Note For the 3.6 changes we don't have the messaging widget on the page so instead when you view the message/index.php page it will open the message drawer. Test setup Before applying the patch in this issue, create a site with a course Create 3 users and enrol them in the course as students Note down the IDs of the 3 users Create a group in the course Add the 3 users to the group Enable group messaging Note down the conversation id for the group message You can do this by looking in the DB or loading the group conversation in the messaging interface and looking at the core_message_get_conversation_messages ajax request it sends Test viewing a "contact request" notification Log in as user 1 Open the message drawer and search for user 2 Click on user 2 to open the conversation Send a message or two to the user to create a conversation Send user 2 a contact request from the drop down menu up the top right of the conversation Apply the patch from this issue Log in as admin and go through the upgrade (master only) Log in as user 2 Open the notification popover from the nav bar Click on the "Contact request" notification CONFIRM the message index page is loaded and shows the contact requests panel Test loading an existing private conversation Log in as user 1 View the conversation with user 2 on the message index page by going to <your_site>/message/index.php?id=<user_2_id> Replace <your_site> with your Moodle site's URL Replace <user_2_id> with the ID of user 2 CONFIRM that the page loads directly into the existing conversation with user 2 (you should see the messages you sent earlier) Test creating a new private conversation Log in as user 2 Start a new conversation on the message index page with user 3 by going to <your_site>/message/index.php?id=<user_3_id> CONFIRM that the page loads directly into a blank conversation with user 3 Test loading an existing group conversation Log in as user 1 View the group conversation on the message index page by going to <your_site>/message/index.php?convid=<group_conversation_id> CONFIRM that the page loads directly into the group conversation (master only) Test default contact request notification settings Create a new site from the master branch Log in as admin View the notification settings (notifications popover in nav bar > settings cog) Find the "Message contact requests notification" setting CONFIRM that it's set to "off" for both the online and offline toggles in the web processor (master only) Test upgrade Create a site that doesn't have this patch applied Log in as admin Create 2 users Log in as user 1 View the user's notification settings notification popover in nav drawer > settings cog Scroll down to the "Message contact requests notification" preference In the web processor the toggle for "online" and "offline" should both be set to "on" Click the "online" and "offline" toggles twice each to turn each of them to "off" and then back to "on" This is creating user preferences which we'll check are preserved through the upgrade Apply the master patch on this issue Log in as admin and go through the upgrade screens Log in as user 1 View your notification settings CONFIRM the "Message contact requests notification" preference is set to "on" for both of the "web" settings (the value you set them to previously) Log in as user 2 View your notification settings CONFIRM the "Message contact requests notification" preference is set to "off" for both of the "web" settings (these are the new defaults)