Moodle LMS 3.2

4 December 2016

Moodle LMS version 3.2 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.2

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.2

• MDL-55071, MDL-55074 - New "Boost" Bootstrap 4 theme, usability improvements of the navigation
  
• MDL-54682 - Messaging UI changes
  
• MDL-52777 - Moodle Tour/Walkthough/Instructional overlays for first time user on page (User tours)
  
• MDL-38158 - Pluggable media players in Moodle; Video.JS player
  
• MDL-55324 - Easier embedding videos in audios in Atto editor with poster, subtitles and other attributes
  
• MDL-54987 - New chart API and library
  

• MDL-53870 - Support for offline quizzes in the Mobile app
  
• MDL-53777 - Include support for login via the browser in the new Moodle Mobile admin tool
  
• MDL-55059 - Support Smart App Banners for iOS
  
• MDL-56607 - Move mobile settings to top-level admin
  

• MDL-49609 - Add LTI Content Item support
  
• MDL-47113 - Open LTI Tools in new Window, add link when popup is blocked
  
• MDL-53832 - LTI v2.0 support
  

• MDL-38105 - Allow negative score for rubric and change default grade calculation method
  
• MDL-29795 - Add user/group overrides for mod/assign
  
• MDL-54872 - Sort blind marked assignment by blind ID instead of userid
  

• MDL-48629 - Change the separator for matching correct answer feedback
  
• MDL-3782 - Allow multiple answers in cloze MULTICHOICE question type
  
• MDL-55200 - Show coordinates in ddmarker questions to simplify dropzone creation
  

• MDL-18592 - Allow teacher to make choices for students
  
• MDL-11369 - Show choice deadline in the course calendar
  
• MDL-55140 - Allow to specify open and close dates separately
  
• MDL-37946 - When choice display is set horizontal or vertical apply it to both options and results display
  

• MDL-18599 - Upon restore, association of "owner" of single simple discussion forum type defaults to user completing restore. Solution: hide author of the first post
  
• MDL-37669 - Forum: Make "Mark as read on notification" a user preference
  
• MDL-55982 - Add support for automatic locking of an individual forum discussion after a period of inactivity
  

• MDL-55327 - Lesson: option to duplicate pages
  
• MDL-55868 - Book: various usability improvements
  
• MDL-56100 - Folder: Display in recent activity block
  
• MDL-54945 - Workshop: integrate with portfolio API
  
• MDL-48944 - Survey: activity completion condition on survey completion
  
• MDL-44712 - SCORM: improve Multi-SCO completion handing in activity completion
  
• MDL-55158 - Database activity: add start and end dates to the calendar
  
• MDL-14448, MDL-55464, MDL-55254, MDL-55251, MDL-49029 - Add standard capability "mod/xxxxx:view" to Lesson, Label, Database, Chat and Choice activities
  
• MDL-55866 - Remember editor disabled setting on a per-activity setting
  

• MDL-54794 - Add users to global search
  
• MDL-54973 - Add messages to global search
  
• MDL-55127 - Add database entries to global search
  
• MDL-53222 - Revise admin settings/report for global search for improved usability
  

• MDL-30179 - Allow teacher to toggle to/from "user view" in the User report in the gradebook (some items may be hidden for students but not teachers)
  
• MDL-53048 - New "password" fields that are not auto-filled by password managers
  
• MDL-55767 - Allow to import learning plans
  
• MDL-29110 - Specify welcome email sender in enrol_self, or send emails from system noreply address
  
• MDL-22078 - Store "End date" for each course to be used in reports and analytics
  
• MDL-53399 - Remove 'activity chooser off/on' option
  
• MDL-54751 - Introduce asynchronous module deletion so that recycle bin backup does not slow down editing process for the teacher
  
• MDL-55981 - By default non-editing teacher should not be able to access all groups (roles in upgraded sites are not changed)
  
• MDL-31356 - IMS Enterprise enrol plugin added features
  
• MDL-43230 - Support revoking awarded badges
  
• MDL-50286 - Allow to filter report_log by origin : Logs clogged up with events listed as origin cli
  
• MDL-51749 - Add Ability to Export Calendar for user or group events
  
• MDL-50888 - Antivirus: Implement ClamAV virus scanning using unix sockets.
  
