts, not time submitted

Underscore in folder name breaks assign feedback multi-upload

Content bank allows empty names

Insufficient colour contrast for in-place editable and drag and drop upload status

Edit button for badge backpack not displayed when version is OBv1.0

Swapping theme in chat window causing notice error

Recently accessed courses not functioning on small view ports

Forum digest processing does not mark posts as read

Course Custom field text area cant be emptied

Chat activity needs user help

Course Copy in 3.9 and 3.9.1 not working for teacher with extended permissions

User A can see the privacy and policies + data retention summary link on user B's profile page

Preferences window can be opened on Safe Exam Browser Mac clients during quizzes using manual configuration



Accessibility Improvements

Insufficient colour contrast for calendar event colour indicators

File Picker: focus lost on upload

Some dropdown menus have insufficient colour contrast between text and background

Insufficient colour contrast between link text and normal text

Completion checkbox images don't have sufficient colour contrast

Error reading database on Participants page if site:accessallgroups is set to prohibit

Course and category management page accessibility followups

Insufficient colour contrast for .*-info classes

Forum grading panel cannot be used when zoomed to 400%



Developers

Allow behat generators to be pivoted

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.9.2_release_notes






3.9.1
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
13 Juli - 330MBSecurity

Content bank status message should be hard coded



Changes

OAuth 2 still expecting email verification after "Require email verification" has been disabled

Atto RecordRTC (record audio/video) plugin only works in the first editor on a page

Moodle 3.9 upgrade fails due to missing column in privacy plugins if standalone GDPR plugins were used

convert_submissions task with asynchronous document conversion cannot be completed by cron

Theme icons are lost after web upgrade in 3.9 or theme change in other versions

Update minimal age of digital consent according to current legislation

Make the Activity results block styling consistent with other blocks

Sorting does not work anymore in non-dynamic tables

Regrading quiz attempts should be logged

The capabilities moodle/question:tag* are not visible in the "Check permissions" page in the activity context

Alert links hard to distinguish

Some scheduled tasks are incorrectly labelled as "Disabled"

Choosing bulk removal of empty submissions causes an error

Missing Moodle app disable features settings for 3.9

Accessibility issues in the pagination bar template

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.9.1_release_notes






3.9
 (Hauptversion)
19 Juni - 330MBNOTICE

Plugins will not be automatically upgraded as part of this update. You should check for the availability of 3.9-compatible versions of the Moodle plugins that you use before performing this update, and be aware that you may need to manually update plugins afterwards.



Security

Have options to call check_password_policy on every login

Antivirus: Support remote scanning using TCP sockets.

Allow virus checks to be retried if they returned an error state

Add logging for admin setting changes to antivirus to config log

New config option for ClamAV scanning errors to prompt user to try again later

If passwordunmask field is hardcoded in config.php, do not show the value



Activity Chooser

Move turn editing on button out of the edit menu on boost

Rework/Redesign the activity chooser

Front end implementation of indicating favourites with a star

Update activity chooser to include recommended activities

Add admin page for recommending activities

Support categories/tabs in the activity chooser

Ability to search in the activity chooser

New API for extending the activity chooser and implementation of favouriting

Introduce an Activities and Resources tab

Add searching of the recommended activities admin page



H5P

H5P editor integration

Create basic skeleton for a global xAPI library needed for H5P content

Apply Display H5P filter inside  tags

Render specific icons for different H5P content types in content bank

New activity icon for H5P

Add a mechanism to support multi H5P core_api versions

Create a new H5P activity

Add Admin UI to delete existing H5P libraries

Add xAPI statement support to mod_h5p

Improve admin UI to manage H5P libraries and give information about H5P tools' status

Create xAPI activity report inside mod_h5p

H5P editor: support content-type translations

Integrate content bank and H5P content creator

Include H5P Activity backup and restore options

H5P editor: integrate translations with Moodle String API

Add support for result, attachments, context to core_xapi library

Add duration, completion and success to H5P activity attempts

Add xAPI result support on mod_h5pactivity

Add link to the content bank in the H5P activity



Content Bank

Create a new 'contentbank' plugin type and a new H5P plugin in the content bank

Backup and restore options for course level content bank

Implement events for content bank

Add a delete content option to the content bank

Create a new repository for the content bank

Implement search functionality for the repository_contentbank

Create a new view type list in the Content Bank

Implement search API for the content bank

Implement search functionality for the content bank



MoodleNet Integration

Core setting to toggle MoodleNet features globally (master)

