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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
<h3>Moodle 1.4.5 (7th May, 2005)</h3>
<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any
previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)</p>
<dl>
<dt>Some important security fixes</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Preventative measures against attacks to admin functions.</li>
<li>Lesson: Safer hiding of lessons (#2733)</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>A few new things</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Flash Media Player: Now playing can start before the download is complete.</li>
<li>Added/updated language support for German (DE) and Turkish (TR).</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Performance improvements</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Added option to cache the languages list. Saves around 10MB of memory and 40 includes. See config-dist.php for details on how to enable.</li>
<li>Major efficiency improvements for Postgres databases on insert. Also fixed many calls to insert_record() which discard the returned record id to not ask for the record id.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Other bug fixes</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>HTML Editor: Fixes to some character encoding problems.</li>
<li>Quiz: fixes to export/import dropdown (#2963)</li>
<li>Quiz: Don't throw a fatal error on unknown question, try to continue.</li>
<li>Course Social Forum: Removed misleading link to unsubscribe (#2945).</li>
<li>Additional/updated translations.</li>
<li>Forums and Groups: Allow students not in a group to post into a discussion which is also not in a group, even if the course is using groups.</li>
<li>Sitewide HTML Editor settings: Fixed <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21359" target="_blank">Can't save changes in editor configuration</a> form bug.</li>
<li>Cron: Removed some warnings.</li>
<li>Choice: Choice shows a bad number of answers (#2452).</li>
<li>Better support for PHP5: Files uploads now use $_FILES rather than deprecated $HTTP_POST_FILES (#2828)</li>
<li>Backup/Restore: Manual links from lesson pages to resources are now preserved between backup/restore anywhere. (see <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21044" target="_blank">this discussion</a>)</li>
<li>Some fixes for Postgres constraint naming.</li>
<li>I18N support: Reset proper encoding upon login (#2770).</li>
<li>I18N support: Fixed some instances of garbled characters when using utf-8 in HTML Editor (#2763)</li>
<li>Flash Media Player: Turn off the autoloading of sound files.</li>
<li>Flash Media Player: Better handling of filenames files.</li>
<li>Postgres: Fixed sequences out of sequence (#2742).</li>
<li>Backup: Fixed memory limit overrun in backup config page.</li>
<li>Forums: Fixed error warnings when a teacher posts to a forum (#2723).</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Moodle 1.4.4 (7th March, 2005)</h3>
<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any