Mahara 1.7.0
23 April 2013
Mahara version 1.7.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Mahara 1.7.0
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What's New in Mahara 1.7.0
- Bug 1100187: First option under "manage institutions", institution is not capitalised
- Bug 1100024: Relocate "Shared pages" menu item
- Bug 1095499: License metadata for every artefact
- Bug 1085566: Add logged in filter to admin search
- Bug 1081194: Add 'groups I can join' to groups search condition and make it default
- Bug 1051868: Add support for "retractable" blocks
- Bug 1040337: Upgraded TinyMCE to 3.5.8
- Bug 1033070: Increase limit on group members block
- Bug 1027574: Improve logging of what admins do while masqueraded
- Bug 939299: Display more collections on the overview page
- Bug 1100030: Take out word-break in the CSS
- Bug 1057259: Add year to forum post dates
- Bug 1051497: Correct word spacing between posts and entries on journal page
- Bug 1050655: forum post notification subject should be the post subject not the topic subject
- Bug 1021653: Ensure length of input fields is sufficient for required data
- Bug 1006706: Missing lang strings in view/urls.php
- Bug 952625: Pending registrations have an unreasonable expiry time
- Bug 920263: Make "Institution expiry date" column not be in italics
- Bug 913320: Separate "Suspend / delete user" on /admin/users/edit.php
- Bug 1100104: Account deleted notice to include contact information
- Bug 1100066: dwoo function str doesn't take extra arguments that are "0"
- Bug 1073136: Fix ordering of forums when there are more than 10 forums
- Bug 1072850: Facebook doesn't pick up Mahara's Facebook logo
- Bug 1069811: Quota exceeded message for groups
- Bug 1069664: "Text on background" does not change for top right-hand corner in configurable theme
- Bug 1068962: "Delete users" button should be red on /admin/users/suspended.php
- Bug 1051529: Activating spellchecker brings up warning
- Bug 1046617: hard-coded plural logic on /group/find.php
- Bug 1023834: Refactor login form elements code duplication
- Bug 1154928: Warning when adding a new user or add users via CSV
- Bug 1145178: Warning after installing other language packs
- Bug 1095834: Wrong result when searching for the special string: '0'
- Bug 1089730: Plain editor not available in Resume area instead of WYSIWYG editor
- Bug 1081309: export fails if files missing from dataroot
- Bug 1079451: split function is deprecated but still used
- Bug 1074974: WMV files are not recognized by Internal Media block when uploaded directly in the block
- Bug 1072967: Add user-unique message IDs to forum emails
- Bug 1069274: "Allow copying" is not shown on the institution and site access list
- Bug 1068952: Update of user information brings warnings
- Bug 1056544: The number of topics on /interaction/forum/view.php doesn't count the sticky topics
- Bug 1111066: define('CLI') should bypass auth_setup() in init.php
- Bug 1091506: Allowed iframe sources page doesn't allow sideblocks
- Bug 1091504: Suspended and expired users page is not displayed as selected in menu
- Bug 1031560: json_headers change to use application/json
- Bug 1046647: Warnings when access "Group files" tab
- Bug 1046641: "Group files" tab does not show up until the user re-login.
- Bug 900983: Notification after user has been masqueraded