Moodle LMS 2.9

11 May 2015

Moodle LMS version 2.9 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 2.9

What's New in Moodle LMS 2.9

• MDL-45894, MDL-49634 - Grades page listing all my courses, and all courses I am teaching in one place (linked from User Menu)
• MDL-48936 - My Home is now Dashboard
• MDL-48932, MDL-45898 - Redesign profile page, make it pluggable
• MDL-45895 - New Preferences page (linked from user menu)
• MDL-45896 - Consistent header for user pages
• MDL-48931 - Consistent header for user sub pages
• MDL-48935 - Consistent bread crumbs for user pages
• MDL-49635 - Remove redundant nodes from nav tree
• MDL-49983 - Improve consistency of the use of the word "My" in navigation

• MDL-43996 - Drag and drop image into Atto editor inserts it as a file
• MDL-19670 - Teacher can post the same forum question to all groups at once
• MDL-47172 - “You have assignments that need attention” in the course overview block displays relevant information for teachers
• MDL-48933 - Ajax interface for messaging
• MDL-25721 - Sort by age when viewing question banks
• MDL-23296 - Provide search function for Server files area in the file picker
• MDL-48937 - Don't show the category in the breadcrumb if there is only one category
• MDL-26226 - Section names in the navigation can link to the sections
• MDL-49694 - Overview report shows the full course name
• MDL-47527 - Allow access to overview report for users who can view all grades
• MDL-36009, MDL-46662 - Grader report accessibility improvement
• MDL-47562 - UI Fixes and improvements for SingleView report
• MDL-47434 - Do not display 'General' section in navigation block if it's empty

• MDL-10405 - Added button to quickly delete a whole section on the course homepage
• MDL-31500 - Allow backup and restore on the front page
• MDL-5583 - Fields in database module can be set as required
• MDL-28526 - Glossary can export/import embedded images and attached files
• MDL-49006, MDL-49101 - Removed default requirement of activity description and substituted with a single setting
• MDL-13831 - Grade to pass can be set by editing activity without going to gradebook
• MDL-46960 - Completion status is updated immediately for student when activity is graded
• MDL-27074 - Display group name for group events in the calendar
• MDL-48969 - New activity results block
• MDL-18177 - Add option to choose whether groups and/or groupings are included in a back up
• MDL-20053 - Database activity: create ##userpicture## tag to allow the user's profile picture to be displayed
• MDL-49543 - Add a WYSIWYG field to Badges which is displayed on the criteria page
• MDL-46416 - Possible to change / remove picture from group
• MDL-49687 - Adding a single person to multiple groups at the same time
• MDL-21724 - The course edit page needs a way to redirect to some page other than the main course page after saving
• MDL-47628 - When grouping is selected for the activity display a button to quickly create access restriction (helps users who were used to groupmembersonly)
• MDL-23178 - Allow indenting again for activities in the Main Menu block
• MDL-46238 - Add a simple way to go back from enrol/users.php page to the course

• MDL-15187 - Assign global roles using CSV upload
• MDL-30937 - Backup report again links to the individual course backup summaries
• MDL-32547 - Configure temporary file deletion, to avoid moodledata/temp/backup filling up the filesystem
• MDL-49684 - Replace custom Moodle timezone stuff with standard PHP date/time code
• MDL-25763 - CLI version of admin/replace.php
• MDL-44874 - Per-request temp directories
• MDL-46064 - Drop support for MyISAM
• MDL-49298 - Make tgz backups standard
• MDL-47834 - New option for restriction of concurrent logins in managing authentication
• MDL-47800 - Logout user when somebody changes their password
• MDL-47830 - Add password rotation restrictions
• MDL-48559 - Web CRON should be disabled by default
• MDL-48080 - Never send mail to domains ending in .invalid
• MDL-48595 - Log exports no longer fails because of memory limit
• MDL-28513 - Allow specification of admin user email in CLI installer
• MDL-49842 - Allow specification of front page summary in CLI installer
• MDL-47803 - New page that shows all browser sessions of current user
• MDL-34684 - New health check to detect incorrect category path order and/or missing parent categories
• MDL-48493 - Automatically detect the plugin type when installing from ZIP
• MDL-48894 - Site registration page states if site is registered
• MDL-18183 - Option to verify peer and host of MNet peer using HTTPS

• MDL-42616 - Files: Support custom file types
• MDL-43752 - S3 repository works for non-US repositories

• Several improvements to meta enrolments, such as: populate groups from courses MDL-17929, sorting courses alphabetically MDL-35696, button to quickly add a new method MDL-49439
• MDL-26017 - Keyholder capability in self-enrolment plugin
• MDL-20365 - Salted Crypt passwords option for external database authentication
• MDL-49380 - Chose "Create new group" when synchronising cohort enrolment with a group
• MDL-49677 - Improvement of Custom welcome message in self-enrolment plugin
• MDL-43415 - Custom profile fields should be syncable with external DB auth
• MDL-49638 - reCAPTCHA should be moved below custom profile fields during self registration

