The patch improves the display of the missing capabilities on the Manage
tokens page and the Select authorised users page. The list of
capabilities is rendered in a collapsible area and does not occupy too
much space by default.
Additionally on the later page, the patch improves the display of the
list of existing authorised users so that it respects the configured
identity fields.
The previous implementation falsely reported all implicit capabilities
inherited from the authenticated user archetype. That caused a lot of
capabilities reported as missing, even if they were correctly granted.
This new implementation uses a different logic. Instead of seeking for
explicitly assigned capabilities, it searches for capabilities that are
not assigned to any of the user's role across the system.
Please refer to the inline documentation. This should be still used for
informative reports only, not for actual permissions evaluation. The
context has been ignored here, as well as all the overrides etc. This
patch just makes it a lesser evil.
I suppose the original reasoning was that the web services protocols are
pluggable and that plugins can provide external function. But those are
not good reasons to put the whole Web services section under plugins.
Web services are not a plugin type and they always felt very
counter-intuitive there.
From the server administrtaion perspective, web services are similar to
scheduled tasks and therefore, they should live in the same section.
Until now, admins could only modify (or even see) tokens they have
created themselves. Tokens created by other users or even other admins
were invisible unless you were looking into the database. In case there
are former admins, their successors can be unable to inspect or delete
existing tokens.
Private tokens are generated at the same time that the token.
They must be stored safely by the ws client, and they must be transmitted only via https.
List of changes:
* New OOP API using PHP namespace \core\session\.
* All handlers now update the sessions table consistently.
* Experimental DB session support in Oracle.
* Full support for session file handler (filesystem locking required).
* New option for alternative session directory.
* Official memcached session handler support.
* Workaround for memcached version with non-functional gc.
* Improved security - forced session id regeneration.
* Improved compatibility with recent PHP releases.
* Fixed borked CSS during install in debug mode.
* Switched to file based sessions in new installs.
* DB session setting disappears if DB does not support sessions.
* DB session setting disappears if session handler specified in config.php.
* Fast purging of sessions used in request only.
* No legacy distinction - file, database and memcached support the same functionality.
* Session handler name included in performance info.
* Fixed user_loggedin and user_loggedout event triggering.
* Other minor bugfixing and improvements.
* Fixed database session segfault if MUC disposed before $DB.
Limitations:
* Session access time is now updated right after session start.
* Support for $CFG->sessionlockloggedinonly was removed.
* First request does not update userid in sessions table.
* The timeouts may break badly if server hosting forces PHP.ini session settings.
* The session GC is a lot slower, we do not rely on external session timeouts.
* There cannot be any hooks triggered at the session write time.
* File and memcached handlers do not support session lock acquire timeouts.
* Some low level PHP session functions can not be used directly in Moodle code.
Refactoring and improvements of the accesslib.php library including prevention of access for not-logged-in users when forcelogin enabled, improved context caching, OOP refactoring of contexts, fixed context loading, deduplication of role definitions in user sessions, installation improvements, decoupling of enrolment checking from capability loading, added detection of deleted and non-existent users in has_capability(), new function accesslib test, auth and enrol upgrade notes.
More details are available in tracker subtasks.
