Hosting Moodle

3.8.1

13 January - 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

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8.1_release_notes






3.8
 (major version)
5 December 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

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.8_release_notes






3.7.4

14 January - 330MBChanges

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

Scorm player is really narrow in new window on classic theme

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

Activity completion report - clicking initial should reset page number

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

Calendar: Inconsistent behaviour of managegroupentries capability

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

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.7.4_release_notes






3.7.3
 (security release)
10 November 2019 - 330MBSecurity

Various security improvements.



Changes

Edit grade item changes visibility of category total

Profile / Participants list: Have roles with "Capabilities/moodle/course:viewsuspendedusers" respect the given setting

Assignment accessibility correct use of tables and toggleable +/- link

Lesson's numerical answers with value 0 are deleted on edit

Privacy API allows Primary Admin Account to be deleted

Courses with course visibility set to hide should be labelled 'Hidden from students' in the course overview (backport of MDL-65621)

Deleting a course that's been starred causes 'invalidrecord: Can't find data record in database table course.' error

Timeline block item dates should include the year

Analytics upcoming activities due notification and prediction should be clearer

Unzipped Embedded Files Disappear when Topic is Saved

Teachers appear in quiz reports when "enrolled users who have, or have not, attempted the quiz" option selected

Moodle XML question export/import does not include question-category idnumbers

Social Format Course-Edit Summary Icon leads to 'File Not Found'

When installing multiple languages with parents only the first parent is installed

Upcoming activities due notification email should come from the support contact

RecordRTC and assignment: Players are too big

Activities with Available from date and without deadline show as overdue in Timeline Block

User data label should wrap in enrol users modal window

Notification focus is not ARIA compliant

Assignment notifications with marking workflow get stuck in cron

Quiz "Try another question like this one" repeats random questions too often

Hidden courses visible in block_starredcourses

Pagination overflows modal window on add random question

Timer Issue - Conflict between Classic Theme and Quiz Setting

Upgrade fails with error 'number of parameters must be between 0 and 65535' on large sites

Groups overview runs out of memory on very large courses

Include unsubscribes in the forum subscription cache to improve performance

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.7.3_release_notes



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3.7.2

10 September 2019 - 330MBBug Fixes

Unoconv doesn't work after the scheduled task conversion_cleanup_task has run

Broken link in messages contact request notification

Regrading a quiz in progress causes student to lose data

Cannot update user profile with non-internal auth method such as LDAP

Do not display "Send a message" option in course participants list if messaging is disabled site-wide

Export of questions with lots of images as Moodle XML runs out of memory

Online text assignment error when attempting to submit an image only (with no text)

'Delete and then restore' doesn't delete when using asynchronous restore

Emojis are very big in forum notification emails

Quiz page title does not tell the user where they are in the quiz

Course restore excluding groups still restores quiz overrides resulting in extra calendar events

Manually completed course activities showing in Timeline

Grade page is broken if submission other than PDF was deleted

Error reading from database after upgrade to 3.7.1 (MySQL 8.0.2)

Expanding/collapsing PDF comments causes other annotations to change position

"Is this your first time here?" shows when self registration disabled and no message in auth_instructions

Exporting table data to PDF places entries in wrong columns

Assignment due date does not update for group selection

Blog-like format forum no longer shows unread messages count

Annotated PDF - Comments can't be added and viewed in RTL user interface

Upgrade PHPMailer

Maintenance Mode messages don't appear with Force Login enabled

File picker error messages are not read out in assignment to screen reader users

Custom theme favicon on LTI provider site breaks LTI authentication

Deleting a user tour causes error in privacy data export

Some Dashboard elements are following browser language, not page language

Remove community finder block - as part of Sunsetting moodle.net

Remove course-sharing functionality - as part of Sunsetting moodle.net

Multiple choice question text not wrapped in Lesson

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.7.2_release_notes






3.7.1
 (security release)
8 July 2019 - 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. 



