From 8778900a0c772981e8229bcbc86a14be2a04e326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moodler <moodler> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:11:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for 1.4.2. Hopefully we can release this in about 24 hours. --- lang/en/docs/release.html | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) diff --git a/lang/en/docs/release.html b/lang/en/docs/release.html index 6b23f14bb5..d0bbfa72b4 100644 --- a/lang/en/docs/release.html +++ b/lang/en/docs/release.html @@ -17,6 +17,66 @@ <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h1>Latest Release notes</h1> + +<h3> Moodle 1.4.2 (1st October, 2004)</h3> + +<ul> + <dl> + <dt>A few small new things</dt> + <dd> + <ul> + <li>New PAM authentication module for direct authentication on Unix/Linux</li> + <li>Course creators can now restore to new or existing courses</li> + <li>Forum posts now include detailed headers to allow correct threading in mail clients</li> + </ul> + </dd> + + <dt>Some important security fixes</dt> + <dd> + <ul> + <li>Better checking/cleaning of script parameters used in quite a few areas + within Moodle (a big thanks to Petr Skoda for his recent security audit!)</li> + <li>Quoted some SQL parameters in the glossary module to prevent possible injection</li> + </ul> + </dd> + + <dt>And a bunch of other bug fixes</dt> + <dd> + <ul> + <li>Backup is now more able to cope with errors (eg if backup is interrupted) + and can clean up uncompleted files</li> + <li>Fix for database authentication against a PostgreSQL database</li> + <li>Fixes for some parts of installation to PostgreSQL</li> + <li>Forum subject lines are now only broken up in recent activity display</li> + <li>Database-based enrolments now actually work :-)</li> + <li>SQL fixes for creation of RSS feeds from PostgreSQL</li> + <li>Added rtsp to the list of allowed protocols in cleaned HTML text</li> + <li>User profile and profile editing page can be called without parameters</li> + <li>Upgraded xmlize library to latest version</li> + <li>Upgraded phpmailer library to latest version</li> + <li>Various small code-only cleanups</li> + <li>Admin menu now allows backup/restore of the "site course" (front page)</li> + <li>Fixed a display bug in the forums index which only showed in PHP5</li> + <li>Highlighting function (eg after search) was stripping backslashes</li> + <li>Info from LDAP is now decoded from utf8</li> + <li>Course listings now work better with very large amounts of courses</li> + <li>Two SCORM bugs fixed (a typo and a problem with onbeforeunload)</li> + <li>Some cleanups when printing text, headers and variables in Lesson</li> + <li>Calendar now functions as expected even when you login as someone else</li> + <li>Fixed a few remaining short PHP tags</li> + <li>Better randomness for random questions (fix for bug introduced in 1.4)</li> + <li>When a teacher is removed from a course, they are now also removed from all groups in that course</li> + <li>Fixed strip_pages bug in Wiki</li> + <li>Fixes for charset detection in backups and multilang filter under PHP5</li> + </ul> + </dd> + + </dl> +</ul> + +<p> </p> + + <h3> Moodle 1.4.1 (12th September, 2004)</h3> <ul><dl> -- 2.39.5