• MDL-348 - Printer-friendly option for quizzes
• MDL-40988 - Add section headings to quiz
• MDL-40992 - Option for teachers to allow students to redo a finished question within a quiz attempt
• MDL-35280 - quiz_reset_userdata does not have an option to remove user/group overrides
• MDL-48898 - Quiz time period setting should use admin_setting_configduration
• MDL-6340 - force unique/unseen questions in retakes
• MDL-40990 - Teachers can require students to complete Question 1 before they can see Question 2
• MDL-49814 - Quiz navigation indicates depended questions

• MDL-48803 - support for groups
• MDL-48715 - moving “time spent” from prerequisite to the proper completion rule
• MDL-43387 - UI for grading essays
• MDL-48244 - Lessons with no questions show completed after the first page is viewed
• MDL-47587 - Make progress bar available on the very last page of a lesson.
• MDL-49642 - Give time/date extensions to users and groups in lesson
• MDL-40286 - non-editing teacher should see Grade analysis in Lesson
• MDL-48473 - Lesson shortanswer question: add fill in the blank option
• MDL-48984 - Lesson content page jump descriptions, numerical and shortanswer questions answers allow rich html but should be plain text
• MDL-18553 - Removing grade info from lesson pages if lesson grade is 0
• MDL-26689 - in order to prevent interactivity references from being broken move the "Dependent on" feature to the completion/availability subsystem
• MDL-49183 - Page creation, update and delete events added
• MDL-48883 - Content page viewed, Question page viewed and Question page answered events added

• MDL-48221 - Make forum subscription combinations less confusing with different combinations
• MDL-48822 - Find last visual post in a discussion
• MDL-46755 - Allow teachers to configure the number of discussions displayed using the social course format
• MDL-49069 - Ability to specify default values for Forum RSS
• MDL-48159 - For users without group prevent submissions instead of using "Default team" in group assignments
• MDL-47777 - Convert assignment maximum files per submission maximum to global setting
• MDL-45848 - Possible to assign Marker on a marking guide or rubric assignment without giving a grade
• MDL-49220 - Allow preview of Choice options before activity is opened for submission
• MDL-34375 - Choice module should display information in "Course overview" block
• MDL-43770 - Exclude inactive users' responses from Choice report (with an option to include)
• MDL-32285 - Added "Continue" button under Error notification message (IMS CP)
• MDL-49730 - Workshop: use full page width when displaying contents
• MDL-36874 - Text navigation for Books
• MDL-49563 - Allow glossary entry to be updated from glossary navigation

• MDL-46763 - Save user images as JPEG if uploaded in that format.
• MDL-48760 - MathJax library updated to 2.5
• MDL-47232 - Course completion: "Activities to be completed" should not require passing grade
• MDL-48437 - Make Visible/All groups selector show own groups first
• MDL-47501 - Add an indication that the grade letters was overridden
• MDL-47159 - Link plugin in Atto should add 'http://' prefix when necessary
• MDL-9443 - Run *.xhtml file through the text filters.
• MDL-48616 - Add Macrons in Atto character map
• MDL-46665 - Add 'idnumber' field to user filter
• MDL-48499 - Show which users have not received messages in bulk messaging
• MDL-49333 - Return additional information in WebService core_get_site_info

• A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

• MDL-49046 - Support for Asynchronous Module Definition formatted javascript modules
• MDL-49163 - Support for calling webservice functions directly from javascript
• MDL-49152 - Support for implementing renderers as mustache templates (php and javascript)
• MDL-44874 - A new per-request directory API has been added, and should be used instead of make_temp_directory wherever possible.
• MDL-49604 - Support for in browser caching (localstorage) of strings and templates
• MDL-49650 - Template Library - tool for displaying templates in the current theme
• MDL-48887 - New auth hook to intercept code before login page is shown.
• MDL-48177 - Allow plugin environment checks to work without defining explicit versions of Moodle
• MDL-46728 - WOFF2 fonts are supported in themes.
• MDL-39752, MDL-49456 - Behat tests runs in parallel
• MDL-49163 - Unified Ajax script handler
• MDL-27548 - The comments table contains the component
• MDL-49269 - Add an AMD log module
• MDL-49534 - Delete pear/HTTP/WebDav
• MDL-48212 - Introduces a new class \core\message\message that should be used instead of \stdClass for creating messages.
• MDL-37477 - html_table API supports caption tag
• MDL-49643 - Deprecate inconsistent API to extend the navigation by local plugins
• MDL-49361 - Ability to provide alternate strings manager
• MDL-44642 - Implemented backend to keep session alive
• MDL-45725 - User preferences for flexible tables can be set persistent across sessions
• MDL-49306 - When copying block instances the instance data is also copied
• MDL-47915 - Theme layout "embedded" uses id='page-content' rather than 'content' to be consistent with other layouts
• MDL-48212 - Implement new message api to support specific text only on a given handler
• MDL-49262 - Delete the yui versions of the bootstrap plugins
• MDL-40864 - Use div.logo instead of a.logo in Bootstrapbase / Clean / More home links
• MDL-48160 - For theme developers: changes to block region layouts when coded for RTL