Moodle 2.0 release notes

Note: This article is a work in progress. Please use the page comments or an appropriate moodle.org forum for any recommendations/suggestions for improvement.

Release date: July 20, 2010

Before the final release we will have a series of rapidly improving Preview releases, roughly weekly. These are to allow a wider range of developers and contributors to test the code on copies of their production servers, help us tweak the interface and performance, and work on translations, modules and other third-party code (most of which will have to be rewritten significantly).

Moodle 2.0

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 2.0.

The notes below are under construction right now.

Core Highlights

Module Highlights

SCORM

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

Workshop

MDL-17827 Workshop module has been rewritten from scratch. As a very fresh code, it is a subject of massive testing, bug-fixing and improving. However we hope that the 2.0 version, even in this premature state, is significantly better than the legacy one.

Security issues

Known problems and regressions

For Developers: 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

Documentation