Moodle 3.2 and up will require PHP >= 5.6.5. Hopefully some day we'll
have this centralized with MDL-39007, just it's not done yet.
Thanks to Stephen Bourget for raising this!
This was a regression of my recent improvement of rendering the "Check
for updates" button. There is now unified parameter ?fetchupdates=1 that
can be used on either admin/index.php or admin/plugins.php, so that we
can use a common UI widget for both locations (without the need to pass
the URL explicitly).
The admin setting updateautodeploy no longer exists. The two existing
config.php flags $CFG->disableupdateautodeploy and
$CFG->disableonclickaddoninstall merged into a single one.
If there is an available archived zip with the version of the plugin
currently installed, we can use it to cancel/abort the upgrade of the
plugin. This is internally handled as the installation of the archived
zip and goes through all the validation and confirmation.
Additionally, some other parts were improved. Most notably, renderer no
longer decides itself if some installation can be cancelled but it
always asks the controller (plugin manager).
The button for installation was moved to the left so there should be
first buttons to add things, and then buttons to cancel things (which is
common in normal forms).
The plugin manager's method install_remote_plugins() has been changed to
install_plugins() and it is now able to install plugins from the
provided list of locally available ZIP files, too. This is used by the
Install plugins admin tool.
The plugins check screen (displayed during core upgrade and/or plugins
upgrade) now supports installation of remote plugins. This includes
installation of missing dependencies (both single and bulk mode) and
installation of available updates (both single and bulk mode).
All the HTTP query parameters supported by admin/index.php are now
explicitly enlisted. Previously, the \core\update\deployer used
its own additional parameters (and was source of some serious problems
in the past).
The implementation uses the plugin manager as the controller and
provides an unified interface for installing any remote plugin or
plugins (be it available update or missing dependency).
As a side effect, we now validate available updates which was not
happening before.
The plugins check screen now provides buttons to cancel installation of
a plugin. Available only for new installations (not upgrades) and for
additional plugins (not standard), given that the web server process has
write access to the plugin folder.
This has also been reported as MDL-48535.
As a part of the patch, there is improved processing of page URLs during
the upgrade. All this dancing around $reload URL is not needed once the
$PAGE->url is properly set to guide the admin on the correct page during
the upgrade process.
Before this patch, whenever core_plugin_manager::get_plugins() was
called, it always attached info about available updates. But this is
needed only in quite rare cases, such as when the admin is looking at
the Plugins overview and Plugins check screens. There is no need to load
this on other places and for non-admin users.
The patch removes the loading from the method
core_plugin_manager::get_plugins_of_type() and implements lazy loading
directly in the plugininfo classes so that it is loaded only when
\core\plugininfo\base::available_updates() is actually called.
The method should check against $CFG->disableupdatenotifications and not
$CFG->disableupdateautodeploy. This had to be a copy&paste mistake from
the \core\update\deployer::enabled().
While looking at it, I also fixed couple of places where this method
should and could be used.
The upgrade key can be defined in the main config.php as
$CFG->upgradekey. If it is defined there, then its value must be
provided every time the site is being upgraded, regardless the
administrator is logged in or not.
This patch replaces all homegrown timezone
stuff with standard PHP date/time code.
The main change is the introduction of core_date
class that returns normalised user and server
timezones. From now on nobody should be using
$CFG->timezone or $user->timezone directly!
Other new features and fixes:
* admins are prompted for timezone during install
* editing of other users is finally fixed
* timezones are displayed in user profile
* new $this->setTimezone() in phpunit
* time locale is now automatically reset in phpunit
* timezone is now automatically reset in phpunit
* phpunit has Australia/Perth as default timezone
Rather than using module cron, use scheduled tasks to work out
if cron has been running recently.
This is not perfect, the admin could disble all tasks, or reschedule
them - but its not complex to compute.
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.
Includes rework of cache parameter detection on admin/index.php.
Another problem is that uninstall does not leave system in consistent state,
we need to force users to go through upgrade after any type of uninstall.
This fixes also add-on installation redirect and other issues.
This should resolve all problem on developer machines when switching branches or when restoring previous Moodle databases. It also prevents any potential problems during upgrades such as concurrent DB modification and resolves chicken egg problems in future caching upgrades.
If the user selects a plugin in Moodle plugins directory to be installed
into their site, Moodle plugins directory will redirect them into their
site's admin/index.php script, providing the installaddonrequest
parameter.
This patch makes sure that only if the user is logged-in as the admin
and the site is fully installed and up-to-date, the add-on installation
request will be dispatched to the tool_installaddon for actual
processing.
We need to store the installaddonrequest value in the $PAGE's URL so
that is is stored in $SESSION->wantsurl in case the user needs to log in
at their site. Thanks to this, the request is dispatched after the user
logs in.
The Notifications (admin/index.php) page has now information about
available updates for core and eventually plugins, too. Note that the
structure of the available updates array changed. This breaks backward
compatibility for eventual 3rd renderers out there (not expected
though).
