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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
+<h3>Moodle 1.4.3 (17 December, 2004)</h3>
+
+<p>(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any
+ previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Some important security fixes</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Better checking/cleaning of cookie data</li>
+ <li>Preventative measures for session fixation</li>
+ <li>Better checking/cleaning of parameters for RSS feeds, ip atlas parameters, glossary, forum, theme selection, SCORM module, document viewer</li>
+ <li>Added protection in viewing of uploaded files</li>
+ <li>Added protection against directory traversal</li>
+ <li>Fix for variable $FULLME necessary for cron</li>
+ <li>Prevention against internal libraries being called directly.</li>
+ <li>Prevent viewing of glossary if it's a hidden activity</li>
+ <li>Hidden sections hidden from students in recent activity</li>
+ <li>Fixed problem with guest user being able to see events in the calendar</li>
+ <li>Fixed encoding of TEX expressions</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>A few new things</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Enforced enrolment uniqueness, this is also a performance fix.</li>
+ <li>Added transaction support for PostgreSQL </li>
+ <li>Logging in and logging out are now logged</li>
+ <li>Wiki and SCORM now both use new zipping code - this fixes reported SCORM issues</li>
+ <li>New paging system for glossary</li>
+ <li>User info from LDAP truncated for insertion into moodle to prevent data loss</li>
+ <li>Updated pclzip to new version</li>
+ <li>Memory_limit can be overriden by higher config settings from php.ini, commandline, httpd.conf, .htaccess</li>
+ <li>New Maori language translation pack</li>
+ <li>Many additions to other language packs</li>
+ <li>Teachers can now always try quizzes, even if they're not open yet</li>
+ <li>Glossary print view is now different for each format.</li>
+ <li>Vastly improved multilang filter with more forgiving syntax </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Performance improvements</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Better caching headers mean improved performance on all pages when using back button</li>
+ <li>Database indexes added in many places to enhance performance in large scale deployments</li>
+ <li>Performance improvements throughout moodle where courses were being listed.</li>
+ <li>Various optimizations by removing unnecessary database retrievals and sorting.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Other bug fixes</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Fixed restoring into a new course generating duplicate course idnumbers</li>
+ <li>Fixed many small Postgres issues </li>
+ <li>Fixed unnecessary notices when debug mode on</li>
+ <li>Fixed some more PHP5 Notices</li>
+ <li>Fixed support for apostrophes, quotes and backslashes in LDAP user data</li>
+ <li>Fix for pagination of search course results for Postgres </li>
+ <li>Fixed bug with whitespace in user search</li>
+ <li>Fixed chatroom bug where all chat users listed in multiple chatrooms </li>
+ <li>Fix for installation script bug</li>
+ <li>Case sensitive usernames in bulk user import fixed</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in redirection after rating forum post</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in quiz with matching questions</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in quiz preview</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in language editing</li>
+ <li>Multiple small fixes in SCORM module</li>
+ <li>SCORM module shows user pictures properly</li>
+ <li>Activity names sorted by name in activity filter</li>
+ <li>Glossary search will search aliases as well</li>
+ <li>Any RSS errors will result in a valid RSS error file rather than invalid RSS.</li>
+ <li>Fixed problem with SCORM package validation and PHP5</li>
+ <li>Fixed problem with backup/restore and empty categories</li>
+ <li>Better XHTML in wiki</li>
+ <li>Bug fix in chat reports for first chat session</li>
+ <li>Fixed a problem with SCORM when deleting a lot of files, or very large files</li>
+ <li>Fixed some problems with encyclopedia format in glossary</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in SCORM integration with zipping code</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in dialogue plain text email notifications</li>
+ <li>Fixed missing sesskey variables in social activity block </li>
+ <li>Excess sections for a course are now hidden in the navmenu</li>
+ <li>Added daylight savings time fixes for the calendar</li>
+ <li>First quiz edit in a new course has a default category assigned</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in paypal module when accepting payment amount</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug in course files with loss of choose mode </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+
+
+ </dl>
+</ul>
+
+<p> </p>
+
+
<h3> Moodle 1.4.2 (5th November, 2004)</h3>
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