Latest release notes

Moodle 2.0.3

Release date: 5th May 2011

Highlights

• MDL-9376 - Q and A forum posts only visible after editing time has expired
• MDL-4633 - Description field in user profile is no longer a required field
• MDL-26697 - Multiple multimedia plugin filter fixes and improvements
• MDL-24724 - There is now a link to send messages on basic profile pages

User interface changes

• MDL-26388 - Duplicate files uploaded through the file picker are now handled
• MDL-26535 - New capability mod/workshop:viewauthorpublished for controlling visibility of workshop published submission authors
• MDL-25834 - Fixes to themes for IE

Security issues

A number of security issues were resolved, including changes to APIs. Administrators are advised to update before details of security issues are revealed, which will happen one week after release.

• MSA-11-0012 - Authentication issue
• MSA-11-0013 - Group/Quiz permissions issue
• MSA-11-0014 - Personal details displayed without permission
• MSA-11-0016 - Ability to fill a database with invalid records through ratings
• MSA-11-0017 - Ability to generate invalid records in the comments table in the database

Changes to APIs

• Multiple fixes to ratings

Modules etc wanting to make use of ratings are now required to implement two callback functions, modname_rating_permissions() and modname_rating_validate(). Full details of the callbacks are available in the rating 2.0 documentation

• Comments API improvements

Plugins intending to use comments are required to implement two callback functions: pluginname_comment_validate(), and pluginname_comment_permissions. Please read full details in Comments documentation.

Fixes and improvements

• MDL-26643 - Fixed blog visibility issue after update
• MDL-26768 - Grades from Lessons are now correctly set to null on non-attempt
• MDL-26798 - Fixes to Dropbox repository integration
• MDL-27116 - Fixed theme directory linking
• MDL-27246 - Able to checkout strings in the language customisation tool
• MDL-27251 - Added optional timeout estimation to file downloads based on file size as it can blocks upgrade
• MDL-27394 - Backup and restore might sometimes have scrambled the order of choices in question types.

A total of over 200 changes were made. See the full list of fixed issues in 2.0.3.

Moodle 1.9.12

Release date: 10th May, 2011

Here is the full list of issues fixed in 1.9.12

Fixes

• MDL-9376 - Q and A forum posts only visible after editing time has expired
• MDL-4633 - Description field in user profile is no longer a required field

Security issues

• MSA-11-0013 - Group/Quiz permissions issue
• MSA-11-0015 - Cross Site Scripting through URL encoding

Moodle 1.8.14

Release date: 3rd December, 2010

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.8.14.

Security issues

• MSA-10-0016 Multiple phpCAS library vulnerabilities

Also notice there was a security problem in the optional phpMyAdmin module:

• MSA-10-0014 Customised phpMyAdmin upgraded to 2.11.11

Moodle 1.7.7

Release date: 28th January 2009

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.7.7.

Note: This is the last formal release of the 1.7 branch. Support for this branch has been discontinued. We highly recommend you upgrade!

Moodle 1.6.9

Release date: 28th January 2009

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.6.9.

Note: This is the last formal release of the 1.6 branch. Support for this branch has been discontinued. We highly recommend you upgrade!

See also

• Moodle version history for dates of release and links to notes for earlier versions
• Updates