version = planned 2015051100 release version
requires= current 2015050500 rc1 version
Note: On purpose, the course format social wrong version (2015102100)
has been kept unmodified. Looking forward a solution right now.
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.
Firefox have now decided to reverse their UA change (since integration)
and this patch has some minor drawbacks.
This reverts commit 1c65f683dc0a52e47fdf68e952c832d7c63e03a0.
In MDL-36838 Firefox 17 users are unable to sso from moodle to mahara.
Firefox 17 uses a different user agent (UA) string for Moodle sites than it
does for Mahara or other sites.
This patch relaxes the check which previously required that the UA string
being presented to the SP on landing matched the UA string presented to the IP
when jumping.
Likewise, checks associated with logout calls have been relaxed
The 'confirmed' field can't be optional. If the identity provider did
not export it, the new remote user would be created with 'confirmed' set
to default zero and as such could be a subject of scheduled deletion.
