Moodle 2.1 release notes

Moodle 2.1

Release date: Not yet released

Major new features

New question engine

• Moodle question system has been rewritten to make it much more robust and to support lots of new possible functionality.
• See summary of changes at the New question engine page and more details in the tracker MDL-20636.
• Warning: This change requires a major database upgrade.
• Backward compatibility warning: Random short-answer matching question type was moved out of the main Moodle distribution.

Ability to restore the course contents from Moodle 1.9 backup files

• Course backup files created in Moodle 1.9 can be now restored during the normal restore process.
• No user data (like forum posts, grades, submissions, ...) are supported yet. Blocks are not restored yet.
• See MDL-22414 for details.

Highlights

• MDL-11288 Ability to copy (or clone) an activity
• MDL-27428 Ability to navigate navigation/settings menu and dock with keyboard

Others

• MDL-26784 Improved plugins check/overview page

Functional changes

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Security issues

To be released later

System requirements

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Upgrading

When upgrading to Moodle 2.1, you must first upgrade to Moodle 2.0 or later. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect.

For further information, see Upgrading to Moodle 2.1.

For developers: API changes

• The new question engine changes the API for question types. See dev:Developing a Question Type.
• The new question engine changes the API for activity modules that use the question bank. See dev:Using the question engine from module.

Credits

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