Bug

• [MDL-1883] - course/scales.php reallllllllly slow
• [MDL-3731] - Disc. Coeff. is -999.00
• [MDL-4061] - User profile update hang with LDAP authentication
• [MDL-4912] - /docs folder needs to be reviewed and files removed
• [MDL-5086] - importing new questions help css problem
• [MDL-5287] - Quiz item analisys
• [MDL-5327] - Question name can contain image tags
• [MDL-5400] - Accessibility modifications not propagated to themes
• [MDL-6017] - missing lang string on restore
• [MDL-6173] - Two English help files missing for SCORM/AICC module
• [MDL-6218] - MySQL - TEXT and BLOB columns can't have a default value
• [MDL-6315] - Manually graded questions that get 0 are considered ungraded.
• [MDL-7043] - hyperlinking an Image using the HTML Editor does not work.
• [MDL-7425] - Divide by zero errors on page listing courses in a category when in edit mode
• [MDL-7574] - Dates Disappear when you "turn editing on"
• [MDL-7850] - missing admin backup log links
• [MDL-8056] - In the "Glossary" activity the option "Allow comments on entries" is not respected, always allowing commentaries.
• [MDL-8164] - MS SQL cannot return Boolean data type in query results, any code using this returns no results when using Sql 2005
• [MDL-8446] - 1.8 standart theme - support for right to left languages
• [MDL-8571] - broken links in help index
• [MDL-8640] - Small improvement to search courses main page...
• [MDL-8682] - Pressing enter when answering a short answer question can submit the wrong one
• [MDL-8850] - Students can view grade for hidden assignments
• [MDL-9076] - Overall Feedback "add 3 fields" button outside of box
• [MDL-9222] - trivial html typo in gradebook
• [MDL-9286] - typo in mnet auth config.html
• [MDL-9297] - mnet logout broken by auth refactoring
• [MDL-9314] - typos in mnet_update_sso_access_control()
• [MDL-9331] - Wrong Index Page for quizzes
• [MDL-9335] - Undefined variable in mod/wiki/backuplib.php on line 188 during backup process
• [MDL-9337] - Hidden teachers are viewable when not enroled in a course
• [MDL-9345] - /user/view.php - I'd suggest allowing this to be defined in the Language Packs: "You can not view the profile of this user'"
• [MDL-9353] - Paypal cost of course not visible in course settings
• [MDL-9451] - Quiz answers can be lost if user navigates before page reloads
• [MDL-9478] - frameset linking zip resources
• [MDL-9519] - wrong language in "grading method" on test start page
• [MDL-9576] - When restoring database , links are not recoded
• [MDL-9592] - ORA error: infinite loop when restoring courses!
• [MDL-9613] - Online Users Block (with partial fix)
• [MDL-9678] - (Another) ORA error when admin wants to view the uploaded files from students (Assignments - Advanced uploading of files)
• [MDL-9690] - Jump to..., and Previous and Next activity buttons do not open resources is expected bottom frame, but in a new frame at the top
• [MDL-9723] - Cannot change roles on sticky blocks
• [MDL-9739] - "link to file or website" resource doesn't show flash player for mp3 files.
• [MDL-9751] - ORA-01704: content of a wiki page is too long, when trying to save
• [MDL-9792] - Media filter doesn't work correctly for .mp3 or .rm files
• [MDL-9804] - course shortname truncated in course/edit_form.php
• [MDL-9829] - backup/restore of front page does not restore most blocks and resources
• [MDL-9835] - Apostrophe issues on table format. It seems to be doubling the apostrophe everytime a save is performed.
• [MDL-9851] - RSS block links open in same window - previously in new window
• [MDL-9887] - extra backslash in the short name of a course with restore
• [MDL-9911] - Gradebook Excel export has problem with unicode
• [MDL-9923] - Linked media in lesson module does not display web pages
• [MDL-9952] - Cant escape # by using \ in a Cloze question
• [MDL-9956] - Admin user is not by default admin group
• [MDL-9990] - course/scale.php really really slow when having large number of courses
• [MDL-10037] - Blog: Site entries display under course entries
• [MDL-10054] - Undefined variable in restore_form.htm
• [MDL-10056] - Can not delete assignments when original plugin not present
• [MDL-10092] - Latex problem with some symbols
• [MDL-10118] - Notice in course restore
• [MDL-10125] - Post date information is lost during backup and restore of forums
• [MDL-10157] - enrol/database/enrol.php is full of diagnostic prints.
• [MDL-10177] - Mediaplugin filter returns blank $text when bad UTF-8 is found
• [MDL-10205] - Quiz 1.8 Review Page missing variables in table
• [MDL-10232] - modinfo missing in get_my_courses
• [MDL-10239] - CLONE -BB quiz true false questions all come in as true
• [MDL-10240] - Moodle import of BB pools doesn't recognize short answer question type
• [MDL-10261] - My moodle page does not work properly anymore
• [MDL-10277] - Force password change cannot be unchecked once selected
