* Navigation/settings now show best available option.
* Resorting categories works now for limited access user.
* Display of up and down arrows corrected.
* Checkboxes no longer displayed if an action can't be performed.
* Implemented a new course and category management page.
* Deprecated the old management interface.
* Unit tests to cover the new API and core functions.
* Behat tests to cover the new interface.
* Added new constant: MOD_SUBTYPE_NO_CHILDREN
* When MOD_SUBTYPE_NO_CHILDREN is returned from xxx_get_types()
then default display is used for activity chooser.
* Updated mod/upgrade.txt
* Removed dead code from navigationlib.php instead of updating
it for new behavior of xxx_get_types
* Updated lib/upgrade.txt
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 a followup of MDL-38631 were was detected that
whith categories being displayed in my courses, some of
them, not having courses for the user, were still shown.
With this patch, any category in the tree, not having courses
is automatically hidden, any depth.
A user is not allowed to edit another user's repositories, in any
circumstances. The repositories node under 'Profile setting for X'
does not make sense under those conditions.
Before this patch, 'Profile settings for X' would only be displayed
if X can access the course, which means that if the course is hidden
the node would be hidden as well. We changed this so that the user
needs to be enrolled in the course.
- Make sure that items in course settings (and frontpage settings) are shown depending on user capabilities
- Make sure user is able to turn editing on on the page even if he has only limited number of seciton/modules managing capabilities
This is a result of a pretty intensive effort to make the form less
sucky, given the completion strings mess around. It partially solves
MDL-39419 too as it clarifies the course completion link in the course
administration block.
I must admit and record here that I'm pretty desperate by the current
state of the core_completion and how strings from it are inconsistently
used at various places with different meanings. For example the 'Completion
tracking' may mean the mode of how activities are tracked within the
course as well as the overall feature of course and activities tracking.
While a same phrase can be used in English for both this meanings, not
all languages have such luck and translating it is a pain in the ass.
Finally, let me give the credit for wording and UI design suggestions to
Helen Foster and all others who helped with this. This has been one of
the most ugliest forms in Moodle and we believe we made it better
(although we know it's far from perfect).
