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Moodle LMS 5.0

14 April 2025

Moodle LMS version 5.0 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 5.0

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What's New in Moodle LMS 5.0

Major UX improvement: New centralised course overview page

MDL-83873 - Create a "human date" output classes
MDL-83872 - Add on-demand overview tables to the overview page
MDL-83892 - Migrate Feedback activity index to course overview integration
MDL-83871 - Create a basic course activities overview page
MDL-84469 - Set the fallback overview report for activities without integration
MDL-84555 - Add purpose colour to activity icons in course activities overview and default activity completion form
MDL-83888 - Migrate Assign index to course overview integration
MDL-83901 - Migrate Workshop activity index to course overview integration
MDL-83869 - Create a generic collapsable section output component
MDL-84602 - Add alert counting to activity overview items
MDL-84346 - Make the completion button styles more generic

AI new features and improvements

MDL-83006 - New provider plugin - Ollama
MDL-82942 - New course placement - Explain
MDL-82977 - Support multiple provider instances
MDL-82980 - Per model settings
MDL-83216 - Provider ordering
MDL-83395 - Reporting - AI usage for admins
MDL-83396 - Reporting - AI policy acceptance

Implement Open Badges 3.0

MDL-83909 - Remove the image author's fields in badges
MDL-83884 - Move form files from badges to badges/classes/form
MDL-84577 - Review the badge creation form, to reorganise the fields and remove/improve tooltips
MDL-82905 - In the badges report, display criteria as a list only if there are multiple items
MDL-82904 - Display empty column in the badges report when no criteria is set

SMS notification provider & initial notifications

MDL-81015 - Add support for sending SMS notifications asynchronously
MDL-83518 - SMS notifications: Implement SMS as a new notification method and set up for assignment notifications
MDL-79329 - Implement Modica SMS gateway plugin

Enhance icons utilising Font Awesome 6

MDL-83087 - Replace the more actions menu in course/index.php with ellipsis
MDL-83639 - Update custom icons
MDL-83933 - Switch import and export icons
MDL-82460 - Deprecate unused pix icons

TinyMCE text editor

MDL-80953 - Make TinyMCE less strict for onclick JavaScript action (consistent with Atto's handling)
MDL-78428 - Improve media adding user experience
MDL-84125 - Add TinyMCE Premium accessibility plugin
MDL-84126 - Disable plugins by role

Course improvements

MDL-83725 - Improve the way activity icons are colourised
MDL-83673 - Add throttle to the course page scroll event handling and prevent unnecessary updates
MDL-83562 - Remove the "movehere" elements from the course page
MDL-82351 - Make social format compatible with the new course editor
MDL-82349 - Migrate frontpage to the new course editor

Upgrade Boost theme to use Bootstrap 5.x

MDL-84324 - Add jQuery compatibility for Bootstrap 5
MDL-81825 - Refactor "Screen reader" classes/functions renamed in Bootstrap 5
MDL-80519 - Create a compatibility layer for Bootstrap v4 > v5 SCSS
MDL-84450 - Create a compatibility helper for Boostrap v4 > v5 data-attributes
MDL-75669 - Upgrade the Boost theme with Bootstrap 5.x

Quiz and Question bank

MDL-71378 - Make shared question banks more manageable and usable
MDL-77713 - Question version options when previewing - put latest version first
MDL-84576 - Give non-editing teacher role the "Use questions" capabilities by default to support shared question banks
MDL-83862 - Add question bank filter - Modified time
MDL-83861 - Add question bank filter - Question ID number
MDL-83860 - Add question bank filter - Question name
MDL-83859 - Add question bank filter - Question type
MDL-83883 - Add question bank filter - Status
MDL-83881 - Add question bank filter - Modifier and Owner
MDL-84247 - Improve Missing Question Type handling in question bank
MDL-84302 - Improve Missing Question Type handling in quiz
MDL-68806 - New quiz attempt states and asynchronous attempt creation
MDL-84191 - Add question bank filter - question text and feedback

BigBlueButton

MDL-84412 - Change the BigBlueButtonBN activity icon
MDL-84245 - Add manual grade functionality to BigBlueButton plugin
MDL-83766 - Change order subplugin classes are retrieved by BigBlueButton