Allow links to be imported by tool_moodlenet (all versions)

Add links to MoodleNet in Moodle (master)



Participants Page Filtering

Create a single filter for tables and the AMD structure behind this

Update the participants filter to support filtering with additional logic operators

Update fetching of participants to support multiple values per filter

Add additional participants filter types and the ability to add multiple conditions to a filter set

"Enrol users" should not reload the page

Remove the previous (unified) filter from the participants page and deprecate relevant code



Course Copy

Course Copy User Interface



Safe Exam Browser

Add Safe Exam Browser integration to the standard Moodle package (moodle-quizaccess_seb)

New theme settings for secure layout - display lang menu and display logged-in user



Quiz and Questions

Make drag-and-drop onto image questions responsive and fix the print layout

Quiz manual grading: chosen options should be remembered as user preferences

Improve responsive design of drag-drop into text questions (also fixes layout when printed)

Drag-drop question types: remove the hard-coded maximum size limit on images

Update drag-drop marker questions to be more responsive (and improve print layout)

Question: Multi-choice Option to hide system 'Select ...'

GIFT question import/export format should support tags

Intelligent default idnumber when duplicating a question in the question bank

Create an additional admin "Required" setting flag and apply it to quiz require password setting



Badges

Add support for Open Badges 2.1

Hide issuer details when creating badges with Open Badges 2.0 and above

Allow admins to manage available backpacks

Remove support for Mozilla Backpack



Accessibility

Change the bold plugin to use strong tags instead of b for accessibility

Limit the image description length and improve the alt text string

Change the italics plugin to use em tags instead of i for accessibility

Create an accessible change event

Change the strikethrough plugin to use del tags instead of strike for accessibility

Improve the contrast of browser focus outline

Improve UI accessibility on small view ports



Usability

Add ability to summarise all forums in a specific course

Add ability to bulk delete files in "My private files" repository

Improve error handling for unoconv (Universal Office Converter)

Make pasting images into the Atto HTML editor work (as much as browsers will let us)

Add text direction to default ATTO generated markup

Support internationalized domain names (IDN) in URL resources

Workshop: should remember collapsed/expanded sections

Add a new availability completion option - "previous activity with completion"

Add "Go to top" link when scroll down in boost and classic themes

Add ability to duplicate grade items in gradebook setup

Improve the user grade display modal

Show graded status in forum grading UI

Use the checkbox-toggleall component for the gradebook setup page

Reduce the size of titles on the recent activity page

Improve the recent activity block styling

Make fonts appear smooth in Firefox on Mac

My overview block: Add sort by short name

Display more information such as the URL beside licenses drop down menu in help icon

Show steps consistently during import

Make calendar manage subscription form more user friendly

Make book navigation easier to distinguish from activity navigation

Avoid HTML5 player video forced scaling for low resolution videos

Update progress report (Download in Excel-compatible format) dates to a sortable format



Functional Changes

Notify the user when the original file extension has been removed or modified upon file editing in the filepicker

Avoid recycle bin locking the user's session during activity deletion or backup/restore (when it is enabled)

Add core profile fields to user filter

Include site name and link in contact request notifications

Modify the calendar events table to allow any component to create action events

Allow setting a subset of the available units in moodleform duration field

Enable additional content filters by default on new installs

Add a Quality of Service layer to the processing of the ad-hoc task queue

LTI 1.3: Allow tool to use JWKS URI rather than Public Key

Add name of user to fields included in forum exports

Render HTML in PDF dataformat export

Improve detection of non-public sites for registration

Include client_id and lti_deployment_id in OIDC Login Initiation request

Add a campaign feature, with a link to a Moodle page, to support sustainability

Stop using YUI modals in core/notification for alert and confirmation

Create "Feedback" link in Moodle to permanent survey site

Mark all as read in notifications menu should not apply to notifications received after the page was loaded

Subject for messages digest email should include site name

Move indent button to list group by default

User Tours: Restrict tours to account creation date, first login date or last login date

Upgrade jQuery EU Cookie Law popups to latest version

Prevent LTI Advantage external tool add failing due to uniqueness constraint and tag not persisting