Bug Fixes

Calendar export no longer limited to 40 events

Jump to dropdown menu no longer overlaps before / next activity links

Quiz with activity completion 'Or all available attempts completed' no longer possible with unlimited attempts

Users with capability moodle/site:messageanyuser can message any user regardless of their privacy settings

Guest users prompted to enrol in order to post in a forum

'Re' no longer duplicated in forum post subject line

Redis cache store correctly displays exception after failed connections

Recently accessed items block checks for whether a course is deleted before showing items from it

Ampersand in site title no longer breaks LTI provider cartridge XML

Forum mailings and maintenance jobs no longer fail with 'Suspended account' exception

Assignment individual grading when using rubric and workflow grade is displayed

PDF annotation comments no longer expand unexpectedly

Enrolled users list sort order no longer changes after adding or removing a user

Multi-lang filter no longer ignores 'en' parent language

Enrolments whose start date is after the analytics analysis start time are no longer discarded

Forum backup and restore retains any private replies as private

Child themes have base layouts loaded

Fix for 'error/usernotconfirmed' exception in forum mailings and maintenance jobs

Long course names in 'Recently accessed courses' block correctly displayed

Improved memory usage of analytics evaluation and initial training processes

SMTP debugging no longer displayed for lower debugging output levels

Badges from other sites which are displayed via a backpack no longer show date in the future

Restore process no longer displays an error if the capability doesn't exist

Quick reply now respects subscribe on reply user preference

Item counts for action events are now shown in the timeline block

Unread forum posts are once again highlighted

Quiz navigation buttons once again scroll to the correct question on the page

Forum advanced search form styling improvements

Students at risk models correctly discard user enrolments whose start and end dates do not fit into the analysed time interval

Atto 'Manage files' now detects filenames containing a hash symbol (#)

Language customisation page once again displays the correct buttons

Database activity unapproved entries are once again highlighted

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.7.1_release_notes






3.7
 (major version)
23 May 2019 - 330MBForum

MDL-22077 - Private reply option

MDL-65033 - Ability to star discussions

MDL-64956 - In-page forum post reply

MDL-65032 - Ability to lock discussions manually

MDL-65069 - Ability to create discussions without changing page

MDL-64820 - Forum display updated to use templates

MDL-65071 - List of discussions is sortable

MDL-65034 - Accessibility improvements to forum discussions

MDL-65394 - Forum rendering speed improvements

MDL-46881 - Forum scheduled task (cron) has been refactored into several smaller cron tasks



Messaging

MDL-65015 - HTML in messages is cleaned according to site/role "trusttext" configuration

MDL-64715 - Personal space in messaging drawer for draft messages etc.

MDL-64495 - New settings page for messaging-related settings

MDL-63620 - Group conversations can be created from both the auto-create groups edit page and the import groups tool

MDL-63915 - Old messaging user interface removed and replaced with a new widget

MDL-64773 - Messaging conversations can be muted

MDL-65132 - New capability for deleting messages for all users within group conversations

MDL-64017 - Message processors can identify and handle group messages

MDL-64703 - Updated interface on the messaging index page

MDL-64137 - Searches highlight text that matches the search term

MDL-65114 - Timestamps in the main conversation list include days and years

MDL-64093 - New admin setting to set the site default for using enter key to send messages

MDL-60680 - Improved push notifications



Themes

MDL-58428 - All Boost templates moved to core

MDL-64505 - Classic theme introduced to core

MDL-64506 - Bootstrapbase and related themes (Clean/More) removed from core

MDL-65449 - Themes can override the course pattern used on the dashboard



LTI

MDL-62599 - LTI 1.3 support introduced



Open Badges

MDL-63262 - Support added for Open Badges 2.0 platforms

MDL-63876 - Moodle competencies can be linked to criteria for badges in Open Badges 2.0



Dashboard and Course Overview

MDL-63794 - Course categories can be displayed on courses in the course overview block

MDL-64855 - New admin setting to control the output of the course category in the myoverview block

MDL-64376 - Scrolling improved in the recently accessed courses block

MDL-64903 - Course filters are logically grouped in the myoverview block

MDL-64898 - The completion progress bar is no longer displayed for teachers in the myoverview block



Learning Analytics

MDL-61667 - Improvements to the install/uninstall procedure the Analytics API offers to plugins

