Moodle LMS 3.11

17 May 2021

Moodle LMS version 3.11 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.11

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.11

• Provide admin setting type for secure data (passwords/tokens)
  
• Add logging when auth config is automatically changed due to config/filesystem mismatch
  
• Reduce ability to fingerprint a server with a htaccess-dist / nginx file / docs
  
• Allow antivirus scanners to specify the message to the user
  
• Log changes to the message notifications settings
  
• Allow plugins to augment the cURL security helper via callback
  
• Reduce information disclosure from TCPDF version
  
• Log changes to auth plugin settings in config log
  
• Display user email address visibility settings on their own profile
  

• Define sort ordering for completion conditions
  
• Update the course homepage to display the activity information
  
• Implement the activity dates functionality for each activity and output them in view.php
  
• Create a base class for fetching a user's activity completion details
  
• Create a base class for fetching an activity's dates that are relevant for a given user
  
• Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 1
  
• Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 2
  
• Review and update existing web services to return the new fields and exported information from activities
  
• Activity completion fallback for third party plugins
  
• Remove duplicate activity dates
  
• Deprecate the *_get_completion_state() callbacks
  
• Create user tours for the activity information output component
  

• Brickfield Education Labs accessibility toolkit core integration
  

• Make Moodle OBv2.1 implementation compliant
  
• Add new "IMS OBv2.1" OAuth 2 service
  
• Remove "Backpack settings" site administration page and improve UI
  
• Improve resolution of badge image sent to external backpacks and used when duplicating badges
  

• Add ability to disable specified H5P content types
  
• Create a task to clean up unused H5P content
  
• Allow admins to set the default returntype in repository_contentbank
  
• Update content bank upload button to open file picker in a popup instead of new page
  
• Option to make a content bank item unlisted
  
• Open H5P file from H5P activity when it was added as a reference
  
• Content bank should provide info on the number of places where content is used and warn you when deleting
  

• Assignment comments should be also saved when clicking 'save changes' in the assignment grader page
  
• Allow mod_assign download all assignments to be streamed
  
• Assignment name filter preference should only affect current assignment's view
  
• Implement Poppler pdftoppm compatibility for faster assignment submission PDF to PNG conversion
  
• Add 'Draft' filter to assignment grading table
  

• Add Plagiarism support to essay questions
  
• Questions: Default options when creating a question
  
• Add default options for essay question type
  
• Add default options for ddimageortext, ddmarker and match question types
  
• Display pass grade on quiz front page
  
• Add optional min/max word count limits to Essay question type
  
• Read-only view of quiz settings overrides
  
• Improve manual grading of quiz essay answers - web page format
  
• Manual grading of automatically graded questions: show computer grading
  
• Add default options for numerical question type using user-preferences
  
• In a newly created quiz, prevent "Edit quiz" and "Back to the course" buttons sticking together
  
• Quiz override screens should show user identity fields
  
• Quiz review: name the person who made each change in the question response history (if not the student)
  

• Improve accessibility of profile images
  
• Make it possible to style toast notifications
  

• Create an output component that displays an activity's information for a user
  
• More filtering options on Activity Completion Report
  
• UX Review of session expired timeout modal
  
• Add year to messaging conversation date headings, if not the current year
  
• Show confirmation when profile changes are saved
  
• Add ability to search country field on Participants page
  
• Default the participants page filtering to "ALL"
  
• Improve notification preferences on/off buttons so they fit better with non-English strings
  
• OAuth2: Display login errors on the login page
  
• LTI: Support Course dates substitution parameters
  
• Create landing page for the reports link in the secondary navigation
  
• Update message preferences of a user as admin to use consistent toggle icons
  
• Add support for keyboard hotkeys in VideoJS
  
• Always show the close button on the message drawer
  

• Convert user profile fields for messaging/networking into custom profile fields
  
• Enable playbackrates for videojs
  
• Allow user profile fields to be specified as user identity fields - New code is backwards-compatible, but report code should be updated.
  
