Moodle LMS 3.4

30 December 2017

Moodle LMS version 3.4 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.4

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.4

• Calendar entries in monthly view should include course shortname
  
• Create calendar event quick-add
  
• Add navigation of all calendar views without page reload
  
• Add support for drag and drop of calendar events
  
• Add support for creation and update of calendar events using a modal dialogue
  
• Add support for calendar events at the category level
  

• Merge Course Participants and Enrolled Users pages
  
• Add bulk editing of enrolment status/dates for users in the course participants page
  
• Remove the "Brief / User Details" functionality from the participants page
  
• Enrol Users button on participants page
  
• Add filter controls to the participants page to allow custom filtering
  
• Add a roles column to participants page
  
• Add a groups column to the participants page
  
• Add a status column to the participants page
  
• Remove the columns from the participants page that are not in showuseridentity
  
• Add "Proceed to course content" to participants page
  

• Implement analytics engine in Moodle
  
• Add links and a drop down to navigate between activities
  
• Allow teachers to mark activities as completed
  

• Correct the permissions required to download and restore course automated backups
  
• Restore with roll forward changes dates for user data
  
• Restore date should not roll for user created data - Core components
  

• Index contents of the restored courses
  
• Course reset doesn‘t always shift dates (fixed)
  
• Global search: Make it possible to search blocks
  
• Global search: Allow partial indexing (in scheduled task)
  

• Assign arbitrary system roles via LDAP sync
  
• Add option to trust email of an OAuth provider
  
• Enable OAuth 2 token-based authentication for requests in webdav_client
  
• Global Search: Increase file indexing coverage
  
• Global search: Allow search of non-enrolled courses
  

• LIS Group Variables support in LTI
  
• Should have checkbox for extra credit when you add a grade item
  
• Web services: Manage tokens page should show tokens for all users
  
• Display space used in My Private Files
  
• Performance improvement in Server files repository
  
• Performance improvement due to Role definition caching & accesslib refactoring
  
• Assignment grading: Adding back "Save and show next"
  
• Make section titles and course titles more accessible in Boost
  
• Allow to tag database entries
  
• Assignment: automatically remove embedded files that are no longer linked from submission text. Reduce the size of "Download all submissions"
  
• Lesson overview report does not respect value of showuseridentity setting
  
• Forum: make Subscription mode setting configurable
  

• Deprecate loginhttps. Sites that used to use this setting will now be served via https always
  
• Tool to convert http embedded content to https where available
  
• Let the admin control if the course end date form field in course settings is enabled by default
  
• New filters for User Tours
  
• Compile SCSS files on the command-line
  
• Upgrade: Show upgrade times
  
• Missing index on (timemodified) in grade_items_history table and several other grade history tables. This will increase performance of various reports but may also slow down Moodle upgrade
  
• Add CLI script to kill all sessions
  
• Register and publish courses with moodle.net only, remove support for alternative hubs
  
• Trigger an event in add_to_config_log function
  
• Move "Messages" block out from the standard Moodle distribution
  
• SEO - Create admin setting to be able to enable or disable search engine indexing for sites with forcelogin
  
• Boost: Add a setting for background image
  
• Create new security setting to configure the expiration time of tokens created via login/token.php or tool/mobile/launch.php
  

• Students can find out email addresses of other students in the same course (fixed)
  

• Upgrade PHPUnit to 6.4 to ensure compatibility with PHP 7.2 - may require changes in unittests.
  
• Compatibility with chrome mink driver
  
• Provide a way to retrieve all courses a user can potentially access.
  
• Global Search: Increase file indexing coverage
  
• Global search: Make it possible to search blocks. See the new \core_search\base_block class.
  
• Form element and admin setting type to choose file types and type groups
  
• Formslib - add function to $mform that makes it possible to hide form elements dependent on selected values
  
• Add possibility to disable admin warning if a development libs directory exists
  
• Plagiarism: onlinetext submission should pass raw submissiontext to plagiarism get_links()