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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
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<h3>Moodle 1.4.3 (17 December, 2004)</h3>
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<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any
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previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>Some important security fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Better checking/cleaning of cookie data</li>
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<li>Preventative measures for session fixation</li>
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<li>Better checking/cleaning of parameters for RSS feeds, ip atlas parameters, glossary, forum, theme selection, SCORM module, document viewer</li>
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<li>Added protection in viewing of uploaded files</li>
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<li>Added protection against directory traversal</li>
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<li>Fix for variable $FULLME necessary for cron</li>
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<li>Prevention against internal libraries being called directly.</li>
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<li>Prevent viewing of glossary if it's a hidden activity</li>
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<li>Hidden sections hidden from students in recent activity</li>
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<li>Fixed problem with guest user being able to see events in the calendar</li>
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<li>Fixed encoding of TEX expressions</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>A few new things</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Enforced enrolment uniqueness, this is also a performance fix.</li>
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<li>Added transaction support for PostgreSQL </li>
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<li>Logging in and logging out are now logged</li>
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<li>Wiki and SCORM now both use new zipping code - this fixes reported SCORM issues</li>
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<li>New paging system for glossary</li>
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<li>User info from LDAP truncated for insertion into moodle to prevent data loss</li>
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<li>Updated pclzip to new version</li>
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<li>Memory_limit can be overriden by higher config settings from php.ini, commandline, httpd.conf, .htaccess</li>
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<li>New translations started: Maori, Kannada, Albanian and Vietnamese</li>
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<li>Many additions to other language packs</li>
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<li>Teachers can now always try quizzes, even if they're not open yet</li>
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<li>Glossary print view is now different for each format.</li>
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<li>Glossary search now also searches aliases</li>
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<li>Vastly improved multilang filter with more forgiving syntax </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Performance improvements</dt>
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<ul>
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<li>Better caching headers mean improved performance on all pages when using back button</li>
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<li>Database indexes added in many places to enhance performance in large scale deployments</li>
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<li>Performance improvements throughout moodle where courses were being listed.</li>
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<li>Various optimizations by removing unnecessary database retrievals and sorting.</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Other bug fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed restoring into a new course generating duplicate course idnumbers</li>
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<li>Fixed many small Postgres issues </li>
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<li>Fixed unnecessary notices when debug mode on</li>
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<li>Fixed some more PHP5 Notices</li>
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<li>Fixed support for apostrophes, quotes and backslashes in LDAP user data</li>
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<li>Fix for pagination of search course results for Postgres </li>
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<li>Fixed bug with whitespace in user search</li>
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<li>Fixed chatroom bug where all chat users listed in multiple chatrooms </li>
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<li>Fix for installation script bug</li>
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<li>Case sensitive usernames in bulk user import fixed</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in redirection after rating forum post</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in quiz with matching questions</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in quiz preview</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in language editing</li>
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<li>Multiple small fixes in SCORM module</li>
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<li>SCORM module shows user pictures properly</li>
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<li>Activity names sorted by name in activity filter</li>
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<li>Glossary search will search aliases as well</li>
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<li>Any RSS errors will result in a valid RSS error file rather than invalid RSS.</li>
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<li>Fixed problem with SCORM package validation and PHP5</li>
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<li>Fixed problem with backup/restore and empty categories</li>
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<li>Better XHTML in wiki</li>
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<li>Bug fix in chat reports for first chat session</li>
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<li>Fixed a problem with SCORM when deleting a lot of files, or very large files</li>
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<li>Fixed some problems with encyclopedia format in glossary</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in SCORM integration with zipping code</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in dialogue plain text email notifications</li>
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<li>Fixed missing sesskey variables in social activity block </li>
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<li>Excess sections for a course are now hidden in the navmenu</li>
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<li>Added daylight savings time fixes for the calendar</li>
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<li>First quiz edit in a new course has a default category assigned</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in paypal module when accepting payment amount</li>
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<li>Fixed bug in course files with loss of choose mode </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<p> </p>
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<h3> Moodle 1.4.2 (5th November, 2004)</h3>
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<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any
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previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>Some important security fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Better checking/cleaning of script parameters used in quite a few areas
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throughout Moodle (a BIG thanks to Petr Skoda for his recent security audit!)</li>
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<li>Quoted some SQL parameters in the glossary module to prevent possible injection</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>A few small new things</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>New PAM authentication module for direct authentication on Unix/Linux</li>
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<li>Course creators can now restore to new or existing courses</li>
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<li>Forum posts now include detailed headers to allow correct threading in mail clients</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>And a bunch of other bug fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<li>Backup is now more able to cope with errors (eg if backup is interrupted)
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and can clean up uncompleted files</li>
