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Chamilo 1.9.0 - [version-name], April 2012

Release notes - summary

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

New Features

This version of Chamilo only includes new features:

• One single database #3910
• Extra reports generation feature by CBlue
• Feature for admin to recover deleted attendances (BT#3002)
• New tool to manage student Skills by gradebook
• Plugin system has been reworked, new plugins were added
• New options in Exercises
• New CSS framework added
• User Interface is very easy to modify. Now we use Twig Template System
• Record your voice (flash mode)

Debugging

• Agenda
  • A complete rework was made for 3 types of calendars: Personal, Course and Admin. Now we use the Fullcalendar js library
• Announcements
  • Fixed applied when sending an announcement to a group
• Assignments
  • New assignment list, now we use jqgrid and we see the user name instead of the work title see BT#4131
• Attendances
• Documents
  • Jplayer lib updated
• Exercises
  • Group questions by category added by Hubert Borderiou
  • Save questions to review at the end of the exercise
  • Live exercise statistics
  • The exercise result list now uses jqgrid to filter results
  • UI improved
• Gradebook
  • Multiple gradebooks by course
• Glossary
• Learning path
• Links
• Migration
• Portal administration
  • Plugin system was fixed in order to be more easy to add plugins to Chamilo now we use Regions (à la Drupal)
  • Regions: Thanks to Twig we can add plugins everywhere in Chamilo using the plugins
  • New we can find a Chamilo setting very fast, thanks to a search form
  • 2 new blocks were added "System" and "Skills"
  • The extensions block was moved to the Plugin area
  • New option to delete files in /archive (only for the super administrator)
  • Data filler: several fixes added
  • The hide tool options now blocks the access to the tool. See BT#4138
  • The setting "Hide course tools" was changed: Check the tools you want to hide from teachers. This will prohibit access to the tool instead of just hidden the tools.
• Plugins
  • The plugin system was improved in this version now you can select where the plugins will be show, we call these Regions.
  • New Hello World plugin added
  • New Social tools plugin added
  • New Shared tools plugin added
  • New Show regions plugin added
  • New Static plugin added by Laurent Opprecht
• Users
  • Export users to a PDF document
• User portal/ My courses
  • Courses/Session blocks layout have been improved
  • Right menus where improved and cleaned up
• Sessions
  • Session list uses now jqgrid in order to filter fields better and faster.
• Social Network / Groups
• Survey
• System
• Videoconference
  • A fix was applied to avoid a bug in BigBlueButton by which all videoconference rooms are marked as "not running" (BT#3102). Financed by NoSoloRed
• Style changes
  • Styles changed for all forms
  • New top bar added (only for admins)
  • Responsive layout for Mobile Devices

Security

Known issues

Third-Party Libraries additions/updates

• Fullcalendar js library version 1.5.2
• Twig Template system added
• Twitter Bootstrap CSS Framework

Removals

• Removed deprecated "search" plugin (used to work with MnoGoSearch but hasn't been used for years to our knowledge - was successfully replaced by Xapian)

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:

• Training planning through users free/busy calendar (only admin for now) (changeset fefa973c92f3 and a873df3067d3)
• Links checker in links tool (changeset 95cfbc1ac887)
• Restored extra fields export in exercises (changeset 01dcb74cfdfc)
• Added tokens to announcements (changeset 66d9c5e10b42)
• Students can download learning paths as PDF (changeset 3bd77279faee)
• Added tokens to certificates generation (changeset c2201eee3558)
• Attendances session support
• Added quick browsing of directories' documents - requires manual activation for now: in user_portal.php, find $load_dirs and set to $load_dirs = true;. Will be setable through admin page in next version (changeset 7f84869233c2)
• Certificates: An easy to remember URL to view students URL: http://campus.chamilo.org/certificates/?id=123 (public for everyone right now) see #3630
• Certificates: QR code generation for certifications #3631
• New landing page for every exercise created, now we show the student's results see BT#2804
• Attendances and Course Progress added in the backup/copy course Chamilo creation

