Moodle 2.0 release notes

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Release date: Not yet released

We're aiming to release a Moodle 2.0 preview release on Monday 3rd May 2010, followed by a testing period of 2.5 months before releasing 2.0 stable in the second half of July.

Please check the Roadmap and Moodle 2.0 Planning document for the most up-to-date information about our progress.

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 2.0.

Highlights

See Roadmap to follow the ongoing Moodle 2.0 development.

• MDL-11501 New SCORM module settings - display attempt status, display course structure, force completed, force new attempt, lock after final attempt - allowing the behaviour dictated to the SCORM object by the authoring package to be changed

API Changes

See Development:Migrating_contrib_code_to_2.0

• Database layer changes - you will need to update your code.
• File handling changes - you will need to update your code.
• Rendering layer changes - should be mostly backwards compatible, but you are advised to upgrade your code.
• Require capability used to do an automatic require_login. It no longer does so. All pages must explicitly call require_login if they need it. MDL-19882
• Changes to the question type API

See also

• Moodle 1.9 release notes