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<li>Fix for database authentication against a PostgreSQL database</li>
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<li>Fixes for some parts of installation to PostgreSQL</li>
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<li>Forum subject lines are now only broken up in recent activity display</li>
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<li>Database-based enrolments now actually work :-)</li>
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<li>SQL fixes for creation of RSS feeds from PostgreSQL</li>
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<li>Added rtsp to the list of allowed protocols in cleaned HTML text</li>
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<li>User profile and profile editing page can be called without parameters</li>
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<li>Upgraded xmlize library to latest version</li>
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<li>Upgraded phpmailer library to latest version</li>
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<li>Various small code-only cleanups</li>
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<li>Admin menu now allows backup/restore of the "site course" (front page)</li>
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<li>Fixed a display bug in the forums index which only showed in PHP5</li>
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<li>Highlighting function (eg after search) was stripping backslashes</li>
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<li>Info from LDAP is now decoded from utf8</li>
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<li>Course listings now work better with very large amounts of courses</li>
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<li>Two SCORM bugs fixed (a typo and a problem with onbeforeunload)</li>
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<li>Some cleanups when printing text, headers and variables in Lesson</li>
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<li>Calendar now functions as expected even when you login as someone else</li>
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<li>Fixed a few remaining short PHP tags</li>
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<li>Better randomness for random questions (fix for bug introduced in 1.4)</li>
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<li>When a teacher is removed from a course, they are now also removed from all groups in that course</li>
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<li>Fixed strip_pages bug in Wiki</li>
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<li>Fixes for charset detection in backups and multilang filter under PHP5</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<br />
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<h3> Moodle 1.4.1 (12th September, 2004)</h3>
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<dl>
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<dt>A few little new things</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>New "Email Protection" filter will obfuscate all email addresses within all texts
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(to help prevent automated address-harvesting)</li>
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<li>Allowed email addresses can now be restricted (see config-dist.php for details)</li>
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<li>Extra instructions for translators embedded in translation interface</li>
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<li>New help page for Directory Paths</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>And some bug fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Improved performance when viewing site logs</li>
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<li>Improved paging and performance in glossary</li>
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<li>Glossary entries are now shown correctly if they belong to multiple categories</li>
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<li>Do not redeclare auth_user_login upon failed login</li>
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<li>Fixed two missing icons in the cordoroyblue theme</li>
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<li>Fixed missing "New event" button on Upcoming Events page</li>
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<li>Always addslashes on chat messages from daemon users before inserting into db.</li>
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<li>Fixes for handling of fixed enrollment periods when this is set for a course</li>
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<li>Site course ID (defined as SITEID) is no longer assumed to be always 1</li>
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<li>Default memory limits are increased beyond 16M, to help Moodle continue
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working even when there is some unplanned memory problem</li>
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<li>Smilies are now rendered as pictures in Markdown format texts</li>
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<li>Workshops work under Recent Activity again</li>
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<li>file.php can now only be used to access data within courses</li>
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<li>Improved behaviour of calendar blocks on home page</li>
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<li>Fixed quotes bug with PostgreSQL database specification produced by installer</li>
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<li>Fixed sometimes-missing display of correct answers during quiz review</li>
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<li><tt> and <code> are now allowed tags</li>
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<li>Section summaries, course summaries and labels are again no longer cleaned of Javascript</li>
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<li>Fixed a rare LDAP bug that could cause new accounts not to be created </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<br />
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<h3> Moodle 1.4 (31st August, 2004)</h3>
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<dt>Headlines</dt>
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<li>Compatibility with PHP 5</li>
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<li>New easy installer wizard leads you through the creation of the initial config.php file</li>
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<li>Installation is now completely localised to your preferred language</li>
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<li>Completely revamped Resource module make it easier to add new resources and to send data to them.</li>
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<li>New Enrolment system featuring modules such as completely automated Paypal payments,
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flatfile scanning, or external database control.</li>
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<li>Blocks now work on the front page, plus you can put a topic section above the middle part</li>
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<li>Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat</li>
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<li>New Wiki module!</li>
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<li>New support for editing text using the Markdown format</li>
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<li>Many bug fixes in all areas</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Under the hood</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Resource module has its own Add menu now, and uses class-based submodules, making it much
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easier now to add new resource types to this menu</li>
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<li>Quiz module has been refactored into class-based questiontype plugins.</li>
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<li>Enrolment process has been refactored into class-based enrolment plugins.</li>
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<li>Glossary display formats are now name-based, and it's easier to plugin new ones.</li>
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<li>Improved behaviour of many modules when they are used on the site page.</li>
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<li>Revised Filter structure is faster and now compatible with Turck MMcache.</li>
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<li>Adding activities is now more forgiving of fields left empty</li>
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<li>We can now alter PostgreSQL columns at will using table_column()</li>
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<li>RSS generation has been sped up tremendously, putting much less load on cron</li>
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<li>Some bigger modules have split lib.php into locallib.php for less memory usage</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Languages and localisation</dt>