Debugging

• Agenda
  • Improving UI + fixes in previews
  • Import ICS with multiple events #3622
  • Now we can create an event with only a start date
  • In the Personal Calendar (day view) now we show hours from 0:00h to 5:00h
  • Fixed wrong date convertions
• Announcements
  • Fixing announcements listing BT#2751
  • New slider added in the index.php see #3785
• Assignments
  • Made assignments editable/removable by students only until they have been reviewed and scored (> 0) by the teacher (changeset bc1b8e1e603d)
  • Teachers can changed the score even if the assignment is already passed.
  • Fixed wrong date convertions
• Attendances
  • Improving UI
  • Fixed bug when clicking in the "Today" filter. Filter is set to "All" by default BT#2663
  • Adding shortcuts in order to edit or create Attendances plans
• Documents
  • "Document preview" bug fixed when using a course in Dutch (yoxview bad translate file) (changeset e205fe6d94fe)
  • Bug fixed when using glossary terms in a document #3620
  • Bug fixed when reading MP3 files using the jplayer plugin #3593
  • Bug fixed when hiding a course document in a session
  • Bug fixed when using the simple upload form
  • Improved documents visibility now we check the parents visibility
• Exercises
  • Fixed question matching when using French/Spanish accents
  • Exercise results: Fixing and improving export to CSV using jquery BT#2722
  • Fixed bug with feedback in XLS import #3763
  • New overview page added in order to view the current student attempts
  • Question pool bugs fixed see #3789
• Gradebook
  • Several fixes including, better session integration and some warning messages added when total score is not correct
  • Adding 2 new tags in the certification: course title and gradebook result
• Glossary
  • Order arrows are removed #3123
  • Fixed problem when adding a document in a learning path with glossary terms #3620
  • Fixed mp3 previews
  • Fixed wrong date convertions
• Learning path
  • Drag and drop to order LP items! #3741
  • Bug fixed when editing a document title in a LP but not updated in the Document tool #3714
  • Fatal error fixed when editing item prerequisites when the videoconference is enabled #3658
  • When creating documents inside the LP tool, a new folder with the LP name is created inside the Learning Path folder
• Links
  • URL fixed when adding the link in the course homepage BT#2751
  • Token support added #2477
• Migration
  • Fixed fatal error in upgrade from 1.8.5 by requiring image.lib.php - BT#2777
  • Fixed fatal error in upgrade from 1.8.6.2 by checking the availability of the DateTimeZone library in PHP - BT#2777
• Portal administration
  • System information fixed #3552
  • Sub language fixed (parse error) #2910
  • Bug fixed when enabling BBB plugin #3637
  • Improving Notification class: adding a footer and an introduction message
  • New way to generate usernames when importing users using CSV or XML file
  • Activities stats date fixed
  • When uploading users using a CSV/XML file, the username is generated using the first letter of the first name and the lastname #3686
  • Now we can clean the chamilo/archive folder from the Portal Administration to make free space #3748
  • Catalan and Dutch translations updated
• User portal/ My courses
  • Improving Course Catalog load time
  • Course catalog view is random by default
  • Courses order feature (creation of categories of courses by user) was moved from the Course Catalog to an independent window
• Sessions
  • A Session doesn't exist in 2 URLs at the same time #3733
  • New session page UI fixes
• Social Network / Groups
  • Reply counter fixed in group topics and improving UI
  • Fixed lot of bugs when sending messages to an user (wrong format email notifications) see #3827
• Survey
  • Adding user extra fields in CSV/XLS exports #1647
• System
  • Fixed possible bug with magic_quotes_gpc #2970
• Style changes
  • Fixed who is online user images (changeset 61945685bcff)
  • CSS styles: fix.css and fix_chamilo.css were deleted, there are only base.css and base_chamilo.css calls are added directly in the CSS file
  • All CSS were reduced and improved in order to use the base.css and base_chamilo.css styles
  • New breadcrumb added to old styles (blue, academic, etc)

