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<h1>Old Release notes</h1>
<h3> New in Moodle 1.1.1 (10 September, 2003):</h3>
<ul>
<dl>
<dt> </dt>
<dt>General Fixes</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Translation improvements in many languages</li>
<li>Frame fix when switching languages in documentation</li>
<li>All short PHP tags removed ... short_tags is no longer a requirement</li>
<li>Forum search results link using anchor tag for better context</li>
<li>Removed target from "delete" link on user editing page</li>
<li>'Search' on social format moved closer to the top to prevent browser
self-scrolling </li>
<li>Page redirection is faster and no longer causes intermediate page
to be stored in IE history</li>
<li>Course listings improved when courses are displayed, including more
information</li>
<li>Category listings show courses in full when there are under ten courses</li>
<li>Invisible courses are always shown last in My Courses</li>
<li>Course creators can now see all hidden categories and courses</li>
<li>Styles added for category and course names</li>
<li>Removed tags from question text on quiz 'simplestat' report</li>
<li>Added percentages to downloaded data from 'simplestat' report</li>
<li>Allow external deep linking using guest account ?username=guest</li>
<li>Any admin can now add/remove course creators</li>
<li>Primary admin can now update own username/password even with external authentication</li>
<li>Quizzes can now be specified as having "no grade" and no grades will be shown</li>
<li>When editing a language, missing strings files are created if possible</li>
<li>Fixed bug in weekly journal date calculations</li>
<li>Fixed bug in config.php that made error_reporting not work</li>
<li>Fixed bug when editing user name with quotes in it</li>
<li>Fixed bug in email obfuscation for email addresses with numbers in
them </li>
<li>Fixed missing PostgreSQL schema for chat module</li>
<li>Fixed several typos in PostgreSQL upgrading code</li>
<li>Fixed some uninitialised variables</li>
<li>Several bugs fixed in Workshop module</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3> New in Moodle 1.1 (28 August, 2003):</h3>
<ul>
<dl>
<dt> </dt>
<dt>Major Changes</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>A completely new <strong>backup</strong> system for backup and restore
of courses (Thanks, Eloy!)</li>
<li>A new <strong>workshop</strong> module for peer grading (Thanks, Ray!)</li>
<li>A new <strong>chat</strong> module for synchronous discussions</li>
<li>All-new <strong>course manager</strong> to handle very large numbers
of courses (tested with 3700)</li>
<li>Custom-defined <strong>grading scales</strong> that can be used throughout
a course</li>
<li>Performance improvements in many areas</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>General</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Clean up of the whole admin menu organisation to make it clearer</li>
<li>Categories can be nested and sorted alphabetically or manually</li>
<li>Courses and whole categories can be hidden from students</li>
<li>Course descriptions and names can be searched for keywords</li>
<li>Large categories are now completely paged</li>
<li>Improved web caching for stylesheets and images</li>
<li>"My courses" display on the home page when logged in.</li>
<li>Inclusion of non-linked page to display ALL user pictures at once
(see /userpix)</li>
<li>The "secureforms" feature now defaults to OFF.</li>
<li>Moodle now doesn't care if "magic quotes" is on or off.</li>
<li>Images in /pix were rearranged and tidied up</li>
<li>HTML email is better formatted for wider compatibility</li>
<li>Mail bounces are now sent to the admin user</li>
<li>Better cron tasks (less CPU used) and duplicate enrolments are now
cleaned</li>
<li>Improved display of logs with infinite paging and increased flexibility</li>
<li>User log graphs now work at site-level (showing ALL logs on the site)</li>
<li>People with manual accounts can now recover their password</li>
<li>Improved system for defining/printing help files for major activity
modules</li>
<li>Activity modules can now have settings</li>
<li>Email addresses are all completely obfuscated (to fool web spiders)</li>
<li>There is now an index to the help files</li>
<li>Library (Mark Kimes' add-on) is now supported if it is installed (see Moodle contrib for Library source)</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt></dt>
<dt>Courses</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Teachers can now have their course editing privileges removed</li>
<li>Teachers can now manually enrol students if they want to</li>
<li>Teacher management is now all combined in one interface</li>
<li>Activities can be moved any distance with two clicks</li>
<li>Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down</li>
<li>Pop-up menu to quickly switch between topics/weeks when collapsed</li>
<li>When self-enrolling, students are notified and given a chance to cancel</li>
<li>Teachers and students see list of "My Courses" on course
home pages.</li>
<li>Grades can be hidden from students if not needed</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt></dt>
<dt>Languages</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li><strong>Hungarian</strong> and <strong>Greek</strong> have been added,
and there are lots of other updates. As usual, the language packs within
this release may not be fully completed yet. You can always download
the newest language packs from <a href="http://moodle.org/download/lang/">http://moodle.org/download/lang/</a>.</li>
<li>Updates and fixes to most languages</li>
<li>Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)</li>
<li>Some fixes for locales and time display in several languages</li>
<li>es_mx is being phased out in favour of "es" (International
Spanish) </li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt></dt>
<dt>Forum</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Much improved searching, with multiple keywords, paging etc</li>
<li>Forum grading can be either off, used by everyone, or used only by teachers</li>
<li>Forum grading can use custom scales or numbers</li>
<li>A date range can be set to restrict the posts that can be graded.</li>
<li>Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules -> Forums </li>
<li>After editing a post, user is returned to post in context</li>
<li>Attached images are displayed inline</li>
<li>Email copies in plain text format now print URLs nicely</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>Quiz</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>New question type: Embedded Answers (Cloze) - allows text passages
with embedded answers</li>
<li>New question type: Numerical - allows a range of numerical answers
to be entered</li>
<li>New question type: Description - not a real question, it allows text/graphics
to be inserted anywhere</li>
<li>Expanded quiz reporting with modular report plugins</li>
<li>New feature for repeat attempts, where each attempt builds on the
last </li>