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<dd>
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<li>Updates to nearly every language pack</li>
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<li>Moodle can override the default character set in Apache, making languages more reliable</li>
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<li>Multibyte languages now wrap properly</li>
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<li>Better handling of locales and encodings on very multilingual sites (like moodle.org)</li>
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<li>New languages: Slovenian and Hebrew! </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Security Fixes</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed a number of possible XSS entry points and path disclosures</li>
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<li>Attributes of tags in HTML are now parsed even more thoroughly for naughty scripts</li>
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<li>User profile pages are no longer available by default to strangers</li>
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<li>All text is now cleaned on output (not just input)</li>
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<li>Email addresses are not used on outgoing mail if the user requests that</li>
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<li>New setting <strong>loginhttps</strong> will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Administration</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Spiffy new interfaces for adding/removing students, creators and admins</li>
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<li>Failed logins are now logged, and can be displayed to users upon a successful login</li>
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<li>Logs now support viewing by group, and by errors</li>
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<li>Modules now behave more consistently on the site front page</li>
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<li>Front page "students" can be all users on site, or all users in at least one course on the site </li>
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<li>Email-sending can now be enabled/disabled on any user's profile page</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Authentication</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>All authentication methods will now co-exist with internally-created accounts</li>
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<li>New support for authenticating against First Class servers</li>
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<li>Fixes for POP3 authentication</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Navigation</dt>
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<ul>
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<li>Visitors can be automatically logged in as guest</li>
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<li>Jump menu now always shows "Jump to" to help distribute clues about what it does</li>
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<li>Jump menu now has a much clearer way of grouping activities into sections</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Blocks</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Block system can now cope with custom course formats and changes in format</li>
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<li>New login block allows login from site front page</li>
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<li>Online users block on home page shows users from the whole site</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Editor</dt>
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<li>New editor configuration screen for the admin</li>
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<li>New support for anchors within pages</li>
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<li>Spell-checking is now supported in the editor, it uses aspell on your server operating system</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Chat</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Chat now includes a server-side daemon (in PHP) for scalable, instant chat</li>
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</dd>
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<dt>Choice</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more option</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Forum</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Several fixes when dealing with groups</li>
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<li>Users can choose to receive forum posts as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts.</li>
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<li>Discussion listing is now paged</li>
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<li>Teachers now have complete control over forum subscriptions, and can subscribe anyone at will</li>
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<li>"Last post" date is shortened and linked to the last post</li>
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<li>Forums now list RSS feeds on the index page</li>
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<li>Better-looking HTML mail using the full stylesheet</li>
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<li>Forum mail older than two days is never sent out (to prevent unwanted floods)</li>
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<li>Blocked mail is logged so that teachers can see it</li>
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<li>Discussion branches can be "split" from the main discussion, into a new discussion</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Glossary</dt>
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<li>Glossary entries can be defined as "always editable"</li>
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<li>Glossaries now list RSS feeds on the index page</li>
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<li>Many fixes throughout</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Quiz</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>New floating timer for timed quizzes</li>
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<li>Attempts may now be restricted to specific computers</li>
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<li>Quizzes can now require a special password</li>
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<li>New question type for Calculated Questions</li>
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<li>Numerical questions now support units<li>Questions can be previewed in the editing pages</li>
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<li>Questions can now be exported in several formats</li>
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<li>More intelligent handling of category listing when editing questions</li>
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<li>New (and incomplete) XML export format, will eventually be quiz-feature-complete</li>
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<li>Shortanswers can now contain all sorts of strange characters</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Resource</dt>
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<dd>
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<li>Adding resources is now a one-step process with more control</li>
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<li>Web page, Web link, Uploaded file and Program resource all combined into one type!</li>
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<li>Program resources replaced by Parameters that allow a lot of of interesting interaction with external resources, both remote and uploaded into Moodle. </li>
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<li>Collapsible forms with memory to make forms less daunting for beginners without slowing down experienced users </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>SCORM</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li>Many fixes and improvements - works with an even wider variety of packages</li>
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<li>Optional extra verification of the manifest file </li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<div align="center" class="style1"><strong><font size="+1">Finally, don't forget to look at some of the <a href="http://moodle.org/download/modules/" target="_blank">many optional and innovative modules under development</a>.
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</font></strong></div>
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<div align="center" class="style1"><strong><font size="+1">If you experience any bugs in this release, please report them <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs" target="_blank">moodle.org/bugs</a> so we can fix them in the next release.</font></strong></div>
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<a href="./?file=releaseold.html">Old release information</a>
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<p align="center"><font size="1"><a href="../doc/" target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>
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