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Release date: Not yet released | Release date: 23 May 2016 (Not yet released) | ||
Here is [https://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=project+%3D+mdl+AND+resolution+%3D+fixed+AND+fixVersion+in+%28%223.1%22%29+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&runQuery=true&clear=true the full list of fixed issues in 3.1]. | Here is [https://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=project+%3D+mdl+AND+resolution+%3D+fixed+AND+fixVersion+in+%28%223.1%22%29+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&runQuery=true&clear=true the full list of fixed issues in 3.1]. | ||
Important: | |||
* PHP extension <tt>xmlreader</tt> is now required (MDL-51603). | |||
==Major features== | |||
===Highlights=== | ===Highlights=== | ||
=== | * MDL-53451 - Competencies support in Moodle | ||
* MDL-52954 - Improvements to the Assignment grading user interface | |||
* ... | * MDL-31989 - Global Search API allows to search forums, wikis and other content throughout the whole site. [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Global_search Installation and setup] of SOLR server is required, | ||
* MDL-52002 - Significant performance improvements in gradebook calculations | |||
=== | * MDL-48012 - [https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Recycle_bin Recyle bin] plugin is now part of standard Moodle distribution: allow instructors to "undo" deletions of course modules and courses. [https://moodleassociation.org/ Moodle Users Association] project | ||
* MDL-49279 - Add support in moodle plugins for exporting "Mobile app addons" | |||
* | |||
===Forum=== | |||
=== | |||
* MDL-372 - Allow to "pin" discussions to keep them always on the top of the list | |||
* MDL-34160 - Allow forum email subject to be customised | |||
* MDL-47365 - Add permalink option to forum posts | |||
=== | * MDL-51214 - Rename the News forum to "Announcements" | ||
* MDL-44087 - Forum does not observe message notification settings for digest emails | |||
* MDL-53050 - Highlight the selected forum post when deep linking with a #anchor | |||
===Assignment=== | |||
* MDL-52397 - ??? Assign feedback not sent if assign grade timemodified is set two days ago | |||
* MDL-52596 - Add a 'maxperpage' site wide setting for grading table size (to mitigate broken grading pages in large courses) | |||
* MDL-52269 - Not obvious to tell if an assignment is in blind marking if user holds the "mod/assign:viewblinddetails" capabilty | |||
* MDL-52270 - Difficult to cross reference users with their blind identities | |||
* MDL-44598 - List student names on 'grant extension' screen | |||
* MDL-52490 - Download selected assign submissions as a zip file | |||
* MDL-52290 - EditPDF - Also show the total page number in the pagination | |||
* MDL-52489 - "Download all submissions as a zip" should maintain the folder structure in students submissions | |||
===LTI=== | |||
* MDL-52154 - Rework LTI admin screens | |||
* MDL-45064 - Option to add Preconfigured LTI Tool to Activity Chooser | |||
* MDL-52035 - Integrate LTI Provider support in Moodle | |||
* MDL-52821 - Compliance: Send tool_consumer_instance_description in LTI launch request | |||
===Feedback=== | |||
* MDL-53738 - Feedback activity module will be enabled by default in new 3.1 installations. If you are upgrading to 3.1 we recommend you to enable it manually. | |||
* MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes, including: | |||
** Performance improvement to download responses as raw data in multiple formats (CSV, Excel, etc.) - now available on "Show responses" page instead of "Analysis" | |||
** Allow any characters in labels, do not display empty labels | |||
** Do not display empty pages | |||
** Map frontpage feedback to multiple courses without leaving the form | |||
** Improved display of automatic question numbers | |||
** Disable "Response time" for anonymous feedbacks | |||
** Use moodleforms to display feedback | |||
===SCORM=== | |||
* MDL-45712 - Add Result field to the SCORM Interactions Report | |||
* MDL-48680 - Add score and status submission events to SCORM activity | |||
* MDL-42473 - Add group support to SCORM activity | |||
===Quiz=== | |||
* MDL-52738 - Quiz attempt/review page should have a previous button to match next | |||
* MDL-46092 - Add the OU styling of the Quiz navigation into Moodle core as the default | |||
* MDL-46091 - Rationalise confirmations when you start a quiz | |||
* MDL-52806 - Show right answers when manually grading automatically marked questions | |||
* MDL-53304 - Immediate feedback behaviours should not show a disabled check button when you can't use it | |||
===Other activity modules=== | |||
* MDL-42190 - Workshop: Possibility to delete a submission | |||
* MDL-51306 - Folder: Bulk download all files within a folder activity as ZIP file | |||
* MDL-52414 - Lesson: Allow Default Settings for Lesson Module Settings | |||
* MDL-51267 - URL/File: Make setting up a URL/File resource more obvious | |||
* MDL-50794 - Workshop: Restricting file types as attachments to a workshop | |||
===Gradebook=== | |||
* MDL-48634 - Option to rescale existing grades when changing max points | |||
* MDL-52522 - grade_minmaxtouse should be respected for overridden categories | |||
* MDL-51900 - Tab Down Grade Column in Single View of Gradebook | |||
* MDL-52309 - Make Grade History report require user to submit parameters before the report starts running | |||
===Performance=== | |||
* MDL-51374 - Do not purge entire databasemeta cache when there are structure changes (esp temp tables). | |||
