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docs/changes.rst

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+.. :changelog:
+
+Release Notes
+=============
+
+Changes are ordered reverse-chronologically.
+
+0.7.2
+-----
+
+ - Fix issue with importing large channels on Windows
+
+
+0.7.1
+-----
+
+ - Improvements and fixes to installers including Windows & Debian
+ - Updated documentation
+
+
+0.7.0
+-----
+
+ - Completed RTL language support
+ - Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Swahili, Urdu, and French
+ - Support for Python 3.6
+ - Split user and developer documentation
+ - Improved lost-connection and session timeout handling
+ - Added 'device info' administrator page
+ - Content search integration with Studio
+ - Granular content import and export
+
+
+0.6.2
+-----
+
+ - Consistent ordering of channels in learner views
+
+
+0.6.1
+-----
+
+ - Many mobile-friendly updates across the app
+ - Update French, Portuguese, and Swahili translations
+ - Upgraded Windows installer
+
+
+0.6.0
+-----
+
+ - Cross-channel searching and browsing
+ - Improved device onboarding experience
+ - Improved device permissions experience (deprecated 'device owner', added 'superuser' flag and import permission)
+ - Various channel import/export experience and stability improvements
+ - Responsive login page
+ - Dynamic language switching
+ - Work on integrated living style guide
+ - Added beta support for right-to-left languages
+ - Improved handling of locale codes
+ - Added support for frontend translation outside of Vue components
+ - Added an open-source 'code of conduct' for contributors
+ - By default run PEX file in foreground on MacOS
+ - Crypto optimizations from C extensions
+ - Deprecated support for HTML in translation strings
+ - Hide thumbnails from content 'download' button
+ - Automatic database backup during upgrades. #2365
+ - ... and many other updates and fixes
+
+
+0.5.3
+-----
+
+ - Release timeout bug fix from 0.4.8
+
+
+0.5.2
+-----
+
+ - Release bug fix from 0.4.7
+
+
+0.5.1
+-----
+
+ - Python dependencies: Only bundle, do not install dependencies in system env #2299
+ - Beta Android support
+ - Fix 'importchannel' command #2082
+ - Small translation improvements for Spanish, French, Hindi, and Swahili
+
+
+0.5.0
+-----
+
+ - Update all user logging related timestamps to a custom datetime field that includes timezone info
+ - Added daemon mode (system service) to run ``kolibri start`` in background (default!) #1548
+ - Implemented ``kolibri stop`` and ``kolibri status`` #1548
+ - Newly imported channels are given a 'last_updated' timestamp
+ - Add progress annotation for topics, lazily loaded to increase page load performance
+ - Add API endpoint for getting number and total size of files in a channel
+ - Migrate all JS linting to prettier rather than eslint
+ - Merge audio_mp3_render and video_mp4_render plugins into one single media_player plugin
+ - KOLIBRI_LISTEN_PORT environment variable for specifying a default for the --port option #1724
+
+
+0.4.9
+-----
+  - User experience improvements for session timeout
+
+
+0.4.8
+-----
+
+ - Prevent session timeout if user is still active
+ - Fix exam completion timestamp bug
+ - Prevent exercise attempt logging crosstalk bug
+ - Update Hindi translations
+
+0.4.7
+-----
+
+ - Fix bug that made updating existing Django models from the frontend impossible
+
+
+0.4.6
+-----
+
+ - Fix various exam and progress tracking issues
+ - Add automatic sign-out when browser is closed
+ - Fix search issue
+ - Learner UI updates
+ - Updated Hindi translations
+
+
+0.4.5
+-----
+
+ - Frontend and backend changes to increase performance of the Kolibri application under heavy load
+ - Fix bug in frontend simplified login code
+
+
+0.4.4
+-----
+
+ - Fix for Python 3 compatibility in Whl, Windows and Pex builds #1797
+ - Adds Mexican Spanish as an interface language
+ - Upgrades django-q for bug fixes
+
+
+0.4.3
