Open LMS EDU 4.0 MP1 Release Notes

Release videos

Release Highlights 4.0 MP1

Release Date

February 09, 2023

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

  • Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: February 09, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM EST

  • Central Timezone: February 09, 2023,  at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CST

  • Mountain and Pacific Timezones: February 09, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM PST

• South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): February 09, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM BRT

• EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): February 09, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CET

• APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): February 09, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM SGT

• Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): February 09, 2023, 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, January 26, 2023, between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST.

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

Open LMS Mobile App version upgrade

We have updated our mobile App from Moodle™ version 4.0.2.1 for 4.1.0 on iOS and Android devices. You can find it in the Android and Apple stores available for download.

Release Highlights

Community icons improvement for Snap

Our Snap Community activities icons were improved by modifying the padding between the icon’s graphic and its border so that the icon looks bigger and easier to identify.

Before	Now

Calendar block view

The calendar block view appearance was modified in order to optimize their visualization and match the Snap styles at the course dashboard view.

Before	Now

Intelliboard edition button remotion

In Snap, the "Blocks editing on" button is displayed for Admins on Intelliboard's Dashboard view, however, this button isn’t displayed on Intelliboard’s views for students and teachers, so it was removed from this view.

Before	Now

Accessibility improvements

Updated plugins

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

MR-4.0-HF1

• Snap 4.0 - Site administration Search page is missing tabs and the search option

• Snap error preventing course access in all sites with xpLor configured as an LTI tool

MR-4.0-HF2

• Section view with Open Forum shows blank spaces with different answers

• Fix the name of the language ar

MR-4.0-HF3

• PLD enrollment action does not show the field to select the course.

• Message, The number of unread messages is not updating

• Ally - Fix the accessibility score icon in the activities description

MR-4.0-HF4

• Backport 4.0.6 security fixes.

• Excess of padding: Improve the look and feel site menu.

• Table of contents setting generates an incorrect section numbering sequence.

• Theme_snap injects javascript in the footer even when it's not the active theme.

MR-4.0-MP1

• Problem 264520 - Snap rendering some text in Unicode in non-Latin script language packs.

• Confirm activity completion date vs. due date behavior (Course View, Calendar and Deadline).

• Snap theme - Grader Report not always in edit mode.

• Adding multiple LTI 1.3 causes an error.

• Tiles format: Look and Feel.

• Moodle 4.0: Calendar block view.

• Error Message received when mapping outcomes to quiz questions.

• The button create a new profile category does nothing.

• Activity blocks for Snap: Adjustments Change icons in blocks to have the same design as Snap - 

• Snap / Book - Print options are wrongly displayed.

• Snap theme the URL resource doesn't accept the "Display" configuration.

• SNAP Assignment - Additional Files and related option.

• PLD introduces a cookie pld that does not have the httpOnly flag nor the Secure flag.

• When creating a quiz, the name field is automatically filled with the users saved by the browser.

• Snap, Intelliboard - Edition button is displayed when no expected.

• Open Forum simple text editor formatting will not carry over into the advanced editor.

• Consolidate calendar view in Dashboard.

• Improve community icons for Snap.

• Conduit/Reports - Fix autocomplete table.

• Snap AX - Fixes from the VPAT vendor QA session.

• Snap AX - Fixes from the VPAT vendor QA session - Part 2.

• Block Drawer and Course Index not expanding in Boost theme.

• Recognize the file type for the file activity in the Tiles course format.

• Error image is shown after login when user logouts when file manager is still loading.

• Displays the step with blocks that are not available.

• Page appearance settings have no effect in Snap.

• Timeline Block: Backport (Mustache quote helper doesn't escape all special JSON characters).

• Liquidus - Data is refined to better analysis.

• Liquidus - Identify Open LMS support admin users.

• Liquidus - Research - Add proper role information for admin users in the "role" data structure.

• Liquidus - Add Moodle version when capturing events.

• Liquidus - Add proper role information for admin users in the "role" data structure.

• Grade report by user, delete Snap styles to have the same behavior as Boost