Mahara 20.04.0

20 July 2020

Mahara version 20.04.0 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Mahara 20.04.0

What's New in Mahara 20.04.0

• Revise merging of sharing permissions for a collection
  
• Error deleting institution due to foreign key constraint with view table
  
• Elasticsearch not restricting the user search when isolated institutions turned on
  
• Library upgrade: CSS Tidy to 1.7.1
  
• Elastic search: Search results are not restricted for aretfacts on pages shared with group
  
• Peer assessment sign-off block has incorrect message
  
• Library upgrade: remove jquery deprecations
  
• Select2 accessibility for labelling and removing tags
  
• Mahara installation issues with MySQL 8.0.17
  
• Mozilla Backpack needs to be deprecated
  
• The 'read' column for module_multirecipient_userrelation is a char and not integer
  
• Skins - cannot Save changes once background image file previewed
  
• Need a isGridstackRendering flag
  
• Can't get to site's contacts page from profile page
  
• TinyMCE editor does not appear in Chrome on Android
  
• Upgrade script to 19.10 from 19.04.1 fails when converting artefact audio - elasticsearch triggers
  
• Consolidate CSS for skins to work better with new header and details mode
  
• Text block - internal anchor does not work
  
• LTI duplicate email addresses causing problems
  
• display_tag() missing index error
  
• 19.10 upgrade is failing at artefact_plans_plan
  
• Unformatted table name breaks matrix
  
• Unformatted table name breaks skin editing
  
• Error when alterting the block placeholder name before choosing block type
  
• Security upgrade simplesamlphp to 1.17.7
  
• Members from other institution can be seen when sharing portfolios despite isolated institutions
  
• cron.php with '$cfg->urlsecret' dosen't work on cronjob under PHP FastCGI enviroment.
  
• Nav menu missing import / export items
  
• 'Display page' button should not be displayed for site templates
  
• Cannot delete a group collection if already pushed to users
  
• Allowing a site admin to set an external app owner to be someone other than themselves
  
• Not all fields are showing in xml-rpc auth modal
  
• find_by_instanceid_username can cause error
  
• jsform field defaults to no when field is disabled
  
• Warning produced when adding/ editing an image gallery block
  
• Update gulp
  
• Problems with restricting profile access
  
• gridstack - too much recursion error when translating from old layout
  
• Issues with layout/tinymce/gridstack and IE11
  
• "Display page" button is highlighted in edit mode when it shouldn't be
  
• File attachment display consolidation
  
• Profile picture settings page needs its own form_id
  
• Cover letter styles can't be targetted independently for full resume and individual item
  
• Stop displaying an email profile field as one of the normal fields
  
• When having restricted file uploading it fails to restrict list on subsequent upload
  
• Peer assessor can delete another peers assessment
  
• module_assessmentreport module giving errors on portfolio submission
  
• Arrow bar in Modern and Ocean not correct wen hovering over non-active tab
  
• Don't display personal information beyond what is necessary in "Edit access" Ajax response
  
• Primary school theme home page and dashboard widgets display incorrectly
  
• navigation block html export - views titles link back to original site
  
• Can't comment on artefacts on public or secret URL pages
  
• Security Upgrade SimpleSAML 1.17.7 to 1.18.4
  
• tagged posts blocktype broken when diplaying a view
  
• Auth SAML get disco list issue
  
• user creation will set groupsideblocklabels to 'Array' on the DB
  
• Design freeze prep for Mahara 20.04
  
• Image Gallery Blocks do not allow retractable option other than no
  
• Language string review for Mahara 20.04
  
• Path to file listed in pdf export is not correct
  
• Warning produced when trying to copy a group page
  
• Site not respecting the usepdfexport flag
  
• Importing page with embedded image not working in all cases
  
• Incorrect theme displayed for new pages when saved
  
• Export collections not creating the export pdf
  
• Pdf export: print preview layout can cause placement / truncation issues of text / images
  
• HTML / PDF export of Gallery block in slideshow mode is broken
  
• Have exported pdf files for pages / collections end up in a PDF/ directory next to the HTML/ one
  
• Page settings form not behaving as expected
  
• 'Publish' button in peer assessment block dosn't have primary brand colour applied in theme 'Default'
  
• Change the menu item and page 'Group settings' to 'Default group settings'
  
• 'Login' button not visible in 'Default' theme when only a link
  
• Behat: Combine multiple tests for webservices into one
  
• datepicker not accessible by screen reader
  
• HTML export still contains the 'details' /'add comment' links for blocks on the pages
  
• Behat: Add inbox notifications functionality to Objectionable content
  
• Behat: Confirm Inst tags can be used on Inst pages
  
• A bit more space between action buttons and skin cards
  
• Behat: SmartEvidence framework matrix editor functionality
  
• Mahara.org feeds don't work in rss block
  
• Behat: Isolated institutions scripts needed
  
• Behat: check required to verify that the share icon is not displayed for Site page templates
  
• Only 1 error message shown even though there are 2 on "Site options"
  
