Open LMS EDU 4.5 MP1 Release Notes

Saha Torres

Updated September 18, 2025 16:38

Release Schedule

Open LMS EDU 4.5 Maintenance Pack 1

Sandbox Upgrade: Thursday, July 24 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET
Production Upgrade: Wednesday, August 6 2025, 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM local datacenter time

Release Date

August 6, 2025

North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their timezone:
- Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: August 6, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM EDT
- Central Timezone: August 6, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CDT
- Mountain and Pacific Timezones: August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM PDT
South America (São Paulo, Brazil datacenter): August 6, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM BRT
EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CEST
APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM SGT
Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): August 6, 2025 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, July 24 2025 between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT.

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

Release Highlights

The Open LMS Product team is excited to announce the release of EDU 4.5 MP1, based on Moodle™ version 4.5.5 For the full releases notes from https://moodledev.io, please see Moodle™ Core 4.5.5 Release notes.

Updated Plugins

Plugin Name	Component	Version
Intelliboard next	local_intellidata	2025070100
Intelliboard legacy	local_intelliboard	2025071104
Intellicart	local_intellicart	2025062401
Respondus	lockdownbrowserquizaccess_lockdownbrowser block_lockdownbrowser	2025062401 2025061601
Vault	tool_vault	2025051000
Office 365 integration	local_office365 local_o365 theme_boost_o365teams repository_office365 block_microsoft auth_oidc local_onenote assignfeedback_onenote assignsubmission_onenote	2024100700
Collapsed topics course format	format_topcoll	2024092206

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

Version	Description
4.5 Hotfix	Snap / Improve Quiz Navigation by Adjusting Question Number Placement Snap: Excessive left margin on book activity page Behat clean up 8.3 vs 4.5 Enable UI Configuration of Fields Sent to Mixpanel via logstore_mixpanel Snap / Issues on Feedback Editing Page Snap sidebar preferences not set My Account: Active user history Snap - Sidebar: "Go to Left" Footer Does Not Expand and Overlaps Messages Drawer When Sidebar Is Hidden Snap cover image sizing improvements - For the Front page and Courses 4.5 Reg: Outcomes appearance adjustments and Icons appear gigantic in some views Process event queue scheduled task fails due to orphaned course module data Plugins VPAT 2024 - My Account - Service Data view accessibility improvements Plugins VPAT 2024 - My Account - General view accessibility improvements Liquidus - Problems with some forms and text editors when appcues enabled Backport 4.5.5 security fixes to 4.5
4.5 MP1	Forum feedback box inserting line break HTML when using Whole Forum Grading and a Checklist Course Size Report timeout when exporting the data Text and Background colors are not being applied correctly On the messaging page, the sidebar doesn't work correctly (keyboard navigation) and its icons aren't correctly positioned PLD: Design issues for condition pop-ups Conduit allows invalid characters for auth type The "Advanced" string is displayed in some filters and screens Review language strings on Snap settings page Add a SCSS - Friendly editor for Snap theme settings Grader Panel Does Not Collapse When Expected In SNAP Snap: Brickfield+ File Conversion Icons Missing on Resources Displaying in Pop-up Snap navigation bar - Text and Background colors are not being applied correctly Update Open LMS release for MR 4.5 MP1 Snap/ Sidebar Overlaps Right-Side Options

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