Latest Release notes - Moodle 1.5 (5th June, 2005)

Headline features

Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0
Improved Accessibility, aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria.
Very strong new Themes system, allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in Moodle via CSS.
Integrated Messaging feature for direct communication between all users in the site, featuring realtime popup windows, notification, email copies, blocking, history, WYSIWYG editor, etc
Forum read/unread tracking with highlights allows you to see new postings at a glance and to control how these are displayed (per forum, per user or per site).
New Blocks system, allowing multiple copies of blocks and better block configuration
Full support for Daylight Savings Time in every locality around the globe, so everyone always see the correct local time for all events.
New extended gradebook allowing custom weighting of different activities, setting extra grades (or taking out others) and improved display and sorting options
Users can be required to agree to a Site Policy