Release Schedule

• Sandbox Upgrade: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET

• Production Upgrade: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM local datacenter time

Release Date

Thursday, April 10

• North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their timezone:

  • Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM EST

  • Central Timezone: April 10, 2025,  at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CST

  • Mountain and Pacific Timezones: April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM PST

• South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM BRT

• EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CET

• APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM SGT

• Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM AEDT

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, March 27, 2025, between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST.

Downtime will be required for your production and non-production sites during this window.

Major updates

Upgrade to Core 4.4.6

As part of this maintenance pack, the Open LMS team upgraded the platform to versions 4.4.5, 4.4.6. These upgrades include essential fixes, improvements, and security patches to enhance the platform's performance and security.

For the full releases notes from Moodle.org, please visit:

• Moodle 4.4.5 release notes - MoodleDocs
• Moodle 4.4.6 release notes - MoodleDocs

Open LMS Highlights

Snap new side navigation menu

In Snap, a new side navigation menu is now available, providing quick, one-click access to key elements:

• Messages Drawer – A dedicated messaging drawer is now available, allowing users to communicate with others on the platform while keeping the panel open anywhere on the site. Stay connected effortlessly without interrupting your workflow.
• Block Drawer – Blocks have been moved to a more visible and accessible position within Snap, making them an integral part of your course and site content.
• Snap Feeds – Initially introduced in the personal menu and later expanded across the entire site, Snap Feeds are now part of this compact side navigation, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience.
• Administration Menu – The administration menu has been integrated into the new navigation, providing a more cohesive and efficient way to manage your site.

This update enhances usability, streamlines navigation, and improves overall accessibility within Snap.

Please visit: Snap’s New Side Navigation: Key Educational Tools Are Just One Click Away

New: Assignment Activity Now Supported in Centralized Content Management (CCM)

We’re excited to announce that the Assignment activity is now supported in Centralized Content Management (CCM), allowing administrators and instructors to create, manage, and distribute assignments across multiple courses more efficiently.

Key Capabilities:

✅ Create a Master Assignment – Set up a single Assignment and use it as a template for multiple courses.

✅ Deploy Replica Assignments – Distribute copies of the Master across different courses while maintaining consistency.

✅ Easily Update Assignments – Modify a Master Assignment, and apply changes to all linked Replicas.

New Payment Gateways in eCommerce

Our eCommerce solution now supports two additional payment gateways: PayPal and Authorize.net . These new options provide greater flexibility for processing transactions, enhancing the payment experience for both administrators and end-users.

Deprecation of the Legacy Personal Menu in 4.4 MP2

As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance navigation and user experience, we are deprecating the Legacy Personal Menu with the 4.4 MP2 release

What's Changing?

The My Courses link, which previously displayed the Legacy Personal Menu, will now take you to the enhanced My Courses page. This updated page provides:

• A complete list of your enrolled courses.

• Multiple filtering options, giving you greater control over how your courses are displayed.

• Access to the Snap Feeds drawer, which includes different notifications and quick links for: Grading updates, Forum posts, Messages, Deadlines.

This transition aims to improve course navigation, making it easier to find and manage your courses and stay up to date with important activities.

Updated plugins

Minor fixes and improvements

Removal of the mdl_log Table in 4.5

As part of our ongoing efforts to optimize database performance and reduce unnecessary storage usage, we plan to remove the mdl_log table in the Open LMS 4.5 upgrade. This table can be significantly large, and since there is no longer a scheduled task to delete old logs, it may consume excessive storage.

The mdl_log table stores logs for the legacy logstore, which has been deprecated and was removed from core Moodle in version 4.2. Open LMS has not logged any data to this table since EDU 4.3 Release.