Moodle LMS 2.5
14 May 2013
Moodle LMS version 2.5 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Moodle LMS 2.5
Moodle LMS 2.5 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Moodle LMS updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Moodle LMS install to test the 2.5 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Moodle LMS installations with Installatron
What's New in Moodle LMS 2.5
Open Badges integration
- MDL-35073 - Badges may be awarded manually or for course or activity completion. Users can choose to display their badges in their Moodle profile and in their Mozilla backpack.
Add-on installer
- MDL-38509 - New admin tool for installing add-ons
Themes
- MDL-38016 - New Clean theme with responsive design for all screen sizes and Bootstrapbase for developers to use as a template
- MDL-23504 - Transparency and RGB support in themes colour picker
Forms improvements
- MDL-30637 - Improvements to the usability of big complex Moodle forms in general
Enrolment
- MDL-26956 - You can now search the list of users enrolled in a course
- MDL-36514 - New option for preventing new self-enrolments in the course
- MDL-7537 - All PayPal-supported currencies are available for use in Paypal enrolment
- MDL-32387 - New PayPal enrolment setting 'Enrolment expiration action'
- MDL-37291 - Restore support for PayPal enrolments
- MDL-37187 - Various Flat file enrolment fixes
- MDL-28705 - Configurable mapping between IMS course names and Moodle course names for IMS Enterprise enrolment
- See MDL-36504 for the full list of all enrolment-related improvements.
Assignment activity
- MDL-36804 - New assignment settings for handling resubmissions
- MDL-37337 - Assignment settings page improvements
Database activity
- MDL-38166 - Database activity URL field includes option to open link in new window
- MDL-7660 - Option to delete database activity entry attachment
Glossary activity
- MDL-20131 - Global glossary entries can be displayed in the random glossary entry block
- MDL-35842 - New option for displaying entries in alphabetical order in the random glossary entry block
Quiz activity
- MDL-38538 - Option to auto-save during quiz attempts
- MDL-37417 - Question editing forms improvements
- MDL-36955 - Better grading for partially correct Cloze questions with Interactive behaviour
- MDL-35793 - Defaults for when a question is previewed
- MDL-10516 - Essay questions can have a template, so the student starts answering from the template, not a blank editor
Workshop activity
- MDL-37602 - Overall assessment feedback support in the Workshop activity
- MDL-37806 - New 'Save and show next' button for workshop submissions
Resources
- MDL-33206 - Book print dialogue link
- MDL-37455 - New folder resource setting to display folder contents on the course page
- MDL-30790 - New folder resource setting to display sub-folders expanded or collapsed
- MDL-34137 - Option to drag and drop a media file onto the course page to create a label
- MDL-33946 - Option to drag and drop text onto the course page to create a label
Repositories
- MDL-37217 - Folders are now displayed in the Google Drive repository (renamed from Google Docs repository). An administrator must enable the Drive API in the Google APIs Console, as described in Google OAuth 2.0 setup.
- MDL-33669 - Option to access Equella site when using EQUELLA repository
- MDL-37641 - Improved file names when a file already exists in a repository
Course listings
- MDL-37009 - Course listings are displayed consistently throughout the site (theme changes may be required)
- MDL-38708 - Course settings option to add images and other files to course summaries, displayed in course listings
- MDL-37572 - Categories edit page is separated from view and does not depend any more on global editing mode
Performance improvements
- MDL-35716 - New performance overview report
- MDL-35685 - Improved login performance
- MDL-36809 - Support for persistent connections to MariaDB/MySQL servers
- MDL-34344 - CFG caching in MUC
- MDL-34346 - New repository caching
- MDL-34401 - New caching of plugin information
- MDL-37718 - Improved database recordset memory use
- MDL-38212 - Workaround for some memory issues in cron
- MDL-38391 - Improved YUI module loading performance
- MDL-37127 - Use of minified YUI modules to reduce content size
Security related improvements
- MDL-35332 - Improved security of hashed passwords
- MDL-21342 - New user account lockout mechanism
Automated functional testing
- MDL-35611 - Behat integration, the framework for testing of user expectations, has been incorporated into Moodle.
Other highlights
Drag and drop improvements
- MDL-33688 - Drag and drop file upload progress indicator in filepicker
- MDL-32652 - Block drag & drop now works throughout the site (not just on course pages)!
Forum activity
- MDL-5875 - New forum setting 'Display word count'
Upload users
- MDL-36602 - mnethostid available as an upload users field
- MDL-38494 - Upload users accepts date-time format custom profile field
Settings block rename
- MDL-31983 - The Settings block has been renamed 'Administration' and reports have been moved there.
Miscellaneous
- MDL-28585 - Improved LDAP authentication password expiry handling
- MDL-37644 - New setting for showing course full names in the navigation block
- MDL-37728 - Role definition overview improvements
- MDL-32341 - Configurable calendar export date range
- MDL-34917 - Jump to section navigation for 'One section per page' setting in course formats
- MDL-36395 - New setting Maximum users per page for specifying the number of users shown in search results
- MDL-37596 - Scheduled maintenance mode
- MDL-35775 - Group import allows new groups to be assigned to groupings
- MDL-26649 - Date picker usability improvements
- MDL-37284 - Unicode support in MariaDB/MySQL is now configured automatically during installation
- MDL-35819 - Rewrite tooltip help to improve UI consistency, and performance.
For developers: API changes
- MDL-34640 - Improvements to how the question engine handles uploaded files. This should make it possible to write question types that automatically grade uploaded files.
- MDL-37287 - 3rd party libraries updated, ex.: YUI 3.9.1, TinyMCE 3.5.8, latest tcpdf and others
- MDL-15727 - jQuery and jQuery UI supported in add-ons
- MDL-29996 - Legacy filters are not supported any more, developers need to migrate filters from modules to standard filter location
- MDL-35356 - Excel and ODS export improvements
- MDL-35434 - Theme developers may use new admin setting type for user uploaded logo images
- MDL-37726 - PREVIOUS and NEXT attributes are not required in install.xml files
- MDL-38558 - It is now possible to run local pre-upgrade script
- MDL-38391 - Convert YUI_config to class in lib/outputrequirements.php.
- MDL-35819 - JS M.util.help_icon deprecated in favour of moodle-core-popuphelp