<p>Chamilo 1.8.7 is a intermediate release including a lot of new features, mostly focused on social network, the handling of sessions (which will help many educational institutions, public or private, to manage their contents in a more flexible way) and visual style, and a few important bugfixes. It lays the first stable stone in the Chamilo software project.</p>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>New tool: class attendance (usable in gradebook)</li>
<li>Thematic advance option added in course description (shown on course homepage)</li>
</ul>
<li>Thematic advance option added in course description (shown on course homepage)</li>
<li>Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)</li>
<li>Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>PHP short tags deleted see http://www.chamilo.org/node/114 reported and fixed by Sicabol</li>
<li>Student publications deleted when an user is unsubscribed of a course. Reported and fixed by André Boivin</li>
<li>Fixed bug reported by Carlosbrolotobar in http://www.chamilo.org/node/135 whereby normal students don't can't see their social profile section in the right menu if they can't see the courses catalog.</li>
<li>Fixed bug reported by Carlosbrolotobar in http://www.chamilo.org/node/135 whereby normal students don't can't see their social profile section in the right menu if they can't see the courses catalog.</li>
<li>Corrected mailing functions, now they load the file <em>mail.conf.php</em>. Previously the file <em>mail.conf.dist.php</em> was to be loaded by mistake. (Feature #272)</li>
<li>Online editor: A new configuration option about editor's background has been proposed by Wofganag Schneider and it has been implemented. See <ahref="http://www.chamilo.org/node/107"target="_blank">http://www.chamilo.org/node/107</a> (Feature #347)</li>
<li>Some PHP short tags have been fixed, the problem was reported by Sicabol. See <ahref="http://www.chamilo.org/node/114"target="_blank">http://www.chamilo.org/node/114</a> (Feature #347)</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CSS changes</h3>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Z</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
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<h3>Deprecated files</h3>
<ul>
<li>X</li>
<li>Online editor: The plugins "Flash" (obsolete) and "placeholder" (non-relevant to the finished product) have been removed. (Feature #347)</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Chamilo 1.8.6.2 <spanstyle="font-style: italic;">Salto</span> - January 2010</h1>
<h3>Release notes - summary</h3>
<p>Chamilo 1.8.6.2 is a intermediate release including a lot of new features, mostly focused on social network, the handling of sessions (which will help many educational institutions, public or private, to manage their contents in a more flexible way) and visual style, and a few important bugfixes. It lays the first stable stone in the Chamilo software project.</p>
<li>Added a link to export courses in the "platform administrator > courses list" entry (DT#4257)</li>
<li>Added a link to export courses in the "platform administrator > courses list" entry (DT#4257)</li>
<li>Added sessions history (optional access to previous sessions in read-only or read-write, for students)</li>
<li>Added advanced search in sessions: you can also search by session name, session category, tutor and visibility. (DT#5541)</li>
<li>Added an option to configure courses as "auto-registered" (every user has it in his courses list and is automatically subscribed)</li>
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<li>Reporting: notification of users who have never been active yet</li>
<li>Reporting: the additional user profile fields (defined by the platform administrator through platform administration > profiling) can now be shown in the reporting screens</li>
<li>Subscribing users in a course: you can now filter on addtional user profile fields when subscribing a user in a course (through user/subscribe_user.php) </li>
<li>Definition of wiki pages as tasks for students is now possible</li>
<li>Definition of wiki pages as tasks for students is now possible</li>
<li>Added feedback to student wiki pages, synchronized with their progress in the task</li>
<li>Added posibility to establish a time limit for each wiki page</li>
<li>Added posibility to establish a max number of words into each wiki page</li>
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<li>Added option to export the training list to CSV in Administration > Training - DT#4256</li>
<li>Added user tags in social network - DT#5508</li>
<li>Revamped "Who is online" look - DT#5490</li>
<li>Added new search tool - DT#5610 </li>
<li>Added user groups at platform level (social network) with posibility to send group messages, add moderators, readers, etc - DT#5611</li>
<li>Added new search tool - DT#5610 </li>
<li>Added user groups at platform level (social network) with posibility to send group messages, add moderators, readers, etc - DT#5611</li>
<li>Made construction of presentations with the images of document tool easier</li>
<li>Upgraded from FCKEditor 2.6.4.1 to FCKEditor 2.6.5, Build 23959 - DT#2867</li>
<li>Added settings for WYSIWYG editor into the Platform Admin Area (instead of files)</li>
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<li>Rebuilt social network menu interface</li>
<li>Improved messages tool: Easier to use, no annoying ajax menun makes it faster and more reliable</li>
<li>Added multiple attachments to messages sending</li>
<li>Added possibility to send emails to multiple users</li>
<li>Added possibility to send emails to multiple users</li>
<li>Improved user portal page when Social Network is enabled: User image, and subscriptions links are shown</li>
<li>Added inc/ajax library folder to structurer AJAX calls - see CT#431. All new jQuery + AJAX reponses should be located there</li>
<li>RSS Feed added by default to the extra fields, as well as the user tag. Still requires manual visibility change to be enabled</li>
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<li>Added list of students who have not submitted an assignment yet, and the possibility to send them a reminder by email - BT#487 BT#489</li>
<li>Added new question type in exercise tool: Multiple answer combination a.k.a "Exact answer" - CT#402</li>
<li>Added e-mail notifications when a student answers an exercise</li>
<li>Added extensible footer style, allowing for much more information to be shown there</li>
<li>Added extensible footer style, allowing for much more information to be shown there</li>
<li>List of course improved when using Course categories in user_portal.php </li>
Ivan Tcholakov
16 years ago