<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>
<ul>
<li>Full UTF-8 support has been implemented (Feature #272). UTF-8 becomes recommended system encoding to be used. It is recommended too that html-documents created with external tools to be UTF-8 encoded.
<br/>For newly installed systems: UTF-8 is the default value of the administrator's setting "Character set". Database tables are created for storing UTF-8 encoded texts.
<br/>For upgraded systems: Upgrade procedure does not change to UTF-8 the administrator's setting "Character set". This may be done later, on administrator's decision. During upgrade database tables are converted to UTF-8. Conversion to UTF-8 of stored in the file system html-documents is not performed, this is not mandatory.
<br/>Note about integration with external systems: Keep in maind that since version 1.8.7 texts kept in database are UTF-8 encoded. If an external system accesses database records directly, some corrections mignt be necessary about encoding used by the external database.
<li>Full UTF-8 support has been implemented (Feature #272)<ul>
<li>UTF-8 becomes recommended system encoding to be used. It is also recommended that HTML-documents created with external tools be UTF-8 encoded.</li>
<li>For newly installed systems: UTF-8 is the default value of the administrator's setting "Character set". Database tables will now be storing UTF-8 encoded text.</li>
<li>For upgraded systems: The upgrade procedure does not change to UTF-8 the administrator's setting "Character set". This may be done later, on administrator's decision. During upgrade database tables are converted to UTF-8. Conversion to UTF-8 of stored in the file system html-documents is not performed, this is not mandatory.</li>
<li><em>Note about integration with external systems</em>: Keep in mind that since version 1.8.7, pieces of text kept in the database are UTF-8 encoded. If an external system accesses database records directly, some corrections to contents of the external database might be necessary.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New tool: Class attendance (usable in Gradebook)</li>
<li>New Tool: Student certificate </li>
<li>Thematic advance option added in course description (shown on course homepage)</li>
<li>Class attendance (usable in Gradebook), which allows b-learning teachers to keep attendance registers</li>
<li>Student certificate, which allows teachers to define certificates in their own format, building the templates online</li>
<li>Thematic/Academic progress (shown on course homepage), which allows teachers to show how their courses is progressing following a pre-established schedule</li>
<li>Timezone management at user and platform level (Feature #599)</li>
<li>Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)</li>
<li>Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)</li>
<li>HR dashboard: New page with statistical reporting blocks about followed students, courses or sessions, available to platform administrator, session administrator or human resource manager</li>
<li>Exercise tool: Teachers can delete students results of an exercise (NOT LP results)</li>
<li>pChart Horizontal bars library added thanks to gferri see (Feature #790)</li>
<li>Exercice tool: Shuffle answers</li>
<li>Exercice tool: Copy exercises</li>
<li>New tool: Course Progress (used for controlling thematic advance inside a course)</li>
<li>Dashboard: Interface with blocks for displaying information(with links to reporting) about assigned students, courses or sessions to user with roles platform administrator, session administrator or human resource manager</li>
<li>robots.txt file added</li>
<li>Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)</li>
<li>Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)</li>
<li>pChart Horizontal bars library added thanks to gferri see (Feature #790)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
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<li>Learning Path (Courses): PHP sessions of a LP are destroyed when visiting the main course page.</li>
<li>Assignment tool: Work.php deletes all homeworks bugs fixed. Reported and fixed by carlosbrolotobar <ahref="http://www.chamilo.org/node/143"target="_blank">http://www.chamilo.org/node/143</a></li>
<li>Core API: Support has been implemented for json_encode() function for PHP version <5.2.Thecorrespondentbug-report"Hideandshownotworking"andtestinghavebeendonebyHubertBorderiou<ahref="http://support.chamilo.org/issues/761"target="_blank">http://support.chamilo.org/issues/761</a></li>
<li>Fixed target problems in links tool link edition</li>
<li>Fixed target problems in links tool, in link edition</li>
<li>Fixed minor bug in online mail editor in order to show the sender's name and e-mail</li>
<li>A bug that prevented importing SCORM resource from course archives has been fixed (Bug #872)</li>
<li>A bug that prevented proper importing tests from course zip-archives created on systems prior Chamilo 1.8.6.2 has been fixed (Bug #879)</li>
<li>Fixed bug that prevented importing SCORM resource from course archives (Bug #872)</li>
<li>Fixed bug that prevented proper tests importing from course zip-archives created on systems prior to Chamilo 1.8.6.2 (Bug #879)</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CSS changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Z</li>
<li>Added HTML div around plugin areas</li>
<li>Updated header area (reduced header height)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
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<li>When the user published an event as announcement, this same announce can be repeat many times</li>
Yannick Warnier
15 years ago