When trying to resolve a corrupt cache where it is not possible to
complete the Moodle setup/bootstrap, it is necessary to ignore the
current cache to load the cache purging infrastructure.
One of the error levels PHP previously emitted was E_STRICT, on code
that was not strictly correct to ensure interoperability and forward
compatibility. PHP 7.0 converted the majority of existing E_STRICT
warnings to E_NOTICE, and since PHP 8.0, all E_STRICT notices have
changed to E_NOTICE.
Because all of the E_STRICT notices are upgraded to E_NOTICE since PHP
8.0, PHP 8.4 deprecates the E_STRICT constant.
The E_STRICT constant is deprecated in PHP 8.4. Using the constant
anywhere in PHP code now emits a deprecation notice in PHP 8.4 and
later.
The E_STRICT constant will be removed in PHP 9.0.
PHP core and core extensions since PHP 8.0 and later do not emit
E_STRICT notices at all. It is safe to assume that any PHP applications
that run on PHP 8.0 and later will never encounter E_STRICT notices, and
error reporting and handling can be safely updated to ignore E_STRICT
notices.
See: https://php.watch/versions/8.4/E_STRICT-deprecated
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ziegenberg <daniel@ziegenberg.at>
There are inherent issues with task blocking which mean that it has
never worked properly. It is also very buggy and can lead to massive
performance issues with task processing.
It is almost impossible to deprecate this in a staged fashion because
various APIs use the methods and it is not possible to determine which
are API uses and which are other valid uses.
In reality there has been little-to-no uptake on the use of this feature
and it should just be removed.
Since c66dc591 the PHP Sodium library is required, negating the need
for the OpenSSL equivalent. Remove fallbacks where possible, leaving
only the ability to decrypt legacy OpenSSL-encrypted content (with
debugging).
* CLI adhoc_task.php: new option --taskslimit
* CLI adhoc_task.php: --execute option is implied when other options are given
* core\task\manager::get_next_adhoc_task(): new param $number
for limiting number of tasks to run
* CLI adhoc_task.php: new option --id
* cron::run_adhoc_task($taskid) for running tasks by id
* core\task\manager::get_adhoc_task($taskid) for retreival/locking
A new setting, $CFG->setsitepresetduringinstall, has been added to
config file, to let admins define the site admin preset to be applied
during the Moodle installation.
Besides, a new parameter, "--sitepreset" has been also added
to admin/cli/install.php, to let define it too when running the
upgrade process using CLI.
Remove support for migrating MySQL databases using the old MyISAM storage
engine to the InnoDB storage engine. MyISAM was supported up to Moodle
2.8 (dropped in 2.9: MDL-46064). Beyond Moodle 3.3 -- the highest version
that can upgrade from 2.8 -- this functionality was no longer applicable.
Andrew Nicols