+-----
+
+ - Speed improvements for content recommendation #1798
+
+
+0.4.2
+-----
+
+ - Fixes for morango database migrations
+
+
+0.4.1
+-----
+
+ - Makes usernames for login case insensitive #1733
+ - Fixes various issues with exercise rendering #1757
+ - Removes wrong CLI usage instructions #1742
+
+
+0.4.0
+-----
+
+ - Class and group management
+ - Learner reports #1464
+ - Performance optimizations #1499
+ - Anonymous exercises fixed #1466
+ - Integrated Morango, to prep for data syncing (will require fresh database)
+ - Adds Simplified Login support as a configurable facility flag
+
+
+0.3.3
+-----
+
+ - Turns video captions on by default
+
+
+0.3.2
+-----
+
+ - Updated translations for Portuguese and Kiswahili in exercises.
+ - Updated Spanish translations
+
+
+0.3.2
+-----
+
+ - Portuguese and Kaswihili updates
+ - Windows fixes (mimetypes and modified time)
+ - VF sidebar translations
+
+
+0.3.0
+-----
+
+ - Add support for nested URL structures in API Resource layer
+ - Add Spanish and Swahili translations
+ - Improve pipeline for translating plugins
+ - Add search back in
+ - Content Renderers use explicit new API rather than event-based loading
+
+
+0.2.0
+-----
+
+ - Add authentication for tasks API
+ - Temporarily remove 'search' functionality
+ - Rename 'Learn/Explore' to 'Recommended/Topics'
+ - Add JS-based 'responsive mixin' as alternative to media queries
+ - Replace jeet grids with pure.css grids
+ - Begin using some keen-ui components
+ - Update primary layout and navigation
+ - New log-in page
+ - User sign-up and profile-editing functionality
+ - Versioning based on git tags
+ - Client heartbeat for usage tracking
+ - Allow plugins to override core components
+ - Wrap all user-facing strings for I18N
+ - Log filtering based on users and collections
+ - Improved docs
+ - Pin dependencies with Yarn
+ - ES2015 transpilation now Bublé instead of Babel
+ - Webpack build process compatible with plugins outside the kolibri directory
+ - Vue2 refactor
+ - HTML5 app renderer
+
+
+0.1.1
+-----
+
+ - SVG inlining
+ - Exercise completion visualization
+ - Perseus exercise renderer
+ - Coach reports
+
+
+0.1.0 - MVP
+-----------
+
+ - Improved documentation
+ - Conditional (cancelable) JS promises
+ - Asset bundling performance improvements
+ - Endpoint indexing into zip files
+ - Case-insensitive usernames
+ - Make plugins more self-contained
+ - Client-side router bug fixes
+ - Resource layer smart cache busting
+ - Loading 'spinner'
+ - Make modals accessible
+ - Fuzzy searching
+ - Usage data export
+ - Drive enumeration
+ - Content interaction logging
+ - I18N string extraction
+ - Channel switching bug fixes
+ - Modal popups
+ - A11Y updates
+ - Tab focus highlights
+ - Learn app styling changes
+ - User management UI
+ - Task management
+ - Content import/export
+ - Session state and login widget
+ - Channel switching
+ - Setup wizard plugin
+ - Documentation updates
+ - Content downloading
+
+
+0.0.1 - MMVP
+------------
+
+ - Page titles
+ - Javascript logging module
+ - Responsiveness updates
+ - A11Y updates
+ - Cherrypy server
+ - Vuex integration
+ - Stylus/Jeet-based grids
+ - Support for multiple content DBs
+ - API resource retrieval and caching
+ - Content recommendation endpoints
+ - Client-side routing
+ - Content search
+ - Video, Document, and MP3 content renderers
+ - Initial VueIntl integration
+ - User management API
+ - Vue.js integration
+ - Learn app and content browsing
+ - Content endpoints
+ - Automatic inclusion of requirements in a static build
+ - Django JS Reverse with urls representation in kolibriGlobal object
+ - Python plugin API with hooks
+ - Webpack build pipeline, including linting
+ - Authentication, authorization, permissions
+ - Users, Collections, and Roles

docs/install.rst

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 .. include:: install/_initial_setup.rst
 
 
-.. include:: ../CHANGELOG.rst
+.. include:: changes.rst