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<H2>Release notes</H2>
-<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (in development) :</H3>
+<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (Due for release 29th May, 2003) :</H3>
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<DT> General</DT>
<DD>
<DD>
<LI>8 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian and Polish.
<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>Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by something to the url, eg: http://moodle.org/?lang=ru
<LI>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
<LI>ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack
</DD>
<DT> Developers</DT>
<DD>
- <LI>Debug variable for more feedback
+ <LI>Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like
<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> Courses</DT>
<DD>
- <LI>Activities on the course page can be hidden from students
+ <LI>Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to 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
<DT> Forums</DT>
<DD>
- <LI>Improved display of forums, when listing discussions
+ <LI>Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved
<LI>Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click
<LI>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
- <LI>Blank subject-lines or messages is now prevented
+ <LI>Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented
<LI>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
<LI>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
</DD>
<DT> Custom Themes</DT>
<DD>
<LI>A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are essential
- to viewing some of the new features. If you are using a local custom theme then
- have a close look at theme/standard/styles.php to see the new additions.
+ to viewing some of the new features. <B>If you are using a local custom theme then
+ have a close look at theme/standard/styles.php to see the new additions.</B>
<LI>Custom themes now have the capability to alter the little button graphics.
There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new
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