• Remove "Enable activity chooser" user preference
  
• Update Google Drive repository to allow Shared drive files
  
• Option to not include permissions overrides when importing or restoring a backup
  
• Backup and Restore lastaccess to course
  
• Remove option to hide a group picture
  
• Differentiate between grade as a noun and grade as a verb in the UI texts
  
• Add custom user field support to group management screens
  
• Add an option to display section names in Section link block
  

• Move Microsoft, Facebook and NextCloud OAuth2 services to new, reorganised architecture
  
• Add a "Replace filter" option on the admin browse users page
  
• Ability to force cron scheduled task definitions in config.php (schedule and disabled)
  
• Create a CLI script to reset user dashboards
  
• Improve the web services tokens management to allow searching and filtering
  
• Check for removed files before CLI upgrade
  
• Add ability to switch off session lock debugging
  
• Implement a renderer for progress_bar in cli output
  
• Allow disabled tasks to be run from the GUI
  
• Add the ability to configure OAuth2 services for login only; add login display name
  
• Update the ClamAV default behaviour when an error occurs
  
• Use Dynamic Registration to allow Tools to update to LTI Advantage
  
• Payment service consumers should be able to specify url after payment
  
• Make it easier to find a specific component in template library
  
• Allow searching of available language packs
  
• Add showdebugging and showsql options to admin/cli/uninstall_plugins.php
  
• Config change event should link to config change report
  
• Sort capabilities in capability overview tool
  

• Add a new option in Moodle app "Disabled features" for preventing the new LTI launch in the app
  
• Include option for testing Push notifications in a site
  

• mod/folder/download_folder.php should be a streaming zip download
  
• Make my_reset_page_for_all_users for dashboards more robust
  
• Implement cleanup of analytics_indicator_calc stores table
  
• Extend the 'backup_cleanup_task' scheduled task to remove old files
  
• Cache course image in the course_summary_exporter
  
• Allow redis session store to use zip or zStd for compression like redis MUC
  
• Running a scheduled task in the GUI should unlock the session
  
• Eliminate DB queries in mod/glossary/settings.php
  
• Update language pack installs / updates to run asynchronously to avoid timeouts when multiple are used
  

• New sql_group_concat db method
  
• Add module for displaying moodleform in a modal window
  
• Upgrade PHPUnit to 9.5.x
  
• Improve the readonly session debugging message
  
• HTTP 503 Service Not Available is returned by exceptions and should be 500 instead
  
• Upgrade boost to use Bootstrap latest version
  
• Restore backup: add getter method for oldmoduleid
  
• Support large number of SQL-IN parameters in Postgres
  
• Preserve form data when purging individual caches
  
• Move user_fields from core to core_user
  

• Add ability for "get enrolled users" web service to be filtered by suspended users
  
• Create a new endpoint (script) to retrieve draft files from web services
  
• Create web service to trigger report_viewed event for H5P activities
  
• Create H5P activity web service to get the list of students that attempted an activity
  
• New web service core_files_get_unused_draft_itemid
  
• Return quiz pass grade via web services
  
• Update mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service to return the last_modified attribute
  
• Batch create API for grade categories
  
• All new external functions implementation classes should use execute as the method name, in which case the methodname property should not be specified in db/services.php file
  

• Deprecate unused backpack js functions
  
• Deprecate get_forum_discussions_paginated webservice
  
• Phase 2 of deprecation of functions in lib/deprecatedlib.php initially deprecated in 3.7
  
• Final deprecation for analytics methods deprecated in MDL-64783
  
• Final deprecation of i_dock_block()
  
• Final deprecation of \core_analytics\manager::add_builtin_models()
  
• get_enabled_time_splitting_methods final deprecation
  
• Final deprecation of behat_base::TIMEOUT and related constants
  
• Remove message/defaultoutputs.php and final deprecation of admin_page_manageqbehaviours class
  
• Final deprecation of booktool_print_get_toc()
  
• Final deprecation of enrol/database/cli/sync.php
  

• admin/upgrade.txt
  
• analytics/upgrade.txt
  
• auth/shibboleth/upgrade.txt
  
• backup/upgrade.txt
  
• badges/upgrade.txt
  
• blocks/section_links/upgrade.txt
  
• blocks/tag_youtube/upgrade.txt
  
• completion/upgrade.txt
  
• contentbank/upgrade.txt
  
• course/upgrade.txt
  
• customfield/upgrade.txt
  
• enrol/database/upgrade.txt
  
• enrol/upgrade.txt
  
• group/upgrade.txt
  
• h5p/upgrade.txt
  
• lib/upgrade.txt
  
• mod/book/upgrade.txt
  
• mod/feedback/upgrade.txt
  
• mod/forum/upgrade.txt
  
• mod/h5pactivity/upgrade.txt
  
• mod/quiz/upgrade.txt
  
• payment/upgrade.txt
  
• plagiarism/upgrade.txt
  
• question/type/upgrade.txt
  
• report/upgrade.txt
  
• repository/upgrade.txt
  
• theme/upgrade.txt
  
• user/upgrade.txt
  
• webservice/upgrade.txt