<li>If the quiz is closing within the next 24 hours, a small countdown
clock is shown in the title bar and alerts warn at ten minutes and zero
minutes.</li>
<li>Some refactoring to the quiz code to make it easier to extend with
new question types</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt></dt>
<dt>Resources</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Web links can now be in very customisable pop-up windows.</li>
<li>Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules ->
Resources</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>Some of the more annoying bugs recently fixed</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Moving posts now also moves attachments</li>
<li>No more warnings when looking for uploaded files in an empty course</li>
<li>Students no longer always get plain-format mail on force-subscribed
forums</li>
<li>Cookies can no longer interfere with the admin setup during installation</li>
<li>Effectively no limit to the number of activities per section</li>
<li>Several fixes when dealing with zip files, especially on Windows</li>
<li>Admins can now edit accounts created from external databases</li>
<li>Session no longer conflicts with other software</li>
<li>Excel files now work on non-Intel machines</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt> </dt>
</dl>
<dd> </dd>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :</h3>
<ul>
<dl>
<dt> General</dt>
<dd>
<li>Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements</li>
<li>Several obscure security fixes</li>
<li>Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame</li>
<li>Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields</li>
<li>New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.</li>
<li>New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places</li>
<li>New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images</li>
<li>Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server</li>
<li>Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)</li>
<li>Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc</li>
<li>Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility</li>
<li>Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional</li>
<li>Countless other little fixes all over the place</li>
</dd>
<dt> Languages</dt>
<dd>
<li><b>10</b> new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.</li>
<li>Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs</li>
<li>Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by something to the url, eg: http://moodle.org/?lang=ru </li>
<li>Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
<li>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs</li>
<li>ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack</li>
<li>A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow</li>
</dd>
<dt> Developers</dt>
<dd>
<li>Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like</li>
<li>Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code</li>
<li>Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)</li>
</dd>
<dt> Admin</dt>
<dd>
<li><font color=red>Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)</font></li>
<li><font color=red>Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read <a href="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</a> </font></li>
<li>New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc</li>
<li>Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)</li>
<li>User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings</li>
<li>Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely</li>
<li>Improvements to the language editing page</li>
<li>Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings</li>
<li>Cleaner installation procedure.</li>
</dd>
<dt> User management</dt>
<dd>
<li>New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses</li>
<li>New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts</li>
<li>"Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password</li>
</dd>
<dt> Courses</dt>
<dd>
<li>Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students</li>
<li>Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown</li>
<li>The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes</li>
<li>Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing
the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that
zip/unzip now works on Windows.</li>
</dd>
<dt> Assignments</dt>
<dd>
<li>Assignment submissions can be sorted</li>
<li>Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students</li>
</dd>
<dt> Forums</dt>
<dd>
<li>Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved</li>
<li>Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click</li>
<li>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"</li>
<li>Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented</li>
<li>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts</li>
<li>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)</li>
<li>Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies
that sometimes happened with very large classes</li>
</dd>
<dt> Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)</dt>
<dd>
<li>A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,</li>
<li>A flexible tool that implements a variety of peer-grading and
example-setting schemes that involve a whole group in examining
and grading pieces of work.</li>
</dd>
<dt> Quizzes</dt>
<dd>
<li>New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)</li>
<li>New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)</li>
<li>New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)</li>
<li>Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)</li>
<li>'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz</li>
<li>Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled</li>
<li>Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled</li>
<li>Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.</li>
<li>Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed</li>
<li>Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results</li>
<li>Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3</li>
</dd>
<dt> Resources</dt>
<dd>
<li>Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources</li>
<li>Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).</li>
<li>Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages</li>
</dd>
<dt> Custom Themes</dt>
<dd>
<li>A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are ESSENTIAL
to viewing some of the new features. PLEASE SEE
<a href="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</a>
TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.</li>
<li>Custom themes now have the capability to re-define all the little button graphics.
There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new
optional subdirectory "pix". See the theme cordoroyblue for an example.</li>
</dd>
</dl>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Older releases can be seen in the <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=1">Moodle.org announcement forum</a>.
<p> </p>
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