* MDL-51603 - Refactor downloading of csv, ods, excel etc files in reports and exports across moodle to stream progressively | |||
* MDL-34925 - Improve bulk user export performance | |||
* MDL-50385 - Performance improvement to the grade history report | |||
===Tagging=== | |||
* MDL-50851 - Introduce tag collections - ability to separate independent tag areas | |||
* MDL-52252 - Add tags to modules (Resources and Activities) | |||
* MDL-25742 - Allow to search wiki pages by tags | |||
* MDL-51283 - Rename "official" tags to "standard", allow admin to set for each tag area how to use standard tags | |||
* MDL-16855 - Add tag filtering to "Manage tags" page | |||
* MDL-52707 - Allow tags to be combined | |||
===Usability=== | |||
* MDL-27628 - Enrol meta: Possible to add multiple courses without leaving the form | |||
* MDL-51818 - Move the profile 'Message' button to be next to the user picture | |||
* MDL-52258 - Calendar now shows duration in calendar block | |||
* MDL-53043 - Move user search box above the students list in the manual enrolments popup | |||
* MDL-35590 - Navigation block redesign to meet ARIA specification | |||
* MDL-49963 - Allow to message all participants when there are more than one page in participants list | |||
* MDL-51354 - Help popup and improved name for events dropdown menu on the course and site logs pages | * MDL-51354 - Help popup and improved name for events dropdown menu on the course and site logs pages | ||
* MDL-53026 - Use inplace editable for editing cohort names | |||
* MDL-51706 - Move plagiarism links to the top of the summary and full text outputs | |||
* MDL-53382 - "Show all" link on participants page should be moved beneath the page switcher | |||
===Other improvements=== | |||
* MDL-53057 - Add search feature to the File system repository | |||
* MDL-48506 - Improve memcached cache store so that it is multi-site safe | |||
* MDL-50661 - Restyle "Clean" theme to use Logo and Header in Frontpage with smaller logo option in other pages. | |||
* MDL-36652 - When downloading an Excel spreadsheet of student logs, have the course short name included in the file name. | |||
* MDL-53207 - Display stock avatar instead of own user picture from messages from fake users | |||
* MDL-52781 - ??? Improve core_user::fill_properties_cache() | |||
* MDL-51698 - Markup the crumb trail so search engines understand it and leverage it | |||
* MDL-53072 - Option to choose whether we include suspended users when auto-creating groups | |||
* MDL-52869 - Convert inline activity name edit to use the inplace editable element | |||
===For administrators=== | |||
* MDL-26935 - New capability to control role renaming | |||
* MDL-28030 - Add config.php settings to allow plugins to rewrite output moodle_urls (eg clean / semantic urls) | |||
* MDL-52752 - Administrators can specify an alternate URL to use for MathJax | |||
* MDL-52219 - Completion tracking & availability should default to on for new installs | |||
* MDL-52990 - Enable all emails to be themed, ie add 4 wrapper mustache templates | |||
* MDL-53260 - Option to display CLI upgrade messages in English | |||
* MDL-52386 - Allow to control field for flagging enabled/disabled users in LDAP authentication (useful for Active Directory) | |||
* MDL-52383 - Calendar "Days to look ahead" should allow intervals up to 1 year | |||
* MDL-49934 - Admins or managers should be able to retrieve assignments info via get_assignments web service | |||
==Security issues== | |||
There are no security issues included in this release, please refer to [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.0.4_release_notes Moodle 3.0.4 release notes] | |||
==For developers== | |||
* MDL-30811 - Introduce notification stack to moodle sessions | |||
* MDL-49279, MDL-50032 - Allow external functions to add themselves into services | |||
* MDL-51802 - Reusable element for inplace editing | |||
* MDL-50887 - Antivirus: Implement plugins infrastructure for antivirus and create ClamAV plugin. | |||
* MDL-52237 - Add a callback to inject nodes in the user profile navigation | |||
* MDL-50464 - New renderer for RSS Client Block allows themes to customise its look | |||
* MDL-50851 - Significant changes to Tags API, tag areas can now implement callbacks to display tagged items | |||
* MDL-53274 - Throw exception (in developer mode) if page context is not set, otherwise it is not noticeable in AJAX calls | |||
* MDL-52826, MDL-52715 - Allow to use moodleforms in AJAX requests | |||
* MDL-52013 - Allow mod_assign plugins to add calendar events | |||
* MDL-51718 - Allow to specify scheme in moodle_url | |||
* MDL-51700 - Ajax service should clean the return values of the external functions | |||
* MDL-46891 - Upgrade to behat 3.x | |||
* MDL-48362 - Improve the enrol API to prevent logic in the UI | |||
* MDL-51324 - New course chooser element for moodleforms | |||
* MDL-52996 - Allow Atto customisation for special-purpose plugins | |||
* MDL-53102 - Message-ID email headers not consistent or using correct domain | |||
For full list of deprecations refer to lib/upgrade.txt and upgrade.txt files in the folder where the particular plugin is located. Here are the most major deprecations: | |||
* MDL-49414 - Remove deprecated web services | |||
* MDL-48621 - Deprecate the old events system | |||
* MDL-52207 - Delete Zend framework | |||
==See also== | ==See also== |
Revision as of 06:51, 6 May 2016
Releases > Moodle 3.1 release notes
Release date: 23 May 2016 (Not yet released)
Here is the full list of fixed issues in 3.1.