• [MDL-10300] - Overall feedback in quiz settings
• [MDL-10318] - SCORM 1.7.x to o 1.8.1 upgrade requires huge memory
• [MDL-10332] - Data module not filtering list by group on [Open Uni]-PILOT_1 [course]
• [MDL-10352] - Broken links in breadcrumbs for backup/log.php
• [MDL-10366] - BUG authentification CAS for new users
• [MDL-10380] - Moodle question import doesn't properly handle BB matching type
• [MDL-10395] - No way to order roles (& you used to be able to do this before roles!)
• [MDL-10402] - Main glossaries can be updated by "students"
• [MDL-10413] - XMLDB Editor issue when loading multiple columns keys
• [MDL-10423] - Course Searches are not working for MSSQL databases
• [MDL-10433] - 1.7 Upgrade: undo_groupings() causes warnings (before groupings exist)
• [MDL-10440] - IE7 and IE6 on win xp error when changing "disable" state of "Start date"
• [MDL-10444] - Course field(s) not being backedup/restored
• [MDL-10445] - Once deleted, blog menu and blog tags block can not be restored by "Turn editing on"
• [MDL-10452] - Quiz UI confusing when you are an admin. The start attempt button only starts a preview.
• [MDL-10461] - Restoring a course with users will not preserve the time their roles were assigned
• [MDL-10469] - user profile shows no courses for admins due to get_my_courses thinking they are guests
• [MDL-10475] - Transition to capabilities of the "studentcanpost" setting
• [MDL-10482] - fieldheight is the same as fieldwidth in mod/data
• [MDL-10496] - role permissions in admin/settings/course.php too general
• [MDL-10517] - Use of addslashes in assignment/lib.php
• [MDL-10526] - sometimes users unenrolled from a course remain in the course groups
• [MDL-10569] - problem with multichoice\questiontype.php - recent commit to 1.8
• [MDL-10571] - Improve the get_my_courses() behaviour
• [MDL-10575] - (ORA) errors with database upgrading from 1.7(.1) to 1.8(.2)
• [MDL-10581] - Limiting 'Questions per page' causes previously correctly answered questions not to be included in the final score
• [MDL-10584] - Internal enrolment says "One Time Key" even if you are a guest user.
• [MDL-10585] - Very difficult to control who is the teacher named on the 'you need an enrolment key from' page.
• [MDL-10635] - function update_course_icon() does not scale
• [MDL-10658] - Course short name repeated in breadcrumbs
• [MDL-10663] - Cannot access questions category page
• [MDL-10670] - docs links not working at all, even with permissions set correctly
• [MDL-10671] - content on question import and export pages sitting on the left side
• [MDL-10680] - Left and Right options reversed when importing Matching questions from WebCT
• [MDL-10689] - Questions imported when "stop on error" ticked
• [MDL-10690] - Completion of Quiz name field is not mandatory
• [MDL-10694] - Move some auth_XXX strings from the central auth.php lang file to each one auth_XXX.php lang files
• [MDL-10700] - Graph of Report "Course Overview" is not show
• [MDL-10709] - Shortanswer resonses should be trimmed before being saved in the database
• [MDL-10729] - Active tab is not marked active
• [MDL-10732] - Messaging to users who have not used messaging doesn't work
• [MDL-10759] - Bogus get_context_instance call in quiz_print_recent_mod_activity
• [MDL-10768] - Integrate RTL patches from Hebrew team
• [MDL-10771] - mod/chat/view.php - p tags within a tags throw a vaidation error
• [MDL-10772] - Apostrophes are replicated when editing language files in version 1.8.2
• [MDL-10785] - xml import getpath() doesn't handle 0 values correctly
• [MDL-10786] - Short Answer questions will not allow 0 as the sole answer.
• [MDL-10788] - Error in mssql_n adodb driver when the string to insert begins with single quotes...
• [MDL-10793] - CSS letter-spacing in theme: Cause problem with Khmer
• [MDL-10799] - Question types do not accurately determine whether their state has changed or not.
• [MDL-10818] - When no permission to draw a graph... it would be better to return an ERROR IMAGE rather than ERROR text...
• [MDL-10822] - Upgrading from 1.7 to 1.8, groups->password is lost
• [MDL-10824] - question/edit.php validating errrors
• [MDL-10830] - Parse error when creating new categories within a quiz
• [MDL-10833] - Moodle ignores course theme for several course admin pages
• [MDL-10834] - Restore of quiz module may create calendar events without a date/time
• [MDL-10843] - help files are not found in the questions plugins folders
• [MDL-10846] - Sorting submitted assignments by status makes all assignments disappear
• [MDL-10856] - MP3 filter does not work in uploaded HTML files
• [MDL-10902] - GIFT format import errors
• [MDL-10903] - Wrong capability checked in get_all_instances_in_course in datalib
• [MDL-10904] - Exclude not working in gradebook 1.8.2
• [MDL-10916] - Quiz Import: unable to import Cloze question because of "generalfeedback" column
