Moodle LMS 3.6.2

21 January 2019

Moodle LMS version 3.6.2 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.6.2

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.6.2

• Manage groups capability was missing the XSS risk flag
  
• User full name is now escaped in the un-linked userpix page
  

• CAS authentication fixed
  
• Exponential question growth prevented when duplicating quizzes
  
• Hidden courses no longer send forum notifications to participants
  
• IMS Common Cartridge can restore from custom temp directory
  
• Drag and drop file uploads now respect the ignore file size limits capability
  
• Performance improvement when fetching notifications
  
• Lesson question responses show multimedia consistently
  
• Messaging user info fix in bootstrapbase themes
  
• Question bank pagination fix
  
• The result of core_user::is_real_user is now consistent
  
• Database query efficiency improvement to core_grade privacy provider
  
• Admin bookmarks block can bookmark admin categories
  
• All unread counts in message functionality now update without a page refresh
  
• Filter support added to group message conversation names
  
• LTI assignment and grade LineItems are retained after the cleanup scheduled task is run
  
• GDPR moodle_content_writer can no longer cause an endless loop
  
• User images are linked to their profile in the new messaging interface
  
• Assignment grading interface 'Next page' navigation now resets scrolling to the top of the next page
  

• Previous messaging conversations should be displayed after upgrading
  

• Facebook logo is correctly displayed when using OAuth 2 authentication
  
• Calculated multichoice question able to answer with negative note in interactive mod
  

• Login CSRF vulnerability in login form. Note that this fix has previously been disclosed following the release of Moodle 3.5.3, 3.4.6, 3.3.9 and 3.1.15
  

• Data requests bulk actions
  
• Option to make site policies required or optional
  
• Capabilities for controlling who can download SAR data
  
• Data deletion of existing deleted users
  
• Pre-processing stage removed from data requests process
  
• Data retention summary (read-only)
  
• Option to remove the "Data retention summary" link in the footer
  
• HTML data request export format
  
• User expiry improvements
  
• Data purpose and category inheritance improvements
  
• Different data retention strategies for different roles in a purpose
  
• Ability to configure data registry to use module type defaults
  
• Site mentioned in email notifications of data requests
  
• Option to hide your name in the online users block
  

• New Course overview and Timeline block
  
• New Recently accessed courses block
  
• New Recently accessed items block
  
• Option to hide courses in the course overview block
  
• Option to star/unstar courses in the course overview block
  
• New Starred courses block
  
• Dashboard retains user preferences for view options
  
• Course overview block retains user preferences for the number of courses to show
  
• Grace period when displaying "In progress" courses in course overview block
  
• Removal of Dashboard page header
  
• Group messaging
  
• New messaging UI with messaging drawer
  
• Option to disable site-wide messaging
  
• Privacy setting for restricting who can message you
  
• The new 'Allow site-wide messaging' setting is disabled by default for new installs but enabled for upgraded sites if $CFG->keepmessagingallusersenabled = true; is defined in config.php
  
• Option to star messaging conversations
  
• Notifications not sent for group conversations
  
• Group members synchronised with messaging conversations members
  
• Assignment feedback can include media or other files
  
• Improved quiz statistics report usability for randomized questions
  
• Option to add ID numbers to questions and question categories
  
• Single questions can be exported from the question bank
  
• Teachers can specify workshop submission types
  
• Nextcloud integration, with a Nextcloud repository and OAuth 2 Nextcloud service
  
• Support for Open Badges v2
  
• Performance improvements to cache flags
  
• Glossary auto-linking filter performance improvements
  
• atto_htmlplus implemented to improve Atto editor HTML indenting
  
• Copy and paste of images from one WYSIWYG window to another
  
• Forum actions announced by screen reader when completed
  
• Global search displays a relevant icon next to link in results
  
• SVG/high resolution emoticons
  
• Larger badge images are used
  

• Context freezing - setting read-only access for categories, courses, activities and their content
  

• 'Resend confirmation email' button on login page
  
• IF conditions in grade calculations
  
• Calendar entries location support
  
• Images are displayed in forum notification emails
  
• Course format options may be specified in upload courses CSV file
  
• Page resource option to show/hide "Last modified"
  
• Forum post HTML structure improvements
  
• Option to download the list of course participants
  
• Analytics models can use different machine learning backends
  
• User menu: customusermenuitems map Font Awesome icons for non pix/t folders
  
• JSON added to the default MIME types list
  
• Atto media plugin title global attribute support
  
• Shibboleth authentication identity providers
  
• Grader report saves after edit with multiple tabs
  
• Drag and drop of course events respects the course start date
  
• 'Add a new course' link in Site administration
  
• Admin search results provide location of the found matching page
  
• Capability to control use of Atto Record RTC
  
• New blocks supported by the mobile app can be disabled
  
• Legacy log store deprecation
  
• Log changes to site administrators
  
• adhoc task runner
  
• Site upgrades via CLI display new default settings
  
• Indian Rupee added to PayPal enrolment currencies
  
• Set Path to PHP CLI in order to display 'Run now' for Scheduled tasks
  
• Assignment upgrade helper tool removed from core