• MDL-54617 - Always show count of online users in the online users block
  
• MDL-54680 - Offer cartridges in LTI provider
  

• MDL-44467 - Return-Path should use no-reply address instead of support email; use only no-reply email or allowed domains in "From" header
  
• MDL-48468 - Add a Redis cache store to Moodle core
  
• MDL-39117 - Add a APCu cache store to Moodle core
  
• MDL-54947 - Update PostgreSQL binary (bytea) handling and improve connection performance
  
• MDL-48766 - Support IPv6 in IP lookup tool
  
• MDL-55124 - Support for connection pooler (pgbouncer) in PostgreSQL connection
  
• MDL-55916 - Maintenance mode should serve a http 503 instead of a 200
  
• MDL-54606 - Sessions: Add support for Redis as a session_class_handler
  
• MDL-53366 - Antivirus clamav: Remove "Quarantine directory" settings parameter.
  
• MDL-55791 - Add capability to allow certain users through Maintenance mode
  

• MDL-55837 - Themes Base and Canvas - these themes can not be used by themselves but they may be used as parent themes
  
• MDL-49533 - Repository Alfresco for Alfresco 4.2 and below, see Alfresco repository documentation
  
• MDL-55927 - Authentication method Radius. This plugin uses mcrypt library and is not compatible with PHP 7.1
  
• MDL-38158 - Media players Flowplayer, Windows media player, RealPlayer, Quicktime - these media players were present in Moodle 3.1 but removed in 3.2. They need to be installed in media/player directory
  

• MDL-31465 - Incorporate user suspension into web services
  
• MDL-45639 - Web Service for SSO (auto-login from the app to the site)
  
• MDL-55923 - Improve the behavior of deleted tokens on password reset
  
• MDL-55928 - New Web Service gradereport_user_get_grade_items
  
• MDL-55100 - New Web Service core_course_get_courses_by_field
  

• MDL-55071, MDL-55074 - New "Boost" Bootstrap 4 theme, block and navigation changes (see Boost_Navigation and Themes documentation)
  
• MDL-38158 - Introduction of Media players plugin type (see Media players documentation)
  
• MDL-55727 - Create AMD modal module (see AMD Modal documentation)
  
• MDL-49599 - Deprecate old boxnet v1 API
  
• MDL-53306 - Add hook to be executed before user login in authentication plugins
  
• MDL-55048 - Grunt and npm build dependencies now require node version 4 or above
  
• MDL-47162 - Add course id to message eventdata
  
• MDL-50937 - Update to JQuery 3.1 (see jQuery documentation)
  
• MDL-48114 - Add Meta-Information to composer.json
  
• MDL-54987 - Introduce a new chart API and library (see Charts_API)
  
• MDL-52127 - Linting for Javascript with ESLint (see Linting Javascript)
  
• MDL-55058 - Linting for CSS with stylelint (see Linting CSS)
  
• MDL-55072 - Upgrades to Behat so it can work with different themes
  
• MDL-55141 - Add debugging option when running scheduled tasks from CLI (documentation)
  
• MDL-31243 - Refactor similar SQL generation code from get_users_by_capability & get_enrolled_uses to make get_with_capability_sql
  
• MDL-54941 - Add filesize as a new field returned in all the Web Services returning file information
  
• MDL-55091 - Upgrade phpunit to 5.x
  
• MDL-56082 - Expose external authentication methods (loginpage_idp_list) in login block (see Authentication plugin documentation)
  
• MDL-55072 - Behat now supports different themes. (See Acceptance test documentation)
  
• MDL-48114 - Moodle can now be downloaded via composer(documentation)