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<H2>Release notes</H2>
<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (in development) :</H3>
<UL><DL>
<DT> General</DT>
<DD>
<LI>7 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish and Russian.
<LI>Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs
<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 adding something to the url: ?lang=en
<LI>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
<LI>More indexes added to many tables for very noticeable increase in speed
<LI>Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame
<LI>New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses
<LI>Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields
<LI>ALL dates/times can be reformatted as part of the language pack
<LI>Slightly updated style sheets
<LI>Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server
<LI>Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode.
<LI>Various small optimisations and speed-ups
<LI>Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc
<LI>Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility
</DD>
<DT> Developers</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Debug variable for more feedback
<LI>Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code
<LI>Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)
</DD>
<DT> Admin</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings
<LI>Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)
<LI>User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings
<LI>Improvements to the language editing page
</DD>
<DT> Courses</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Activities on the course page can be hidden from students
<LI>Some paging on the display of participants, to cope with very large classes
<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.
</DD>
<DT> Assignments</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Assignment submissions can be sorted
<LI>Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students
</DD>
<DT> Forums</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
<LI>Improved display of forums, when listing discussions
<LI>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
<LI>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
</DD>
<DT> Peer-Graded Assignments</DT>
<DD>
<LI>New module written by Ray Kingdon.
</DD>
<DT> Quizzes</DT>
<DD>
<LI>New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)
<LI>New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)
<LI>New quesiton type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)
<LI>Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats)
<LI>'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz
<LI>Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled
<LI>Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled
<LI>Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.
<LI>Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed
<LI>Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results
<LI>Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3
</DD>
<DT> Resources</DT>
<DD>
<LI>Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources
</DD>
</DL></UL>
<HR>
<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.8.1 (12th January, 2003) :</H3>
<UL><DL>
<DT> No new features, just bug fixes:</DT>