Gibbon 28.0.00

26 November 2024

Gibbon version 28.0.00 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Gibbon 28.0.00

What's New in Gibbon 28.0.00

• An exciting front-end refresh powered by HTMX and Alpine.js
  
• Updated icons, menus, alerts and navigation elements
  
• Improved forms with a quick-save shortcut and better validation
  
• A new Activity registration system with a visual Explore Activities page
  
• A Mailing List feature in Messenger to collect external email recipients
  

• Additional modules may need updated to v28 compatible versions
  

• User Admin: applied input and output filtering to all email address fields
  

• System: set Greek as an active language
  
• System: added Putonghua as a language option in dropdown menus
  
• System: added IDD codes for Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  
• System: added Nicaraguan Córdoba C$ as a currency option
  
• System: refactored the Fast Finder using HTMX and Alpine
  
• System: updated Core modules to have Gibbon Foundation as author
  
• System: updates the timetable navigation to use AJAX reloading rather than page refresh
  
• System: moved the login form to the bottom of the page when viewing subpages and not logged in
  
• System: added a password strength checker and improved password policy display
  
• System: updated all Date fields to use the browser native date picker
  
• Attendance: added an index to the attendance log to help speed up attendance pages
  
• Attendance: added an indicator to Student Not Present/Onsite when attendance logs conflict
  
• Activities: updated Activity Attendance to always count participants for dates in the past
  
• Behaviour: added a permission for students to view their own Behaviour Records (off by default)
  
• Formal Assessment: allowed users with edit access to edit grouped Internal Assessment columns
  
• Markbook: updated markbook columns to grey out students who joined after the Go Live date
  
• Messenger: limited the individual message target to a maximum of 50 people
  
• Messenger: updated preferences to ensure signatures are displayed on a white background
  
• Planner: improved default selected course in Unit Planner sidebar menu
  
• Planner: added an Add Block to All option in Deploy Working Copy
  
• Reports: added a Progress by Department report for viewing class criteria progress
  
• Rubrics: updated Edit Rubric page to allow HTML in rubric cells
  
• Staff: updated Manage Staff to override required custom fields when manually editing a staff member
  
• Staff: updated family page on Staff Profile to exclude personal details and addresses
  
• Staff: added the option to exclude staff from internal coverage or set a coverage priority
  
• Staff: updated the weightings in the Daily Coverage Planner to include overall weekly teaching load
  
• Students: added a notification event when student notes are edited
  
• Students: removed birthday icon from student view of class lists
  
• User Admin: added the names of users who made changes to the User Status Log
  
• User Admin: updated Manage Users to override required custom fields when manually editing a user
  
• User Admin: updated Personal Documents to enable required Residency/Visa dropdown
  

• Admissions: fixed the search results on the Manage Application page to include json data
  
• Admissions: fixed missing Previous Schools section in Application Form view and print pages
  
• Admissions: fixed custom field validation for second parent in Application Form
  
• Behaviour: fixed users notified of behaviour records unable to add follow up
  
• Finance: fixed bulk exporting invoice fees for Pending invoices
  
• Form Groups: fixed Year Group Summary list when looking at non-current school years
  
• Individual Needs: fixed an error on the IN Archive page that prevented access to it
  
• Markbook: fixed SQL error in Markbook when using external assessments for a baseline
  
• Planner: fixed next lesson plan date not auto populating in Add Lesson Plan
  
• Reports: fixed Send Report option to enable sending to students without needing parent details
  
• Reports: fixed Scan Asset Directories not working on Windows servers
  
• Reports: fixed Scan Asset Directories failing to create template folder if it does not exist
  
• Timetable: fixed permission checking before displaying user status info in View Timetables list
  
• System Admin: fixed the sanitization rules for application form fields to allow HTML
  
• Deprecations
  
• System: replaced the legacy Thickbox library with an AJAX-based modal window
  
• System: replaced the legacy LiveValidation library with Alpine.js validation
  
• System: replaced the legacy jQuery tooltip with Alpine.js