Mahara 1.8.0
24 October 2013
Mahara version 1.8.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Mahara 1.8.0
Mahara 1.8.0 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Mahara updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Mahara install to test the 1.8.0 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Mahara installations with Installatron
What's New in Mahara 1.8.0
New features:
- Turned the block chooser vertical and scrolling, to accomodate longer Pages
- The Image block and Text Box block are now conveniently at the top of the block chooser
- Page layouts can now have rows as well as columns
- Users can import leap2a files into their existing Mahara account
- PDF block allows PDFs to be viewed inline in a Page
- Resume elements can have attachments
- Notes (and text box blocks) can have attachments
- Users are notified when they try to navigate away from a page with unsaved changes
- Many more types of user content can have tags
- Resume entries for electronic publications can now be hotlinks
- Drag-and-drop to upload files
- Page skins, which give individual users the ability to change the CSS of their Pages
- Admins can search for users with duplicate email addresses
- Admins can filter user search by auth method
- Elasticsearch search plugin
- "Additional HTML" config option for things such as Google Analytics
- A cron job in the LDAP auth plugin to synchronize Mahara accounts with LDAP
Security:
- Security Bug #1034180: A group member with no access rights to folder can still view it
- Security Bug #1236636: Can attach other users' Folders to your Image Gallery block