Release Notes - Moodle - Version 1.7.2 - HTML format

Bug

  • [MDL-3370] - Unread messages shouldn't link to read
  • [MDL-3583] - tabs text confusing
  • [MDL-3681] - Duplicate Message-IDs in Forum mail
  • [MDL-3972] - Lose Blocks When Saving Course Settings
  • [MDL-4313] - LDAP doesn't properly escape extra quotes in course details
  • [MDL-4940] - Social Activities Block Disappears When Changing Course Setings
  • [MDL-6128] - 1.6, special chars and messaging system.
  • [MDL-6196] - Can't send email
  • [MDL-6224] - Syntax error creating tables on install
  • [MDL-6269] - Question grades are not recorded properly when Build on attempts feature is enabled
  • [MDL-6386] - Apostrophe problem in SHORTANSWER question embedded inside CLOZE question
  • [MDL-6462] - Cloze (multianswer) question special character issues
  • [MDL-6481] - IMS update resource -- 'frameitem' is undefined
  • [MDL-6849] - The subquestions and subanswers in the Renderedmatch question type don't show up when you try to edit them!!!!
  • [MDL-6912] - Cannot delete forums
  • [MDL-6966] - Clicking on an available tags does not enter it into the editing area.
  • [MDL-7164] - Block instances not deleted correctly when deleting a course
  • [MDL-7215] - JS Error/Disabled AJAX with IE6 & Weekly Course Format
  • [MDL-7241] - Sorting by "Completed" in Manually Graded quiz questions is not accurate
  • [MDL-7257] - stylesheet bug: text color undefined
  • [MDL-7259] - Item analysis: symbols '<' and '>' misparsed in TEX formulae
  • [MDL-7415] - Error subscribing to forums
  • [MDL-7606] - Ajax weekly course format freeze with IE 6 (moving resources)
  • [MDL-7712] - Fields not read from external database
  • [MDL-7722] - Receive error when specify custom backup path
  • [MDL-7764] - Site level role definitions are not applied to lower levels.
  • [MDL-7765] - Error with SQL injection because of Comment field length
  • [MDL-7788] - 'Login As' shows in student's user profile courses where admin or teacher are enrolled
  • [MDL-7796] - Default permissions for Course Creators are too permissive
  • [MDL-7811] - IMS window setting not saved initially
  • [MDL-7847] - Undefined table alias used in function forum_delete_userdata
  • [MDL-7934] - everybody is allowed to create new discussions in the news forum
  • [MDL-7939] - Courses hidden to students does not allow editing teacher to see and edit it
  • [MDL-7993] - Problems with Unicode generated Excel spreadsheets...
  • [MDL-8053] - Teachers cannot access and analyse the students "Activity Reports".
  • [MDL-8072] - In the "Quiz" activity with the "Adaptive Mode" on, the "Multiple Choice" a message informing the student was penalized with the Penalty Factor is displayed when the answer given by the student is correct.
  • [MDL-8093] - Moodle Course Creator Role Appears in all course & Enrollment Issues
  • [MDL-8127] - bad use of DESCRIPTION constant in quiz module causes upgrade to fail
  • [MDL-8128] - View role details page not properly displaying block name for block capabilities.
  • [MDL-8134] - Default value for empty fields in Oracle breaks default interactive enrolment (and maybe other places)
  • [MDL-8137] - form autocomplete bug (previously MDL-4423)
  • [MDL-8140] - Alternative units disappear when editing numerical question
  • [MDL-8154] - Lower Show All on /course/search.php not working
  • [MDL-8177] - random question selecting previously deleted question
  • [MDL-8196] - When im editing or adding lessons, I get the error "Update page: answer record not inserted". I am then sent back to my homepage
  • [MDL-8207] - 1.4 Quizzes lose their answer data when brought into later versions.
  • [MDL-8222] - Display of creator in course listings
  • [MDL-8232] - Can't use = (equal) comparison with Nvarchar and Ntext
  • [MDL-8257] - Cornflower theme variables broken
  • [MDL-8268] - accesslib.php problems
  • [MDL-8287] - Script running slowly message when a resource is deleted (ajax)
  • [MDL-8298] - CLONE -Changes to the full name during the restore course process do not carry over to the final restored course
  • [MDL-8303] - Upgraing to a new Moodle 1.7 /1.7.1 version fails with SQL problem on Numerical Plugin
  • [MDL-8308] - Capability Caching After Change Password?
  • [MDL-8314] - Course deletion must delete backup_logs info...
  • [MDL-8336] - lacking of viewuseractivitiesreport
  • [MDL-8342] - Import of Blackboard5 questions failing (quiz with 110 questions- mixture of true-false, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank
  • [MDL-8346] - Notice: Undefined variable: type in /moodle/enrol/ldap/enrol.php on line 79
  • [MDL-8347] - Cannot create new glossary category if category with same name exists in another course on site
  • [MDL-8349] - Review of Attempt N page not being filtered
  • [MDL-8350] - Typo in English lesson.php
  • [MDL-8358] - Tutor blog shows all assignments as ungraded even though they are graded
  • [MDL-8360] - Bookmarking Admin Search Results
  • [MDL-8366] - utf8 database migration misses cached modinfo data
  • [MDL-8375] - HTML characters in essay question type
  • [MDL-8376] - Course list option missing in frontpageloggedin when there are more than 200 courses
  • [MDL-8378] - Help file "switchrole.html" could not be found!
  • [MDL-8383] - admin/xmldb/actions/view_reserved_words/view_reserved_words.class.php has missing TD and TR tag
  • [MDL-8399] - Not able to quit myself from one course as admin
  • [MDL-8402] - calendar_weekend set to Sunday only affects Saturdays instead of Sundays
  • [MDL-8416] - Apostrophes fail for full site name:
  • [MDL-8417] - Extend check_browser_version() to include other A-Grade YUI browsers