Report builder

MDL-77270 - Add ability to duplicate a custom report
MDL-83552 - Add custom fields to Report builder

Assignment

MDL-84387 - Improve assignment submission confirmation by including a list of submitted files
MDL-84733 - Enhance assignment notification message customisation with additional data fields available for custom strings
MDL-75292 - Add "Graded" option to the status filter on the assignment submissions page

Accessibility improvements

MDL-60910 - Drag and drop onto image, using transparent pictures
MDL-78453 - Allow users to enter a long description for complex images

Usability improvements

MDL-73909 - Notification settings toggle switches should save automatically
MDL-83108 - Add new option in the Insert H5P plugin to enable auto-play of embedded H5P content in the app
MDL-82944 - Messaging should warn if you try to navigate to another page with an un-sent message
MDL-84142 - Homogenise output of the enrolment methods on the course enrolment page
MDL-81744 - Improve feedback activity "Template" page UI
MDL-84208 - Use collapsable sections in the default activity completion page
MDL-81759 - Course import pagelayout is different to the rest of pages

Feature removals: The following features are removed from Moodle LMS 5.0 onwards. Please see Important changes in the upcoming Moodle 5.0 for more information.

MDL-83282 - Remove Atto text editor
MDL-83172 - Remove Oracle database support
MDL-82457 - Remove Chat and Survey from core
MDL-78778 - Remove the auth_cas plugin
MDL-84107 - Remove mlbackend_php plugin from core
MDL-84652 - Remove all MNet plugins
MDL-84265 - Remove DML/DDL SQLite support
MDL-83703 - Remove support for legacy subplugins.php

Functional changes

MDL-70556 - Increase course fullname database field length beyond 254 characters
MDL-75196 - Improve mod_data link processing for backup
MDL-83265 - Salutation in Course-Approved-Email
MDL-80984 - Implement generic penalties in gradebook
MDL-84356 - Include course link variable in the course welcome message
MDL-81714 - Make re-grading of course final grades asynchronous
MDL-84139 - Add an option to display title for the enrol_fee enrolment
MDL-82034 - Make mod_subsection enabled by default
MDL-82555 - Section links block should show section names without numbers

For administrators

MDL-81780 - Ad-hoc tasks improvements - display fail delay and allow it to be reset
MDL-83399 - Allow site admins to login as each other
MDL-83850 - Activity Completion Report: Add "Completed date/time" header to the exported spreadsheet
MDL-74149 - tool_usertours: Filters to exclude categories and courses
MDL-81790 - The "Logs" section at the activity "More" menu should direct users to a dedicated activity logs page
MDL-81070 - Display contacts' names in the course search result for admins
MDL-82450 - Clarify the scheduled task table "Fail delay" value
MDL-83119 - search_solr: Implement check on connectivity, space usage

Performance

MDL-84844 - Improve mod_subsection performance in course editing operations
MDL-82584 - Workshop get_users_with_capability_sql method optimisation
MDL-83718 - Improve report builder table performance by combining count and select

Security improvements

MDL-83942 - Allow admins to make a default tag collection not searchable
MDL-82958 - User index page errors should be more generic
MDL-84011 - Switch from PHP serialization to JSON in Wikimedia repository

Multi-factor Authentication improvements

MDL-83516 - Improve MFA admin setup - factor table improvements
MDL-79958 - Improve MFA admin setup - default factor and explanations of factors on their settings pages
MDL-81551 - Inform user that reading MFA security token was successful during setup
MDL-81285 - Provide a clear failure when MFA security key not supported for browsers

For developers

MDL-63219 - Add support for Moodle filters to primary/custom menus
MDL-79843 - Introduce mechanism for plugin type deprecation
MDL-83473 - Replacement of extern_server_course function in course/view.php by hooks API
MDL-72526 - Change course format output classes to use protected properties instead of private
MDL-81745 - Replace feedback activity drag and drop YUI module with SortableList
MDL-82565 - Add support for routing of regular pages
MDL-82313 - Contrib database activity field icons should display in field type column

Web service additions and updates

MDL-78449 - Support groups in mod_choice_get_choice_results web service
MDL-83026 - External functions that return badges should include the course name
MDL-82775 - Return total number of attempts in mod_h5pactivity_get_user_attempts web service

