Moodle 3.4 release notes

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Release date: 13 November 2017

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 3.4.

See our New Features page for a more user-friendly introduction to Moodle 3.4 with screenshots.

If you are upgrading from previous version, make sure you read the Upgrading documentation.

Server requirements

These are just the minimum supported versions. We recommend keeping all of your software up-to-date.

Moodle upgrade: Moodle 3.0 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 3.0.10 as a first step)
PHP version: minimum PHP 7.0.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 3.3. PHP 7.1.x and 7.2.x are supported too. PHP 7.x could have some engine limitations.
PHP extension intl is now required in Moodle 3.4 (it was recommended in 2.0 onwards)

Database requirements

Moodle supports the following database servers. Again, version numbers are just the minimum supported version. We recommend running the latest stable version of any software.

Database	Minimum version	Recommended
PostgreSQL	9.3	Latest
MySQL	5.5.31	Latest
MariaDB	5.5.31	Latest
Microsoft SQL Server	2008	Latest
Oracle Database	10.2	Latest

Client requirements

Browser support

Moodle is compatible with any standards compliant web browser. We regularly test Moodle with the following browsers:

Desktop:

Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Edge
Internet Explorer

Mobile:

MobileSafari
Google Chrome

For the best experience and optimum security, we recommend that you keep your browser up to date. https://whatbrowser.org

Note: Legacy browsers with known compatibility issues with Moodle 3.4:

Internet Explorer 10 and below
Safari 7 and below

Major features

Calendar improvements

MDL-59333 - Calendar Improvements
MDL-1322 - Calendar entries in monthly view should include course shortname
MDL-59382 - Create calendar event quick-add
MDL-59390 - Add navigation of all calendar views without page reload
MDL-59394 - Add support for drag and drop of calendar events
MDL-59386 - Add support for creation and update of calendar events using a modal dialogue
MDL-59890 - Add support for calendar events at the category level

Management of course participants

MDL-59290 - Merge Course Participants and Enrolled Users pages
MDL-59564 - Add bulk editing of enrolment status/dates for users in the course participants page
MDL-59364 - Remove the "Brief / User Details" functionality from the participants page
MDL-59365 - Enrol Users button on participants page
MDL-59366 - Add filter controls to the participants page to allow custom filtering
MDL-59367 - Add a roles column to participants page
MDL-59368 - Add a groups column to the participants page
MDL-59369 - Add a status column to the participants page
MDL-59436 - Remove the columns from the participants page that are not in showuseridentity
MDL-59821 - Add "Proceed to course content" to participants page

Other highlights

MDL-57791 - Implement analytics engine in Moodle
MDL-59313 - Add links and a drop down to navigate between activities
MDL-37361 - Allow teachers to mark activities as completed

Backup, restore and import

MDL-35429 - Correct the permissions required to download and restore course automated backups
MDL-9367 - Restore with roll forward changes dates for user data
MDL-59518 - Restore date should not roll for user created data - Core components

Global search

MDL-55356 - Index contents of the restored courses
MDL-59523 - Course reset doesn't always shift dates
MDL-58957 - Global search: Make it possible to search blocks
MDL-59039 - Global search: Allow partial indexing (in scheduled task)

Authentication

MDL-30634 - Assign arbitrary system roles via LDAP sync
MDL-58544 - Add option to trust email of an OAuth provider
MDL-59844 - Enable OAuth 2 token-based authentication for requests in webdav_client
MDL-59459 - Global Search: Increase file indexing coverage
MDL-59913 - Global search: Allow search of non-enrolled courses

Functional changes

MDL-55358 - LIS Group Variables support in LTI
MDL-36501 - Should have checkbox for extra credit when you add a grade item
MDL-28574 - Web services: Manage tokens page should show tokens for all users
MDL-26976 - Display space used in My Private Files
MDL-35668 - Performance improvement in Server files repository
MDL-60002 - Assignment grading: Adding back "Save and show next"
MDL-58889 - Make section titles and course titles more accessible in Boost
MDL-57455 - Allow to tag database entries
MDL-36985 - Assignment: automatically remove embedded files that are no longer linked from submission text. Reduce the size of "Download all submissions"
MDL-59702 - Lesson overview report does not respect value of showuseridentity setting
MDL-59460 - Forum: make Subscription mode setting configurable

For administrators

Please read carefully: Possible issues that may affect you in Moodle 3.4

MDL-42834 - Deprecate loginhttps. Sites that used to use this setting will now be served via https always
MDL-46269 - Tool to convert http embedded content to https where available
MDL-58388 - Let the admin control if the course end date form field in course settings is enabled by default
MDL-60211 - New filters for User Tours
MDL-59123 - Compile SCSS files on the command-line
MDL-58567 - Upgrade: Show upgrade times
MDL-55652 - Missing index on (timemodified) in grade_items_history table and several other grade history tables. This will increase performance of various reports but may also slow down Moodle upgrade
MDL-60094 - Add CLI script to kill all sessions
MDL-59495 - Register and publish courses with moodle.net only, remove support for alternative hubs
MDL-59206 - Trigger an event in add_to_config_log function
MDL-57115 - Move "Messages" block out from the standard Moodle distribution
MDL-57734 - SEO - Create admin setting to be able to enable or disable search engine indexing for sites with forcelogin
MDL-60309 - Boost: Add a setting for background image

For developers

MDL-60611 - Upgrade PHPUnit to 6.4 to ensure compatibility with PHP 7.2 - may require changes in unittests
MDL-58948 - Compatibility with chrome mink driver
MDL-53169 - Provide a way to retrieve all courses a user can potentially access.
MDL-59459 - Global Search: Increase file indexing coverage
MDL-59544 - Implicit validation of the filemanager and filepicker form elements
MDL-59277 - navigation_node doesn't support TYPE_CONTAINER in get_css_type()
MDL-58957 - Global search: Make it possible to search blocks
MDL-53240 - Form element and admin setting type to choose file types and type groups
MDL-49398 - Role definition caching & accesslib refactoring
MDL-53848 - Formslib - add function to $mform that makes it possible to hide form elements dependent on selected values
MDL-56751 - Create new security setting to configure the expiration time of tokens created via login/token.php or tool/mobile/launch.php
MDL-60234 - Add possibility to disable admin warning if a development libs directory exists
MDL-57886 - Plagiarism: onlinetext submission should pass raw submissiontext to plagiarism get_links()

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