Important:
- PHP extension xmlreader is now required (MDL-51603).
Major features
Highlights
- MDL-53451 - Competencies support in Moodle
- MDL-52954 - Improvements to the Assignment grading user interface
- MDL-31989 - Global Search API allows to search forums, wikis and other content throughout the whole site. Installation and setup of SOLR server is required,
- MDL-52002 - Significant performance improvements in gradebook calculations
- MDL-48012 - Recyle bin plugin is now part of standard Moodle distribution: allow instructors to "undo" deletions of course modules and courses. Moodle Users Association project
- MDL-49279 - Add support in moodle plugins for exporting "Mobile app addons"
Forum
- MDL-372 - Allow to "pin" discussions to keep them always on the top of the list
- MDL-34160 - Allow forum email subject to be customised
- MDL-47365 - Add permalink option to forum posts
- MDL-51214 - Rename the News forum to "Announcements"
- MDL-44087 - Forum does not observe message notification settings for digest emails
- MDL-53050 - Highlight the selected forum post when deep linking with a #anchor
Assignment
- MDL-52397 - ??? Assign feedback not sent if assign grade timemodified is set two days ago
- MDL-52596 - Add a 'maxperpage' site wide setting for grading table size (to mitigate broken grading pages in large courses)
- MDL-52269 - Not obvious to tell if an assignment is in blind marking if user holds the "mod/assign:viewblinddetails" capabilty
- MDL-52270 - Difficult to cross reference users with their blind identities
- MDL-44598 - List student names on 'grant extension' screen
- MDL-52490 - Download selected assign submissions as a zip file
- MDL-52290 - EditPDF - Also show the total page number in the pagination
- MDL-52489 - "Download all submissions as a zip" should maintain the folder structure in students submissions
LTI
- MDL-52154 - Rework LTI admin screens
- MDL-45064 - Option to add Preconfigured LTI Tool to Activity Chooser
- MDL-52035 - Integrate LTI Provider support in Moodle
- MDL-52821 - Compliance: Send tool_consumer_instance_description in LTI launch request
Feedback
- MDL-53738 - Feedback activity module will be enabled by default in new 3.1 installations. If you are upgrading to 3.1 we recommend you to enable it manually.
- MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes, including:
- Performance improvement to download responses as raw data in multiple formats (CSV, Excel, etc.) - now available on "Show responses" page instead of "Analysis"
- Allow any characters in labels, do not display empty labels
- Do not display empty pages
- Map frontpage feedback to multiple courses without leaving the form
- Improved display of automatic question numbers
- Disable "Response time" for anonymous feedbacks
- Use moodleforms to display feedback
SCORM
- MDL-45712 - Add Result field to the SCORM Interactions Report
- MDL-48680 - Add score and status submission events to SCORM activity
- MDL-42473 - Add group support to SCORM activity
Quiz
- MDL-52738 - Quiz attempt/review page should have a previous button to match next
- MDL-46092 - Add the OU styling of the Quiz navigation into Moodle core as the default
- MDL-46091 - Rationalise confirmations when you start a quiz
- MDL-52806 - Show right answers when manually grading automatically marked questions
- MDL-53304 - Immediate feedback behaviours should not show a disabled check button when you can't use it
Other activity modules
- MDL-42190 - Workshop: Possibility to delete a submission
- MDL-51306 - Folder: Bulk download all files within a folder activity as ZIP file
- MDL-52414 - Lesson: Allow Default Settings for Lesson Module Settings
- MDL-51267 - URL/File: Make setting up a URL/File resource more obvious
- MDL-50794 - Workshop: Restricting file types as attachments to a workshop
Gradebook
- MDL-48634 - Option to rescale existing grades when changing max points
- MDL-52522 - grade_minmaxtouse should be respected for overridden categories
- MDL-51900 - Tab Down Grade Column in Single View of Gradebook
- MDL-52309 - Make Grade History report require user to submit parameters before the report starts running
Performance
- MDL-51374 - Do not purge entire databasemeta cache when there are structure changes (esp temp tables).