• [MDL-10918] - IMS Enterprise enrolment module fails to set mnethostid for created users
• [MDL-10920] - mod/data/preset/imagegallery/lang/en_utf8/data.php should be renamed to datapreset_imagegallery.php
• [MDL-10921] - LDAP Auth to Active Directory requires LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS option set
• [MDL-10946] - Removing Teachers as a default in Course Reset a bit suspect
• [MDL-10947] - https is replaced with httpss when wwwroot already is https
• [MDL-10954] - Upgrade from 1.6.4 to 1.8 fails
• [MDL-10970] - Something in get_string() prevents other languages to work...
• [MDL-10972] - Do not use "Full name" in exported quiz results sheet
• [MDL-11023] - When view one's own profile there is this error - Warning: Wrong parameter count for array_slice() in /var/www/html/moodle/lib/datalib.php on line 709
• [MDL-11029] - Assignment types need to be upgraded properly using upgrade_plugins()
• [MDL-11039] - Current course theme is replaced by site theme in various modules
• [MDL-11043] - misspelled get_string in login/index.php
• [MDL-11053] - Course object not escaped before insert
• [MDL-11062] - Groups 1.7 => 1.8 upgrade problems
• [MDL-11064] - Authenticated users cannot request password to teacher
• [MDL-11073] - Capability "moodle/user:assign" was not found! from user/index.php
• [MDL-11081] - Course restore doesn't restore students' quiz results correctly and the restore function also breaks OTHER course areas quizzes!
• [MDL-11095] - Wrong path in file mod/quiz/report/default.php
• [MDL-11104] - Missing explanation of Markdown syntax
• [MDL-11111] - The number of search results is not always correct in the role assignment view
• [MDL-11151] - restore process adds slashes to quotes in shortname
• [MDL-11160] - Cron exhausts memory on "Removing expired enrolments ..."
• [MDL-11189] - Students can't see group events in calendar
• [MDL-11211] - Deletion of a course with published questions destroys quizzes in other courses that have used those questions.
• [MDL-11213] - Quiz preview attempts show up in item analysis
• [MDL-11231] - Missing "correct" tick in Close question check
• [MDL-11237] - preg_xxxx() critical bug under PHP 5.2.4, tests required...
• [MDL-11239] - Link to imsmanifest.xml does not work
• [MDL-11267] - Anywone who can view quiz reports can delete student attempts
• [MDL-11268] - assignment_submissions->data1 and data2 are NOT NULL
• [MDL-11271] - The closing bracket "}" can't be used in cloze question type
• [MDL-11279] - misleading messages when exporting questions to file
• [MDL-11281] - broken link in admin message re: login failures
• [MDL-11292] - Cannot create child auth plugins
• [MDL-11304] - Forum does not handle groups correctly
• [MDL-11316] - Slashes displayed in correct answers for short answer questions
• [MDL-11324] - When assigning roles to modules or blocks inside a course, ALL users on the site are shown
• [MDL-11335] - Week dates are invisible in weekly format with AJAX editing on
• [MDL-11351] - HTML editor writes <span lang=%> instead of <span class="multilang" lang=%> when using the lang drop-down menu.
• [MDL-11364] - Users assigned as teacher on front page cannot download hidden resources.
• [MDL-11387] - CLONE -hyperlinking an Image using the HTML Editor does not work.
• [MDL-11425] - Exporting category switch in xml quiz export does not correctly encode special characters
• [MDL-11434] - $CFG->filelifetime = 0 has no effect
• [MDL-11446] - With required radio button controls, the wrong labels are coloured red
• [MDL-11448] - FirstClass Authentication does not hold settings and has cosmetic and info leakage issues
• [MDL-11472] - fix harcoded mdl_prefix
• [MDL-11514] - Help file quiz/formatmissingword.html is empty
• [MDL-11515] - Help file quiz/formatblackboard.html is empty
• [MDL-11584] - Acvitity report not displayed using Actual course Forced Language.
• [MDL-11597] - cron execution dies two minutes after forum cron execution
• [MDL-11608] - Multilang filter doesn't work in Course category names
• [MDL-11632] - Multiple files with emtpy lines before <?php and after ?> in CVS.
• [MDL-11703] - Shortanswer answers with a literal * in them don't work
• [MDL-11912] - Course Backups fails when including user files
• [MDL-12061] - Page validation fails when Resource Summary contains HTML tags
• [MDL-12094] - Search Moodle - [[blockname]] - Missing Strings for English
• [MDL-12149] - Assigment counter doesn't work with separated groups
• [MDL-12166] - accessallgroups does not work for reply forum posts in separate groups
• [MDL-12323] - LDAP tries to update external when set not to.
• [MDL-12407] - /userpix/index.php produces invalid XHTML syntax
• [MDL-12704] - print_recent_activity() assums activity
• [MDL-12743] - DailyBuild: firefox style link broken
• [MDL-12858] - LDAP authentication completely broken