Files API: Add Streaming file mime type support



For Administrators

Add new capabilities to control adding LTI activities from preconfigured tools

Add system status report including tasks with cli status script

Create user interface to add/delete new licenses

Add "show differences only" into tool_capability

Increase default session timeout and allow it to be configured in the GUI

Add support for per-task concurrency limits

It should be possible to view anonymous events in reports

Add support for custom course fields to Upload courses

Allow graceful fast exit of cron.php / adhoc_task.php via SIGTERM or SIGINT

Ad-hoc task processing for automated backups

Add filtering to the config changes admin report

Enable cli/adhoc_task.php to be run as a pseudo daemon with --keep-alive=60

Update admin/tool/task/cli/adhoc_task.php to respect task_adhoc_concurrency_limit

Re-run a scheduled task from the web

CLI changes should be included in the config changes report

Add more options to Maximum number of backups kept

Allow cron cli option to remotely stop all crons

Scheduled tasks admin: usability enhancements

Scheduled tasks admin: show the defaults in the form where you edit the settings for a task

Develop an automatic approval tool for delete/export of personal data with a standard completion reply

Increase the Antivirus default chunk size (ClamAV)



Mobile

Update the tool_mobile_disabledfeatures setting with H5P and new blocks supported on the app

Add a new "Mobile app subscription plan" section in the Moodle app settings

Enable logging into the mobile app via QR code in the web user profile

Add new "activeusers" field containing last month active users in registration data

Enable "Mobile Notifications" when a site is registered

Site admins should see a warning asking them to enable the Mobile notifications plugin after registering for an Airnotifier key



Performance

Read/Write splitting of DB operations to support primary/replica database configurations

Improve loading performance of filepicker when loading Recent Files

Improve theme designer mode performance

Improve course category tree cache performance by storing against single key instead of multiple

Improve the performance of the Analytics ML layer when using small datasets

Add Template and string prefetching

Speed up file system \core\task\file_trash_cleanup_task

Reduce the number of full table scans on the event table

Convert performance report to Check API

Extra session lock debugging for redis session handler

Tune the redis session handler to reduce blocking wait time

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.9_release_notes






3.8.5
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
15 September - 330MBGeneral fixes and improvements

Workshop rubric display issue in grid view

Atto editor undo/redo (crtl-y/z) can sometimes wipe all content

Byte order mark at the beginning of import groups file fail the process with the confusing error message

Gradebook single view has a hard coded name format in grade view

Numerical question in lesson - decimal fractions problem

Reopened assignment shown as graded by student themselves

Badge and user profile picture using an svg file doesn't display

Allow microphone and camera to be accessed from content iframe

Email-based self-registration confirmation email is not re-sent

The Message reply box is not fixed

List bullet points are cut off in some browsers

Question manual grading: floating point issues can lead to valid grades being rejected

Contact request email must respect the receiver's language

Condition: "Completion of other courses" is set without the course creator intervention

Import grades with an empty identifier causes bad upload but it doesn't show error message

Export labels from feedback

Backup step 2 show type options missing activity names

\core\task\analytics_cleanup_task extremely slow on Postgres site.

Unable to edit user overrides if assignment is not available to student

"Alternate image" gets removed upon editing course category settings.

After editing a forum post, a user is unsubscribed from the discussion

Assignfeedback_editpdf sending infinite request when page ready is not equal to page number of combined pdf

File-based Assignments shouldn't accept submissions without any files

Recently Accessed Items block uses stock LTI icon even if it has been customized

load_fontawesome_icon_map web service does not respect current theme

Single and double quotes encoded in HTML characters in downloaded files

Forum idnumber update not working

Admin can get stuck on the Plugin dependencies check failure page

Calendar accessibility followups

Book's chapter title not showing max length limit

The 'backup_cleanup_task' task deletes records related to incompleted adhoc tasks

LTI Names and Roles Provisioning Service generates Link headers with incorrect format

Portfolio "export whole discussion" button should not be visible if the user has inadequate permissions

Forum too eager to mark messages as read (threaded view)

Pressing cancel on a resource activity settings page may result in a file download

Complete user report incorrectly shows last modified time of quiz attempts, not time submitted

Underscore in folder name breaks assign feedback multi-upload

Insufficient colour contrast for in-place editable and drag and drop upload status

Swapping theme in chat window causing notice error

Recently accessed courses not functioning on small view ports

Forum digest processing does not mark posts as read

Course Custom field text area cant be emptied

Chat activity needs user help

User A can see the privacy and policies + data retention summary link on user B's profile page



