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<h1>Old Release notes</h1>
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<h3>Moodle 1.4.5 (7th May, 2005)</h3>
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<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any
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previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)</p>
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<dt>Some important security fixes</dt>
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<li>Preventative measures against attacks to admin functions.</li>
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<li>Lesson: Safer hiding of lessons (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2733" target="_blank">#2733</a>)</li>
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<dt>A few new things</dt>
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<li>Flash Media Player: Now playing can start before the download is complete.</li>
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<li>Added/updated language support for German (DE) and Turkish (TR).</li>
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<li>Release notes now link to the relevant bugs.</li>
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<li>Prefetching requests from Google Web Accelerator, Mozilla etc are denied.</li>
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<dt>Performance improvements</dt>
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<li>Added option to cache the languages list. Saves around 10MB of memory and 40 includes. See config-dist.php for details on how to enable.</li>
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<li>Major efficiency improvements for Postgres databases on insert. Also fixed many calls to insert_record() which discard the returned record id to not ask for the record id.</li>
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<dt>Other bug fixes</dt>
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<li>HTML Editor: Fixes to some character encoding problems.</li>
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<li>Quiz: fixes to export/import dropdown (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2963" target="_blank">#2963</a>)</li>
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<li>Quiz: Don't throw a fatal error on unknown question, try to continue.</li>
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<li>Course Social Forum: Removed misleading link to unsubscribe (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2945" target="_blank">#2945</a>).</li>
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<li>Additional/updated translations.</li>
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<li>Forums and Groups: Allow students not in a group to post into a discussion which is also not in a group, even if the course is using groups.</li>
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<li>Sitewide HTML Editor settings: Fixed <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21359" target="_blank">Can't save changes in editor configuration</a> form bug.</li>
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<li>Cron: Removed some warnings.</li>
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<li>Choice: Choice shows a bad number of answers (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2452" target="_blank">#2452</a>).</li>
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<li>Better support for PHP5: Files uploads now use $_FILES rather than deprecated $HTTP_POST_FILES (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2828" target="_blank">#2828</a>)</li>
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<li>Backup/Restore: Manual links from lesson pages to resources are now preserved between backup/restore anywhere. (see <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21044" target="_blank">this discussion</a>)</li>
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<li>Some fixes for Postgres constraint naming.</li>
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<li>I18N support: Reset proper encoding upon login (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2770" target="_blank">#2770</a>).</li>
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<li>I18N support: Fixed some instances of garbled characters when using utf-8 in HTML Editor (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2763" target="_blank">#2763</a>)</li>
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<li>Flash Media Player: Turn off the autoloading of sound files.</li>
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<li>Flash Media Player: Better handling of filenames files.</li>
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<li>Postgres: Fixed sequences out of sequence (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2742" target="_blank">#2742</a>).</li>
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<li>Backup: Fixed memory limit overrun in backup config page.</li>
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<li>Forums: Fixed error warnings when a teacher posts to a forum (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2723" target="_blank">#2723</a>).</li>
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<h3>Moodle 1.4.4 (7th March, 2005)</h3>
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<li>Added strong URL validation functions.</li>
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<li>Preventative measures against tampering of config settings.</li>
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<li>Tighter input validation in Quiz, HTML editor and course edit.</li>
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<li>More control over user's language settings.</li>
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<li>Safer cleaning of HTML-formatted input.</li>
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<li>New MP3 content filter with Flash-based mp3 player.</li>
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<li>Better display of options in the Choice module.</li>
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<li>UI enhancements in HTML Editor's table editor.</li>
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<li>$CFG settings in config.php now override database settings.</li>
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<li>Enabled garbage collection for Debian systems, with the option to disable it. Fixes stale session problems.</li>
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<dt>Performance improvements</dt>
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<li>Serious performance optimizations in forums code.</li>
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<li>Various optimizations by removing unnecessary database retrievals and sorting.</li>
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<li>Major improvements in handling session locking. Downloading large files or monitoring the live logs will no longer slow down navigation in other windows.</li>
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<dt>Other bug fixes</dt>
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<li>Installer: Many fixes and updates from HEAD (including <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2625" target="_blank">#2625</a>) .</li>
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<li>Installer: We now check for allow_url_fopen() before trying to validate our own URL.</li>
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<li>Fixed some forum search problems.</li>
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<li>Fixed sorting bug on forums (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2613" target="_blank">#2613</a>).</li>
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<li>Fixed problems in user searches with trailing spaces.</li>
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<li>Fixed some instances of hardcoded /admin path.</li>
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<li>Fixed some groups-related bugs (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2133" target="_blank">#2133</a>, <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2550" target="_blank">#2550</a>, <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2363" target="_blank">#2363</a>)</li>
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<li>Don't send HTML digests to people who want plain text email.</li>
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<li>SCORM module — fixed navbar error.</li>
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<li>Chat: Increased maximum socket read size to prevent empty pages and repeated messages</li>
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<li>Files: added a "Parent Folder" icon, (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2491" target="_blank">#2491</a>).</li>
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<li>Postgres support: consistency fix in mdl_log table.</li>
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<li>Auth plugins: Better cleanup and truncation of data.</li>
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<li>Auth plugins: Fixed external authentication problem — if logged in as guest, logging in as external auth user fails if it is the first login ever for the account. </li>
