This includes:
- Breaking changes (return void + PHP 7.1 min requirement).
- Deprecations and removals.
- Specifically DbUnit and its replacement.
- Printer showing how to rerun tests removed.
Apply the standard deprecation procedure to the old APIs, to
be removed in Moodle 4.2 (MDL-69882). Existing unit tests
cover the deprecation debugging.
Originally MDL-64600
The new API works on normal databases (by deleting data based on the
subquery) and also on MySQL (by deleting the data using a weird join
on the subquery).
Under parallel development, when something is worth being commented
in upgrade.txt notes, it will be applied to all the development branches
using the "earliest" one to be released. So, if something changes
in 3.10 (and also is applied to master), the upgrade.txt notes will
show 3.10 in both branches.
Of course, if something only goes to one dev branch (say master), then the
master version will be used in the notes (4.0 in this case).
The admin_setting_configselect admin setting did not support validation.
It was possible to validate only by using a subclass.
This change allows validation by a callback function. It also makes it
slightly easier to handle validation in a subclass if you want to do
that.
The main advantage is for cases where a setting is not generic but
is only ever going to be required in one place, and it creates
unnecessary clutter to make a new subclass.
The admin_setting_configselect admin setting already supported lazy
loading, but this was only available for subclasses. This change
means you can use it directly within the admin setting.
The main advantage is for cases where a setting is not generic but
is only ever going to be required in one place, and it creates
unnecessary clutter to make a new subclass.
With this change the modal can be configured to be scrollable or not.
If enabled to be 'scrollable', the modal's body will become scrollable
when the modal's height exceeds the browser's height. This is useful
in cases where the content in the modal is quite large and extends the
modal beyond the browser's height, which usually results in a bad UI.
If 'scrollable' is not explicitely configured, it will be set as 'true'
by default as in most cases it would be the expected behaviour.
These function updates are in preparation for the participants_search
class, which will be used to support multiple values per filter when
filtering the participants page.
- Add MDL codes to @deprecated.
- Add @todo tag for future 4.3 phase 2 deprecation.
- Deprecate global scope functions:
- cron_execute_plugin_type().
- cron_bc_hack_plugin_functions().
(moving them to deprecatelib).
- Document it in main upgrade.txt
Introduce new hooks for plugin developers:
- <component>_can_course_category_delete($category)
- <component>_can_course_category_delete_move($category, $newcategory)
These hooks allow plugin developers greater control over category deletion. Plugin can return false in those
functions if category deletion or deletion with content move to the new parent category is not permitted.
- <component>_pre_course_category_delete_move($category, $newcategory)
This hook is expanding functionality of existing <component>_pre_course_category_delete hook and allow plugin developers
to execute code prior to category deletion when its content is moved to another category.
- <component>_get_course_category_contents($category)
This hook allow plugin developers to add information that is displayed on category deletion form. Function should
return string, which will be added to the list of category contents shown on the form.
