Moodle LMS 3.3

22 May 2017

Moodle LMS version 3.3 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.3

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.3

• MDL-55611 - New Course overview dashboard block featuring timeline of events
  
• MDL-58220 - Make use of OAuth 2 services to allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives
  
• MDL-39913 - New Assignment setting for restricting submission file types
  
• MDL-4782 - "Stealth mode" for resources/activities in a course - not displayed on the course page but available for students
  
• MDL-40759 - New Font Awesome icon font for all icons in Moodle
  

• MDL-58138 - Activity completion settings for setting activity completion defaults and bulk editing of completion requirements
  
• MDL-48771 - Quiz activity: Option to delete multiple questions
  
• MDL-53814 - Quiz activity: Question type icons are displayed in the quiz manual grading overview
  
• MDL-55459 - Assignment activity: Annotated PDF comments are collapsible
  
• MDL-23919 - Database activity: The setting "Required entries" is now an activity completion condition
  
• MDL-57769 - Topic and weeks course formats: After a course is created, sections can be added and removed only from the course page (it is no longer possible to have "orphaned" activities)
  
• MDL-46929, MDL-57456, MDL-57457 - Forum posts, glossary entries and book chapters may be tagged
  
• MDL-56251 - For courses in weekly format, a new course setting allows for the course end date to be calculated automatically
  
• MDL-47354 - Allow the page size in the Single view report to be configurable
  

• MDL-34859 - Add site defaults for all restore settings, improve UI around "Overwrite course configuration" select
  
• MDL-40838 - Allow to restore non-default enrollment methods without restoring users
  
• MDL-57769 - When restoring/importing big courses in Weeks and Topics formats into small existing courses ajust the number of sections automatically
  

• MDL-46375 - Support for storing files not on the local drive (there are no open-source solutions at the moment, developer's help is required to implement custom cloud storage)
  
• MDL-55528, MDL-58280 - New document converter plugin type allows alternatives to unoconv, such as the Google Drive converter
  
• MDL-55980 - Run individual scheduled tasks from web interface
  
• MDL-57896 - CLI wrapper for get_config() and set_config() methods
  
• MDL-57789 - Use Cache-Control: immutable when serving files
  
• MDL-37765 - New capability to bypass access restrictions, separated from capability to view hidden activities
  
• MDL-57913 - Convert external database authentication synchronisation to scheduled task
  
• Plugins removal and deprecation: The repository Skydrive is deprecated; please migrate to the newer OneDrive repository
  
• Plugins removal and deprecation: The Dashboard block Course overview is replaced with a new block Course overview which is a different plugin. If you want to use the old block, you need to download and install it from https://moodle.org/plugins/block_course_overview
  

• MDL-57410 - Allow admins to add new external links to pages in the main menu of the Mobile app
  
• MDL-57408 - Add new settings for allowing renaming strings in the Mobile app
  
• MDL-49423 - Add new settings for disabling Mobile app functionalities
  
• MDL-57759 - Allow offline attempts via the Mobile app in the lesson module
  
• MDL-57162 - Support Native App install banners for Android as well as iOS for the mobile app
  

• MDL-33483 - Google Docs repository: Save Doc files in different formats to RTF
  
• MDL-42266 - Improve the list of maximum file size options for file uploads
  
• MDL-51853 - Calendar subscriptions from imported files should be editable
  
• MDL-41729 - Add ability to change passwords for users using Shibboleth
  
• MDL-57572, MDL-57570, MDL-57355 - Redis and static caches performance improvements if igbinary library is installed
  
• MDL-56808 - SCORM module: Performance improvements when running SCORM 1.2 packages
  
• MDL-57686 - Add support for PDO databases in external database authentication
  
• MDL-57638 - RSS Block: RSS feeds are more heavily cached and correctly respect skip values
  

• MDL-55528 - New plugin type 'fileconverter' for file conversions, unoconv is now a plugin that can be replaced with scalable commercial solutions (see File Converters)
  
• MDL-40759 - Font Awesome icon font is used for all icons in Moodle (see Moodle icons)
  
• MDL-46375 - Support for storing files not on the local drive is implemented by allowing to override functionality of file_storage and stored_file classes (see File System API)
  
• MDL-12689 - Convert all authentication plugins to use settings.php (see upgrade.txt)
  
• MDL-53978 - Add extra plugin callbacks for every major stage of page render (see commit)
  
• MDL-58138 - Course modules may provide additional callbacks to participate in bulk editing of activities completion rules in a course
  
• MDL-58220 - Better office integration
  
• MDL-45584 - Multiple caches can be instantiated with the same definition but with different identifiers
  
• MDL-57769 - Course formats: Attribute 'numsections' was removed from topics and weeks, other course formats may want to implement similar changes
  
• MDL-55956 - Priority field for the calendar events allowing to specify the priority of overrides
  
• MDL-58566 - New methods for retrieving calendar events
  
• MDL-55941 - New element to select first name of first/last names is implemented in tablelib or can be used by developers elsewhere (template)
  
• MDL-56519 - Lint behat .feature files
  
• MDL-57273 - New classes (core\persistent, core\form\persistent, core\external\exporter, \core\external\persistent_exporter) used to represent a data-model and export that data in a standard format for webservices (previously was used in competencies) (see Persistent form, Persistent, Exporter)
  
• MDL-57490 - Removed several legacy JS functions from javascript-static.js
  
• MDL-57690 - mcore YUI rollup is no longer included on every single Moodle page (see [forum post])