Moodle 3.11 release notes

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Releases > Moodle 3.11 release notes

Release date: 17 May 2021

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 3.11.

See our New features page in the user documentation for an introduction to Moodle 3.11 with screenshots.

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 3.6 or later
PHP version: minimum PHP 7.3.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 3.10. PHP 7.4.x and 8.0.x are supported too. See Moodle and PHP for details.
PHP extension sodium is recommended. It will be required in Moodle 4.2. For further details, see Environment - PHP extension sodium.
PHP setting max_input_vars is recommended to be >= 5000 for PHP 7.x installations. It's a requirement for PHP 8.x installations. For further details, see Environment - max input vars.

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	Latest
MySQL	5.7	Latest
MariaDB	10.2.29	Latest
Microsoft SQL Server	2017 (increased since Moodle 3.10)	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 and above do NOT support Internet Explorer 11.

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

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/

Warnings

If you have a site running on MariaDB / MySQL with many users, you may experience database issues after the upgrade step 2021042100. The upgrade attempts to drop several columns from the user table ("icq", "skype" and others) once they were converted to new user profile fields (MDL-28452). These ALTER TABLE queries typically require copying all the rows into a new tablespace and rebuilding all indexes. Which may eventually lead to time-outs and "MySQL server has gone away" errors. It should be enough and safe to simply wait for the query to finish on the DB server (you may need to monitor currently running queries there) and then re-run the upgrade until the upgrade step 2021042100.01 finishes successfully.

Major features

Improve student activity completion

MDL-71189 - Define sort ordering for completion conditions
MDL-70821 - Update the course homepage to display the activity information
MDL-70818 - Implement the activity dates functionality for each activity and output them in view.php
MDL-70815 - Create a base class for fetching a user's activity completion details
MDL-70816 - Create a base class for fetching an activity's dates that are relevant for a given user
MDL-70820 - Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 1
MDL-70935 - Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 2
MDL-71235 - Review and update existing web services to return the new fields and exported information from activities
MDL-71288 - Activity completion fallback for third party plugins
MDL-71163 - Remove duplicate activity dates
MDL-71144 - Deprecate the *_get_completion_state() callbacks
MDL-71234 - Create user tours for the activity information output component

Brickfield accessibility toolkit

MDL-69863 - Brickfield Education Labs accessibility toolkit core integration

Badges

MDL-71117 - Make Moodle OBv2.1 implementation compliant
MDL-70689 - Add new "IMS OBv2.1" OAuth 2 service
MDL-70911 - Remove "Backpack settings" site administration page and improve UI
MDL-63961 - Improve resolution of badge image sent to external backpacks and used when duplicating badges

Content bank and H5P

MDL-69331 - Add ability to disable specified H5P content types
MDL-66769 - Create a task to clean up unused H5P content
MDL-70429 - Set the default returntype to reference in repository_contentbank
MDL-67999 - Update content bank upload button to open file picker in a popup instead of new page
MDL-69762 - Option to make a content bank item unlisted
MDL-70408 - Open H5P file from H5P activity when it was added as a reference
MDL-70438 - Content bank should provide info on the number of places where content is used and warn you when deleting

Assignment

MDL-52420 - Assignment comments should be also saved when clicking 'save changes' in the assignment grader page
MDL-68533 - Allow mod_assign download all assignments to be streamed
MDL-67702 - Assignment name filter preference should only affect current assignment's view
MDL-70038 - Implement Poppler pdftoppm compatibility for faster assignment submission PDF to PNG conversion
MDL-69631 - Add 'Draft' filter to assignment grading table

Quiz and questions

MDL-32226 - Add Plagiarism support to essay questions
MDL-70895 - Questions: Default options when creating a question
MDL-71262 - Add default options for essay question type
MDL-71225 - Add default options for ddimageortext, ddmarker and match question types
MDL-71181 - Display pass grade on quiz front page
MDL-68597 - Add optional min/max word count limits to Essay question type
MDL-69735 - Read-only view of quiz settings overrides
MDL-70134 - Improve manual grading of quiz essay answers - web page format
MDL-66600 - Manual grading of automatically graded questions: show computer grading
MDL-71205 - Add default options for numerical question type using user-preferences
MDL-70562 - In a newly created quiz, prevent "Edit quiz" and "Back to the course" buttons sticking together
MDL-70266 - Quiz override screens should show user identity fields
MDL-71030 - Quiz review: name the person who made each change in the question response history (if not the student)

