Chamilo - Documentation

Chamilo Changelog

This is our technical changelog, aimed at providing you a list of the new features, small changes and bug fixes as well as the security issues, style changes and known issues that remain present. This changelog is provided version by version, latest versions first and helps you locate when a specific feature has been made available in Chamilo. If you would like a shorter list of features or a list of overall features, please check our website: http://www.chamilo.org/

Note: most #wxyz references are issue numbers you can find in our public bug tracking system. Some references marked BT#xyz are developments made externally for BeezNest customers and integrated into Chamilo. The details of these tasks cannot be seen for confidentiality reasons, but the code change is public and can be reviewed by anyone.

 

Chamilo 1.9.8 - Mystery name, Mystery date, 2013

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.9.8 is a minor stable version with a series of improvements on top of 1.9.6.

Release name

City name is a city ...

Security

New Features

Improvements

Debugging

Stylesheets and theming

Web services

Chamilo 1.9.6 - Rochefort, 4th of June, 2013

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.9.6 is a minor stable version with security patches and a series of improvements on top of 1.9.4.

Release name

Rochefort is a small city in the South of Belgium, that has existed at least since year 1041 and has shown impressive resilience and stability, which we think 1.9.6 has reached as well. Rochefort's Brewery produces a very nice trappist beer exported even to Peru! As we are getting ready for a larger battle, getting Chamilo LMS every day to a larger community, we thought we'd make a last quiet stop and salute the little town where several contributors of Chamilo have set foot in the past.

Security

New Features

Improvements

Debugging

Stylesheets and theming

Web services

Chamilo 1.9.4 - Puebla, 18th of January, 2013

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.9.4 is a minor stable version with a series of improvements on top of 1.9.2.

Release name

Puebla is a large city very close to México D.F. and is considered an "extension" of the capital city in many ways. Puebla has very nice blend of precolombine and spaniard architecture. All in all, we felt like Puebla, in tremendous growth, was a close image to Chamilo 1.9 on its way to 1.10.

New Features

Improvements

Debugging

Third-Party Libraries additions/updates

Removals

Stylesheets and theming

Chamilo 1.9.2 - Hanga Roa, 27th of September, 2012

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.9.2 is a minor stable version with a series of improvements on top of 1.9.0.

Release name

Hanga Roa is the capital city of Rapa Nui, the Easter Island. The entire Rapa Nui culture is filled with mystery and assumptions about where and how the first Rapa Nui people came to be on the island, but it is accepted by many that the main strain came from Polynesia a long time ago. The population there is around 3,300 but warmly welcomes tons of tourists every year, a bit in the image of the small team of Chamilo now serving more than 1.4M users worldwide, with a welcoming 1.9.2 version that will help you get more time to yourself...

New Features

Improvements

Debugging

Chamilo 1.9.0 - Vogüé, 31st of July, 2012

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.9.0 is a major stable version with loads of added features.

Release name

Vogüé is a small town in the French region of Rhône-Alpes, and one of the most beautiful villages of France. It features a 12th century, a generally very pretty landscape and is one of the few remote towns in current growth. One of our new development team members chose this familiar town because it inspires stability and diversity.

New Features

This version of Chamilo includes a few new features.

Improvements

Debugging

Style changes

Due to the move to HTML5, it is very likely that any older stylesheet will have to be updated when upgrading to Chamilo 1.9.

Security

Known issues

Third-Party Libraries additions/updates

Removals

Chamilo 1.8.8.6 - Rottweil, 20th of July 2012

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.8.8.6 is a minor security fix, stable version for version 1.8.8.4. If you are using Chamilo 1.8.8.4, we highly recommend you upgrade to this version, either by following the usual upgrade procedure, or by applying a very small patch, as explained on our security issues listing page. The security fixes are all considered "moderate". This means you could loose data (specifically dropbox tool data in this case) and your users might get tricked into providing credentials to potential hackers, but the integrity of your server will not be in direct danger. 1.8.8.6 was developed in a separate branch, but fixes were applied to the 1.9 branch, which means 1.9 can be considered as the follower of 1.8.8.6 as much as of 1.8.8.4. If you have 1.8.8.4, migrating to 1.9 will effectively remove the need for migrating to the intermediary step of 1.8.8.6

Why Rottweil?