  • [MDL-8421] - Old upgrade scripts create ajax as nullable (while it should be not null)
  • [MDL-8427] - WorkShop install error (foreign key)
  • [MDL-8431] - In qanda forum: Undefined property: object::$id
  • [MDL-8439] - ims qti 2.0 export doesn't work
  • [MDL-8459] - Left indent of activites does not work in AJAX course editing - in IE
  • [MDL-8468] - img tag attributes getting mangled in HTML Editor
  • [MDL-8469] - cron job runs out of memory during forum_cron step
  • [MDL-8476] - Administration/Server/Email setting "Allow users to select character set" causes send() to die
  • [MDL-8480] - When syncronishing lang from external DB auth, it's not working
  • [MDL-8490] - Glossary student not being able to edit entries
  • [MDL-8491] - Feedback for essay type questions is not backed up
  • [MDL-8498] - Notification of feedback e-mails to students not being sent
  • [MDL-8507] - Local language pack-name can appear in language code
  • [MDL-8515] - Prefixing text with a slash character suppresses username in chat.
  • [MDL-8534] - Restore ROLE_ASSIGNMENTS does not match backup ROLES_ASSIGNMENTS - extra S!
  • [MDL-8568] - switching beeting groups and changing back to all participants failes
  • [MDL-8586] - After saving LaTeX preamble settings, extra backslash is added to them
  • [MDL-8589] - Mutliple Roles Error: "Found more than one record in get_record_sql"
  • [MDL-8591] - bug in unenrol_student
  • [MDL-8594] - My Moodle problem, when a guest user of the site.
  • [MDL-8602] - 5 mysterious surveys created
  • [MDL-8633] - Undefined variable '$output' in /lib/weblib.php on line 3283 function print_png()
  • [MDL-8662] - stats is accessing the context table directly instead of using functions
  • [MDL-8664] - two warnings from lams
  • [MDL-8666] - Groups Import Broken due to Bad capability check
  • [MDL-8674] - Realplayer Multimedia Filter Doesn't appear to work
  • [MDL-8679] - Site administrator sees all events on the front page calendar with the "adminseesall" setting off
  • [MDL-8681] - duplicate roles being produced on import
  • [MDL-8693] - Automatic enrollment
  • [MDL-8700] - backup/backuplib.php high load due to PHP5 issue
  • [MDL-8725] - when setting cmi.objectives.0.id in a sco, there are javascript errors that prevent the sco from finding the lms
  • [MDL-8730] - Call to undefined function while install
  • [MDL-8757] - Forum not sending email?
  • [MDL-8759] - Blocked mail creates log entry that shows as "last logged in"
  • [MDL-8761] - No way to send site news to all users
  • [MDL-8767] - forum_cron can surely be a lot more efficient
  • [MDL-8779] - All courses are listed in User profile
  • [MDL-8785] - Remove timestart and timeend from consideration by load_user_capability()
  • [MDL-8787] - Help text for forum type doesn't include "News Forum"
  • [MDL-8804] - I receive the forum digest from moodle.org twice a day, one at my local time (utc+1) 13:42 and the other one at 16:04
  • [MDL-8814] - Missing word on /admin/filter.php?filter=filter%2Fmediaplugin
  • [MDL-8842] - Update Moodle timezones files to address 2007 changes in the US
  • [MDL-8847] - After editing forum post... redirection happens to incorrect anchor
  • [MDL-8864] - A message in English, "Sorry, you cannot post in this discussion" appears when mod/forum:replypost is prevented.
  • [MDL-8872] - Remove inappropriate uses of the word "Course" from scorm interface
  • [MDL-8883] - Moodle -> Modules -> Filters -> Tex Notation Settings forcing double slashes
  • [MDL-8885] - Some things to fix with default legacy roles and behaviours...
  • [MDL-8896] - Quotes not being escaped/unescaped correctly in Oracle database - data getting mangled!
  • [MDL-8918] - Comments in xmldb cause errors if they include '
  • [MDL-8958] - quiz problem with build on last attempt and random questions
  • [MDL-8978] - Fill with correct does not fill multiple choice questions in Cloze type questions
  • [MDL-8981] - Roles assigned at site level may result in a lot of default subscriptions
  • [MDL-8988] - problem with SCORM backup
  • [MDL-8990] - regrade not considering responses given on last attempt
  • [MDL-9009] - Cornflower theme not loading correctly
  • [MDL-9010] - Course Request button appears on courses list although "nable course requests" has been disable
  • [MDL-9012] - Course autocreation doesn't work in enrol/database
  • [MDL-9016] - restoring into existing course, deleting first deletes context and doesn't recreate it
  • [MDL-9017] - ICO file not displayed in IE7 via file.php
  • [MDL-9018] - Flash videos should wait to play
  • [MDL-9021] - View of html resource not adds in log in certain conditions
  • [MDL-9024] - Role names are not multilang-filtered on course user list
  • [MDL-9025] - Role names are not multilang-filtered in user profile
  • [MDL-9034] - lang/en_utf8/enrol_database.php out of sync with enrol/database/config.html
  • [MDL-9035] - Hidden assignment not working
  • [MDL-9052] - Small inconsitency when accesing to forums from emails...
  • [MDL-9061] - Add a note to the SYSTEM roles assignment page to explain the consequences
  • [MDL-9094] - Essay question penalty factor
  • [MDL-9104] - assign.php calls non-existent function (print_box())
  • [MDL-9105] - Assign global roles page has no content
  • [MDL-9128] - Course creator is asked to enrol
  • [MDL-9129] - Problems adding new courses from course/index.php
  • [MDL-10282] - Problem with LDAP enrolment when Course is hidden.
  • [MDL-10766] - missing definition for string [[healthnoproblemsfound]] in /admin/health.php
  • [MDL-11098] - LDAP enrolment breaks due to non-defined variable used as $user property.
  • [MDL-11299] - ldap field sync problem (prevents userdata to get from ldap)

