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| (Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)
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| == Some important security fixes ==
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| * Preventative measures against attacks to admin functions.
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| * Lesson: Safer hiding of lessons (#2733)
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| == A few new things ==
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| * Flash Media Player: Now playing can start before the download is complete.
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| * Added/updated language support for German (DE) and Turkish (TR).
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| * Release notes now link to the relevant bugs.
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| * Prefetching requests from Google Web Accelerator, Mozilla etc are denied.
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| == Performance improvements ==
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| * Added option to cache the languages list. Saves around 10MB of memory and 40 includes. See config-dist.php for details on how to enable.
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| * Major efficiency improvements for Postgres databases on insert. Also fixed many calls to insert_record() which discard the returned record id to not ask for the record id.
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| == Other bug fixes ==
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| * HTML Editor: Fixes to some character encoding problems.
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| * Quiz: fixes to export/import dropdown (#2963)
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| * Quiz: Don't throw a fatal error on unknown question, try to continue.
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| * Course Social Forum: Removed misleading link to unsubscribe (#2945).
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| * Additional/updated translations.
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| * Forums and Groups: Allow students not in a group to post into a discussion which is also not in a group, even if the course is using groups.
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| * Sitewide HTML Editor settings: Fixed Can't save changes in editor configuration form bug.
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| * Cron: Removed some warnings.
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| * Choice: Choice shows a bad number of answers (#2452).
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| * Better support for PHP5: Files uploads now use $_FILES rather than deprecated $HTTP_POST_FILES (#2828)
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| * Backup/Restore: Manual links from lesson pages to resources are now preserved between backup/restore anywhere. (see this discussion)
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| * Some fixes for Postgres constraint naming.
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| * I18N support: Reset proper encoding upon login (#2770).
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| * I18N support: Fixed some instances of garbled characters when using utf-8 in HTML Editor (#2763)
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| * Flash Media Player: Turn off the autoloading of sound files.
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| * Flash Media Player: Better handling of filenames files.
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| * Postgres: Fixed sequences out of sequence (#2742).
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| * Backup: Fixed memory limit overrun in backup config page.
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| * Forums: Fixed error warnings when a teacher posts to a forum (#2723).
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