Rottweil is a small medieval German town where the occasional tourist might feel very relaxed and secure. This feeling is increased by the obviously-difficult-to-attack strategical position. Considering the security-only aspect of this release, we wanted a small city name that would represent this more secure aspect. Rottweil has been visited by one of our team members in the past... that's all it takes.

Fixes

Chamilo 1.8.8.4 - La Molina, August 2011

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.8.8.4 is a minor corrective stable version for version 1.8.8.2 with a bunch of new minor features added.

New Features

This version of Chamilo only includes a few minor new features:

Debugging

Security

Known issues

Third-Party Libraries updates

Chamilo 1.8.8.2 - Bellavista, May 2011

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.8.8.2 is a minor corrective stable version for version 1.8.8 to enable easier install on shared hosting.

New Features

Debugging

Security

Known issues

Deprecated features

Deprecated files

CSS changes

Language changes

Chamilo 1.8.8 - Miraflores, May 2011

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.8.8 is a major stable version. Altough it doesn't come with a strong redesign, it provides a large number of small improvements to the teacher's toolset and the user's using pleasure. Audio recording, schema drawing, certification generating, better administration features, plugin for videoconference with BigBlueButton and e-commerce with PrestaShop are only a few of the improvements that you will find in this version.

New Features

Debugging

Security

Known issues

Deprecated features

In order to maintain a sufficient level of stability and push innovation forward, we have decided to officially drop support for specific features. This doesn't mean that they won't work anymore, but it indicates that they will cease being improved slowly, until we do not feel anyone is using them, at which point (probably several years afterwards) we will remove them from the code.
If you feel like a feature listed here is of major importance to you, you can either take the maintenance of this feature officially in charge by contacting us at info@chamilo.org or you can hire the services of one of our official providers (see our website, Support tab).

Deprecated files

CSS changes

Chamilo 1.8.7.1 - Palmas

New Features

Debugging

Security

Deprecated files

Chamilo 1.8.7 - Istanbul

Release notes - summary

Chamilo 1.8.7 is a major 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. This version is the first one to highly recommend PHP 5.2 or superior, and require PHP 5.1 or higher.
Also, this version of Chamilo will automatically convert all your data to UTF-8, which will make it more difficult to migrate from Dokeos versions higher than 1.8.6.1

New Features

Debugging

CSS changes

Known issues

Deprecated files

Security


Chamilo 1.8.6.2 Salto - January 2010

Release notes - summary

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.

New Features

Debugging


CSS changes

Known issues

Deprecated files


Dokeos 1.8.6.1 - August 2009

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.6.1 is a minor release including just a few new features, mostly focused on internationalization, and several bugfixes.

New Features

Debugging


CSS changes


Known issues


Deprecated files


Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard - June 2009

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard is a major release including new features. 

New Features


Debugging


CSS changes


Important language changes


Known issues


Deprecated files


Dokeos 1.8.5 Valparaiso, June 2008

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.5 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well. 

New Features


Debugging


Known issues

Dokeos 1.8.4 - September 2007

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.4 is both a features and debuggingmajor release. 

New Features


Debugging

Dokeos 1.8 - May 2007

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8 is a major release. The software becomes a complete suite including not only a learning management system and a learners administration dashboard, but also an easy-to-use authoring system and a simple videoconferencing interface.

New Features

Dokeos 1.6.5 - July 2006

Release notes - summary

Security Release. 1 bug has been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.5_release_notes_and_changelog

Dokeos 1.6.4 April 2006

Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 2 bugs have been fixed. One security hole has been fixed
Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.4_release_notes_and_changelog

Dokeos 1.6.3 February 2006

Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 44 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.3_release_notes_and_changelog

Dokeos 1.6.2 - September 2005

Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 14 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.2_release_notes_and_changelog

Dokeos 1.6.1 - August 2005

Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 31 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.1_release_notes_and_changelog

Dokeos 1.6 - July 2005

Release notes - summary

In Dokeos 1.6, security and interoperability have been improved. Protection
for documents has improved, and courses have more accessibility options.
Password encryption is enabled by default. The php.ini setting
"register globals" does not have be on anymore.
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6_release_notes

New Features

Roadmap

http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap_1.6

Dokeos 1.5.5

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