From 8a2ea88a294e8df03e4906338865eae726735477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moodler Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:57:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added all the old 1.4 info to this page now --- lang/en/docs/releaseold.html | 539 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 539 insertions(+) diff --git a/lang/en/docs/releaseold.html b/lang/en/docs/releaseold.html index 05fed99a966..af1fb23a6ab 100644 --- a/lang/en/docs/releaseold.html +++ b/lang/en/docs/releaseold.html @@ -17,7 +17,546 @@ + +

Old 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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  • Release notes now link to the relevant bugs.
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  • Prefetching requests from Google Web Accelerator, Mozilla etc are denied.
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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)

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Some important security fixes
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  • Added strong URL validation functions.
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  • Preventative measures against tampering of config settings.
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  • Tighter input validation in Quiz, HTML editor and course edit.
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  • More control over user's language settings.
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  • Safer cleaning of HTML-formatted input.
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A few new things
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  • New MP3 content filter with Flash-based mp3 player.
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  • Better display of options in the Choice module.
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  • UI enhancements in HTML Editor's table editor.
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  • $CFG settings in config.php now override database settings.
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  • Enabled garbage collection for Debian systems, with the option to disable it. Fixes stale session problems.
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Performance improvements
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  • Serious performance optimizations in forums code.
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  • Various optimizations by removing unnecessary database retrievals and sorting.
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  • Major improvements in handling session locking. Downloading large files or monitoring the live logs will no longer slow down navigation in other windows.
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Other bug fixes
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  • Installer: Many fixes and updates from HEAD (including #2625) .
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  • Installer: We now check for allow_url_fopen() before trying to validate our own URL.
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  • Fixed some forum search problems.
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  • Fixed sorting bug on forums (#2613).
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  • Fixed problems in user searches with trailing spaces.
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  • Fixed some instances of hardcoded /admin path.
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  • Fixed some groups-related bugs (#2133, #2550, #2363)
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  • Don't send HTML digests to people who want plain text email.
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  • SCORM module — fixed navbar error.
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  • Chat: Increased maximum socket read size to prevent empty pages and repeated messages
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  • Files: added a "Parent Folder" icon, (#2491).
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  • Postgres support: consistency fix in mdl_log table.
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  • Auth plugins: Better cleanup and truncation of data.
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  • Auth plugins: Fixed external authentication problem — if logged in as guest, logging in as external auth user fails if it is the first login ever for the account.
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  • Auth LDAP: Fixed a regression from 1.4.2 where a trailing semicolon in some config fields would break authentication.
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  • Auth DB: Database Authentication not fetching user data fields correctly (#2319).
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  • Paypal Enrolment plugin: Now text sent to PayPal can + be 'sanitised' to avoid some diacritics (Spanish for now) which break the + enrol process. Only German and French diacritics are supported for + now by PayPal. This functionality can be easily expanded to other + characters.
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  • Backup/restore: If the user isn't admin and the restored course hasn't teachers, add teacher (#2381)
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  • Backup/restore: Fixed errors with courses with apostrophes in the fullname.
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  • Backup/restore: Now group members are + only included (backup and restore) if we have selected to have + users (#2486).
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  • Backup/Restore: General tidyup.
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  • Glossary: Now 0 rates are supported in glossary (#2582) and better PHP5 support (#2581).
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  • Glossary & Blackboard: import fixes (#2310).
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  • Calendar: more robust handling of bad data.
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  • Calendar: HTML fixes in calendar (#2350).
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  • Course sortorder was broken in 1.4.3 and would sometimes prevent course creation — all the known problems with sortorder are now fixed. Includes some related fixes in get_categories() calls that would sometimes show up in "My Courses" listings.
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  • Wiki: Several fixes.
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  • Loglive now has an appropriate page footer.
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  • Plus general cleanup and tidyups of the code.
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Moodle 1.4.3 (21st December, 2004)

