From 7df9662c23967521a0f85546efcaee29bc5e90bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: martinlanghoff Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 00:08:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated release notes for 1.4.5 --- lang/en/docs/release.html | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) diff --git a/lang/en/docs/release.html b/lang/en/docs/release.html index c4a7c812d22..8d6140581e8 100644 --- a/lang/en/docs/release.html +++ b/lang/en/docs/release.html @@ -22,6 +22,68 @@

Latest Release notes

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Moodle 1.4.5 (7th May, 2005)

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(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.)

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Some important security fixes
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  • Preventative measures against attacks to admin functions.
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  • Lesson: Safer hiding of lessons (#2733)
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A few new things
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  • Flash Media Player: Now playing can start before the download is complete.
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  • Added/updated language support for German (DE) and Turkish (TR).
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Performance improvements
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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Other bug fixes
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  • HTML Editor: Fixes to some character encoding problems.
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  • Quiz: fixes to export/import dropdown (#2963)
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  • Quiz: Don't throw a fatal error on unknown question, try to continue.
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  • Course Social Forum: Removed misleading link to unsubscribe (#2945).
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  • Additional/updated translations.
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  • 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.
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  • Sitewide HTML Editor settings: Fixed Can't save changes in editor configuration form bug.
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  • Cron: Removed some warnings.
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  • Choice: Choice shows a bad number of answers (#2452).
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  • Better support for PHP5: Files uploads now use $_FILES rather than deprecated $HTTP_POST_FILES (#2828)
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  • Backup/Restore: Manual links from lesson pages to resources are now preserved between backup/restore anywhere. (see this discussion)
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  • Some fixes for Postgres constraint naming.
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  • I18N support: Reset proper encoding upon login (#2770).
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  • I18N support: Fixed some instances of garbled characters when using utf-8 in HTML Editor (#2763)
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  • Flash Media Player: Turn off the autoloading of sound files.
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  • Flash Media Player: Better handling of filenames files.
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  • Postgres: Fixed sequences out of sequence (#2742).
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  • Backup: Fixed memory limit overrun in backup config page.
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  • Forums: Fixed error warnings when a teacher posts to a forum (#2723).
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Moodle 1.4.4 (7th March, 2005)

(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any