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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
<h3> New in Moodle 1.3 <font color="#FF9933">Beta</font> (10th May, 2004)</h3>
<p align="center"><font size="-1">Please note that Beta versions are not fully tested yet <br>
and may contain more bugs than a final release. <br>
Please help us test this version and report bugs to <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs" target="_top">http://moodle.org/bugs</a></font></p>
<ul>
<dl>
<dt>Major new features</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>New <strong>Calendar</strong> feature (thanks to Jon Papaioannou and Greek School Network!)</li>
<li>New <strong>Blocks </strong>feature, allowing blocks to be added and moved around on course pages (thanks to Jon Papaioannou, Eloy Lafuente and others!)</li>
<li>New <strong>RSS System</strong> allows Forums and Glossaries (and later other modules) to publish RSS feeds (Thanks, Eloy!)</li>
<li><strong>Mediaplugin</strong> filter now supports auto-embedding of Quicktime, Flash, and Windows Media files.</li>
<li>New languages: Latvian, Norwegian Primary School, </li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Other new features</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>It is now possible to pass arguments to files in the Files section. This allows some fancier HTML and Flash in resources.</li>
<li>Most internal HTML links within forums and resources are now preserved during backup/restores</li>
<li>$CFG-&gt;forceloginforprofiles can be set to prevent guests from seeing user profiles.</li>
<li>New resource type &quot;Directory&quot; will display a whole directory of uploaded files</li>
<li>User pictures can now be easily deleted from the profile editing page</li>
<li>Talking in Chat now appears in the main logs.</li>
<li>HIdden sections in courses can now be completely hidden from students (course setting)</li>
<li>Improvements to text inside graphs for some non-English languages by using Unicode. Try adding a <a href="ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberb">Unicode font</a> to your Moodle named lib/default.ttf.</li>
<li>All students can now be unenrolled with one button</li>
<li>Subscribers to forums can now be manually subscribed or unsubscribed in groups</li>
<li>Better handling of some eurpean characters in filenames and usernames</li>
<li>Resources that are files (uploaded, or webpages) now show the relevant icon on the course page</li>
<li>Feedback notices for a hidden assignment aren't mailed out until it's unhidden</li>
<li>Sessions are now stored privately in the Moodle data directory - this makes Moodle work better on clusters, and solves some session timeout problems when using Moodle on shared web hosts</li>
<li>Expanded support for importing Blackboard quizzes</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Bug fixes</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Too many to list here! <br>
Lots of small things were fixed in all areas, generally improving appearance and robustness.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</dd>
<dt>Don't forget to look at some of the <a href="http://moodle.org/download/modules/" target="_blank">many new modules under development</a>!</dt>
</dl>
</ul>
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<h3> New in Moodle 1.2.1 (25th March, 2004)</h3>
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