Moodle LMS 3.10

9 November 2020

Moodle LMS version 3.10 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.10

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.10

• Add admin options for how to handle detected viruses
  
• Add a Referrer-Policy header setting to the security admin settings
  

• Add ZipStream library to core
  
• Create course content export API
  
• Course content download - add site admin and course level settings, implement in course user interface
  

• Add payment as subsystem supporting payment gateways
  

• Add the option to personalize H5P styles
  
• Add library file caching to h5p
  
• Method of saving embedded H5P content grades in the gradebook
  
• Add Example and Tutorial links to the H5P editor
  
• Clean up temporary H5P editor files
  

• Download content from the content bank
  
• Replace content file from content bank
  
• Add a notification when the content bank is empty
  
• Add the author to the content bank "file details" view
  

• New quiz completion option: At least one (or N) attempt completed
  
• Scrolling quiz timer
  
• Qtype_essay: Adding file-size limit to the attachment files
  

• WCAG 4.1.2: aria-hidden elements contain focusable elements
  
• Add Behat step to verify WCAG A and WCAG AA compliance
  

• LTI Advantage: Content Item flow to support creating multiple links
  
• Implement LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration
  
• LTI: support substitution parameter for course history
  

• For folder resource, allow files to be opened in the browser rather than being downloaded
  
• Let users define their preferred backpack
  
• Cleanup custom 404 page and more easily support custom 50x error pages
  
• Assignment grading page: "Changes saved" should not be modal dialog
  
• Add ability to copy to Equella repository
  
• Improvement of modal UI when modal exceeds the height of the browser
  
• Lesson: Allow maximum number of attempts to be unlimited
  
• Grade report single view - confirm message if Override None is selected
  
• Use a consistent search input field across all Moodle searches
  
• Use autocomplete widget for course category selector
  
• Boost: Make images in topic descriptions scale with the browser window
  
• Option to not include legacy course files in backup and restore process
  
• Social activity course format should allow for using the activity chooser
  
• Show original role name of renamed roles when enrolling users
  

• Keep OAuth 2 connections alive across users' sessions
  
• Timeline block shows incorrect date of due items
  
• tool_uploadcourse should check if enrolment method can be disabled/deleted
  
• User tours: Add tour-level CSS selector
  
• Option to allow HTML in the page headings (skip applying format_string)
  
• Set language in user profile during account auto-creation based on browser language instead of admin setting
  
• Control the display of available spaces in limited choices
  

• Tasks: Show information about running tasks, allow tasks to be disabled
  
• New capability to self enrol in course
  
• User upload via CLI
  
• Add CLI script to restore a course from backup file
  
• Add import to tool_customlang
  
• Add export to tool_customlang
  
• Add option to show only contributed plugins in uninstall script
  
• Add ability to add dkim signatures using phpmailer
  
• Have a way to append fixed arbitrary headers to all emails
  
• Expose divertallemailsto and divertallemailsexcept in the admin settings GUI
  
• Add support for terabytes and petabytes in the display_size function
  

• Add a new message provider for course completed
  
• Add option for "sign-out" only for the Moodle app
  
• Config setting for mobile file type exclusion list
  
• Update mobile app connected message so it is not misleading when the user has not used the app for a time
  
• WebService: Users should be able to contact the site's support via the Moodle App
  

• Performance improvement on Moodle Event table
  
• external_tokens table will benefit from index on token field
  
• Improve cacheability of assignfeedback_editpdf/stamps
  
• Improve efficiency of blocks_for_region()
  
• tool_replace: additional skip tables
  
• Search: Allow query on one Solr server and indexing on another
  
• Search: Stop Solr 'optimize' behaviour
  
• Search: Allow Solr to add documents in batches
  

• AWS Aurora MySQL support for Moodle
  
• Allow alternate MUC cache config class (eg allow setup in pure $CFG / config.php)
  
• PHP Warning when purging all caches: race condition?
  
• New optional SQL debug mode which instruments SQL with the calling PHP code
  
• Improve theme designer mode - part 2
  
• Upgrade phpunit to 8.5.x
  
• Update before_footer hook to allow for output to be added to the page
  
• Rename terms to use inclusive language
  
• Upgrade XMPPHP to latest version
  
• Allow plugins to attach data to grade items during backup and restore
  
• Add a way to decide what plugin will show in the activity chooser footer
  

• Create API for grade category (gradebook)
  
• Dataformat - Store to filearea support
  
• Add user idnumber and gradeitem idnumber to gradereport_user_get_grade_items webservice
  
• New Web Service mod_glossary_update_entry
  
• New Web Service core_files_delete_draft_files
  
• Allow specifying a timezone when calling WebServices
  
• New Web Service mod_glossary_delete_entry
  
• Create new Web Service for retrieving the user calendar via iCal
  
• Add courseId and forumId info to mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service
  

• Deprecate supports_recursion() & extend_lock() in the Lock API
  
• Remove Bootstrap 2 and Bootstrap 4 alpha compatibility files
  
• Final removal of lib/coursecatlib.php
  
• Final deprecation of web services in message/externallib.php
  
• Remove the lib/form/htmleditor.php element
  
• Final deprecation of the events message_contact_blocked and message_contact_unblocked
  
• Final deprecation: I navigate to "ITEM" node in "MAINNODE > PATH" behat step
  
• Final deprecation of add_to_log()
  
• Final deprecation of the gradingform_provider interface