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Some important security fixes
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  • Better checking/cleaning of cookie data
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  • Preventative measures for session fixation
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  • Better checking/cleaning of parameters for RSS feeds, ip atlas parameters, glossary, forum, theme selection, SCORM module, document viewer
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  • Added protection in viewing of uploaded files
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  • Added protection against directory traversal
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  • Fix for variable $FULLME necessary for cron
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  • Prevention against internal libraries being called directly.
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  • Prevent viewing of glossary if it's a hidden activity
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  • Hidden sections hidden from students in recent activity
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  • Fixed problem with guest user being able to see events in the calendar
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  • Fixed encoding of TEX expressions
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A few new things
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  • Enforced enrolment uniqueness, this is also a performance fix.
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  • Added transaction support for PostgreSQL
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  • Logging in and logging out are now logged
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  • Wiki and SCORM now both use new zipping code - this fixes reported SCORM issues
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  • New paging system for glossary
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  • User info from LDAP truncated for insertion into moodle to prevent data loss
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  • Updated pclzip to new version
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  • Memory_limit can be overriden by higher config settings from php.ini, commandline, httpd.conf, .htaccess
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  • New translations started: Maori, Kannada, Albanian and Vietnamese
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  • Many additions to other language packs
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  • Teachers can now always try quizzes, even if they're not open yet
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  • Glossary print view is now different for each format.
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  • Glossary search now also searches aliases
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  • Vastly improved multilang filter with more forgiving syntax
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Performance improvements
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  • Better caching headers mean improved performance on all pages when using back button
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  • Database indexes added in many places to enhance performance in large scale deployments
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  • Performance improvements throughout moodle where courses were being listed.
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  • Various optimizations by removing unnecessary database retrievals and sorting.
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Other bug fixes
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  • Fixed restoring into a new course generating duplicate course idnumbers
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  • Fixed many small Postgres issues
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  • Fixed unnecessary notices when debug mode on
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  • Fixed some more PHP5 Notices
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  • Fixed support for apostrophes, quotes and backslashes in LDAP user data
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  • Fix for pagination of search course results for Postgres
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  • Fixed bug with whitespace in user search
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  • Fixed chatroom bug where all chat users listed in multiple chatrooms
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  • Fix for installation script bug
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  • Case sensitive usernames in bulk user import fixed
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  • Fixed bug in redirection after rating forum post
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  • Fixed bug in quiz with matching questions
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  • Fixed bug in quiz preview
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  • Fixed bug in language editing
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  • Multiple small fixes in SCORM module
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  • SCORM module shows user pictures properly
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  • Activity names sorted by name in activity filter
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  • Glossary search will search aliases as well
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  • Any RSS errors will result in a valid RSS error file rather than invalid RSS.
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  • Fixed problem with SCORM package validation and PHP5
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  • Fixed problem with backup/restore and empty categories
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  • Better XHTML in wiki
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  • Bug fix in chat reports for first chat session
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  • Fixed a problem with SCORM when deleting a lot of files, or very large files
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  • Fixed some problems with encyclopedia format in glossary
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  • Fixed bug in SCORM integration with zipping code
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  • Fixed bug in dialogue plain text email notifications
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  • Fixed missing sesskey variables in social activity block
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  • Excess sections for a course are now hidden in the navmenu
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  • Added daylight savings time fixes for the calendar
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  • First quiz edit in a new course has a default category assigned
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  • Fixed bug in paypal module when accepting payment amount
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  • Fixed bug in course files with loss of choose mode
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Moodle 1.4.2 (5th November, 2004)