MDL-64783 - New "upcoming activities due" model added

MDL-65582 - The "upcoming activities due" model is enabled by default

MDL-64786 - Users can overwrite default model names

MDL-64693 - New target added for course competencies achievement

MDL-64636 - New target added for course completion

MDL-65176 - New target added for students at risk of not getting the minimum grade to pass a course

MDL-64954 - A "More info" link provides more information about different core analytics elements

MDL-64777 - Default models can be restored

MDL-64787 - Analytics models can be evaluated using a trained machine learning backend

MDL-60944 - Models can be created, deleted, imported and exported

MDL-64779 - Ability to choose whether to include trained model weights in an export

MDL-65175 - When evaluating a model, the time-splitting method can be set using the web interface

MDL-65177 - It is possible to set the frequency of insight generation for models based on assumptions (e.g. the "upcoming activities due" model)

MDL-60936 - "Enabled time-splitting methods" analytics setting converted to a list of default time-splitting methods for a model's evaluation



Usability improvements

MDL-5311 - Choices can be cleared for single-answer multiple-choice questions

MDL-43385 - Print output of books has been improved

MDL-28505 - Course backup and restore can be performed asynchronously

MDL-61537 - Ability to rotate pages when annotating PDFs in assignment feedback

MDL-63773 - Assignment settings form hides irrelevant options instead of disabling them

MDL-64552 - Moodle forms inside the admin top level directory hide irrelevant options instead of disabling them

MDL-64557 - Moodle forms inside the course directory hide irrelevant options instead of disabling them

MDL-60474 - The student selection tool in the grading interface reflects the sorting order of the grading table

MDL-39261 - File support added to lesson essay questions

MDL-60913 - Global search results can be split into tabs by category

MDL-50793 - Teachers can see hidden pages in book activities

MDL-60059 - Workshop activity action events support drag and drop in the calendar

MDL-62142 - Accessibility improvements for Boost course landing page

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.7_release_notes






3.6.8
 (security release)
16 January - 330MBSecurity

MDL-48024 - Plugins should be able to provide data generators for Behat

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.8_release_notes






3.6.7
 (security release)
11 November 2019 - 330MBSecurity

Various security fixes.



Changes

Edit grade item changes visibility of category total

Profile / Participants list: Have roles with "Capabilities/moodle/course:viewsuspendedusers" respect the given setting

Assignment accessibility correct use of tables and toggleable +/- link

Lesson's numerical answers with value 0 are deleted on edit

Privacy API allows Primary Admin Account to be deleted

Courses with course visibility set to hide should be labelled 'Hidden from students' in the course overview (backport of MDL-65621)

Deleting a course that's been starred causes 'invalidrecord: Can't find data record in database table course.' error

Timeline block item dates should include the year

Unzipped Embedded Files Disappear when Topic is Saved

Teachers appear in quiz reports when "enrolled users who have, or have not, attempted the quiz" option selected

Moodle XML question export/import does not include question-category idnumbers

When installing multiple languages with parents only the first parent is installed

Upcoming activities due notification email should come from the support contact

RecordRTC and assignment: Players are too big

Activities with Available from date and without deadline show as overdue in Timeline Block

User data label should wrap in enrol users modal window

Notification focus is not ARIA compliant

Assignment notifications with marking workflow get stuck in cron

Quiz "Try another question like this one" repeats random questions too often

Hidden courses visible in block_starredcourses

Pagination overflows modal window on add random question

Upgrade fails with error 'number of parameters must be between 0 and 65535' on large sites

Groups overview runs out of memory on very large courses

Include unsubscribes in the forum subscription cache to improve performance

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.7_release_notes






3.6.6

10 September 2019 - 330MBBug Fixes

Unoconv doesn't work after the scheduled task conversion_cleanup_task has run

Broken link in messages contact request notification

Regrading a quiz in progress causes student to lose data

Cannot update user profile with non-internal auth method such as LDAP

Do not display "Send a message" option in course participants list if messaging is disabled site-wide

Export of questions with lots of images as Moodle XML runs out of memory

Online text assignment error when attempting to submit an image only (with no text)

Emojis are very big in forum notification emails

Quiz page title does not tell the user where they are in the quiz

Course restore excluding groups still restores quiz overrides resulting in extra calendar events

