1 This files describes API changes in /admin/*.
5 * New admin setting admin_setting_encryptedpassword allows passwords in admin settings to be
6 encrypted (with the new \core\encryption API) so that even the admin cannot read them.
7 * Web services administration has been moved from Plugins into the Server category. If you have
8 Behat tests containing steps like `Given I navigate to "Plugins > Web services > ..."`, you will
9 want to replace them with `Given I navigate to "Server > Web services > ..."`.
13 * The following functions, previously used (exclusively) by upgrade steps are not available anymore because of the upgrade cleanup performed for this version. See MDL-65809 for more info:
14 - upgrade_fix_block_instance_configuration()
15 - upgrade_theme_is_from_family()
16 - upgrade_find_theme_location()
17 - linkcoursesectionsupgradescriptwasrun setting
18 - upgrade_block_positions()
22 * Admin setting "Open to Google" (opentogoogle) has been renamed to the more generic "Open to search engines" (opentowebcrawlers).
23 This is a more accurate representation of what is being set and the config string has also been moved and updated to reflect this.
27 * Admin setting "Allow blocks to use the dock" (allowblockstodock) has been removed & stings deprecated.
28 Docking of blocks is no longer supported within the core themes (Boost, Classic).
29 Please see MDL-64506 for further details.
33 * The admin settings admin_setting_configselect and admin_setting_configmultiselect now support the optgroup tag.
34 Grouping of options can be created with this new tag.
35 For using it, the option parameters needs the Group names as indexes:
37 "Spain" => ["madrid" => "Madrid", "barcelona" => "Barcelona"],
38 "France" => ["paris" => "Paris", "marseille" => "Marseille"],
43 * Admin settings have been refined to better support right-to-left languages. In RTL,
44 most fields should not have their direction flipped, a URL, a path to a file, ...
45 are always displayed LTR. The admin setting will now best guess if they should be
46 RTLized based on their PARAM_* type. To override that guess, use
47 admin_setting::set_force_ltr(true/false).