• "Delete" button visible on timeline for comments
  
• Behat: group_view_block.feature failing consistently
  
• Problem with deleting a plan task
  
• iPad iOS 13.1 block comments and details modal content scrolls horizontally
  
• Profile completion tips links - some are inaccurate
  
• 'skip to main content' link is not working
  
• Console error in image gallery
  
• Behat test coverage for details mode and changes to skins
  
• Library upgrade: jTLine needs updating to fix jquery deprecations
  
• keyboard navigation options not working in FF / Chrome
  
• Get site options form to reload page on updating certain fields
  
• Tagged Journal Entries are not importing in Leap2a
  
• signoff/verify modal issue in IE11
  
• Adjust color of "No tasks yet" in "Plans"
  
• Left-align performance footer messages
  
• Links in a header with skin turned on shows normal link color instead of header color
  
• The gridstack drag icon is showing on the display page as well as edit page
  
• Update adodb to version 5.20.16
  
• Mahara portfolio as Moodle assignment cannot be previewed
  
• Increase contrast of the class "text-midtone" to be accessible in all themes
  
• group member search could result in fatal error message
  
• Plan tasks in a block in 'Edit' mode need to have more space
  
• Replace "user" with more appropriate term on auth.saml.php
  
• add a function in class Collection to get the first view in the collection
  
• Reorder options in the site options panels
  
• Update PHP Mailer to 6.1.5
  
• Update Chart.js to 2.9.3
  
• Update htmlpurifier to 4.1.12
  
• Upgrade Library: popper to v1.16.0
  
• Add comments and details block headers not changing colour when active
  
• Empty annotation in peer review mode is not working right
  
• Image Gallery blocks that display from individually images don't have the details block header
  
• Multiple html p tags on lang/en.utf8/export.php
  
• Can accidentally choose yourself when sharing a page when isolated institutions is on
  
• Footer help link to manual is incorrect during rc release
  
• error when exporting an empty page
  
• pdfunite and ghostscript availability check for RHEL/CentOS
  
• Chrome browser availability check for RHEL/CentOS
  
• manage collection pages: needs a cancel button and missing lang string
  
• Choose skin option on edit page settings needs style fix
  
• Page comments in html export not present in the pdf export
  
• Comments block not displaying as expected in HTML / PDF export
  
• Collection exported in PDF has page links that are not helpful
  
• Websservice configuration page needs some UX tidying
  
• file uploading message has a 'tick' background
  
• When clicking a group label on 'All groups' screen, switch to 'All my groups' screen
  
• Recaptcha link in admin is a 404
  
• using URLSearchParams to get url parameters in js
  
• need to update the name for Macedonia
  
• Behat: fix custome_landing_Page.feature
  
• Missing language string in elasticsearch: 'servererror'
  
• Not show the change password required heading when auth method doesn't allow this
  
• Webservices logs page fails to sort results correctly
  
• JSON editor library - removed duplicated libray code in src/editors directory
  
• "Can't use function return value in write context" for finding dwoo directory
  
• obsolete code in groupviews.php
  
• Allow bulk export page to export in options other than Leap2A
  
• PDF export for collections and entire account
  
• "Lock blocks" doesn't work in group pages
  
• Update codebase for php 7.3 and php 7.4
  
• Add a function to check if a cron callfunction needs to run before actually executing it
  
• To be able to migrate a SAML authed account from one IdP to another
  
• Add personal labels to groups to allow group filtering
  
• Allow behat suite to ignore some features
  
• Combine export options into one export file
  
• Allow Mahara to record SAML auth attributes to help diagnose auth problems
  
• Allow one to toggle language setting easier
  
• Create groups with a pre-defined set of settings different to the default options
  
• Allow institution short name to be a string containing numbers and allow the string to be minimum 1 char long
  
• Allow the site to restrict what files are allowed to be uploaded
  
• Allow the login box to adjust if there are both internal and external login options available
  
• Create new user_roles system where you can assign custom roles to a user
  
• Allow minimum information when creating a user via SAML
  
• Allow SAML auth to set admin/staff roles on create user
  
• Only set the Strict-Transport-Security header once
  
• Allow SAML to create institution if it doesn't exist before adding new user to it
  
• Allow non-mahara exceptions to show a bit more detail
  
• SmartEvidence framework editor improvements
  
• Allow Artefact File save_file() function to save image as profileicon if needed
  
• Make the mobile logo appear at a proper break point
  
• Make Mahara theming more efficient by consolidating elements and using variables
  
• Add sign-off and verification details
  
• Alert to peers when page has been signed off
  
• Display people from own institution(s) first when searching for them during portfolio sharing
  
• Replace "user" with a more appropriate term where possible
  
• Allow SAML UserNotfound be SAML specific
  
• Allow a 'parent' saml auth instance update the roles for all the similiar instances
  
• when using mahara.php json_reply() function we are not able to return data on error
  
• Cover image for page and collection to be seen on 'Pages and collections' overview page