Accessibility improvements

Insufficient colour contrast for calendar event colour indicators

File Picker: focus lost on upload

Some dropdown menus have insufficient colour contrast between text and background

Insufficient colour contrast between link text and normal text

Completion checkbox images don't have sufficient colour contrast

Course and category management page accessibility followups

Insufficient colour contrast for .*-info classes

Forum grading panel cannot be used when zoomed to 400%



For developers

Allow behat generators to be pivoted



Security fixes

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.4_release_notes



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3.8.4
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
13 Juli - 330MBGeneral fixes and improvements

MDL-67700 - Messages displaying in incorrect conversations when switching between conversations quickly

MDL-60827 - OAuth 2 still expecting email verification after "Require email verification" has been disabled

MDL-52578 - Activity weight set to 0 on creation

MDL-68864 - Clear my choice for single answer multiple choice questions is erratic

MDL-67126 - In assignment activity the completion state is not set reliably for all group members

MDL-68436 - Atto RecordRTC (record audio/video) plugin only works in the first editor on a page

MDL-69106 - convert_submissions task with asynchronous document conversion cannot be completed by cron

MDL-68203 - Error duplicating quiz when there is a course view link in the answer

MDL-69109 - Theme icons are lost after web upgrade in 3.9 or theme change in other versions

MDL-66917 - No validation that uploaded (from zip) plugin has higher version than installed

MDL-68992 - Update minimal age of digital consent according to current legislation

MDL-68253 - On the first page of a book, no previous arrow should be shown in navigation

MDL-67172 - Allow multiple H5P content displayed properly when accessing the first time (backport of MDL-67095 )

MDL-67497 - Capability "backuptargetimport" should have captype "read"

MDL-64175 - 'Advanced settings' for media resources in Atto are not loaded properly when editing

MDL-68215 - Make the Activity results block styling consistent with other blocks

MDL-69002 - Backpack authenticate check called too regularly for admin

MDL-68847 - Fix missing variable bug with link dnd code

MDL-68733 - quiz random question tags are deleted accidentally on entire site

MDL-68723 - Filemanager File tree view does not list all files.

MDL-68576 - Filepicker is not working when using the file details view

MDL-68270 - Compact logo on Nav Bar is blurred with Boost related themes

MDL-68054 - Capability "viewhiddenactivities" and "viewhiddensections" should have captype "read"

MDL-57240 - For an overdue quiz attempt, the summary page has links that just redirect back to the same page

MDL-66899 - Regrading quiz attempts should be logged

MDL-69077 - The capabilities moodle/question:tag* are not visible in the "Check permissions" page in the activity context

MDL-66601 - Usability issue trying to uploading images wider than browser width, in RTL mode

MDL-52138 - Gradebook floating headers are incorrectly styled

MDL-68099 - Warning in grader report in separate groups mode

MDL-68828 - Theme classic mobile issues

MDL-68899 - Dashboard course cards don't render well in theme classic

MDL-67903 - UI for grades import using spreadsheet is broken in theme_boost and theme_classic

MDL-68738 - YouTube video displayed twice in wiki

MDL-63812 - Question type Drag and drop into text undefined notice for gap in question and answer slot

MDL-68425 - Participants page shows option to send messages without capability check

MDL-68772 - In edit quiz (Boost / Classic) navigation overlaps

MDL-69021 - Alert links hard to distinguish

MDL-67294 - Choosing bulk removal of empty submissions causes an error

MDL-68137 - "Download All Submissions as a zip" can remove file extension



Accessibility improvements

MDL-68312 - Gradebook: Grader report: Accessibility issues

MDL-69008 - Accessibility issues in the pagination bar template

MDL-68353 - Course management: Create new course: Accessibility issues

MDL-68343 - Gradebook: Single view: Accessibility issues

MDL-68200 - Forum: Discussion list: Accessibility issues



Security improvements

MDL-68276 - Standard log entries can be manipulated

MDL-68631 - Cron current user may not be reset between scheduled tasks

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.4_release_notes






3.8.3
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
18 Mai - 330MBSecurity 

db_replace() doesn't emit any audit trail, should emit a Moodle event

Improve XMLDB path validation of included files

MathJax URL upgraded to later version to remove XSS risk (upstream)

Remote code execution possible via SCORM packages



Changes

Assignment online text and feedback comments don't expand using Safari

GDPR data request export not usable when using special characters (invalid file paths)

