Moodle 1.9.8 release notes: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:38, 29 March 2010

Release date: 25th March 2010

If you are using an unusual authentication mechanism then you may experience problems with sessions, and be unable to log in. If this happens to you, add the following to your config.php to make login work:

$CFG->regenloginsession = false;

MDL-16658 - New capability moodle/restore:createuser to control whether a user can create users when restoring a course
MDL-21174 - Bulk upload of user profile pictures now excludes deleted users
MDL-20125 - New Section Links block settings
MDL-21868 - Fix for bug affecting upgrade to 1.9.7+ on MS SQL
MDL-21606 - Fix for Chameleon theme not working with Firefox 3.6 bug
MDL-21343 - Fix for LDAP authentication settings not being shown
MDL-19392 and MDL-21332 - Fixes for AICC objects
MDL-21045 - Grade letters, outcomes, grade categories and grade items are now restored regardless of whether users are included in the course backup
MDL-20122 - SCORM module restore now retains maxgrade, updatefreq, maxattempt, grademethod and options (popup window option checkboxes)
MDL-20819 - Fix for statistics generation problem
MDL-21029 - Global glossary auto linking fix
MDL-20810 - Hotpot module import questions fix

To be released later

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 Here is [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL/fixforversion/10400 the full list of fixed issues in 1.9.8].
+===Special notes===
+* If you are using an unusual authentication mechanism then you may experience problems with sessions, and be unable to log in.  If this happens to you, add the following to your config.php to make login work:
+ $CFG->regenloginsession = false;
 ===Highlights===