Security

• Fixed several limited-risk potential XSS
• Adding session fixation #3600
• Fixed several potential SQL injections #3601

Known issues

• Watermark portal images are now saved in the main/default_course_document/images/ folder. If you used portal-wide watermarks before, you might need to upload the watermark image again.
• A style-specific switch had been added in 1.8.8.2, which improved the appearance of older style but went against MVC's principles and broke copies of Chamilo-based styles. This switch has been removed, which may lead to the breadcrumb in non-chamilo-based styles to appear as less attractive, but keeps the MVC model safe so anyone can modify the appearance safely from the CSS. This might require very little cosmetic changes from you (in your style's default.css file), but we believe it's for the best.

Third-Party Libraries updates

• Chozen library added (select tag improved) #3740
• Jquery updated to version 1.6.2
• Jquery-ui updated from version 1.8.7 to 1.8.16
• bxslider library added to view Announcements

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

• Improved certificates interface with explicit configuration requirements messages (#3503)
• New block in control panel (#3235)
• Improved exercises construction with better messages and allowing to show score without the right answers (#2539)
• Updated Nanogong to 4.2 (#3257)

Debugging

• Thematic progress do not show on course homepage anymore (#3505)
• Scoring users contribution in forum broken (#3504)
• Can't add hotpotatoes to a course anymore (#3469)
• Promotions copy replicates sessions several times (#3465)
• Glossary broken with new yoxview (#3464)
• Courses missing from user_portal.php after upgrade (#3419)
• Learning path icon does not appear in iPad view (#3413)
• Sorry, you are not allowed on admin settings (#3265)
• Learning path mini panel does not show progress in IE7 (#3116)
• Series of little visualisation bugs (#2493)
• For other changes see 1.8.8 changelog below

Security

• Fixed several limited-risk potential XSS.
• For other changes see 1.8.8 changelog below

Known issues

• Groups (admin only): When a user is subscribed in a Course through a Group and he's also subscribed in the same Course (tradional way), when removing the user from the Group, the user will be also removed from the Course in both levels.
• Changed "givenname" for "cn" in LDAP queries. This might break some of the previous implementations of this plugin
• If you used split users directories before v1.8.8 in combination with the "My files" feature (if it existed at all at that point), you will probably have a problem now, as the code in the previous version was wrong and was saving the personal portfolio file in another directory than the user's. Sorry about that. If you need professional assistance, see the http://www.chamilo.org/ website under support -> professional support for official providers who could help you. And don't forget to keep a backup. If you don't understand a thing about what I'm talking about, you are probable not concerned by this bug, so don't worry too much.
• Document tool: when moving an HTML file using the "move" funcionality, images, videos and any incrusted file in that HTML will not be moved automatically see #1278

Deprecated features

• For other changes see 1.8.8 changelog below

Deprecated files

• For other changes see 1.8.8 changelog below

CSS changes

• For other changes see 1.8.8 changelog below

Language changes

• Changed "alumno" to "estudiante" globally for Spanish language (#2235)

