Moodle 3.2 release notes

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Release date: 5 December 2016 (not yet released)

Note: This page is a work-in-progress. Feedback and suggested improvements are welcome. Please join the discussion on moodle.org or use the page comments.

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 3.2.

Server requirements

These are just the minimum supported versions. We recommend keeping all of your software up-to-date.

• Moodle upgrade: Moodle 2.7 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 2.7.14 as a first step)
• PHP version: minimum PHP 5.6.5 (important! minimum PHP version has changed since Moodle 3.1). PHP 7.0 is supported but has some engine limitations. PHP 7.1 will be supported when released.

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	9.1	Latest
MySQL	5.5.31	Latest
MariaDB	5.5.31	Latest
Microsoft SQL Server	2008	Latest
Oracle Database	10.2	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
• Internet Explorer

Mobile:

• MobileSafari
• Google Chrome

For the best experience and optimum security, we recommend that you keep your browser up to date. https://whatbrowser.org

Note: Legacy browsers with known compatibility issues with Moodle 3.2:

• Internet Explorer 10 and below
• Safari 7 and below

Major features

Coming soon.

For developers

• MDL-55071, MDL-55074 - New "Boost" Bootstrap 4 theme, block and navigation changes (see Boost_Navigation and Themes documentation)
• MDL-38158 - Introduction of Media players plugin type (see Media players documentation)
• MDL-55727 - Create AMD modal module (see AMD Modal documentation)
• MDL-49599 - Deprecate old boxnet v1 API
• MDL-53306 - Add hook to be executed before user login in authentication plugins
• MDL-55048 - Grunt and npm build dependencies now require node version 4 or above
• MDL-47162 - Add course id to message eventdata
• MDL-50937 - Update to JQuery 3.1 (see jQuery documentation)
• MDL-48114 - Add Meta-Information to composer.json
• MDL-54987 - Introduce a new chart API and library (see Charts_API)
• MDL-52127 - Linting for Javascript with ESLint (see Linting Javascript)
• MDL-55058 - Linting for CSS with stylelint (see Linting CSS)
• MDL-55072 - Upgrades to Behat so it can work with different themes
• MDL-55141 - Add debugging option when running scheduled tasks from CLI (documentation)
• MDL-31243 - Refactor similar SQL generation code from get_users_by_capability & get_enrolled_uses to make get_with_capability_sql
• MDL-54941 - Add filesize as a new field returned in all the Web Services returning file information
• MDL-55091 - Upgrade phpunit to 5.x
• MDL-56082 - Expose external authentication methods (loginpage_idp_list) in login block (see Authentication plugin documentation)
• MDL-55072 - Behat now supports different themes. (See [Running_acceptance_test|Acceptance test documentation]])
• MDL-48114 - Moodle can now be downloaded via composer(documentation)

See also

• Moodle 3.1 release notes