Moodle 2.0.3 release notes

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.

Documentation