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

• New application of a drop-down menu to select where to save new documents created (Feature #1758)
• Added possibility to chose target in links even when not on homepage (Feature #1879)
• Also showing teachers results in exercises results list (was confusing for most teachers)
• Updated Google Maps plugin to 1.98 (Feature #1925)
• Added a personal portfolio to Social Network. All users can easy copy some files from several courses in his/her personal portfolio (Feature #1853)
• Students can edit, move and delete documents and drawings; create, move and delete subfolders, create user templates and make personal backups into a course inside his user shared folder (Features #2076, #2484)
• Learning Path: New LP exercises reports added for teachers and admins (Feature BT#1634)
• Support for displaying vector graphics files (SVG) and multimedia OGG files, facilitating the inclusion of videos and audios in HTML 5 (Feature #2244)
• Admin tool to compare and move scores and tracking from a course to a session course BT#1786
• An optional "Course (training) validation" feature has been implemented. When it is activated, teachers loose ability to create coursers. Teachers fill course requests instead. After approval by admins, the requested courses are created by the platform administrator. (Feature # 2099)
• A new UI option "Fill with exemplary content" has been added to the course creation form. Now teachers and platform administrators are able to choose whether example content should be put or not in the courses they are going to create. When a course is not created directly by a user, then the platform setting "Example material on training creation" is taken into account. (Feature # 539)
• Added install/uninstall script possibilities for plugins (BT#1752)
• New SVG-Edit drawing tool. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create, edit and import SVG vector graphics online and export to PNG (Features #2044, #2101)
• A new plugin for making ASCIIsvg-based mathematical graphics has been created for the online editor (enable it from administrator's section). To use it, browsers should support SVG-technology. See a demo, implemented on TinyMCE: http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html; for syntax and additional information see http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvg.html. This plugin uses the library file chamilo/main/inc/lib/asciimath/ASCIIMathML.js which has combined functionality ASCIIMathML + ASCIIsvg (Feature #2132)
• Feature #2132: In the administrator's section "Administration > Configuration settings > Editor" some settings are to be used as follows:
  • "ASCIIMathML mathematical editor" - activates the plugin for inserting mathematical formulas;
  • "Mathematical graphics editor ASCIIsvg" - activates the plugin for inserting mathematical graphs;
  • "Load the file ASCIIMathML.js in all the system's pages" - activates the possibility for inserting/showing formulas and graphics outside the "Documents" tool, elsewhere in the system.
• A new plugin to insert Widgets into your web pages
• Users can use vozMe online services to convert text in mp3 audio files (Feature #2497)
• New voice generator tool. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create and save mp3 audio files from a text through external service support speech synthesis of Google (build and save), Pediaphon (build and save) and vozMe (build and download)(Feature #2497)
• Spellcheck button on web editor can be enabled (Feature #2207)
• Increased control by platform administrator on the visibility of the folders in the documents tool (Feature #2164,#2484)
• Added admin feature to hide tools from all courses - BT#1942
• Added jqgrid library for better data tables interactivity (Feature #340)
• Added careers and promotions funcionality (see #2706)
• Session start and end date can be left blank (see BT#1911)
• Exercises: Questions list improved through new drag and drop behaviour
