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Moodle 1.9.4
Release date: Not yet released
Highlights
- New options to allow Moodle to be configured to comply with European and US privacy regulations, like FERPA. Petr Skoda, moodle.com
- Fix bugs relating to creating and editing course categories. Previously, giving admin permissions in a category and its subcategories did not work reliably. In the process, the separate create, update and delete category capabilities were replaced with moodle/category:manage, and moodle/category:visibility was renamed to moodle/category:viewhiddencategories. Tim Hunt, moodle.com
- Essay questions can now be randomised by random questions. This must be enabled under Administration > Miscellaneous > Experimental. (MDL-8648) Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
- New Site policies setting for disabling Notes
- New Internal enrolment settings for enforcing enrolment key usage and complexity
- Email notification of course requests
- New capability: moodle/course:request
New language pack
- Kazakh - Калима Туенбаева
(See Translation credits for additional details.)
Moodle 1.9.3
Release date: 15th October 2008
Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.9.3.
Highlights
- Major SCORM module improvements
- Passes all SCORM 1.2 Conformance tests
- Improved Visualisation of SCORM objects
- New Debug tool
- Improved handling of AICC objects
- Better cross-platform compatible javascript
- Improved the interaction of SCO completion and Gradebook interaction
- TOC fixes - structure, expand/collapse, and prerequisites
- Corrected element behaviour for cmi.objectives, cmi.comments_from_learner, cmi.interactions, cmi.launch_data
- New capabilities: moodle/role:safeoverride, moodle/course:changefullname, moodle/course:changeidnumber and moodle/course:changeshortname
- New option in HTML settings to allow HTML tags in activity and resource names
- Improved detection of misconfigured dataroot directory
- New Manage authentication setting for relaxing email domain restrictions when changing email
- New Enrolments setting for disabling the email welcome message which users receive when they self-enrol in a course
- New Internal enrolment setting for disabling the enrolment key hint
- New Gradebook report setting to show/hide percentages in the user report
- New statistics setting for specifying the maximum number of days processed in each stats execution
- Checkbox user profile field
- Indication for administrators when a site is in Maintenance mode
- Fix for major groups upgrade problem
- Fix for Firefox password manager problem
- Fixes for course category edit and add capabilities problems
- Multiple choice questions in quizzes. Following feedback, we have reversed the change in Moodle 1.9 that showed students feedback to all option, not just the ones they had selected. (MDL-14643)
- The regression in 1.9.2 that broke images in quiz questions has been fixed.
- Starting in October 2008, authorize.net codes need true 10cc integers. (MDL-16715)
Security issues
- MSA-08-0019: customised PhpMyAdmin package upgraded to 2.11.9.2
- MSA-08-0020: quiz/questions capabilities lack some risk flags in access.php files
- MSA-08-0021: design deficiency combined with incorrect use of format_string() allowing XSS
- MSA-08-0022: XSS through Wiki page titles
- MSA-08-0023: CSRF in messaging setting
- MSA-08-0024: Overriding of frozen values in Moodle forms
- MSA-08-0025: SQL injection in tags code
- MSA-08-0026: customised HTML Purifier upgraded to 2.1.5
New language pack
- Bangla - Razib Mustafiz
(See Translation credits for additional details.)
Moodle 1.8.7
Release date: 15th October 2008
Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.8.7.
Security issues
- MSA-08-0020: quiz/questions capabilities lack some risk flags in access.php files
- MSA-08-0021: design deficiency combined with incorrect use of format_string() allowing XSS
- MSA-08-0022: XSS through Wiki page titles
- MSA-08-0023: CSRF in messaging setting
- MSA-08-0024: Overriding of frozen values in Moodle forms
See also
- Category:Release notes for release notes for earlier versions
- Release dates