New Feature

• [MDL-5642] - Calculated Questions : no export/import support?

Task

• [MDL-7357] - Review all the indexes, creating the missing ones...
• [MDL-8812] - trivial theme bug
• [MDL-10390] - Add the PHP 5.1 req to as many environment.xml releases as possible
• [MDL-10409] - CLONE -trivial theme bug because there arte two issues in one report.
• [MDL-10415] - Replace Aiken format in core

Improvement

• [MDL-6798] - Bring back simple THEME->body and other theme colors/colours
• [MDL-8109] - Flexible column positons - you may rearange the layout-table columns
• [MDL-8451] - admin/settings/location.php unnecessarily calls get_list_of_timezones() twice
• [MDL-9722] - Add an installation check for the MySQL strict mode
• [MDL-9922] - Change the default setting of meta course to No when backing up a course
• [MDL-9939] - Clicking on scales link in a course for administrators is really slow (fix included)
• [MDL-9940] - filelib.php should be updated for new MS Office 2007 formats
• [MDL-10149] - If you delete the "admin" role and you have just one user with the admin right, the site become inaccessible.
• [MDL-10322] - chameleon does not look in theme/mytheme/pix/tab for tab backgrounds
• [MDL-10396] - Database enrollment should not enrol students in hidden courses
• [MDL-10495] - In Admin=>Appearance=>Course Managers, roles are not in correct order
• [MDL-10515] - Change HTML to make it easier to style multiple choice questions
• [MDL-10531] - GIFT parser should recognize essay questions
• [MDL-10604] - Add ability to add sub-categories directly.
• [MDL-10661] - Headings out of alignment in Firefox when editing question category
• [MDL-10686] - Submit button is missing from embedded answers preview pop up
• [MDL-10704] - CSS letter-spacing or text-align: justify; break rendering for Khmer
• [MDL-10714] - Advanced uploading of files "Allow deleting" help file is incorrect.
• [MDL-10715] - Advanced uploading of files, Upload single file assignments have "Uploads not allowed" option
• [MDL-10737] - Increase size of short answer text entry box
• [MDL-10858] - Edit field sizes for overall feedback are silly
• [MDL-10878] - Resource name required before IMS repository can be browsed, and name field no longer filled in automatically
• [MDL-10995] - basic improvements eliminating some db queries
• [MDL-11033] - Moodle 1.9 will require PostgreSQL version 8.0 and above
• [MDL-11161] - Activity type text added to beginning of activity links in Screen Reader mode moved to end of links
• [MDL-11310] - Multichoice edititing form should have space for 5 answers by default

Sub-task

• [MDL-6367] - New question types cannot easily be added to the import/export formats
• [MDL-7436] - Indicate type of resource in the name of the resource
• [MDL-7779] - Forms elements misalligned in IE
• [MDL-8060] - Convert group/grouping form to new formslib
• [MDL-8627] - HTML QuickForm displays (some?) disabled elements in a non-accessible way
• [MDL-10787] - get_records_sql() with GROUP BY still returns incomplete result sets
• [MDL-11134] - Help links in forms are outside the <label> - they will be ignored in JAWS forms mode
• [MDL-11317] - Slashes displayed in incorrect responses for short answer questions
• [MDL-11439] - Current week is NOT indicated non-visually, only in styling
• [MDL-11648] - "Required" is inappropriate text for legend in user profile edit form
• [MDL-11676] - Skip block links are broken in Internet Explorer

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