Moodle

Major features:

Analytics:

• MDL-64739 - Analytics models may be restricted to category or course contexts
• MDL-65588 - Insights about students who have not logged in recently
• MDL-65562 - Report on the actions executed by users on predictions
• MDL-65633 - Allow targets to limit the analysis interval to a specific interface or parent class.
• MDL-66234 - Extra garbage collection for analytics
• MDL-66254 - Require enrolments to be active for most of the analysis interval
• MDL-62191 - Add bulk actions for analytics' insights
• MDL-66536 - Insight notifications improvements
• MDL-60949 - Analytics models should be sorted by name and not last modified
• MDL-66004 - Allow the Python machine learning backend to run from a separate server
• MDL-58992 - Add multi-class capabilities to prediction processors
• MDL-65585 - Global on/off switch for analytics

H5P integration:

• MDL-66388 - Create a new button in Atto to add H5P content in anywhere from hp5.com and h5p.org external URLs
• MDL-66398 - Improve H5P filter to allow internal H5P content URLs
• MDL-66593 - Implement backup and restore process for H5P content
• MDL-67059 - Add Admin UI to manually upload H5P content-type libraries
• MDL-67057 - Create a capability to update H5P content-type libraries
• MDL-67058 - Create a task to install H5P content-type libraries
• MDL-66609 - Create the basic skeleton, library and interfaces for rendering H5P content
• MDL-66399 - Improve H5P Atto button to upload content
• MDL-66397 - Create a new filter to convert h5p.com and h5p.org URLs to embed code

Forum summary report:

• MDL-66153 - Forum report: Basic skeleton
• MDL-66298 - Forum summary report option to message selected users
• MDL-66268 - Groups filter in forum summary report
• MDL-66373 - Dates filter in forum summary report
• MDL-66297 - Link forum summary report to export of each user's post content
• MDL-66694 - Add columns for word count and character count to the forum summary report
• MDL-66768 - Add the ability to download the forum summary report

Forum export:

• MDL-66075 - Forum export functionality
• MDL-66631 - Dates filter in forum export
• MDL-66808 - Forum export options for human-readable dates and removing HTML

• Forum grading:

• MDL-66074 - Create forum grading interface
• MDL-66358 - Display grading form in the grading panel
• MDL-66365 - Add a button to display the entire discussion for a post being graded
• MDL-67116 - Make 'require grade' an activity completion criterion for the forum
• MDL-66381 - Forum grading user search
• MDL-66360 - Forum grading option to send notification to student
• MDL-66906 - Forum view grades option for students
• MDL-66359 - Support restricting the user list to a specific group
• Forum UI improvements:
• MDL-66477 - Create settings side drawer for new discussion view
• MDL-64821 - Create new discussion view for forum
• MDL-66481 - Update display of discussion in discussion list table
• MDL-65129 - Search starred discussions only option in forum advanced search

Assignment:

• MDL-63349 - Assignment: Annotate PDF - Rotate submitted image automatically
• MDL-66537 - Annotate PDF - Right-to-left UI - The rotate buttons order is confusing
• MDL-63878 - Enable the saving and printing of annotated PDFs from previous attempts
• MDL-64811 - Assignment: Add warning about students falling into Default group if group submissions are enabled but not required
• MDL-65797 - Performance improvements for user / group overrides for mod assign

Question bank:

• MDL-66553 - Display ID number and tags in the question bank UI
• MDL-66816 - Question bank: replace the row of edit icons with an Edit menu
• MDL-67153 - Allow question types to add extra actions to the Question bank edit menu

Course relative dates (experimental):

• MDL-66147 - Assignment due date relative to the student course start date
• MDL-66144 - Weeks format relative dates
• MDL-66143 - Course relative dates mode setting
• MDL-66148 - Option to override the assignment due date in a relative dates course

Course overview:

• MDL-64901 - block_myoverview: Add admin setting to control the available layouts
• MDL-66016 - An admin can set which filters are available for users to select in their Dashboard course overview
• MDL-66017 - An admin can specify a course custom field as a filter for users to select in their Dashboard course overview
• MDL-63612 - Course card pattern colours may be specified by an admin
• MDL-65621 - Courses with course visibility set to hide should be labelled 'Hidden from students' in the course overview
• MDL-64860 - block_myoverview: Improve pagination widget
• MDL-64094 - Change 'Hidden' to 'Removed from view' in the course overview

Emojis:

• MDL-65896 - Add emojis to messaging
• MDL-46779 - Atto should support full emoji

Usability improvements:

• MDL-34498 - Session Timeout alert
• MDL-61043 - Provide a more consistent and better way of selecting and deselecting all items in a list
• MDL-48610 - Show alphabet filter in grader report even when there are less than 100 users
• MDL-38555 - Forms do not prevent same data submission multiple times
• MDL-59639 - Browser back button should work as expected in the administration menu with Boost theme
• MDL-57208 - Let users set their default homepage
• MDL-66178 - Participants list - Filter users with no roles
• MDL-65671 - Calendar view selector enables users to switch between month, day and upcoming events
• MDL-66563 - Improve drag and drop question accessibility in high-contrast mode
• MDL-64032 - The UI for setting enrolment end date/duration should be consistent
• MDL-65406 - Boost Theme accessibility: Nav drawer should be marked up as list
• MDL-65915 - Better progress display while re-grading quiz attempts
• MDL-67048 - Drag and drop upload progressbar invert inner and outer