Failed environment.xml check does not prevent plugin from being installed

Add existing class attributes to Boost flat navigation nodes

Single activity format dropdown from types of activity empty

TCPDF lib change results in deleted .jpg images in plugins such as mod_certificate

Prepare Moodle to be ready when h5p.org down completely so that only the author can see the test content

Essay question type review: answer box should be the right size

Gradebook CSV import deletes existing feedback comments if set to be ignored

Searching for user by email (case-insensitive + accent-sensitive) is too expensive on MySQL with many users

Missing LTI resource crashes sync_grades task

When grading assignments unable to select annotation comment using the mouse

admin/cli/check_database_schema.php does not check indexes

Appearance of tooltip title attributes in custom menu is incorrect

help and advanced icons are shown twice for checkboxes in forms

Link-level LTI memberships service not working

Keyboard drag and drop ordering of sections in courses is broken and confusing

paging_bar previous/next buttons have wrong page numbers

Forum discussions with hidden group picture display as broken links

Names of sections renamed inline do not change in the keyboard drag and drop menu

Deleting a temporary table forces a reload of the databasemeta cache (Backport of MDL-58584)

Cannot delete user if email is over 89 characters long

Folders don't get listed in course resources

As soon as fullnamedisplay and alternativefullnameformat differ, names in profile title and user menu differ



Accessibility

Forum grading submit grade form does not conform to accessibility guidelines

Contrast of colours for success, info, error and warnings text is not accessible

Calendar: New event: Accessibility issues

Course homepage: Editing mode on: Accessibility issues

Course participants: Main: Accessibility issues

Calendar month view accessibility issues

Course homepage: View mode: Accessibility issues

No label for clear my choice option on multiple-choice questions

Course participants: Enrol user: Accessibility issues

Course management: insufficient colour contrast

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.3_release_notes






3.8.2
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
8 März - 330MBSecurity

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version. 



Changes

Chrome 80 support

Notifications automatically marked as read when messaging deactivated

LTI Adv grades do not roll up in course total

PostgreSQL 12.x support

Database error when sorting responses by "Groups"

Assignment calendar events with "alwaysshowdescription" get updated on every task run because of not updated "lastcron" field

mod_scorm automatically checks "passed" and "completed" completion options

Course Overview doesn't remember Starred filter state

Give back the default sort behaviour (lastname) in the participant table

Badge baking uses tEXt instead of iTXt

Delete quiz JSON error if question category deleted

Create Badge Page -- language defaults to 'Afar'

Update time zones listed in the language strings

Cannot cut and paste if H5P button is added to the Atto toolbar

Competency user data is not being erased when user gets deleted

Cannot remove the idnumber from a question

Performance: Course category tree cache can get built in parallel

tool_uploadcourse: fullname/shortname fields don't get length checked while uploading

Q&A forum recent activity reveals posts

Minimize how long we hold the global cron lock for

No 'View grade' button for single simple discussion forum

"Activity names auto-linking" filter and activity name like "-" (hyphen) breaks course content visualization

mark_notification_read fails if messaging disabled

Add an activity or resource menu "add" button appears below the fold

TinyMCE editor font sizes are too small in Classic theme (and other child themes)

Uninstalling Cohort roles tool can break site upgrade

Toast wrapper can interfere with Forum grading buttons

Required field indicator missing from Assign submission page

Calendar - Navigating months - URL doesn't work

 HTML5 tag is filtered out by Atto editor

Q&A forum allows students to reply to posts they cannot see

Error being logged when navigating from gradebook to quiz

Cleanup of task logs fails with big number of records to be deleted

'The grades were not saved...' should not be displayed as a success message

Long quiz names break deletion ad hoc task when questions are backed up

Events without subscriptions can lock users out of their sites

Error "You cannot make a category of one of its own subcategories."