Accessibility improvements

MDL-69474 - Improve accessibility of profile images
MDL-71089 - Make it possible to style toast notifications

Usability improvements

MDL-70817 - Create an output component that displays an activity's information for a user
MDL-48594 - More filtering options on Activity Completion Report
MDL-65856 - UX Review of session expired timeout modal
MDL-65135 - Add year to messaging conversation date headings, if not the current year
MDL-51287 - Show confirmation when profile changes are saved
MDL-70565 - Add ability to search country field on Participants page
MDL-69145 - Default the participants page filtering to "ALL"
MDL-57831 - Improve notification preferences on/off buttons so they fit better with non-English strings
MDL-71254 - OAuth2: Display login errors on the login page
MDL-67028 - LTI: Support Course dates substitution parameters
MDL-70753 - Create landing page for the reports link in the secondary navigation
MDL-71403 - Update message preferences of a user as admin to use consistent toggle icons
MDL-71064 - Add support for keyboard hotkeys in VideoJS
MDL-69878 - Always show the close button on the message drawer

Other highlights

Functional changes

MDL-28452 - Convert user profile fields for messaging/networking into custom profile fields
MDL-58673 - Enable playbackrates for videojs
MDL-45242 - Allow user profile fields to be specified as user identity fields - New code is backwards-compatible, but report code should be updated.
MDL-66431 - Remove "Enable activity chooser" user preference
MDL-61768 - Update Google Drive repository to allow Shared drive files
MDL-63381 - Option to not include permissions overrides when importing or restoring a backup
MDL-71190 - Backup and Restore lastaccess to course
MDL-48269 - Remove option to hide a group picture
MDL-71118 - Differentiate between grade as a noun and grade as a verb in the UI texts
MDL-71186 - Add custom user field support to group management screens
MDL-69773 - Add an option to display section names in Section link block

For administrators

MDL-70722 - Move Microsoft, Facebook and NextCloud OAuth2 services to new, reorganised architecture
MDL-42382 - Add a "Replace filter" option on the admin browse users page
MDL-65843 - Ability to force cron scheduled task definitions in config.php (schedule and disabled)
MDL-70536 - Create a CLI script to reset user dashboards
MDL-67748 - Improve the web services tokens management to allow searching and filtering
MDL-69460 - Check for removed files before CLI upgrade
MDL-70828 - Add ability to switch off session lock debugging
MDL-70583 - Implement a renderer for progress_bar in cli output
MDL-68010 - Allow disabled tasks to be run from the GUI
MDL-71017 - Add the ability to configure OAuth2 services for login only; add login display name
MDL-70269 - Update the ClamAV default behaviour when an error occurs
MDL-70500 - Use Dynamic Registration to allow Tools to update to LTI Advantage
MDL-70287 - Payment service consumers should be able to specify url after payment
MDL-70158 - Make it easier to find a specific component in template library
MDL-70632 - Allow searching of available language packs
MDL-70362 - Add showdebugging and showsql options to admin/cli/uninstall_plugins.php
MDL-69898 - Config change event should link to config change report
MDL-70159 - Sort capabilities in capability overview tool

Mobile

MDL-71273 - Add a new option in Moodle app "Disabled features" for preventing the new LTI launch in the app
MDL-65983 - Include option for testing Push notifications in a site

Performance

MDL-68481 - mod/folder/download_folder.php should be a streaming zip download
MDL-70444 - Make my_reset_page_for_all_users for dashboards more robust
MDL-68052 - Implement cleanup of analytics_indicator_calc stores table
MDL-71044 - Extend the 'backup_cleanup_task' scheduled task to remove old files
MDL-66667 - Cache course image in the course_summary_exporter
MDL-69121 - Allow redis session store to use zip or zStd for compression like redis MUC
MDL-70107 - Running a scheduled task in the GUI should unlock the session
MDL-27193 - Eliminate DB queries in mod/glossary/settings.php
MDL-70608 - Update language pack installs / updates to run asynchronously to avoid timeouts when multiple are used

