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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
-<h3> Moodle 1.4 BETA TEST (23rd August, 2004)</h3>
+<h3> Moodle 1.4 (31st August, 2004)</h3>
-<ul>
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-<p><b>
- This is a test release to help you help us. It's pretty stable, but probably contains a few
- bugs here and there especially in more recently-added code. The final release will be August 31st - please
- <a target="_top" href="http://moodle.org/bugs/">report bugs you find</a> as soon as possible
- so we can make the final release of Moodle 1.4 strong and reliable.
-</b></p>
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+<ul><dl>
<dt>Headlines</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Moodle can override the default character set in Apache, making languages more reliable</li>
<li>Multibyte languages now wrap properly</li>
<li>Better handling of locales and encodings on very multilingual sites (like moodle.org)</li>
+ <li>New languages: Slovenian and Hebrew! </li>
</ul>
</dd>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a number of possible XSS entry points and path disclosures</li>
<li>Attributes of tags in HTML are now parsed even more thoroughly for naughty scripts</li>
- <li>User profile pages are no longer availble by default to strangers</li>
+ <li>User profile pages are no longer available by default to strangers</li>
<li>All text is now cleaned on output (not just input)</li>
<li>Email addresses are not used on outgoing mail if the user requests that</li>
- <li>New setting $CFG->loginhttps will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http</li>
+ <li>New setting <strong>loginhttps</strong> will use secure https for the login, then switch back to http</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<li>Spiffy new interfaces for adding/removing students, creators and admins</li>
<li>Failed logins are now logged, and can be displayed to users upon a successful login</li>
<li>Logs now support viewing by group, and by errors</li>
+ <li>Modules now behave more consistently on the site front page</li>
+ <li>Front page "students" can be all users on site, or all users in at least one course on the site </li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Choice</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
- <li>Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more options</li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Exercise</dt>
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>Now supports groups</li>
- <li>Many other changes</li>
+ <li>Significantly revamped to make a lot more sense, with more option</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
<dt>Forum</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Attempts may now be restricted to specific computers</li>
<li>Quizzes can now require a special password</li>
<li>New question type for Calculated Questions</li>
- <li>Numerical questions now support units<li></li>
- <li>Questions can be previewed in the editing pages</li>
+ <li>Numerical questions now support units<li>Questions can be previewed in the editing pages</li>
<li>Questions can now be exported in several formats</li>
<li>More intelligent handling of category listing when editing questions</li>
<li>New (and incomplete) XML export format, will eventually be quiz-feature-complete</li>
<ul>
<li>Adding resources is now a one-step process with more control</li>
<li>Web page, Web link, Uploaded file and Program resource all combined into one type!</li>
+ <li>Program resources replaced by Parameters that allow a lot of of interesting interaction with external resources, both remote and uploaded into Moodle. </li>
+ <li>Collapsible forms with memory to make forms less daunting for beginners without slowing down experienced users </li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Many fixes and improvements - works with an even wider variety of packages</li>
+ <li>Optional extra verification of the manifest file </li>
</ul>
</dd>
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+ <dd>
+ <div align="center" class="style1"><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>.</font></div>
+ </dd>
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+ <p align="center"><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></p>
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