<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
-<h3> New in Moodle 1.2 (14th March, 2004)</h3>
+<h3> New in Moodle 1.2 (20th March, 2004)</h3>
<ul>
<dl>
<dt>Major new features</dt>
<dt>Site administration</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
- <li>An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins</li>
- <li>User's names can now be configured so student's can only see "firstname lastname", "lastname firstname" or "firstname"</li>
+ <li>An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins who are students in their course</li>
+ <li>New setting "forcelogin" can force people to log in before they can see any of the site</li>
+ <li>New setting "opentogoogle" allows Google and people referred by Google to get in as guest</li>
+ <li>New setting "timezone" allows a default timezone to be set for the whole site</li>
+ <li>New setting "deleteunconfirmed" specifies the time we'll wait for email accounts to be confirmed</li>
+ <li>New setting "allowunenroll" enables/disables students from unenrolling themselves from courses</li>
+ <li>New setting "fullnamedisplay" allows override for the formatting of user full names so students can only see "firstname lastname", "lastname firstname" or "firstname"</li>
<li>Individual users can have their email disabled by the teacher or admin (useful for dealing with broken mail accounts that are bouncing)</li>
- <li>A new setting "forcelogin" can force people to log in before they can see any of the site</li>
<li>Upload sizes can now be controlled throughout Moodle using "maxbytes". There is a site limit (bounded by the current PHP limits), which itself is the upper bound for course limits, which is the upper bound for activity limits.</li>
- <li>Students can be allowed/disallowed self-unenrolling</li>
<li>Moodle cookies can be customised (helps when running multiple Moodles on one site)</li>
<li>Included script for analysing database performance (admin/dbperformance.php)</li>
<li>Included standalone script to check a server for Moodle compatibility (lib/compatible.php)</li>
<li> If a file called cronextra.php exists in the dataroot then cron will run that too. This allows sites to have "special" maintenance features.</li>
<li>Course formats are now more like plugins, in separate directories</li>
<li>Users can now be uploaded from text files</li>
- <li>If $CFG->disableuserimages is defined then user images can not be changed</li>
- <li>If $CFG->opentogoogle is defined then Google can get in as guest
-and people referred by google also get in as guest</li>
+ <li>If $CFG->disableuserimages is defined (in config.php) then user images can not be changed</li>
<li>If $CFG->admineditalways is defined then the administrator can edit ANY post at any time.</li>
<li>If $CFG->filterall is defined then even little things liks forum subjects and activity names are filtered</li>
<li>Support for restricted demo users (eg the teacher demo on Moodle.org) - usernames can be added to a list of names in config.php. eg $CFG->restrictusers = 'teacher,fred';</li>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Fixes for Internet Explorer can be more robust at using the style sheet</li>
- <li>Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - custom themes need upgrading.</li>
+ <li>Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - <strong>custom themes need upgrading!</strong></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Translations</dt>
<li>Language packs can now define the order that people's names should be shown in</li>
<li>Language files are now written using slightly more efficient PHP code</li>
<li>Finally got rid of the final bogus linefeeds in the multi-line strings</li>
+ <li>Courses can now "force" a language on all users</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Backup / Restore</dt>
<ul>
<li>Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution. </li>
<li>The new <strong>glossary filter</strong> can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.</li>
- <li>The new <strong>TeX filter</strong> can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image)</li>
+ <li>The new <strong>TeX filter</strong> can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image). There is also an <strong>algebra</strong> filter with a simpler input format (more like calculators).</li>
<li>The new <strong>censor filter</strong> can be enabled to filter out bad words.</li>
<li>The new <strong>multilang filter</strong> allows texts to be entered in multiple languages, and only the best one will be shown to each user (depending on their language setting)</li>
<li>The <nolink> tag can be used to prevent autolinking within a passage of text.</li>
<li>More tags are now allowed, including <acronym> and all <math> tags.</li>
- <li>Some areas where text wasn't being filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.</li>
+ <li>Some areas where text wasn't properly filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Developer API</dt>
projects / moodle.git / commitdiff