Allow to disable identity providers via Moodle app feature settings

Allow to disable Dark Mode via Moodle app feature settings

Option to disable "H5P Offline" feature in the app

Sort ad-hoc tasks by "nextruntime"

Splitting a discussion creates discussion record with an incorrect first post author

Respect the capability for displaying the fullname

"Search courses" layout should look good on all screen sizes

Quiz: report delete_selected_attempts notice when a user has multiple enrolments

Errors showing for Forums in Complete Report for students



Accessibility 

Calendar: View event details: Accessibility issues

Emoji picker button does not have a description

Forms with client-side validation should always scroll to the invalid element when you try to submit

Broken ARIA reference in the user menu

Ensure keyboard focus order is efficient and logical

Empty h3 tag in message deletion dialogue

Cache data contained in nested ul

Accessibility: Wrong tabindex order in top navbar (message+notification)

Forum: Heading structure on Search results page

Forum: "Discuss this topic" accessibility

Atto Accessibility Checker not catching accessibility issues in Firefox

Forum discussion table has no summary

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.2_release_notes






3.8.1

13 Januar - 330MBChanges

Switching "JavaScript Cache" on crashes first.js

Plugins should be able to provide data generators for Behat

A teacher trying to remove a submission without having the relevant capability encounters an error

Ajax call to enroll potential users is too slow

Password reset email doesn't fill in $a->link when auth_method is LDAP

Forum information about timed discussion doesn't handle correctly "displaystartdate" and "displayenddate" containing quotes

Filepicker does not work in the modal forms - unable to click on input texts

Scorm player is really narrow in new window on classic theme

Moodle calendar is not able to import .ics files with repeated events anymore

Block overview course filter displays hidden custom fields

Activity completion report - clicking initial should reset page number

Current day not displayed by default when using the calendar day view

Fatal error if cohort_role_sync task is run when an assigned role no longer exists

Relocate the Notifications area in the grader interface

Calendar: Inconsistent behaviour of managegroupentries capability

Discussion list shows subjects in bold

Quiz print version should not split questions over two pages

LTI 1.3 private key reset on each tool edit

tool_dataprivacy doesn't filter multilang tags within $SITE->fullname

Choices with only open dates in the future do not appear on timeline

Forum inline reply option is applying filters before saving content in the DB

Cron / adhoc task runners ramp up slowly for no reason

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.1_release_notes






3.8
 (Hauptversion)
5 Dezember 2019 - 330MBMoodle 3.8 is a new major release.



Analytics

Analytics models may be restricted to category or course contexts

Insights about students who have not logged in recently

Report on the actions executed by users on predictions

Allow targets to limit the analysis interval to a specific interface or parent class.

Extra garbage collection for analytics

Require enrolments to be active for most of the analysis interval

Add bulk actions for analytics' insights

Insight notifications improvements

Analytics models should be sorted by name and not last modified

Allow the Python machine learning backend to run from a separate server

Add multi-class capabilities to prediction processors

Global on/off switch for analytics



H5P

Create a new button in Atto to add H5P content in anywhere from hp5.com and h5p.org external URLs

Improve H5P filter to allow internal H5P content URLs

Implement backup and restore process for H5P content

Add Admin UI to manually upload H5P content-type libraries

Create a capability to update H5P content-type libraries

Create a task to install H5P content-type libraries

Create the basic skeleton, library and interfaces for rendering H5P content

Improve H5P Atto button to upload content

Create a new filter to convert h5p.com and h5p.org URLs to embed code



Forum

Forum report: Basic skeleton

Forum summary report option to message selected users

Groups filter in forum summary report

Dates filter in forum summary report

Link forum summary report to export of each user's post content

Add columns for word count and character count to the forum summary report

Add the ability to download the forum summary report

Forum export functionality

Dates filter in forum export

Forum export options for human-readable dates and removing HTML

Create forum grading interface

Display grading form in the grading panel

Add a button to display the entire discussion for a post being graded

Make 'require grade' an activity completion criterion for the forum

Forum grading user search

Forum grading option to send notification to student

Forum view grades option for students

Support restricting the user list to a specific group

Create settings side drawer for new discussion view

Create new discussion view for forum

Update display of discussion in discussion list table

Search starred discussions only option in forum advanced search



Assignment

Assignment: Annotate PDF - Rotate submitted image automatically

Annotate PDF - Right-to-left UI - The rotate buttons order is confusing

Enable the saving and printing of annotated PDFs from previous attempts

Assignment: Add warning about students falling into Default group if group submissions are enabled but not required

Performance improvements for user / group overrides for mod assign



Question Bank

Display ID number and tags in the question bank UI

Question bank: replace the row of edit icons with an Edit menu

Allow question types to add extra actions to the Question bank edit menu



Course Relative Dates (experimental)