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Some important security fixes
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  • Better checking/cleaning of script parameters used in quite a few areas + throughout Moodle (a BIG thanks to Petr Skoda for his recent security audit!)
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  • Quoted some SQL parameters in the glossary module to prevent possible injection
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A few small new things
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  • New PAM authentication module for direct authentication on Unix/Linux
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  • Course creators can now restore to new or existing courses
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  • Forum posts now include detailed headers to allow correct threading in mail clients
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And a bunch of other bug fixes
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  • Backup is now more able to cope with errors (eg if backup is interrupted) + and can clean up uncompleted files
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  • Fix for database authentication against a PostgreSQL database
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  • Fixes for some parts of installation to PostgreSQL
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  • Forum subject lines are now only broken up in recent activity display
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  • Database-based enrolments now actually work :-)
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  • SQL fixes for creation of RSS feeds from PostgreSQL
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  • Added rtsp to the list of allowed protocols in cleaned HTML text
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  • User profile and profile editing page can be called without parameters
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  • Upgraded xmlize library to latest version
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  • Upgraded phpmailer library to latest version
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  • Various small code-only cleanups
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  • Admin menu now allows backup/restore of the "site course" (front page)
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  • Fixed a display bug in the forums index which only showed in PHP5
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  • Highlighting function (eg after search) was stripping backslashes
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  • Info from LDAP is now decoded from utf8
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  • Course listings now work better with very large amounts of courses
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  • Two SCORM bugs fixed (a typo and a problem with onbeforeunload)
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  • Some cleanups when printing text, headers and variables in Lesson
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  • Calendar now functions as expected even when you login as someone else
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  • Fixed a few remaining short PHP tags
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  • Better randomness for random questions (fix for bug introduced in 1.4)
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  • When a teacher is removed from a course, they are now also removed from all groups in that course
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  • Fixed strip_pages bug in Wiki
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  • Fixes for charset detection in backups and multilang filter under PHP5
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Moodle 1.4.1 (12th September, 2004)

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A few little new things
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  • New "Email Protection" filter will obfuscate all email addresses within all texts + (to help prevent automated address-harvesting)
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  • Allowed email addresses can now be restricted (see config-dist.php for details)
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  • Extra instructions for translators embedded in translation interface
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  • New help page for Directory Paths
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And some bug fixes
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  • Improved performance when viewing site logs
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  • Improved paging and performance in glossary
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  • Glossary entries are now shown correctly if they belong to multiple categories
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  • Do not redeclare auth_user_login upon failed login
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  • Fixed two missing icons in the cordoroyblue theme
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  • Fixed missing "New event" button on Upcoming Events page
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  • Always addslashes on chat messages from daemon users before inserting into db.
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  • Fixes for handling of fixed enrollment periods when this is set for a course
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  • Site course ID (defined as SITEID) is no longer assumed to be always 1
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  • Default memory limits are increased beyond 16M, to help Moodle continue + working even when there is some unplanned memory problem
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  • Smilies are now rendered as pictures in Markdown format texts
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  • Workshops work under Recent Activity again
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  • file.php can now only be used to access data within courses
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  • Improved behaviour of calendar blocks on home page
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  • Fixed quotes bug with PostgreSQL database specification produced by installer
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  • Fixed sometimes-missing display of correct answers during quiz review
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  • <tt> and <code> are now allowed tags
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  • Section summaries, course summaries and labels are again no longer cleaned of Javascript
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  • Fixed a rare LDAP bug that could cause new accounts not to be created
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Moodle 1.4 (31st August, 2004)

