Moodle 3.10 release notes: Difference between revisions

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Release date: 9 November 2020

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 3.10.

If you are upgrading from a previous version, please see Upgrading in the user docs.

Server requirements

These are just the minimum supported versions. We recommend keeping all of your software and operating systems up-to-date.

Moodle upgrade: Moodle 3.5 or later
PHP version: minimum PHP 7.2.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 3.8. PHP 7.3.x and 7.4.x are supported too. See Moodle and PHP for details.
PHP extension mbstring is required (it was previously only recommended)

Database requirements

Moodle supports the following database servers. Again, version numbers are just the minimum supported version. We recommend running the latest stable version of any software.

Database	Minimum version	Recommended
PostgreSQL	9.6 (increased since Moodle 3.9)	Latest
MySQL	5.7 (increased since Moodle 3.9)	Latest
MariaDB	10.2.29 (increased since Moodle 3.8)	Latest
Microsoft SQL Server	2012	Latest
Oracle Database	11.2	Latest

Client requirements

Browser support

Moodle is compatible with any standards compliant web browser. We regularly test Moodle with the following browsers:

Desktop:

Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Edge

Note: Moodle 3.10 does NOT support Internet Explorer 11.

Safari 7 and below has known compatibility issues with Moodle 3.10.

Mobile:

MobileSafari
Google Chrome

For the best experience and optimum security, we recommend that you keep your browser up to date. https://www.whatsmybrowser.org/

Major features

Download course content

MDL-69548 - Add ZipStream library to core
MDL-69549 - Create course content export API
MDL-69559 - Course content download - add site admin and course level settings, implement in course user interface

Payment subsystem

MDL-69166 - Add payment as subsystem supporting payment gateways

H5P updates and improvements

MDL-69087 - Add the option to personalize H5P styles
MDL-69207 - Add library file caching to h5p
MDL-69174 - Method of saving embedded H5P content grades in the gradebook
MDL-69520 - Add Example and Tutorial links to the H5P editor
MDL-68909 - Clean up temporary H5P editor files

Content bank

MDL-69269 - Download content from the content bank
MDL-69270 - Replace content file from content bank
MDL-68688 - Add a notification when the content bank is empty
MDL-68975 - Add the author to the content bank "file details" view

Quiz and questions

MDL-45002 - New quiz completion option: At least one (or N) attempt completed
MDL-66587 - Scrolling quiz timer
MDL-68562 - Qtype_essay: Adding file-size limit to the attachment files

Accessibility improvements

MDL-68390 - WCAG 4.1.2: aria-hidden elements contain focusable elements
MDL-67687 - Add Behat step to verify WCAG A and WCAG AA compliance

External tool (IMS-LTI)

MDL-67473 - LTI Advantage: Content Item flow to support creating multiple links
MDL-67301 - Implement LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration
MDL-66934 - LTI: support substitution parameter for course history

Usability improvements

MDL-28501 - For folder resource, allow files to be opened in the browser rather than being downloaded
MDL-65959 - Let users define their preferred backpack
MDL-56041 - Cleanup custom 404 page and more easily support custom 50x error pages
MDL-69192 - Assignment grading page: "Changes saved" should not be modal dialog
MDL-33981 - Add ability to copy to Equella repository
MDL-60621 - Improvement of modal UI when modal exceeds the height of the browser
MDL-53966 - Lesson: Allow maximum number of attempts to be unlimited
MDL-69613 - Grade report single view - confirm message if Override None is selected
MDL-69454 - Use a consistent search input field across all Moodle searches
MDL-67278 - Use autocomplete widget for course category selector
MDL-68107 - Boost: Make images in topic descriptions scale with the browser window
MDL-68702 - Option to not include legacy course files in backup and restore process
MDL-69630 - Social activity course format should allow for using the activity chooser
MDL-63387 - Show original role name of renamed roles when enrolling users

Other highlights

Functional changes

MDL-59510 - Keep OAuth 2 connections alive across users' sessions
MDL-66716 - Timeline block shows incorrect date of due items
MDL-48391 - tool_uploadcourse should check if enrolment method can be disabled/deleted
MDL-69739 - User tours: Add tour-level CSS selector
MDL-69464 - Option to allow HTML in the page headings (skip applying format_string)
MDL-67419 - Set language in user profile during account auto-creation based on browser language instead of admin setting
MDL-37745 - Control the display of available spaces in limited choices

