Moodle LMS 3.6.3
8 May 2019
Moodle LMS version 3.6.3 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.6.3
Moodle LMS 3.6.3 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Moodle LMS updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Moodle LMS install to test the 3.6.3 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Moodle LMS installations with Installatron
What's New in Moodle LMS 3.6.3
Security
- "Log in as" functionality exposed to JavaScript risk on other users' Dashboards
- Logged in users could view all calendar events
- Users could elevate their role when accessing the LTI tool on a provider site
- Stored HTML in assignment submission comments allowed links to be opened directly
- Secure layout contained an insecure link in Boost theme
- get_with_capability_join/get_users_by_capability not aware of context freezing
Highlights
- Last post date and time shown correctly on forum page
- Gradebook regrading no longer gets stuck
- Quiz now displays the correct time left when quiz close date before time limit
- Site home and Dashboard now have different data-key attributes when the home page is set to site
- All assignment 'View annotated PDF' buttons work
- Invalid response value detected messaging error fix
- Server files performance improvement for sites with lots of activities and files
- Activities can no longer be marked as complete when the context is frozen
- Users no longer redirected back to a policy agreement when creating a new account
- View competency framework no longer required for viewing competencies in a course
- Numerical question units are displayed on the same line
- Notifications table has index for the useridfrom column
- Participants page performance improvement for courses with ~50k users and 10 groups
- A single simple discussion forum now scrolls to new posts
- Deleting course sections now also delete files used in the section description
- Data export performance improvement
- RTL languages correctly aligned in messaging interface
- Course image scaled down when no course summary
- Forum post word count correctly reflects the size of posts
- Accessibility improvement for quiz question feedback
- Option to clear prediction for analytics trained models
- Clearer button background in Boost
- Deleting of feedback question and deleting of user tour step no longer give a 404 error
- Glossary 'Actions menu' icon no longer disappears when browsing
- External tool 0 points score now correctly recorded as zero in the gradebook
- Drag and drop question types now allow use of mixed languages
- Boost navigation bar accessibility improvements
- Install database CLI script now shows help even if Moodle is already installed
- Messaging search simpler UI when search returns no results
- 'Allowed email domains' setting is now case insensitive
- Download assignment submission files via keyboard accessibility fix
- Question bank category edit link usability improvement
- Boost theme menu links contrast accessibility fix
- Messaging contacts are now shown in bold
- Messaging search results now shown with date rather than time stamp
- get_with_capability_join, get_users_by_capability, assign/unassign_capability now check the capability exists