Pre-requisites: Forum tracking enabled at the site level (default) Vaguely valid SMTP configuration (e.g. mailcatcher) Two browsers with different users logged in Before you upgrade, ensure that forum read tracking is enabled for user A Test Create a new optionally subscribed forum As user A: subscribe to the forum Navigate to User menu => Preferences => Forum preferences Confirm that Forum read tracking is still enabled Confirm that the default setting is to mark posts as read on send (no change in behaviour) As user B, post in the forum As user A: View the forum - Confirm that the post is marked unread Run cron / mod_forum task As user A: View the forum - Confirm that the post is now marked read Modify user preference to not mark posts as read on notification send As user B, post in the forum As user A: View the forum - Confirm that the post is marked unread Run cron / mod_forum task As user A: View the forum - Confirm that the post is still marked unread Modify forum daily digest setting and repeat test. To help you you may wish to modify mod/forum/lib.php: diff --git a/mod/forum/lib.php b/mod/forum/lib.php index 29f4f6d..5c83469 100644 --- a/mod/forum/lib.php +++ b/mod/forum/lib.php @@ -902,6 +902,8 @@ function forum_cron() { $weekago = $timenow - (7 * 24 * 3600); $DB->delete_records_select('forum_queue', "timemodified < ?", array($weekago)); mtrace ('Cleaned old digest records'); + $digesttime = $timenow - 1; + $CFG->digestmailtimelast = $weekago - 1;   if ($CFG->digestmailtimelast < $digesttime and $timenow > $digesttime) {