Release Schedule
Open LMS EDU 4.1 Maintenance Pack 2
Sandbox Upgrade: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
Production Upgrade: Thursday, October 19, 2023, 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM local data center time
Release Date
October 19, 2023
- North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their timezone:
- Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM EDT
- Central Timezone: October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CDT
- Mountain and Pacific Timezones: October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM PDT
- South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM BRT
- EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CEST
- APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM SGT
- Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): October 19, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM AEST
Non-Production Sites Upgrade Schedule
To improve the quality of the upgrade process and shorten the production upgrade window, non-production (sandbox) sites will be upgraded on Thursday, October 5, 2023, between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT.
Downtime will be required for your production and non-production sites during this window.
Release video
Major Features
Upgrade to Core 4.1.5
As part of this minor release, the team in Open LMS upgraded the platforms and reviewed the code of versions 4.1.4 and 4.1.5, adding the corresponding fixes, improvements, security patches, and important backports.
Release Notes
For the full releases notes from Moodle.org, please see:
Open LMS Highlights
Snap My Courses new design
The My Courses page has a new design in Snap's theme with several modifications to enhance the page layout and navigation experience.
New header user menu and new link
The Snap header was restructured and now you can see a separation of the "My Courses" link from the user profile picture, and the user profile picture now shows user menu items.
The "My Account" link will only be displayed for admins. The Catalog link and the programs' links are already in the personal menu.
Kebab menu on My courses page
The My Courses view for Snap now has a kebab menu in the top right corner of the block with the following options as in the Boost theme:
- New course
- Manage courses
- Request course (if enabled)
Consistency between themes
Now that the "My Courses" page exists within the Snap theme, the previous navigation and redirection modifications introduced in the past were removed from the mentioned page.
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Enable dashboard setting was unblocked, so you can choose whether to enable it or not.
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The start page for user settings has an extra option, now you are able to select "My courses".
If selected, you will be redirected to the "My courses" view after login or if trying to go to the front page from any other page.
Checklist as grading method for core forums
The Checklist grading method is now available for core forums, this is an easy way for the user and teacher to define and view a list of criteria with the associated grade value for each one.
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Once you create a forum activity you can set up checklist as the grading method.
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Choose “Advanced grading” in the created forum settings and select “Define new grading form from scratch”, then create a checklist. | The checklist now is shown in the right panel with the checklist fields, and the feedback per item to grade all the enrolled users. |
Plugins
New Core plugins
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TinyMCE link |
tiny_link |
2022112800 |
Updated plugins
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New Version |
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Redis Cluster |
cachestore_rediscluster |
2017121200 |
2021040600 |
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ILP Integration |
block_intelligent_learning |
2022110290 |
2023060701 |
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Intelliboard |
local_intelliboard |
2023062704 |
2023092500 |
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Intellidata |
local_intellidata |
2023042000 |
2023082200 |
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IntelliCart |
local_intellicart |
2023070500 |
2023092002 |
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Forced Caching |
tool_forcedcache |
2020120300 |
2020120301 |
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WiseNET |
local_wisenetconnector enrol_wisenetconnector auth_wisenetconnector |
2016012800 2016051900 2016022500 |
2022100600 2019070400 2016071400 |
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Products Catalog |
block_products_catalog |
2023062000 |
2023082100 |
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Grid Format |
format_grid |
2022112604 |
2022112605 |
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Vendor |
profilefield_vendor |
2023013000 |
2023071900 |
Removed plugins
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Ouwiki |
mod_ouwiki |
Plugins to be removed in 4.1 MP3 plugins
Here is a list of plugins that we are planning to deactivate soon:
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auth eFolio |
auth_efolio |
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block eFolio |
block_efolio |
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GW email authentication |
auth_gw_email |
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Elasticsearch |
search_elasticsearch |
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Mediasite 7 Courses |
local_mediasite_courses |
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Mediasite Content |
mod_mediasite |
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Mediasite Atto Editor |
atto_mediasitebutton |
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gsaml |
auth_gsaml |
Security fixes
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MSA-23-0019 - Proxy bypass risk due to insufficient validation
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MSA-23-0020 - Remote code execution risk when parsing malformed file repository reference
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MSA-23-0021 - Some block permissions on Dashboard not respected
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MSA-23-0023 - Stored self-XSS escalated to stored XSS via OAuth 2 login
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MSA-23-0026 - IDOR in message processor fragments allows fetching of other users' data
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MSA-23-0028 - Open redirect risk on admin view all policies page
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MSA-23-0029 - Competency framework tools are not restricted as intended
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MSA-23-0030 - Quiz sequential navigation bypass possible
Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements
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