Manually completed course activities showing in Timeline

Grade page is broken if submission other than PDF was deleted

Error reading from database after upgrade to 3.7.1 (MySQL 8.0.2)

Expanding/collapsing PDF comments causes other annotations to change position

"Is this your first time here?" shows when self registration disabled and no message in auth_instructions

Assignment due date does not update for group selection

Annotated PDF - Comments can't be added and viewed in RTL user interface

Upgrade PHPMailer

Maintenance Mode messages don't appear with Force Login enabled

File picker error messages are not read out in assignment to screen reader users

Custom theme favicon on LTI provider site breaks LTI authentication

Deleting a user tour causes error in privacy data export

Mobile features should reflect new features supported by Moodle App version 3.7 (backport of MDL-61199)

Remove community finder block - as part of Sunsetting moodle.net

Remove course-sharing functionality - as part of Sunsetting moodle.net

Multiple choice question text not wrapped in Lesson

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.6_release_notes






3.6.5
 (security release)
8 July 2019 - 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. 



Bug Fixes

Calendar export no longer limited to 40 events

Jump to dropdown menu no longer overlaps before / next activity links

Boost theme no longer ignores HTML block custom classes

Quiz with activity completion 'Or all available attempts completed' no longer possible with unlimited attempts

Users with capability moodle/site:messageanyuser can message any user regardless of their privacy settings

Hidden blocks can once again be unhidden

Redis cache store correctly displays exception after failed connections

Recently accessed items block checks for whether a course is deleted before showing items from it

Ampersand in site title no longer breaks LTI provider cartridge XML

Assignment individual grading when using rubric and workflow grade is displayed

PDF annotation comments no longer expand unexpectedly

Enrolled users list sort order no longer changes after adding or removing a user

Multi-lang filter no longer ignores 'en' parent language

Enrolments whose start date is after the analytics analysis start time are no longer discarded

Texts in Moodle format remain in the same format when edited

Improved memory usage of analytics evaluation and initial training processes

SMTP debugging no longer displayed for lower debugging output levels

Restore process no longer displays an error if the capability doesn't exist

Quick reply now respects subscribe on reply user preference

Item counts for action events are now shown in the timeline block

Forum advanced search form styling improvements

Students at risk models correctly discard user enrolments whose start and end dates do not fit into the analysed time interval

Atto 'Manage files' now detects filenames containing a hash symbol (#)

Database activity unapproved entries are once again highlighted

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.5_release_notes






3.6.4
 (security release)
14 May 2019 - 330MBFixes and improvements

MDL-62872 - Atto editor RecordRTC Video no longer erroneously reports the maximum upload size limit has been reached

MDL-64151 - Courses can be unchecked from course completion in the Boost theme

MDL-64678 - Assignment grading page scrollable on mobile

MDL-64267 - Double scrollbar removed from messaging conversations when using the Clean theme

MDL-65206 - Repeated calendar events include the location from the original event

MDL-64331 - Clicking outside of modal popups containing forms no longer closes the modal, so user input is retained

MDL-64988 - Adding a quiz question in a chosen position no longer affected by section headings

MDL-65169 - User searches within messaging when site-wide messaging is enabled are correctly filtered

MDL-65170 - User searches within messaging with separate groups mode enabled are correctly filtered

MDL-63196 - Calendar export includes category events

MDL-46803 - Resetting a course role retains other roles affected users are assigned in the course

MDL-63263 - Recycle bin includes user data/submissions within deleted course elements

MDL-64894 - Items above anchor targets (such as in collapsible topics) can be clicked in the Boost theme

MDL-65157 - The My overview block hides the completion progress bar for teachers

MDL-65112 - Lesson short answer pages can display iframes

MDL-65399 - Bulk quiz item deletion prevents deletion of the only question in a section (consistent with individual deletion functionality)

MDL-64996 - Static analytics models are no longer marked as not trained after changing the default predictions processor

MDL-65173 - Message notifications are no longer marked as read when a notification email is sent

MDL-65085 - Analytics insights are sent from a site's no reply account, instead of from an admin account

