There is an existing warning if cron doesn't run at all (hasn't run
for 24 hours). This commit adds a warning if cron hasn't run for 3
minutes, based on the recommendation that cron should run every
minute.
Centralise management of all types of cron tasks with registration, scheduling,
parallel task conflicts(blocking) and running once off tasks, all using an
administration screen.
This is a combination of several issues:
MDL-25502: Added "black magic" task allocator for cron
MDL-25503: Add step to cron to run all scheduled tasks
MDL-25504 cron: Refactor to use scheduler
MDL-25505: Add an admin interface to schedule tasks via cron.
MDL-25507: Add support for adhoc tasks.
Instead we will create new MUC caches inside each filter plugin.
Please note that all cache filters should work with local caches
without the need of strict cache invalidation.
Includes:
* update checker refactored to \core\update\ namespace
* plugininfo classes refactored to \core\plugininfo\ namespace
* plugin_manager renamed to core_plugin_manager
* redirect back to original page after plugin uninstall
* fixed assign subplugin uninstall
* move assign subplugins under the assignment in admin tree
* fixed plugininfo for all question related plugin types
* auth uninstall support
* added missing block dependencies
* added theme uninstall
* subplugin types are following the plugin on plugin overview page
* several performance improvements in plugin manager
* new warnigns when plugininfo are outdated or missing
* multiple fixes and other improvements
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.
generate_email_supportuser was not creating user which can
be used by messaging system. core_user::get_support_user()
should be used to get support_user record.
The badges feature allows to integrate Mozilla "Open Badges" to issue, assign,
manage and display digital badges in Moodle. This feature supports:
-- badge creation and issuing based on criteria
-- badge baking and verification service
-- direct pushing of internal badges to external backpack
-- interanl and external badge display in Moodle
-- Moodle block to display latest badges
Adds an extra import section alongside the existing export in the
calendar views. Allows the user to import from either a file or a
URL as a subscription, with an optional polling interval of hourly,
daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. This subscription may be added
to the user, group, global or course calendars. These subscriptions
are tracked in a separate database table, and an extra column added
to the events table to relate them to the subscription. The event
uuid field is also expanded to allow for the RFC-2445 UID property.
Subscriptions are listed on the calendar view page, and can be
added and removed, manually polled, and the polling interval
adjusted. Subscription events are updated on cron.
This adds cron code which looks for question previews that have not been
touched for more than 24 hours, and deletes them.
We try to delete previews immediately. For example if the user clicks
start again, then we immediately delete their previous preview. However,
we can't do that if they just close the preview window. Hence we need
some cron code to clean up old preview that have got left lying around.
Normally, this code will not have much to do, so it will be very fast,
so we can afford to run it every cron.
This has been implemented in such a way that in future it will be easy
to add other cron code to the question bank.
Sadly, to make this work on MySQL, we require a horrible hack in the
already hacky delete_usage_records_for_mysql function.
Rather than overloading the $CFG->bloglevel setting which had a
confusing UI in the appearance subsystem.
In order to achieve this we modify take the defaults from the existing
bloglevel setting and set that for $CFG->enableblogs. Note that in order
to prevent a bad default settings from being set we also set
$CFG->bloglevel to a valid 'enabled' setting.
There is still some code that ignores delete_user() and instead hacks the user table directly, skip the borked user records for now when sending new passwords.
Because of a flaw in the logic, lastnotifyfailure was not set unless
there was a failure. This means that after 1 hour of no failures, the
function would execute every cron cycle, which has a pretty high cost
on large sites.