• Other highlights:

• Functional changes:

• MDL-64745 - Administrative setting to show/not show "hide" feature in online users block
• MDL-62835 - The description should be displayed when viewing a Book, Lesson or IMS content package
• MDL-66496 - Option to include author information when importing entries into a database activity
• MDL-66740 - Make "course request" capability category context instead of system context
• MDL-65093 - Users should be informed that they can't block a user who has permission to message all users
• MDL-64002 - Add send message buffering
• MDL-66226 - Show plain text in Messages summary pane
• MDL-61649 - Several core emails provide only text format
• MDL-35773 - Include files option in backup settings
• MDL-63453 - VideoJS upgrade to 7.6.5 including HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) support
• MDL-56549 - Add support for FLAC files
• MDL-62836 - Make awarding badges groups/groupings compliant
• MDL-60916 - Global Search: Replace course search form with global search
• MDL-64438 - Display course category in course related block
• MDL-66326 - Global search: Delete from search index when courses are deleted
• MDL-65183 - block_timeline can cause JSON parse error on dashboard when activities are saved with newline characters
• MDL-66612 - Calendar course event icon is different from course icon
• MDL-66775 - Add new Mobile setting for forcing a minimum app version to access the site
• MDL-66375 - Option to disable the "Forgotten password" feature in the app
• MDL-66753 - The People block is no longer needed and should be removed from core

For administrators:

• MDL-66034 - Log role changes in more detail
• MDL-66570 - Allow disabling of cron output when capturing logs
• MDL-61804 - Let the admin control if lists of courses should be pre-sorted by visibility or not
• MDL-66133 - Let the administrator configure which user filters are shown by default
• MDL-63643 - Add ability to search/filter users by Last IP Address
• MDL-66119 - Disable GUI plugin uninstalls (eg $CFG->uninstallclionly similar to $CFG->disableupdateautodeploy)
• MDL-65201 - Automated backup course ordering
• MDL-65404 - Add column for enrol start dates to Upload users CSV
• MDL-40669 - Upload users via text file should include the optional user field 'disable notifications'
• MDL-66705 - Add an example csv file for bulk uploading of users
• MDL-59470 - Option to duplicate a user tour
• MDL-65622 - Add a new event when a grade item has been created
• MDL-65369 - Include changed course settings in course_updated event
• MDL-65492 - Cache admin UI: make it easy re-purge the cache you just purged
• MDL-63127 - Redis Cache: implement compression
• MDL-66428 - Allow Redis cache to use PHP extension Zstd
• MDL-46317 - Private files space setting should use MB not Bytes
• MDL-7339 - Change 'Open to Google' setting to 'Open to search engines'
• MDL-65208 - Add cli upgrade option to test if an upgrade is required
• MDL-58439 - Admin pages login as guest and then throw Access denied error (should prompt for login) require_admin()

For developers:

• MDL-66675 - New $CFG->behat_pause_on_fail option added
• MDL-46267 - The $CFG->httpswwwroot was removed
• MDL-66335 - New steps to navigate straight to any plugin web page. Plugins must implement their own resolver between page types and URLs.
• MDL-65349 - Profiling included and excluded URLs now are matched from start. Some adjustments may be needed.
• MDL-66633 - Quiz: quiz attempt API should let you create an attempt for a different user
• MDL-66709 - Components other than activity modules should be able to backup and restore question attempt data
• MDL-66754 - Question engine: report methods should not require a list of slots
• MDL-62497 - Add a new transpilation tool for ES6
• MDL-50346 - Remove the restriction to forbid subdirectories in the templates directory
• MDL-66327 - $DB->get_records uses a lot of Peak RAM (with Postgres)
• MDL-66173 - Add hooks to extend all forms with /login/
• MDL-66367 - Caching of templates should use a new templaterev variable
• MDL-66304 - Allow support for xsendfile in alternative_file_system_class independently of local files
• MDL-66166 - Improve the moodlebot user agent and expose a function for plugins to use
• MDL-65646 - Move dependencies and subplugins to JSON
• MDL-55751 - Remove the CSS chunker from Moodle
• MDL-65438 - Allow themes to alter the core css url's
• MDL-65747 - Removed unused Pear_Crypt_CHAP library
• Web services additions and updates:
• MDL-65794 - Make some web service calls idempotent over http GET
• MDL-67043 - Web service to enable H5P offline access in the Moodle app
• MDL-64254 - New Web Services for updating a forum post (or a discussion topic post)
• MDL-65017 - New web service to delete forum posts
• MDL-64588 - New web services for adding and deleting comments
• MDL-66376 - Enforce app security by using tokenpluginfile.php instead webservice/pluginfile.php
• MDL-65400 - Blocks Web Services (for course and dashboard) should return the block settings