• New Session page added when clicking the session name in the Course list
• Added support for Hindi language (Feature #2746)
• Added sessions, promotions and careers cloning features (Feature BT#1916)
• Integration of Pixlr image editing services and photo retouching (Feature #2712)
• Added experimental MySQLi driver. Requires manual replacement of database.lib.php to enable
• Added font resize capabilities for accessibility (Feature #2237)
• Added management of favicon.ico by multi-url (Feature #1739) - just add the favicon.ico file inside the home/url/ directory
• Added notification by e-mail on social network events (Feature #2189)
• Added Excel questions import
• Exercises: Hotspot Delineation and Hotspot Direct Feedback option added see #2974
• Documents: Added multiple uploads and drag&drop upload features #2784
• Webservices: Added new functions in order to sell Chamilo courses using a Prestashop plugin see BT#2325
• Learning path: Adding a toogle button in order to hide the navigation menu see #3116 added by Alberto Torreblanca
• Document: Export an html file into a PDF document #1909
• Access details: Now we can filter the access details of a user by date 3258# First version developved by Jorge Frisancho Jibaja - USIL
• Integrated Nanogong voice recording tool. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can record their voice and send to document tool(Feature #3257)
• Added text-justify icon in online editor (#2928)
• Upgraded to HTMPurifier 4.2.0 for better security protection (#2972)
• Added "available space" message at the bottom of the documents tool (#3056)
• Created a base.css stylesheet to improve cascading character of the stylesheets (#3163)
• Now deleted SCORM resources are removed from the filesystem when emptying course (#875)
• Added the possibility to have longer questions (#1538)
• Improved presentation of documents window (#1807)
• Added floating helpers on the right side (#1839)
• Added report for inactive users (#1929)
• Improved export of wiki to PDF (#2357)
• Added improved support for multi-disks installations (#2511)
• Added new dashboard report (#2755)
• Added support for course image
• Improved courses catalog display
• Grouped tools in course settings page (#2563)
• Improved icons quality - redesigned the icons system
• Added new course homepage display mode for mobile devices
• Agenda: UI improvements
• Announcements: UI improvements
• Attendance: Adding sticky header for the attendance sheet
• Exercises: UI improvements
• Exercises: Now we show the firstname and lastname of the students in different columns see BT#1263
• Exercises: Support UTC dates for time control and Exercise time limits see #2075
• Exercises: Allowing duplication of exercise within a session BT#1647
• Exercises: Improving pagination when browsing exercise results (private task BT#1901)
• Exercises: Question Pool improvements: now we can copy a question from other courses see BT#1917
• Learning Path: New mini floating panel, left-closing panel and other minor UI improvements
• Profile: UI improvements
• Installation: Tracking is always enabled from now on #2066
• Social network now works with 1024x768 resolution #1958
• Highlighted questions titles in test tool (#2037)
• Added option to not show right answer (but show score) at end of test (#2739)
• Added max score 100 to learning paths options (#2907 & other)
• Added full-text search integration (requires php5-xapian module) (linked to #3250)
• Added tool to make corrections to the student texts from the HTML editor(#3325)
• Gradebook UI and charts improvements (#3296)
• Assignments: now checking size of document received before giving upload confirmation (#3260)
• Integrated student access details reporting page improvements (#3258)
• Added support for Latvian (#2926)
• Added documents UI improvements for images view (#2719)
• Block the access to previous questions in exercises (#2682)
• Added support for ogv, ogg, ogx (#2244)
• Added support for .docx
• Improve group homepage (#2077)
• Added support for global announcement by URL (#1763)

