The chunk size used by the existing post word/char count calculation
ad-hoc task can now be set as a $CFG parameter. Also improved the way
the ad-hoc task is re-queued and tidied up some redundant code.
This change allows you to write and run Behat tests that cover the
mobile app. These should have the @app tag. They will be run in the
Chrome browser using an Ionic server on the local machine.
See config-dist.php for configuration settings, or full docs here:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Acceptance_testing_for_the_mobile_app
CSRF protection for the login form. The authenticate_user_login function was
extended to validate the token (in \core\session\manager) but by default it
does not perform the extra validation. Existing uses of this function from
auth plugins and features like "change password" will continue to work without
changes. New config value $CFG->disablelogintoken can bypass this check.
Without this, its possible to get a document in the editpdf conversion queue
that keeps failing - and in some cases completely crashing the PHP script
despite exception handling - which ends up blocking the processing of the queue
entirely.
This change allows for a configurable number of attempts the conversion
task will perform before removing the item from the queue.
This will allow the use of other storage systems implemented
in plugins.
It also allows for disabling the built in DB based profiling, which
will be useful when using an external target to not waste DB storage.
The new setting will allow to host the temporary backup files
into a specific target directory. Defaults to '$CFG->tempdir/backup'.
Calling make_backup_temp_directory() checks that the required sub-directory
will be properly created under the new target directory.
If enabled $CFG->allowcohortthemes, then themes can be set at the cohort level.
This will affect all users with only one cohort or more than one but with the same theme.
The default theme order will be: course, category, session, user, cohort, site.
pgbouncer doesn't accept the PostgreSQL options command as it can't
process it. If you are using pgBouncer you need to make sure your
database is configured to set client encoding and standard_conforming_strings
correctly on each connection. pgBouncer can do this, as can ALTER
commands.
Also using sockets without a filename did not allow different ports to work.
This is because you either specify a filename which includes a port or
you just specify a port and libpq works out the correct socket location.
To support PHPUnit we need to support large profiles, these may
include backups and restores. To do that the following was required;
- gzcompress for database space saving.
- gzcompress for XML DomDocument field to say < 10Mb and allow imports.
- Save PHPUnit runs directly to a file so they can be imported to the normal database.
- Memory allowance on profiling view pages increases to support large profiles.
dirname() is a slow function compared with __DIR__ and using
'/../'. Moodle has a large number of legacy files that are included
each time a page loads and is not able to use an autoloader as it is
functional code. This allows those required includes to perform as
best as possible in this situation.
It is now possible to set up Redis as a session handler for Moodle.
Ensure that the phpredis extension is enabled and working on your sever.
Please place the following lines in config.php
$CFG->session_handler_class = '\core\session\redis';
$CFG->session_redis_save_path = 'tcp://127.0.0.1';
To determine if it has been set correctly, navigate to
$CFG->wwwroot/admin/phpinfo.php and find following the strings in the
session block,
session.save_handler = redis
session.save_path = tcp://127.0.0.1
