Moodle 1.9.4 release notes

Release date: Expected 28th February

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.9.4.

Highlights

• MDL-17205 New options to allow Moodle to be configured to comply with European and US privacy regulations, like FERPA.
• Fix multiple bugs relating to creating and editing course categories. Previously, giving admin permissions in a category and its subcategories did not work reliably. In the process, the separate create, update and delete category capabilities were replaced with moodle/category:manage, and moodle/category:visibility was renamed to moodle/category:viewhiddencategories.
• MDL-8648 Essay questions can now be randomised by random questions. This must be enabled under Administration > Miscellaneous > Experimental.
• MDL-14926 A new capability mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts, separate from mod/quiz:attempt. This let's you create a read-only role that lets students see what they have done on a course in the past, without being able to change anything any more.
• MDL-17472 New Site policies setting for disabling Notes completely
• New Internal enrolment settings for enforcing enrolment key usage and complexity
• MDL-6160 Email notification of course requests, and a new capability moodle/course:request to control who can request courses.
• MDL-17364 New Forum setting for enabling AJAX forum ratings
• MDL-10021 New option (named "Yes, object") for the file resource "Keep page navigation visible on the same page" setting. This option displays a resource in a XHTML strict page. Other options have been kept.
• MDL-16999 Some database module settings have been fixed ('Required Entries' and ' Required Entries before viewing). If the fix has an impact on your Moodle installation, you will be warned during upgrade.

Security issues

Details of fixed security issues will be released later.

New language pack

• Kazakh - Калима Туенбаева

(See Translation credits for additional details.)