Debugging

• Fixed tools shortcuts crash bug (#3356)
• Fixed element creation default position in learning path (#3331)
• Fixed gradebook (#2851) + date and code fields (#3314) + print button (#2850) + removed useless code (#2705)
• Group chat tool fixes (#3313)
• Fixed deletion of all tasks when deleting session tasks (#3283)
• Fixed path translations in document copy (#3197)
• Fixed thematic advance UI issues (#2909)
• Fixed several bugs in Flash/FLV display and inclusion in HTML documents (#2763 and others)
• Prevent creation of documents with dotted name (#2600)
• Fixed private messaging in social network (#2509 and #2508)
• Fixed audio files missing from backup (#2247)
• Fixed permissions on assignments (#2102)
• Fixed several timezone bugs in exercises and assignments (#2081)
• Fixed social network's appearance to fit in 1024x768 (#1958)
• Fixed groups auto-population feature (#1949)
• Fixed charset conversion problems in previous migrations to Chamilo 1.8.7.1 (#1765)
• Fixed gradebook flat view (#3239)
• Fixed bad conversion of course title after upgrade (#3231)
• Fixed missing files missing from copy when in unregistered directory (#3059)
• Fixed deprecated assignments (PHP 5.3) in wiki (#2902)
• Fixed HotPotatoes import (#2560) and numbering (#3186)
• Fixed warning for mktime() expecting parameter 6 to be long integer (#2559)
• Fixed Flash FLV movies display (#2541)
• Fixed FCKEditor when using sub-languages (#2492)
• Fixed certificates generation (#2295 & #2342 & #985 & #760)
• Fixed bug in open questions creation (#2193)
• Fixed order of questions on results page for random exercises (#2073)
• Fixed exe_weighting in track_e_exercices (#1932)
• Fixed items visibility or multi-url HRMs (#1911 & #1912)
• Fixed bug in CSS for documents creation templates (#1885)
• Fixed XLS export encoding issue (#1775)
• Administration: Fixed an encoding problem about database connection which is specific to Chinese language. The initial solution has been proposed by Oliver Corre (Bug #1802)
• Administration: Fixing links "Add a page (CMS)" when using multple urls see BT#1805
• Multiple URL feature: Fixed Course user list (BT#1547)
• Multiple URL feature: Fixed User List options when adding courses, users, sessions see BT#1470
• Multiple URL feature: System Announcements and Global agenda now are filtered by URL see BT#1441
• Multiple URL feature: Added multiple URL support when adding user, courses, sessions to a Human Resources see BT#1470
• Student publication: Fixed bug when editing an item see BT#1377
• Student publication: Fixed bug when deleting an item see BT#1556
• Student publication: Fixed bug when deleting all items including session items see #3283
• Exercises: Fixed bug in QTI import (private task BT#1368)
• Exercises: Time control bugs fixed #2069
• Exercises: Question order in results fixed #2073
• Exercises: Fixing question list order #2075
• Documents: Fixing coach and students in a session permissions BT#1652
• Learning Path: Teachers can reset LP results see #2024
• Learning Path: Fixing bug when deleting a LP item that have prerequisites in other items see #1756
• Learning Path: Fixing empty document names after migration when adding documents in a LP see BT#1803
• Profile: Deleting production user's files fixed see #1682
• Thickbox does not work well in the Social Tool #1995
• Fixed Chamilo social-content-right #2010
• Fixed screen when you try to access a protected course through the url #2026
• Fixed bug deleting course teacher in admin edition #2109
• Gradebook: Hiding print icon in Certificates BT#1650
• Link Tool: IE icons replaced
• Wiki: Fixed sessions #1659
• Wiki: Fixed behaviour of plugin wikilink #2217
• Wiki: Fixed links with accents and special characters do not work well in utf-8 #2286
• A student can edit a file through an url into the documents tool after he/she visits his/her group #2485
• Irrelevant check has been removed, it prevented the page "Administration > Setting the registration page" to be accessed in the case of assigned value "No" to the setting "Administration > Configuration settings > Portal > Registration". This bug has been reported by Wolfgang in the forum and by Oliver Corre in the Chamilo support site (Bug #1846)
• Fixed bug in plugin display areas (Bug #741)
• Fixed items reordering in profiling tool (Bug #1153)
• Fixed confusing interface in "Forgot my password" screen (Bug #1754)
• Fixed name consistency in web services (Bug #1905)
• Fixed footer in Internet Explorer (Bug #1305)
• Fixed missing function prototype (Bug #1906)
• Fixed document preview frame - now adaptative size (Bug #1751)
• Fixed misuses of api_get_local_time() (Bug #1851)
• Fixed new tools notifications in courses list (Bug #1132)
• Removed many backticks (on our way to db independentization)
• Fixed bug with split user directories and personal files (Bug #2239)
• Fixed bug in link to course from courses list when code != from category
• Fixed bug with unregistered directories in documents when copying course to other course (Bug #3059)
• Fixed positionning on last element of subsection in learnpath building (BT#2333)
• Fixed bug by which tracking in courses could only be exported up to 50 rows at a time as for the HTML page limit (BT#2342)
• Reviewed coding conventions and applied fixed to undefined variables to avoid notice-level messages
• Removed a series of "File not found" errors caused by mistaken references
• Fixed files count in assignment/work tool (#2242)
• Fixed error message on first entrance to a special course (#2240)
• Fixed visibility problem for documents-embedded media files (#2198)
• Fixed duplicate course appearing when special course registered more than once (#2194)
• Fixed removal of lp_items when removing lp (#2038)
• Fixed double image appearing in social tool (#2036)
• Fixed deadlock in fields required for password change (#1956)
• Fixed bug displaying list of files for HotPotatoes included in learning paths (#1891)
• Fixed several dates localizations (#1851)
• Fixed remnants of UTF-8 migration problems (#1805)
• Fixed bug in attendances for users added after the registration of attendances (#1800)
• Fixed QTI2 export problem (#1787)
• Fixed deletion of all tasks when deleting all tasks from one specific session (#)
• Fixed user image resizing algorithm (#1414)
• Fixed footer in IE (#1305)
• Fixed bug in sessions categories (#1300)
• Fixed missing options in gradebook settings (#1223)
• Fixed MP3 player in forum (#1200)
• Fixed "what's new" icons to show even when never logged in before (#1132)
• Fixed lost images in SCORM export (#1039)
• Fixed missing areas for plugins display and added "plugin as course tool" feature (#741)
• Fixed problem in saving real numbers in gradebook (#653)
• Fixed survey language translation (#526)

