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<H2>Release notes</H2>
+<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (in development) :</H3>
+<UL><DL>
+<DT> General</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>7 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish and Russian.
+ <LI>Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs
+ <LI>Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by adding something to the url: ?lang=en
+ <LI>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
+ <LI>More indexes added to many tables for very noticeable increase in speed
+ <LI>Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame
+ <LI>New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses
+ <LI>Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields
+ <LI>ALL dates/times can be reformatted as part of the language pack
+ <LI>Slightly updated style sheets
+ <LI>Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server
+ <LI>Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode.
+ <LI>Various small optimisations and speed-ups
+ <LI>Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc
+ <LI>Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Developers</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Debug variable for more feedback
+ <LI>Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code
+ <LI>Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Admin</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings
+ <LI>Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)
+ <LI>User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings
+ <LI>Improvements to the language editing page
+</DD>
+
+
+<DT> Courses</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Activities on the course page can be hidden from students
+ <LI>Some paging on the display of participants, to cope with very large classes
+ <LI>Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing
+ the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that
+ zip/unzip now works on Windows.
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Assignments</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Assignment submissions can be sorted
+ <LI>Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Forums</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
+ <LI>Improved display of forums, when listing discussions
+ <LI>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
+ <LI>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Peer-Graded Assignments</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>New module written by Ray Kingdon.
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Quizzes</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)
+ <LI>New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)
+ <LI>New quesiton type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
+ from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)
+ <LI>Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats)
+ <LI>'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz
+ <LI>Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled
+ <LI>Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled
+ <LI>Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.
+ <LI>Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed
+ <LI>Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results
+ <LI>Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3
+</DD>
+
+<DT> Resources</DT>
+<DD>
+ <LI>Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources
+</DD>
+
+</DL></UL>
+
+<HR>
+
<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.8.1 (12th January, 2003) :</H3>
<UL><DL>
<DT> No new features, just bug fixes:</DT>
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