Moodle 2.9.1 release notes

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Releases > Moodle 2.9.1 release notes

Release date: 6 July 2015

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 2.9.1.

Highlights

A lot of work has been done in dealing with unexpected grade changes in the gradebook which some users have experienced when upgrading from Moodle 2.7 to 2.8 or 2.9. See the user documentation Grades min max and Gradebook calculation changes for details.

MDL-48618 - Dealing with unexpected changes to grades after upgrading to Moodle 2.8
MDL-49257 - Adjusting weights when extra credit item is present causes unexpected behaviour
MDL-48239 - Changing the maximum grade of items with calculation to the value different from 100

Another release highlight is the introduction of the authorised access to the YouTube repository. After upgrading you will need to enter an API key from YouTube into your site's YouTube repository settings.

MDL-50176 - Authenticated access to the YouTube repository

Functional changes

MDL-50089 - Gradebook export now respects aggregate only non-empty grades for percentage and letter
MDL-48467 - Atto: Clean the html even if submitting the form when Atto is in html view mode

API changes

MDL-49022 - sync_users must trigger event core\event\user_updated

Security issues

MSA-15-0026 Possible phishing when redirecting to external site using referer header
MSA-15-0027 Capability 'mod/forum:canposttomygroups' is not respected when using 'Post a copy to all groups' in forum
MSA-15-0028 Possible XSS through custom text profile fields in Web Services
MSA-15-0029 Javascript injection in SCORM module

Fixes and improvements

MDL-50177 - Upgrading assignments in 2.7/2.8 works even when conditional access is used
MDL-39353 - Connection to a hub from behind a proxy server
MDL-49742 - Enrolled users page no longer displays sorting by fields that are not used in user identity
MDL-47787 - After deleting a quiz, its question categories and questions remain in the database
MDL-49764 - Fixed gradebook UI inconsistencies in Internet Explorer
MDL-49885 - The course overview block can now be added to Dashboard
MDL-50675 - Display Wikimedia repository thumbnails (caused by the change in Wikimedia API)
MDL-50091 - Fixed fatal error in gradebook singleview after a module has been uninstalled
MDL-48664 - Messaging contacts paging bar no longer expands and overlaps other text
MDL-50092 - User unenrollment is now working with IMS Enterprise
MDL-49560 - SOAP web service now works with token
MDL-50004 - Fix coursename and enrolment icons in category combo on Frontpage
MDL-50646 - Site default language should be set as the language for new users
MDL-50394 - Grade to pass no longer throws an error when a decimal point separator is used
MDL-50276 - Added missing new line separator in plain text e-mails from the forum
MDL-49061 - The activity completion report in a course correctly shortens headers when multi language filter is used
MDL-50275 - Added missing version bump after risk bitmap change in MDL-49941
MDL-50380 - Fixed missing parameter error when editing files in wiki

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