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Headlines
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  • Compatibility with PHP 5
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  • New easy installer wizard leads you through the creation of the initial config.php file
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  • Installation is now completely localised to your preferred language
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  • Completely revamped Resource module make it easier to add new resources and to send data to them.
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  • New Enrolment system featuring modules such as completely automated Paypal payments, + flatfile scanning, or external database control.
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  • Blocks now work on the front page, plus you can put a topic section above the middle part
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  • Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat
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  • New Wiki module!
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  • New support for editing text using the Markdown format
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  • Many bug fixes in all areas
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Under the hood
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  • Resource module has its own Add menu now, and uses class-based submodules, making it much + easier now to add new resource types to this menu
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  • Quiz module has been refactored into class-based questiontype plugins.
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  • Enrolment process has been refactored into class-based enrolment plugins.
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  • Glossary display formats are now name-based, and it's easier to plugin new ones.
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  • Improved behaviour of many modules when they are used on the site page.
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  • Revised Filter structure is faster and now compatible with Turck MMcache.
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  • Adding activities is now more forgiving of fields left empty
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  • We can now alter PostgreSQL columns at will using table_column()
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  • RSS generation has been sped up tremendously, putting much less load on cron
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  • Some bigger modules have split lib.php into locallib.php for less memory usage
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Languages and localisation
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  • Updates to nearly every language pack
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  • Moodle can override the default character set in Apache, making languages more reliable
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  • Multibyte languages now wrap properly
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  • Better handling of locales and encodings on very multilingual sites (like moodle.org)
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  • New languages: Slovenian and Hebrew!
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Security Fixes
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  • Fixed a number of possible XSS entry points and path disclosures
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  • Attributes of tags in HTML are now parsed even more thoroughly for naughty scripts
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  • User profile pages are no longer available by default to strangers
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  • All text is now cleaned on output (not just input)
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  • Email addresses are not used on outgoing mail if the user requests that
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  • New setting loginhttps will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http
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Administration
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  • Spiffy new interfaces for adding/removing students, creators and admins
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  • Failed logins are now logged, and can be displayed to users upon a successful login
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  • Logs now support viewing by group, and by errors
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  • Modules now behave more consistently on the site front page
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  • Front page "students" can be all users on site, or all users in at least one course on the site
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  • Email-sending can now be enabled/disabled on any user's profile page
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Authentication
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  • All authentication methods will now co-exist with internally-created accounts
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  • New support for authenticating against First Class servers
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  • Fixes for POP3 authentication
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Navigation
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  • Visitors can be automatically logged in as guest
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  • Jump menu now always shows "Jump to" to help distribute clues about what it does
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  • Jump menu now has a much clearer way of grouping activities into sections
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Blocks
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  • Block system can now cope with custom course formats and changes in format
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  • New login block allows login from site front page
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  • Online users block on home page shows users from the whole site
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Editor
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  • New editor configuration screen for the admin
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  • New support for anchors within pages
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  • Spell-checking is now supported in the editor, it uses aspell on your server operating system
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Chat
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  • Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat
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Choice
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  • Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more option
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Forum
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  • Several fixes when dealing with groups
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  • Users can choose to receive forum posts as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts.
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  • Discussion listing is now paged
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  • Teachers now have complete control over forum subscriptions, and can subscribe anyone at will
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  • "Last post" date is shortened and linked to the last post
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  • Forums now list RSS feeds on the index page
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  • Better-looking HTML mail using the full stylesheet
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  • Forum mail older than two days is never sent out (to prevent unwanted floods)
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  • Blocked mail is logged so that teachers can see it
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  • Discussion branches can be "split" from the main discussion, into a new discussion
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Glossary
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  • Glossary entries can be defined as "always editable"
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  • Glossaries now list RSS feeds on the index page
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  • Many fixes throughout
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Quiz
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  • New floating timer for timed quizzes
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  • Attempts may now be restricted to specific computers
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  • Quizzes can now require a special password
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  • New question type for Calculated Questions
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  • Numerical questions now support units
  • Questions can be previewed in the editing pages
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  • Questions can now be exported in several formats
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  • More intelligent handling of category listing when editing questions
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  • New (and incomplete) XML export format, will eventually be quiz-feature-complete
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  • Shortanswers can now contain all sorts of strange characters
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Resource
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  • Adding resources is now a one-step process with more control
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  • Web page, Web link, Uploaded file and Program resource all combined into one type!
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  • Program resources replaced by Parameters that allow a lot of of interesting interaction with external resources, both remote and uploaded into Moodle.
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  • Collapsible forms with memory to make forms less daunting for beginners without slowing down experienced users
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SCORM
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  • Many fixes and improvements - works with an even wider variety of packages
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  • Optional extra verification of the manifest file
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New in Moodle 1.3.4 (11th August, 2004)

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