Deprecations

MDL-77668 - Deprecate grade_edit_tree_column_select class
MDL-71472 - Deprecate add_select_with_email
MDL-83035 - Deprecate behat_admin_presets custom steps
MDL-84657 - Deprecate calendar_add_month()
MDL-83477 - Deprecate core:t/collapsedcaret icon
MDL-83764 - Deprecate externservercourse.php feature
MDL-84449 - Deprecate imagecopybicubic (lib/gdlib.php)
MDL-82342 - Deprecate pre-4.0 course editor web services
MDL-84673 - Deprecate print_graded_users_selector()
MDL-80995 - Deprecate setup_factor (tool_mfa\output\renderer)
MDL-82341 - Deprecate the old course JavaScript and YUI modules
MDL-84267 - Deprecate unused comment related capabilities in data module
MDL-84617 - Deprecation legacy/deprecated calendar functions
MDL-78489 - Final deprecation of availability_more amd module and availability::availability_info() method
MDL-81328 - Final deprecation of book_get_nav_classes
MDL-79434 - Final deprecation of calendar functions deprecated in Moodle 4.3
MDL-78926 - Final deprecation of core_course\output\activity_information output class
MDL-80116 - Final deprecation of course editing functions deprecated in Moodle 4.4 from the course hierarchy project
MDL-81185 - Final deprecation of enrol_self_plugin::get_welcome_email_contact()
MDL-83095 - Final deprecation of functions in blocks/tag_youtube/block_tag_youtube.php
MDL-76561 - Final deprecation of functions in lib/deprecatedlib.php initially deprecated in Moodle version 4.0 or earlier
MDL-75189 - Final deprecation of functions in mod/data/lib.php
MDL-79907 - Final deprecation of grade_structure::get_element_type_string(), grade_structure::get_element_header(), grade_structure::get_element_icon(), grade_structure::get_activity_link()
MDL-78890 - Final deprecation of gradereport_grader::get_right_avg_row()
MDL-81155 - Final deprecation of grouplist in report_log_renderable
MDL-77621 - Final deprecation of lib/cronlib.php
MDL-75875 - Final deprecation of single_button $primary parameter
MDL-81509 - Final deprecation of task_base::is_blocking and set_blocking
MDL-78605 - Final deprecation of token_table::col_token()
MDL-78090 - Final deprecations in Moodle 5.0 core_question
MDL-78304 - Final deprecations in Moodle 5.0 MNet
MDL-78118 - Final removal of custom report elements deprecated in 4.3
MDL-78711 - Final removal of edit_default_completion()
MDL-78780 - Final removal of grade ::get_lang_string helper methods
MDL-79214 - Final removal of htmllize_tree() in mod/folder
MDL-78635 - Final removal of libxml_disable_entity_loader helpers
MDL-79124 - Final removal of old user preference AJAX APIs
MDL-78869 - Final removal of OpenSSL encryption library fallbacks
MDL-80944 - Final removal of quiz_delete_override and quiz_delete_all_overrides
MDL-80430 - Final removal of report builder default table alias support
MDL-78706 - Final removal of repository get_file_size
MDL-79086 - Final removal of share_activity method in MoodleNet
MDL-79162 - Final removal of table badges methods
MDL-80491 - Final removal of update_communication method in enrollib
MDL-84036 - Finally remove deprecated external functions
MDL-76564 - Remove Behat steps deprecated in Moodle versions 4.4 or earlier
MDL-81230 - Remove deprecated adhoc tasks in BigBlueButton
MDL-83765 - Remove deprecated functions in action_menu class
MDL-84742 - Remove empty file enrol/self/bulkchangeforms.php
MDL-77107 - Remove grades and grade report Behat steps deprecated in 4.2
MDL-82937 - Remove legacy tabs.php file from Lesson module
MDL-76566 - Remove old classes renamed in Moodle versions 4.4 or earlier
MDL-82825 - Remove php-enum library
MDL-80156 - Remove SCSS deprecated in 4.4
MDL-76565 - Remove strings deprecated in Moodle versions 4.4 or earlier
MDL-61232 - Retire admin/process_email.php
MDL-84674 - Trim old deprecations Moodle 4.0 or earlier