Assignment due date relative to the student course start date

Weeks format relative dates

Course relative dates mode setting

Option to override the assignment due date in a relative dates course



Course Overview

block_myoverview: Add admin setting to control the available layouts

An admin can set which filters are available for users to select in their Dashboard course overview

An admin can specify a course custom field as a filter for users to select in their Dashboard course overview

Course card pattern colours may be specified by an admin

Courses with course visibility set to hide should be labelled 'Hidden from students' in the course overview

block_myoverview: Improve pagination widget

Change 'Hidden' to 'Removed from view' in the course overview



Emojis

Add emojis to messaging

Atto should support full emoji



Usability

Session Timeout alert

Provide a more consistent and better way of selecting and deselecting all items in a list

Show alphabet filter in grader report even when there are less than 100 users

Forms do not prevent same data submission multiple times

Browser back button should work as expected in the administration menu with Boost theme

Let users set their default homepage

Participants list - Filter users with no roles

Calendar view selector enables users to switch between month, day and upcoming events

Improve drag and drop question accessibility in high-contrast mode

The UI for setting enrolment end date/duration should be consistent

Boost Theme accessibility: Nav drawer should be marked up as list

Better progress display while re-grading quiz attempts

Drag and drop upload progressbar invert inner and outer



Changes

Administrative setting to show/not show "hide" feature in online users block

The description should be displayed when viewing a Book, Lesson or IMS content package

Option to include author information when importing entries into a database activity

Make "course request" capability category context instead of system context

Users should be informed that they can't block a user who has permission to message all users

Add send message buffering

Show plain text in Messages summary pane

Several core emails provide only text format

Include files option in backup settings

VideoJS upgrade to 7.6.5 including HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) support

Add support for FLAC files

Make awarding badges groups/groupings compliant

Global Search: Replace course search form with global search

Display course category in course related block

Global search: Delete from search index when courses are deleted

block_timeline can cause JSON parse error on dashboard when activities are saved with newline characters

Calendar course event icon is different from course icon

Add new Mobile setting for forcing a minimum app version to access the site

Option to disable the "Forgotten password" feature in the app

The People block is no longer needed and should be removed from core



For Administrators

Log role changes in more detail

Allow disabling of cron output when capturing logs

Let the admin control if lists of courses should be pre-sorted by visibility or not

Let the administrator configure which user filters are shown by default

Add ability to search/filter users by Last IP Address

Disable GUI plugin uninstalls (eg $CFG->uninstallclionly similar to $CFG->disableupdateautodeploy)

Automated backup course ordering

Add column for enrol start dates to Upload users CSV

Upload users via text file should include the optional user field 'disable notifications'

Add an example csv file for bulk uploading of users

Option to duplicate a user tour

Add a new event when a grade item has been created

Include changed course settings in course_updated event

Cache admin UI: make it easy re-purge the cache you just purged

Redis Cache: implement compression

Allow Redis cache to use PHP extension Zstd

Private files space setting should use MB not Bytes

Change 'Open to Google' setting to 'Open to search engines'

Add cli upgrade option to test if an upgrade is required

Admin pages login as guest and then throw Access denied error (should prompt for login) require_admin()



For Developers

New $CFG->behat_pause_on_fail option added

The $CFG->httpswwwroot was removed

New steps to navigate straight to any plugin web page. Plugins must implement their own resolver between page types and URLs.

Profiling included and excluded URLs now are matched from start. Some adjustments may be needed.

Quiz: quiz attempt API should let you create an attempt for a different user

Components other than activity modules should be able to backup and restore question attempt data

Question engine: report methods should not require a list of slots

Add a new transpilation tool for ES6

Remove the restriction to forbid subdirectories in the templates directory

$DB->get_records uses a lot of Peak RAM (with Postgres)

Add hooks to extend all forms with /login/

Caching of templates should use a new templaterev variable

Allow support for xsendfile in alternative_file_system_class independently of local files

Improve the moodlebot user agent and expose a function for plugins to use

Move dependencies and subplugins to JSON

Remove the CSS chunker from Moodle

Allow themes to alter the core css url's

Removed unused Pear_Crypt_CHAP library



Web Services

Make some web service calls idempotent over http GET

Web service to enable H5P offline access in the Moodle app

New Web Services for updating a forum post (or a discussion topic post)

New web service to delete forum posts

New web services for adding and deleting comments

Enforce app security by using tokenpluginfile.php instead webservice/pluginfile.php

Blocks Web Services (for course and dashboard) should return the block settings

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