For administrators

MDL-67211 - Tasks: Show information about running tasks, allow tasks to be disabled
MDL-45849 - New capability to self enrol in course
MDL-65451 - User upload via CLI
MDL-69307 - Add CLI script to restore a course from backup file
MDL-69583 - Add import to tool_customlang
MDL-69582 - Add export to tool_customlang
MDL-69260 - Add option to show only contributed plugins in uninstall script
MDL-69513 - Add ability to add dkim signatures using phpmailer
MDL-69265 - Have a way to append fixed arbitrary headers to all emails
MDL-69600 - Expose divertallemailsto and divertallemailsexcept in the admin settings GUI
MDL-69718 - Add support for terabytes and petabytes in the display_size function

Mobile

MDL-65976 - Add a new message provider for course completed
MDL-68406 - Add option for "sign-out" only for the Moodle app
MDL-68797 - Config setting for mobile file type exclusion list
MDL-67841 - Update mobile app connected message so it is not misleading when the user has not used the app for a time
MDL-69810 - WebService: Users should be able to contact the site's support via the Moodle App

Performance

MDL-69760 - Performance improvement on Moodle Event table
MDL-60583 - external_tokens table will benefit from index on token field
MDL-68665 - Improve cacheability of assignfeedback_editpdf/stamps
MDL-64818 - Improve efficiency of blocks_for_region()
MDL-69746 - tool_replace: additional skip tables
MDL-68729 - Search: Allow query on one Solr server and indexing on another
MDL-68726 - Search: Stop Solr 'optimize' behaviour
MDL-68690 - Search: Allow Solr to add documents in batches

Security improvements

MDL-66222 - Add admin options for how to handle detected viruses
MDL-68820 - Add a Referrer-Policy header setting to the security admin settings

For developers

MDL-58931 - AWS Aurora MySQL support for Moodle
MDL-41492 - Allow alternate MUC cache config class (eg allow setup in pure $CFG / config.php)
MDL-38350 - PHP Warning when purging all caches: race condition?
MDL-68874 - New optional SQL debug mode which instruments SQL with the calling PHP code
MDL-69117 - Improve theme designer mode - part 2
MDL-67673 - Upgrade phpunit to 8.5.x
MDL-68564 - Update before_footer hook to allow for output to be added to the page
MDL-69050 - Rename terms to use inclusive language
MDL-65743 - Upgrade XMPPHP to latest version
MDL-69418 - Allow plugins to attach data to grade items during backup and restore
MDL-68928 - Add a way to decide what plugin will show in the activity chooser footer

Web service additions and updates

MDL-67306 - Create API for grade category (gradebook)
MDL-55971 - Dataformat - Store to filearea support
MDL-69486 - Add user idnumber and gradeitem idnumber to gradereport_user_get_grade_items webservice
MDL-63805 - New Web Service mod_glossary_update_entry
MDL-69776 - New Web Service core_files_delete_draft_files
MDL-69283 - Allow specifying a timezone when calling WebServices
MDL-63806 - New Web Service mod_glossary_delete_entry
MDL-68845 - Create new Web Service for retrieving the user calendar via iCal
MDL-69577 - Add courseId and forumId info to mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service

Deprecations

MDL-67594 - Deprecate supports_recursion() & extend_lock() in the Lock API
MDL-67735 - Remove Bootstrap 2 and Bootstrap 4 alpha compatibility files
MDL-69238 - Final removal of lib/coursecatlib.php
MDL-63261 - Final deprecation of web services in message/externallib.php
MDL-62982 - Remove the lib/form/htmleditor.php element
MDL-63254 - Final deprecation of the events message_contact_blocked and message_contact_unblocked
MDL-63004 - Final deprecation: I navigate to "ITEM" node in "MAINNODE > PATH" behat step
MDL-55192 - Final deprecation of add_to_log()
MDL-63167 - Final deprecation of the gradingform_provider interface

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