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<li>Auth LDAP: Fixed a regression from 1.4.2 where a trailing semicolon in some config fields would break authentication.</li>
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<li>Auth DB: Database Authentication not fetching user data fields correctly (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2319" target="_blank">#2319</a>).</li>
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<li>Paypal Enrolment plugin: Now text sent to PayPal can
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be 'sanitised' to avoid some diacritics (Spanish for now) which break the
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<li>Backup/restore: If the user isn't admin and the restored course hasn't teachers, add teacher (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2381" target="_blank">#2381</a>)</li>
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<li>Backup/restore: Fixed errors with courses with apostrophes in the fullname.</li>
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<li>Backup/restore: Now group members are
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users (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2486" target="_blank">#2486</a>).</li>
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<li>Backup/Restore: General tidyup.</li>
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<li>Glossary: Now 0 rates are supported in glossary (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2582" target="_blank">#2582</a>) and better PHP5 support (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2581" target="_blank">#2581</a>).</li>
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<li>Glossary & Blackboard: import fixes (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2310" target="_blank">#2310</a>).</li>
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<li>Calendar: more robust handling of bad data.</li>
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<li>Calendar: HTML fixes in calendar (<a href="http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2350" target="_blank">#2350</a>).</li>
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<li>Course sortorder was broken in 1.4.3 and would sometimes prevent course creation — all the known problems with sortorder are now fixed. Includes some related fixes in get_categories() calls that would sometimes show up in "My Courses" listings.</li>
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<li>Wiki and SCORM now both use new zipping code - this fixes reported SCORM issues</li>
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<li>New paging system for glossary</li>
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<li>New translations started: Maori, Kannada, Albanian and Vietnamese</li>
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<li>Info from LDAP is now decoded from utf8</li>
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<li>Course listings now work better with very large amounts of courses</li>
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<li>Two SCORM bugs fixed (a typo and a problem with onbeforeunload)</li>
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<li>Some cleanups when printing text, headers and variables in Lesson</li>
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<li>Calendar now functions as expected even when you login as someone else</li>
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<li>Fixed a few remaining short PHP tags</li>
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<li>Better randomness for random questions (fix for bug introduced in 1.4)</li>
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<li>When a teacher is removed from a course, they are now also removed from all groups in that course</li>
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<li>Fixed strip_pages bug in Wiki</li>
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<li>Fixes for charset detection in backups and multilang filter under PHP5</li>
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<h3> Moodle 1.4.1 (12th September, 2004)</h3>
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<li>Allowed email addresses can now be restricted (see config-dist.php for details)</li>
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<li>Extra instructions for translators embedded in translation interface</li>
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<li>New help page for Directory Paths</li>
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<dt>And some bug fixes</dt>
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<li>Improved performance when viewing site logs</li>
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<li>Improved paging and performance in glossary</li>
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<li>Glossary entries are now shown correctly if they belong to multiple categories</li>
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<li>Do not redeclare auth_user_login upon failed login</li>
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<li>Fixed two missing icons in the cordoroyblue theme</li>
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<li>Fixed missing "New event" button on Upcoming Events page</li>
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<li>Always addslashes on chat messages from daemon users before inserting into db.</li>
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<li>Fixes for handling of fixed enrollment periods when this is set for a course</li>
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<li>Site course ID (defined as SITEID) is no longer assumed to be always 1</li>
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<li>Default memory limits are increased beyond 16M, to help Moodle continue
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working even when there is some unplanned memory problem</li>
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<li>Smilies are now rendered as pictures in Markdown format texts</li>
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<li>Workshops work under Recent Activity again</li>
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<li>file.php can now only be used to access data within courses</li>
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<li>Improved behaviour of calendar blocks on home page</li>
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<li>Fixed quotes bug with PostgreSQL database specification produced by installer</li>
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<li>Fixed sometimes-missing display of correct answers during quiz review</li>
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<li><tt> and <code> are now allowed tags</li>
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<li>Section summaries, course summaries and labels are again no longer cleaned of Javascript</li>
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<li>Fixed a rare LDAP bug that could cause new accounts not to be created </li>
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<h3> Moodle 1.4 (31st August, 2004)</h3>
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<dt>Headlines</dt>
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<li>Compatibility with PHP 5</li>
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<li>New easy installer wizard leads you through the creation of the initial config.php file</li>
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<li>Installation is now completely localised to your preferred language</li>
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<li>Completely revamped Resource module make it easier to add new resources and to send data to them.</li>
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<li>New Enrolment system featuring modules such as completely automated Paypal payments,
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flatfile scanning, or external database control.</li>
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<li>Blocks now work on the front page, plus you can put a topic section above the middle part</li>
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<li>Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat</li>
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<li>New Wiki module!</li>
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<li>New support for editing text using the Markdown format</li>
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<li>Many bug fixes in all areas</li>
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<dt>Under the hood</dt>
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<ul>
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<li>Resource module has its own Add menu now, and uses class-based submodules, making it much
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easier now to add new resource types to this menu</li>
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<li>Quiz module has been refactored into class-based questiontype plugins.</li>
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<li>Enrolment process has been refactored into class-based enrolment plugins.</li>
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<li>Glossary display formats are now name-based, and it's easier to plugin new ones.</li>
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<li>Improved behaviour of many modules when they are used on the site page.</li>