Security

• Fixed more than 10 potential low-impact security issues in wiki (see our security page for details).

Known issues

• Groups (admin only): When a user is subscribed in a Course through a Group and he's also subscribed in the same Course (tradional way), when removing the user from the Group, the user will be also removed from the Course in both levels.
• Changed "givenname" for "cn" in LDAP queries. This might break some of the previous implementations of this plugin
• If you used split users directories before v1.8.8 in combination with the "My files" feature (if it existed at all at that point), you will probably have a problem now, as the code in the previous version was wrong and was saving the personal portfolio file in another directory than the user's. Sorry about that. If you need professional assistance, see the http://www.chamilo.org/ website under support -> professional support for official providers who could help you. And don't forget to keep a backup. If you don't understand a thing about what I'm talking about, you are probable not concerned by this bug, so don't worry too much.
• For some reason, we have been reported unsuccessful migrations from 1.8.7 to 1.8.7.1 whereby the course_rel_user table was not integrally copied. We recommend keeping your database backup until you're sure every student/course relationship was copied (comparing the lines in the table before and after migration might help you)
• Document tool: when moving an HTML file using the "move" funcionality, images, videos and any incrusted file in that HTML will not be moved automatically see #1278
• Hotpotatoes: When taking a Hotpotato exam added to Chamilo there is a javascript error, this bug can be only reproduced using Google Chrome see #3332

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).

• Legacy classes - There is now new code to combine classes with the sessions feature or with the courses in a cleaner, more efficient way. We invite you to switch to session mode and rebuild your classes through the new "Class" option in the sessions block and let us know how that works our for you.
• Virtual courses - This feature has long been deprecated and we doubt any of our user is using it. If you are, please find another mechanism that suits your needs for that.

Deprecated files

• main/garbage/ directory
• main/app_share/ was previously the experimental directory for a screen sharing application never deeply implemented. Use BigBlueButton instead, now.

CSS changes

• CSS factorization - putting all common CSS to main/css/base.css see #3163
• CSS factorization - putting all common CSS classic styles into main/css/base_classic.css see #3163
• CSS factorization - putting all common CSS chamilo_XXX styles into main/css/base_chamilo.css see #3163
• Improving breadcrumb for chamilo_XXX styles, this feature is not enabled for other themes
• Thickbox UI was changed to improved usability

Chamilo 1.8.7.1 - Palmas

New Features

• Ajax File Manager updated to 1.0 RC5 (Feature #247)
• Display message when uploading a file that is larger than the maximum file size (Feature #250, #1769)
• Improved SCORM lesson_status behaviour (Feature #283)
• Multiple answers can now be shuffled (Feature #291)
• Added simple document search feature (Feature #300)
• Added short URL feature for users profile (through .htaccess disabled by default) (Feature #322)
• ASCIIMathML.js: The script for showing mathematical formulas has been upgraded from version 2.0.2 to version 2.1. Additional changes have been made in the online editor's plugin asciimath (Feature #541)
• Moved slideshow buttons to action bar to improve usability (Feature #744)
• Added robots.txt to avoid parsing by index engines (Feature #837)
• Added e-mail notification on wiki updates (Feature #1202)
• Re-enabled course tutor role: a student can be tutor and help the teacher (Bug #1206)
• Removed possibility for student to upload an assignment outside an assignment directory (Bug #1220)
• Improved gradebook XLS report (Bug #1237)
• Added performance info in test server mode (Feature #1634)
• Adding an assignment to the calendar is now done by hand out date instead of creation date (Bug #1638)
• The mPDF library (which is used for PDF-files generation) has been upgraded from version 4.2 to version 4.6 (Feature #1656)
• Now a student only downloads *his* shared folder (Feature #1663)
• General visual improvements in gradebook tool (Feature #1740)
• General code improvements in gradebook (Feature #1742)
• Now displaying images uploaded by users in courses inside their social profile (Feature #1750)
• Added simple social network link featurei (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, ...) (Feature #1764)
• Enabled PDF export for HTML documents in documents tool (Feature #1768)
• Changed Mr. Chamilo picture in course introduction for the Chamilo logo (more professional) (Feature #1778)