- MDL-51603 - Refactor downloading of csv, ods, excel etc files in reports and exports across moodle to stream progressively
- MDL-34925 - Improve bulk user export performance
- MDL-50385 - Performance improvement to the grade history report
Tagging
- MDL-50851 - Introduce tag collections - ability to separate independent tag areas
- MDL-52252 - Add tags to modules (Resources and Activities)
- MDL-25742 - Allow to search wiki pages by tags
- MDL-51283 - Rename "official" tags to "standard", allow admin to set for each tag area how to use standard tags
- MDL-16855 - Add tag filtering to "Manage tags" page
- MDL-52707 - Allow tags to be combined
Usability
- MDL-27628 - Enrol meta: Possible to add multiple courses without leaving the form
- MDL-51818 - Move the profile 'Message' button to be next to the user picture
- MDL-52258 - Calendar now shows duration in calendar block
- MDL-53043 - Move user search box above the students list in the manual enrolments popup
- MDL-35590 - Navigation block redesign to meet ARIA specification
- MDL-49963 - Allow to message all participants when there are more than one page in participants list
- MDL-51354 - Help popup and improved name for events dropdown menu on the course and site logs pages
- MDL-53026 - Use inplace editable for editing cohort names
- MDL-51706 - Move plagiarism links to the top of the summary and full text outputs
- MDL-53382 - "Show all" link on participants page should be moved beneath the page switcher
Other improvements
- MDL-53057 - Add search feature to the File system repository
- MDL-48506 - Improve memcached cache store so that it is multi-site safe
- MDL-50661 - Restyle "Clean" theme to use Logo and Header in Frontpage with smaller logo option in other pages.
- MDL-36652 - When downloading an Excel spreadsheet of student logs, have the course short name included in the file name.
- MDL-53207 - Display stock avatar instead of own user picture from messages from fake users
- MDL-52781 - ??? Improve core_user::fill_properties_cache()
- MDL-51698 - Markup the crumb trail so search engines understand it and leverage it
- MDL-53072 - Option to choose whether we include suspended users when auto-creating groups
- MDL-52869 - Convert inline activity name edit to use the inplace editable element
For administrators
- MDL-26935 - New capability to control role renaming
- MDL-28030 - Add config.php settings to allow plugins to rewrite output moodle_urls (eg clean / semantic urls)
- MDL-52752 - Administrators can specify an alternate URL to use for MathJax
- MDL-52219 - Completion tracking & availability should default to on for new installs
- MDL-52990 - Enable all emails to be themed, ie add 4 wrapper mustache templates
- MDL-53260 - Option to display CLI upgrade messages in English
- MDL-52386 - Allow to control field for flagging enabled/disabled users in LDAP authentication (useful for Active Directory)
- MDL-52383 - Calendar "Days to look ahead" should allow intervals up to 1 year
- MDL-49934 - Admins or managers should be able to retrieve assignments info via get_assignments web service
Security issues
There are no security issues included in this release, please refer to Moodle 3.0.4 release notes
For developers
- MDL-30811 - Introduce notification stack to moodle sessions
- MDL-49279, MDL-50032 - Allow external functions to add themselves into services
- MDL-51802 - Reusable element for inplace editing
- MDL-50887 - Antivirus: Implement plugins infrastructure for antivirus and create ClamAV plugin.
- MDL-52237 - Add a callback to inject nodes in the user profile navigation
- MDL-50464 - New renderer for RSS Client Block allows themes to customise its look
- MDL-50851 - Significant changes to Tags API, tag areas can now implement callbacks to display tagged items
- MDL-53274 - Throw exception (in developer mode) if page context is not set, otherwise it is not noticeable in AJAX calls
- MDL-52826, MDL-52715 - Allow to use moodleforms in AJAX requests
- MDL-52013 - Allow mod_assign plugins to add calendar events
- MDL-51718 - Allow to specify scheme in moodle_url
- MDL-51700 - Ajax service should clean the return values of the external functions
- MDL-46891 - Upgrade to behat 3.x
- MDL-48362 - Improve the enrol API to prevent logic in the UI
- MDL-51324 - New course chooser element for moodleforms
- MDL-52996 - Allow Atto customisation for special-purpose plugins
- MDL-53102 - Message-ID email headers not consistent or using correct domain
For full list of deprecations refer to lib/upgrade.txt and upgrade.txt files in the folder where the particular plugin is located. Here are the most major deprecations:
- MDL-49414 - Remove deprecated web services
- MDL-48621 - Deprecate the old events system
- MDL-52207 - Delete Zend framework