Functionality by default does not change with this patch.
However spaces are no longer stripped when cleaning usernames IF
$CFG->extendedusernamechars has been set.
Also included 2 trim statements where small issues were found with reading
external usernames in that were not filtered for trailing whitespaces.
Several reports have been made about the unexpected purging of entire
memcached servers when MUC is configured to use Memcache and caches
get purged.
This is expected and occurs because the memcache extenions don't
provide isolated containers. Moodle data is stored along side any other
data in the cache and when caches get purged all data gets removed
whether it belongs to Moodle or not.
The docs cover this point and here I've added notes about this to both
config-dist.php and cache/README.md
AMOS BEGIN
MOV ['gspath','assignfeedback_editpdf'],['pathtogs','admin']
MOV ['gspath_help','assignfeedback_editpdf'],['pathtogs_help','admin']
AMOS END
Some hosting providers have a requirement to prevent users making
modifications to the configuration of scheduled tasks as doing so may have
a negative impact not only on their own site, but also on the performance
of other sites (depending on host configuration). For example, if the
statistics or automated backup tasks were run every minute, this could have
a negative impact for other users).
This commit adds a session handler which works using memcache (without
requiring the memcached extension), similar to the support for
memcache within MUC.
This may be less reliable than memcached but we have been using a
similar approach on our system without problems. In case, I added a
warning in config-dist.php.
This locking system is designed to be used everywhere requiring
locking in Moodle. Each use of the locking system can be configured
to use a different type of locking (or the same type with a different
configuration).
The first supported lock types are memcache, memcached, file (flock),
db (specific handlers for pg, mysql and mariadb).
1/ always require 3 behat settings - $CFG->behat_wwwroot, $CFG->behat_dataroot and $CFG->behat_prefix
2/ cleanup init code
3/ do not require $CFG->wwwroot and $CFG->dataroot on test sites
4/ remove switch completely - the most confusing part for me
5/ print out behat_wwwwroot in init script so that you can test the test site manually
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.
This is used by messaging system for sending/receiving message
to/from noreply or support user. message_send api will now use
core_user class to get noreply or support user and then
send/receive message depending on user state.
Includes:
* no more hacky reloads, everything is written only once and kept until cache reset
* lang menu list is now cached in MUC
* both string and lang menu caches are compatible with local caches on cluster nodes
* config-dist.php cleanup
- 'List of courses' is split into 'List of courses' (available) and 'Enrolled courses', CFG->disablemycourses is deprecated;
- CFG->frontpageloggedin by default shows list of available courses;
- There is separate item to display course search box
- CFG->maxcoursesincombo is deprecated
- CFG->maxcategorydepth changed default value to 2 since we have AJAX loading now
- FRONTPAGECOURSELIMIT is transformed to CFG->frontpagecourselimit
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