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Latest Release notes

New in Moodle 1.2 (14th March, 2004)

New in Moodle 1.2 (20th March, 2004)

Major new features

Site administration

An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins
User's names can now be configured so student's can only see "firstname lastname", "lastname firstname" or "firstname"
An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins who are students in their course
New setting "forcelogin" can force people to log in before they can see any of the site
New setting "opentogoogle" allows Google and people referred by Google to get in as guest
New setting "timezone" allows a default timezone to be set for the whole site
New setting "deleteunconfirmed" specifies the time we'll wait for email accounts to be confirmed
New setting "allowunenroll" enables/disables students from unenrolling themselves from courses
New setting "fullnamedisplay" allows override for the formatting of user full names so students can only see "firstname lastname", "lastname firstname" or "firstname"
Individual users can have their email disabled by the teacher or admin (useful for dealing with broken mail accounts that are bouncing)
A new setting "forcelogin" can force people to log in before they can see any of the site
Upload sizes can now be controlled throughout Moodle using "maxbytes". There is a site limit (bounded by the current PHP limits), which itself is the upper bound for course limits, which is the upper bound for activity limits.
Students can be allowed/disallowed self-unenrolling
Moodle cookies can be customised (helps when running multiple Moodles on one site)
Included script for analysing database performance (admin/dbperformance.php)
Included standalone script to check a server for Moodle compatibility (lib/compatible.php)
If a file called cronextra.php exists in the dataroot then cron will run that too. This allows sites to have "special" maintenance features.
Course formats are now more like plugins, in separate directories
Users can now be uploaded from text files
If $CFG->disableuserimages is defined then user images can not be changed
If $CFG->opentogoogle is defined then Google can get in as guest -and people referred by google also get in as guest
If $CFG->disableuserimages is defined (in config.php) then user images can not be changed
If $CFG->admineditalways is defined then the administrator can edit ANY post at any time.
If $CFG->filterall is defined then even little things liks forum subjects and activity names are filtered
Support for restricted demo users (eg the teacher demo on Moodle.org) - usernames can be added to a list of names in config.php. eg $CFG->restrictusers = 'teacher,fred';

Fixes for Internet Explorer can be more robust at using the style sheet
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - custom themes need upgrading.
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - custom themes need upgrading!

Translations

Language packs can now define the order that people's names should be shown in
Language files are now written using slightly more efficient PHP code
Finally got rid of the final bogus linefeeds in the multi-line strings
Courses can now "force" a language on all users

Backup / Restore

Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution.
The new glossary filter can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.
The new TeX filter can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image)
The new TeX filter can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image). There is also an algebra filter with a simpler input format (more like calculators).
The new censor filter can be enabled to filter out bad words.
The new multilang filter allows texts to be entered in multiple languages, and only the best one will be shown to each user (depending on their language setting)
The <nolink> tag can be used to prevent autolinking within a passage of text.
More tags are now allowed, including <acronym> and all <math> tags.
Some areas where text wasn't being filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.
Some areas where text wasn't properly filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.

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