<p>Dokeos 1.8.6 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well. </p>
<h3>New Features</h3>
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<li>Improved chat (open in new window option, smileys, teacher/learner difference and time indication for each message, user picture showing directly, possibility to hold several conversations in several courses at the same time)</li>
<li>Option to hide/show e-mail addresses to all users (FS#3244)</li>
<li>Added an introduction section for each group area (FS#3200)</li>
<li>New Global Agenda (FS#3391)</li>
<li>New personal notebook tool in courses</li>
<li>Added reporting on the last connections of a user in the chat</li>
<li>Added link create course message to go directly to the course(SVN#17497)</li>
<li>Added ability to take partial surveys and finish them later (FS#2510)</li>
<li>New Survey Feature: Surveys without invitation mail (FS#3403)</li>
<li>Added Booking system (a.k.a Reservation 2 Extension) (FS#821)</li>
<li>Added user profiling fields in auto-registration page (FS#2666)</li>
<li>Added check for writeable status of session save path in installation directory (FS#2970)</li>
<li>Allow forum threads to be moved (FS#3460)</li>
<li>Minor - Added update information for quizzes (FS#3417)</li>
<li>Sending e-mails to all admin on user account creation confirmation (FS#3475)</li>
<li>Changed user profile setting defaults to make phone field disabled and picture enabled (FS#3474)</li>
<li>Added intermediary buttons in platform settings pages to avoid scrolling too much to apply atomic changes (FS#3473)</li>
<li>Simplify default platform language choice by adding quick icon (FS#3472)</li>
<li>Session admins can now add users to the portal (FS#3476)</li>
<li>Added Advanced File Manager (FCKEditor plugin) to improve flexibility in files upload (FS#2970)</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
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<li>Fixed: the productions users aren't saved in the the correct directory (FS#3456)</li>
<li>Fixed error in install/htaccess.dist whereby the url-append was not set correctly (SVN#17791)</li>
<li>Fixed missing check on cDir in local.inc.php (SVN#17793)</li>
<li>Removed possibility to create sub-directories in the dropbox tool - wasn't working anyway for various versions (FS#3434)</li>
<li>Improved access control for group tool (FS#3209)</li>
<li>Fixed profiling date field popup bug (FS#2985)</li>
<li>Added check on max members in group before subscribing new people (FS#3453)</li>
<li>Changed usage of mail functions to use api_mail() everywhere and fix mail headers problems (FS#2445)</li>
<li>Fixed bug changing the language to false in platform settings (FS#3472)</li>
<li>Fix various HTTPS + IE related bugs, related to caching in general (SVN#17795)</li>
<li>Fix 31 bugs in file/image/sounds/flash uploads/delete/permissions in profile/homepage/agenda edition pages</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>CSS changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added classes glossary-term, glossary-term-title, glossary-term-desc, glossary-term-action-links for the glossary tool</li>
<li>Added personal-notes tool-related styles</li>
<li>Changed many things in the public-admin style (Dokeos default) to improve design - will probably affect other styles a little despite efforts not to</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>Important language changes</h3>
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<ul>
</ul>
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<h3>Deprecated files</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
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<h1>Dokeos 1.8.5 - May 2008</h1>
<h3>Release notes - summary</h3>
<p>Dokeos 1.8.5 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well. </p>
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<li>Tracking - A new page to display access details by user is available under the Reporting tab, in the user details in a course</li>
<li>Removed header from learning path tool. It was taking too much space and was not flexible enough for CSS styling</li>
<li>Improved speed of 1.6 to 1.8 migration by adding indexes</li>
<li>Improved Implemented of the Global Agenda see FS#3391 </li>
@ -52,12 +52,19 @@ Thomas De Praetere (thomas.depraetere@dokeos.com)
</ul>
</li>
<li>Hogeschool Gent
<ul>
<li> Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Independent
<ul>
<li> Juan Carlos Raña Trabado - considerable work on the wiki integration and improvements, and the FCKEditor/Mimetex extension as well as *many* FCKEditor's file manager and other modules improvements</li>
<li> Ivan Tcholakov - various bugfixes in 1.8.6, very accurate bug reporting contributions and a considerable work in the integration of a new version of FCKEditor, along with a bunch of useful plugins</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
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<li> Eric Remy</li>
<li> Roel Visseren</li>
<li> Hubert Borderiou</li>
<li> Juan Carlos Raña Trabado - for his considerable work on the wiki integration and improvements, and the FCKEditor/Mimetex extension</li>
<li> Michel Moreau-Belliard for his supervision on dynamic LDAP import tool</li>
<li> Mustapha Alouani for his work on dynamic LDAP import tool</li>
<li> Simon Zalar for a path to FCKeditor 2.2 allowing linking in FF3</li>
<li> Simon Zalar for a patch to FCKeditor 2.2 allowing linking in FF3</li>
<li> Daniel Enrique Perales Gomez, for various bugfixes in various tools</li>
<li> Arthur Jonathan Portugal Guerrero, for his patient work on the technical documentation and his thorough testing of 1.8.6 features</li>
<li> Michela Karina Mosquera Guardamino, for helping improve the visibility of Dokeos in the Latin American area, patiently answering crazy amounts of information requests and organizing great community events</li>
<li> Jhon Rhoos Hinojosa Portuguez, for various (minor) bugfixes</li>
<li> Christian Fasanando, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Christian Fasanando, for various bugfixes and new features in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Carlos Vargas, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Isaac Flores, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Ivan Tcholakov, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6 and very accurate bug reporting contributions</li>
<li> Jan Derriks, for various bugfixes and suggestions</li>
Yannick Warnier
17 years ago