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<li>Revised Filter structure is faster and now compatible with Turck MMcache.</li>
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<li>Adding activities is now more forgiving of fields left empty</li>
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<li>We can now alter PostgreSQL columns at will using table_column()</li>
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<li>RSS generation has been sped up tremendously, putting much less load on cron</li>
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<li>Some bigger modules have split lib.php into locallib.php for less memory usage</li>
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<dt>Languages and localisation</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Updates to nearly every language pack</li>
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<li>Moodle can override the default character set in Apache, making languages more reliable</li>
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<li>Multibyte languages now wrap properly</li>
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<li>Better handling of locales and encodings on very multilingual sites (like moodle.org)</li>
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<li>New languages: Slovenian and Hebrew! </li>
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</ul>
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<dt>Security Fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed a number of possible XSS entry points and path disclosures</li>
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<li>Attributes of tags in HTML are now parsed even more thoroughly for naughty scripts</li>
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<li>User profile pages are no longer available by default to strangers</li>
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<li>All text is now cleaned on output (not just input)</li>
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<li>Email addresses are not used on outgoing mail if the user requests that</li>
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<li>New setting <strong>loginhttps</strong> will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http</li>
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</ul>
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<dt>Administration</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Spiffy new interfaces for adding/removing students, creators and admins</li>
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|
<li>Failed logins are now logged, and can be displayed to users upon a successful login</li>
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<li>Logs now support viewing by group, and by errors</li>
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|
<li>Modules now behave more consistently on the site front page</li>
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|
<li>Front page "students" can be all users on site, or all users in at least one course on the site </li>
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<li>Email-sending can now be enabled/disabled on any user's profile page</li>
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|
</ul>
|
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|
</dd>
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|
<dt>Authentication</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>All authentication methods will now co-exist with internally-created accounts</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>New support for authenticating against First Class servers</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Fixes for POP3 authentication</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
<dt>Navigation</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Visitors can be automatically logged in as guest</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Jump menu now always shows "Jump to" to help distribute clues about what it does</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Jump menu now has a much clearer way of grouping activities into sections</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
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|
</dd>
|
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|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Blocks</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Block system can now cope with custom course formats and changes in format</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>New login block allows login from site front page</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Online users block on home page shows users from the whole site</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Editor</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>New editor configuration screen for the admin</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>New support for anchors within pages</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Spell-checking is now supported in the editor, it uses aspell on your server operating system</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Chat</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Choice</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more option</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Forum</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Several fixes when dealing with groups</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Users can choose to receive forum posts as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts.</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Discussion listing is now paged</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Teachers now have complete control over forum subscriptions, and can subscribe anyone at will</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>"Last post" date is shortened and linked to the last post</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Forums now list RSS feeds on the index page</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Better-looking HTML mail using the full stylesheet</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Forum mail older than two days is never sent out (to prevent unwanted floods)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Blocked mail is logged so that teachers can see it</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Discussion branches can be "split" from the main discussion, into a new discussion</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Glossary</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Glossary entries can be defined as "always editable"</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Glossaries now list RSS feeds on the index page</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Many fixes throughout</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Quiz</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>New floating timer for timed quizzes</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Attempts may now be restricted to specific computers</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Quizzes can now require a special password</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>New question type for Calculated Questions</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Numerical questions now support units<li>Questions can be previewed in the editing pages</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Questions can now be exported in several formats</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>More intelligent handling of category listing when editing questions</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>New (and incomplete) XML export format, will eventually be quiz-feature-complete</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Shortanswers can now contain all sorts of strange characters</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>Resource</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Adding resources is now a one-step process with more control</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Web page, Web link, Uploaded file and Program resource all combined into one type!</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Program resources replaced by Parameters that allow a lot of of interesting interaction with external resources, both remote and uploaded into Moodle. </li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Collapsible forms with memory to make forms less daunting for beginners without slowing down experienced users </li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<dt>SCORM</dt>
|
||||||
|
<dd>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>Many fixes and improvements - works with an even wider variety of packages</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Optional extra verification of the manifest file </li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</dd>
|
||||||
|
</dl>
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<h3> New in Moodle 1.3.4 (11th August, 2004)</h3>
|
<h3> New in Moodle 1.3.4 (11th August, 2004)</h3>
|
||||||
<dl>
|
<dl>
|
||||||
<dt>Updates</dt>
|
<dt>Updates</dt>
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
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