Security improvements

MDL-65818 - Provide admin setting type for secure data (passwords/tokens)
MDL-64865 - Add logging when auth config is automatically changed due to config/filesystem mismatch
MDL-69333 - Reduce ability to fingerprint a server with a htaccess-dist / nginx file / docs
MDL-69522 - Allow antivirus scanners to specify the message to the user
MDL-67882 - Log changes to the message notifications settings
MDL-70649 - Allow plugins to augment the cURL security helper via callback
MDL-70735 - Reduce information disclosure from TCPDF version
MDL-70766 - Log changes to auth plugin settings in config log
MDL-70439 - Display user email address visibility settings on their own profile

For developers

The PHPUnit upgrade will almost certainly break your tests. See Writing PHPUnit tests#Upgrading unit tests to work with Moodle 3.11 and up .28PHPUnit 9.5.29

MDL-52817 - New sql_group_concat db method
MDL-64554 - Add module for displaying moodleform in a modal window
MDL-71036 - Upgrade PHPUnit to 9.5.x
MDL-68608 - Improve the readonly session debugging message
MDL-71012 - HTTP 503 Service Not Available is returned by exceptions and should be 500 instead
MDL-70311 - Upgrade boost to use Bootstrap latest version
MDL-69202 - Restore backup: add getter method for oldmoduleid
MDL-70055 - Support large number of SQL-IN parameters in Postgres
MDL-70142 - Preserve form data when purging individual caches
MDL-71099 - Move user_fields from core to core_user

Web service additions and updates

MDL-69869 - Add ability for "get enrolled users" web service to be filtered by suspended users
MDL-70128 - Create a new endpoint (script) to retrieve draft files from web services
MDL-68853 - Create web service to trigger report_viewed event for H5P activities
MDL-69259 - Create H5P activity web service to get the list of students that attempted an activity
MDL-70387 - New web service core_files_get_unused_draft_itemid
MDL-71492 - Return quiz pass grade via web services
MDL-70037 - Update mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service to return the last_modified attribute
MDL-71031 - Batch create API for grade categories
MDL-71169 - All new external functions implementation classes should use execute as the method name, in which case the methodname property should not be specified in db/services.php file

Deprecations

MDL-69792 - Deprecate unused backpack js functions
MDL-66138 - Deprecate get_forum_discussions_paginated webservice
MDL-65319 - Phase 2 of deprecation of functions in lib/deprecatedlib.php initially deprecated in 3.7
MDL-65284 - Final deprecation for analytics methods deprecated in MDL-64783
MDL-65215 - Final deprecation of i_dock_block()
MDL-65186 - Final deprecation of \core_analytics\manager::add_builtin_models()
MDL-65086 - get_enabled_time_splitting_methods final deprecation
MDL-64982 - Final deprecation of behat_base::TIMEOUT and related constants
MDL-64866 - Remove message/defaultoutputs.php and final deprecation of admin_page_manageqbehaviours class
MDL-64776 - Final deprecation of booktool_print_get_toc()
MDL-63266 - Final deprecation of enrol/database/cli/sync.php

Component API updates

admin/upgrade.txt
analytics/upgrade.txt
auth/shibboleth/upgrade.txt
backup/upgrade.txt
badges/upgrade.txt
blocks/section_links/upgrade.txt
blocks/tag_youtube/upgrade.txt
completion/upgrade.txt
contentbank/upgrade.txt
course/upgrade.txt
customfield/upgrade.txt
enrol/database/upgrade.txt
enrol/upgrade.txt
group/upgrade.txt
h5p/upgrade.txt
lib/upgrade.txt
mod/book/upgrade.txt
mod/feedback/upgrade.txt
mod/forum/upgrade.txt
mod/h5pactivity/upgrade.txt
mod/quiz/upgrade.txt
payment/upgrade.txt
plagiarism/upgrade.txt
question/type/upgrade.txt
report/upgrade.txt
repository/upgrade.txt
theme/upgrade.txt
user/upgrade.txt
webservice/upgrade.txt

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