MDL-65179 - Web service token last access is updated less frequently

MDL-65262 - Imported calendar events with locations starting or ending in a space no longer cause an error

MDL-64568 - Deleting a group with group messaging removes that group from the conversation list

MDL-65313 - Deleting a group with group messaging removes that group from favourite conversations

MDL-65087 - Messaging drawer accessibility improved by assigning the 'button' role to relevant links in the interface

MDL-64985 - Messaging drawer accessibility improved by adding and improving ARIA labels

MDL-65127 - Messaging drawer accessibility improved by adding ARIA labels to explain numbers in the interface (such as unread message counts)

MDL-65005 - Timeline block menus accessibility improvements

MDL-64524 - Assignment frequently used comments popup can be scrolled

MDL-65153 - Course competencies page no longer needs to be refreshed before clicking on newly added competencies

MDL-64994 - Analytics can use the latest Python machine learning backend

MDL-65094 - Sites hosted on localhost no longer prompt site admins to register their site

MDL-29320 - Email case is properly handled during user profile updates

MDL-29320 - Email case is properly handled during sign-up

MDL-29317 - Email case is properly handled during grade imports

MDL-65411 - Descriptions in calendar event modals wrap text and resize images where necessary

MDL-65484 - Assignment PDF annotations are contained within the window boundaries

MDL-65299 - The default $theme-colors map used in Bootstrap 4 themes can be overridden

MDL-64979 - Improvements to Behat test reliability on slow machines

MDL-65439 - Improvements to messaging Behat test coverage (see also MDL-64672 and MDL-64670)



Security issues

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.

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.4_release_notes






3.6.3
 (security release)
8 May 2019 - 330MBSecurity

"Log in as" functionality exposed to JavaScript risk on other users' Dashboards

Logged in users could view all calendar events

Users could elevate their role when accessing the LTI tool on a provider site

Stored HTML in assignment submission comments allowed links to be opened directly

Secure layout contained an insecure link in Boost theme

get_with_capability_join/get_users_by_capability not aware of context freezing



Highlights

Last post date and time shown correctly on forum page

Gradebook regrading no longer gets stuck

Quiz now displays the correct time left when quiz close date before time limit

Site home and Dashboard now have different data-key attributes when the home page is set to site

All assignment 'View annotated PDF' buttons work

Invalid response value detected messaging error fix

Server files performance improvement for sites with lots of activities and files

Activities can no longer be marked as complete when the context is frozen

Users no longer redirected back to a policy agreement when creating a new account

View competency framework no longer required for viewing competencies in a course

Numerical question units are displayed on the same line

Notifications table has index for the useridfrom column

Participants page performance improvement for courses with ~50k users and 10 groups

A single simple discussion forum now scrolls to new posts

Deleting course sections now also delete files used in the section description

Data export performance improvement

RTL languages correctly aligned in messaging interface

Course image scaled down when no course summary

Forum post word count correctly reflects the size of posts

Accessibility improvement for quiz question feedback

Option to clear prediction for analytics trained models

Clearer button background in Boost

Deleting of feedback question and deleting of user tour step no longer give a 404 error

Glossary 'Actions menu' icon no longer disappears when browsing

External tool 0 points score now correctly recorded as zero in the gradebook

Drag and drop question types now allow use of mixed languages

Boost navigation bar accessibility improvements

Install database CLI script now shows help even if Moodle is already installed

Messaging search simpler UI when search returns no results

'Allowed email domains' setting is now case insensitive

Download assignment submission files via keyboard accessibility fix

Question bank category edit link usability improvement

Boost theme menu links contrast accessibility fix

Messaging contacts are now shown in bold

Messaging search results now shown with date rather than time stamp

get_with_capability_join, get_users_by_capability, assign/unassign_capability now check the capability exists

