Latest Release notes
Moodle 1.4.1 (12th September, 2004)
- A few little new things
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- New "Email Protection" filter will obfuscate all email addresses within all texts
(to help prevent automated address-harvesting)
- Allowed email addresses can now be restricted (see config-dist.php for details)
- Extra instructions for translators embedded in translation interface
- New help page for Directory Paths
- And some bug fixes
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- Improved performance when viewing site logs
- Improved paging and performance in glossary
- Glossary entries are now shown correctly if they belong to multiple categories
- Do not redeclare auth_user_login upon failed login
- Fixed two missing icons in the cordoroyblue theme
- Fixed missing "New event" button on Upcoming Events page
- Always addslashes on chat messages from daemon users before inserting into db.
- Fixes for handling of fixed enrollment periods when this is set for a course
- Site course ID (defined as SITEID) is no longer assumed to be always 1
- Default memory limits are increased beyond 16M, to help Moodle continue
working even when there is some unplanned memory problem
- Smilies are now rendered as pictures in Markdown format texts
- Workshops work under Recent Activity again
- file.php can now only be used to access data within courses
- Improved behaviour of calendar blocks on home page
- Fixed quotes bug with PostgreSQL database specification produced by installer
- Fixed sometimes-missing display of correct answers during quiz review
- <tt> and <code> are now allowed tags
- Section summaries, course summaries and labels are again no longer cleaned of Javascript
- Fixed a rare LDAP bug that could cause new accounts not to be created
Moodle 1.4 (31st August, 2004)
- Headlines
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- Compatibility with PHP 5
- New easy installer wizard leads you through the creation of the initial config.php file
- Installation is now completely localised to your preferred language
- Completely revamped Resource module make it easier to add new resources and to send data to them.
- New Enrolment system featuring modules such as completely automated Paypal payments,
flatfile scanning, or external database control.
- Blocks now work on the front page, plus you can put a topic section above the middle part
- Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat
- New Wiki module!
- New support for editing text using the Markdown format
- Many bug fixes in all areas
- Under the hood
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- Resource module has its own Add menu now, and uses class-based submodules, making it much
easier now to add new resource types to this menu
- Quiz module has been refactored into class-based questiontype plugins.
- Enrolment process has been refactored into class-based enrolment plugins.
- Glossary display formats are now name-based, and it's easier to plugin new ones.
- Improved behaviour of many modules when they are used on the site page.
- Revised Filter structure is faster and now compatible with Turck MMcache.
- Adding activities is now more forgiving of fields left empty
- We can now alter PostgreSQL columns at will using table_column()
- RSS generation has been sped up tremendously, putting much less load on cron
- Some bigger modules have split lib.php into locallib.php for less memory usage
- Languages and localisation
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- Updates to nearly every language pack
- Moodle can override the default character set in Apache, making languages more reliable
- Multibyte languages now wrap properly
- Better handling of locales and encodings on very multilingual sites (like moodle.org)
- New languages: Slovenian and Hebrew!
- Security Fixes
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- Fixed a number of possible XSS entry points and path disclosures
- Attributes of tags in HTML are now parsed even more thoroughly for naughty scripts
- User profile pages are no longer available by default to strangers
- All text is now cleaned on output (not just input)
- Email addresses are not used on outgoing mail if the user requests that
- New setting loginhttps will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http
- Administration
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- Spiffy new interfaces for adding/removing students, creators and admins
- Failed logins are now logged, and can be displayed to users upon a successful login
- Logs now support viewing by group, and by errors
- Modules now behave more consistently on the site front page
- Front page "students" can be all users on site, or all users in at least one course on the site
- Email-sending can now be enabled/disabled on any user's profile page
- Authentication
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- All authentication methods will now co-exist with internally-created accounts
- New support for authenticating against First Class servers
- Fixes for POP3 authentication
- Navigation
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- Visitors can be automatically logged in as guest
- Jump menu now always shows "Jump to" to help distribute clues about what it does
- Jump menu now has a much clearer way of grouping activities into sections
- Blocks
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- Block system can now cope with custom course formats and changes in format
- New login block allows login from site front page
- Online users block on home page shows users from the whole site
- Editor
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- New editor configuration screen for the admin
- New support for anchors within pages
- Spell-checking is now supported in the editor, it uses aspell on your server operating system
- Chat
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- Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat
- Choice
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- Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more option
- Forum
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- Several fixes when dealing with groups
- Users can choose to receive forum posts as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts.
- Discussion listing is now paged
- Teachers now have complete control over forum subscriptions, and can subscribe anyone at will
- "Last post" date is shortened and linked to the last post
- Forums now list RSS feeds on the index page
- Better-looking HTML mail using the full stylesheet
- Forum mail older than two days is never sent out (to prevent unwanted floods)
- Blocked mail is logged so that teachers can see it
- Discussion branches can be "split" from the main discussion, into a new discussion
- Glossary
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- Glossary entries can be defined as "always editable"
- Glossaries now list RSS feeds on the index page
- Many fixes throughout
- Quiz
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- New floating timer for timed quizzes
- Attempts may now be restricted to specific computers
- Quizzes can now require a special password
- New question type for Calculated Questions
- Numerical questions now support units
- Questions can be previewed in the editing pages
- Questions can now be exported in several formats
- More intelligent handling of category listing when editing questions
- New (and incomplete) XML export format, will eventually be quiz-feature-complete
- Shortanswers can now contain all sorts of strange characters
- Resource
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- Adding resources is now a one-step process with more control
- Web page, Web link, Uploaded file and Program resource all combined into one type!
- Program resources replaced by Parameters that allow a lot of of interesting interaction with external resources, both remote and uploaded into Moodle.
- Collapsible forms with memory to make forms less daunting for beginners without slowing down experienced users
- SCORM
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- Many fixes and improvements - works with an even wider variety of packages
- Optional extra verification of the manifest file
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If you experience any bugs in this release, please report them moodle.org/bugs so we can fix them in the next release.
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