New Feature

  • [MDL-308] - Roles: Access control and user rights system
  • [MDL-3208] - allow students to submit events to calendar
  • [MDL-3961] - Let's show course-creator and admin status when viewing a user's summary info
  • [MDL-4469] - Non-admin user's ability to submit a site event to calendar
  • [MDL-5229] - add GB18030 to sitemailcharset

Task

  • [MDL-8331] - Test all the DB upgrade paths...
  • [MDL-8775] - Picture shown in two different ways

Improvement

  • [MDL-4701] - Calendar listing should link to event anchored on page, not date page
  • [MDL-7285] - Language pack update does not show if the online pack version is more recent than teh installed one
  • [MDL-8145] - Add more options to the add random questions dropdown
  • [MDL-8299] - Non-editing teacher can't review details of student's quiz attempts
  • [MDL-8318] - no price listed
  • [MDL-8426] - Check whether YUI 0.12.x fixes IE hangups while deleting resources in AJAX course format
  • [MDL-8450] - Allow category information to be included in exported quizzes
  • [MDL-8527] - Add environment checks at the beginning of every upgrade
  • [MDL-8651] - Import and Backup/Restore - auto-purging of old backup*.zip files in backupdata folder
  • [MDL-8857] - In Moodle XML import, make answer fraction format consistent
  • [MDL-8983] - Hidden assignment requires a help file
  • [MDL-10168] - improvements to display of results from environment checks

Sub-task

  • [MDL-8351] - TEXT: lesson_answers->response
  • [MDL-8390] - TEXT: lesson_attempts->useranswer
  • [MDL-8637] - TEXT:lesson_answers->answer
  • [MDL-9066] - No role assigned after restoring into existing course when erasing old data

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