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.3_release_notes






3.6.2
 (major version)
21 January 2019 - 330MB3.6.2



Security

Manage groups capability was missing the XSS risk flag

User full name is now escaped in the un-linked userpix page



Bug Fixes

CAS authentication fixed

Exponential question growth prevented when duplicating quizzes

Hidden courses no longer send forum notifications to participants

IMS Common Cartridge can restore from custom temp directory

Drag and drop file uploads now respect the ignore file size limits capability

Performance improvement when fetching notifications

Lesson question responses show multimedia consistently

Messaging user info fix in bootstrapbase themes

Question bank pagination fix

The result of core_user::is_real_user is now consistent

Database query efficiency improvement to core_grade privacy provider

Admin bookmarks block can bookmark admin categories

All unread counts in message functionality now update without a page refresh

Filter support added to group message conversation names

LTI assignment and grade LineItems are retained after the cleanup scheduled task is run

GDPR moodle_content_writer can no longer cause an endless loop

User images are linked to their profile in the new messaging interface

Assignment grading interface 'Next page' navigation now resets scrolling to the top of the next page



3.6.1



Regressions

Previous messaging conversations should be displayed after upgrading



Bug Fixes

Facebook logo is correctly displayed when using OAuth 2 authentication

Calculated multichoice question able to answer with negative note in interactive mod



3.6.0



Security

Login CSRF vulnerability in login form. Note that this fix has previously been disclosed following the release of Moodle 3.5.3, 3.4.6, 3.3.9 and 3.1.15



GDPR and Privacy

Data requests bulk actions

Option to make site policies required or optional

Capabilities for controlling who can download SAR data

Data deletion of existing deleted users

Pre-processing stage removed from data requests process

Data retention summary (read-only)

Option to remove the "Data retention summary" link in the footer

HTML data request export format

User expiry improvements

Data purpose and category inheritance improvements

Different data retention strategies for different roles in a purpose

Ability to configure data registry to use module type defaults

Site mentioned in email notifications of data requests

Option to hide your name in the online users block



Highlights

New Course overview and Timeline block

New Recently accessed courses block

New Recently accessed items block

Option to hide courses in the course overview block

Option to star/unstar courses in the course overview block

New Starred courses block

Dashboard retains user preferences for view options

Course overview block retains user preferences for the number of courses to show

Grace period when displaying "In progress" courses in course overview block

Removal of Dashboard page header

Group messaging

New messaging UI with messaging drawer

Option to disable site-wide messaging

Privacy setting for restricting who can message you

The new 'Allow site-wide messaging' setting is disabled by default for new installs but enabled for upgraded sites if $CFG->keepmessagingallusersenabled = true; is defined in config.php

Option to star messaging conversations

Notifications not sent for group conversations

Group members synchronised with messaging conversations members

Assignment feedback can include media or other files

Improved quiz statistics report usability for randomized questions

Option to add ID numbers to questions and question categories

Single questions can be exported from the question bank

Teachers can specify workshop submission types

Nextcloud integration, with a Nextcloud repository and OAuth 2 Nextcloud service

Support for Open Badges v2

Performance improvements to cache flags

Glossary auto-linking filter performance improvements

atto_htmlplus implemented to improve Atto editor HTML indenting

Copy and paste of images from one WYSIWYG window to another

Forum actions announced by screen reader when completed

Global search displays a relevant icon next to link in results

SVG/high resolution emoticons

Larger badge images are used



Experimental

Context freezing - setting read-only access for categories, courses, activities and their content



Functional changes

'Resend confirmation email' button on login page

IF conditions in grade calculations

Calendar entries location support

Images are displayed in forum notification emails

Course format options may be specified in upload courses CSV file

Page resource option to show/hide "Last modified"

Forum post HTML structure improvements

Option to download the list of course participants

Analytics models can use different machine learning backends

User menu: customusermenuitems map Font Awesome icons for non pix/t folders

JSON added to the default MIME types list

Atto media plugin title global attribute support

Shibboleth authentication identity providers

Grader report saves after edit with multiple tabs

Drag and drop of course events respects the course start date

'Add a new course' link in Site administration

Admin search results provide location of the found matching page

Capability to control use of Atto Record RTC

New blocks supported by the mobile app can be disabled

Legacy log store deprecation

Log changes to site administrators

adhoc task runner

Site upgrades via CLI display new default settings

Indian Rupee added to PayPal enrolment currencies

Set Path to PHP CLI in order to display 'Run now' for Scheduled tasks

Assignment upgrade helper tool removed from core

Read more: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.6.2_release_notes