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Mahara 20.04.0

20 July 2020

Mahara version 20.04.0 is now available.

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What's New in Mahara 20.04.0

Bug Fixes

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
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