Debugging

• Fixed excessive memory usage caused by HTMLPurifier (Bug #1297)
• Duplicate query calls have been removed from .../install/update-db-18.6.2-1.8.7.inc.php. The bug has been reported (with solution given) by Omar Arino (Bug #1713)
• Fixed answer option rendering problem (Bug #351)
• Fixed install process not detecting HTTPS (Bug #413)
• Fixed multi-url statitics bug (Bug #1099)
• Fixed references to previous platform in hotspot (Bug#1161)
• Fixed UTF-8 characters encoding problems in hotspot (Bug #1752)
• Fixed various wiki comments bugs (Bug #1203, #1204)
• Improved the survey report export to make one cell for each percentage question (Bug #1249)
• Tests tool: Errors have been fixed about showing HotPotatoes tests and results. The solution has been proposed by Hubert Borderiou (Bug #1301)
• Fixed cache memory problem preventing sub-languages to show translated tool titles in course homepages (Bug #1304)
• Fixed problem with more than 100 users in attendance sheets (Bug #1364)
• Fixed bug with left and right arrows in learning paths, whereby the system didn't move to the next chapter (Bug #1413)
• Fixed wiki report (Bug #1432)
• Fixed minor spacing problem in new links in wiki (Bug #1433, #1434)
• Fixed notice messages in Chamilo install process (Bug #1442)
• Fix users and courses reports access bug when upgrading from 1.8.6.2 to 1.8.7 (Bug #1443, #1449)
• Fixed users CSV import/export issues (Bug #1454)
• Fixed PDF export under Linux (Bug #1461)
• Fixed DB errors in attendance through session users list stats (Bug #1462)
• Fixed access to course documents by students in session courses (Bug #1463)
• Limited global announcement e-mails to selected language users (Bug #1471)
• Fixed sender e-mail for global announcements (Bug #1472)
• Fixed sending global announcements to disabled users (Bug #1474)
• Fixed bug in score in trainer reporting view (Bug #1479)
• Fixed call to undefined function imageftbbox in stats (Bug #1481)
• Fixed (through #1297) bug preventing attendance sheets to show (Bug #1510)
• Fixed HotPotatoes score not being saved in learning path (Bug #1512)
• Fixed error in progress page with single-db installs (Bug #1581)
• Improved resource visibility from sessions (Bug #1599)
• Fixed various French sintaxis minor bugs (Bug #1608, #1635, #1636, #1639, #1642, #1643, #1644, #1645, #1648))
• Fixed chat history file download auto-triggered (Bug #1637)
• Tasks now create a calendar event based on the hand out date instead of the task creation date (if hand out date is defined) (Bug #1638)
• Fixed minor unescaped backslash in assignments description (Bug #1641)
• Fixed wrong character set used in RSS feed import (Bug #1649)
• Fixed hidden extended profile fields in social network's shared profile - now visible if selected by admin (Bug #1650)
• Fixed moving learnpath chapters (Bug #1651)
• Fixed learning paths visibility from sessions (Bug #1653)
• Fixed plain text pasting in wiki (Bug #1655)
• Fixed certificates "back" button (Bug #1683)
• Fixed bug not showing star icon for documents created through session (Bug #1684)
• Fixed next/previous links in sessions list preventing numerous sessions to be seen (Bug #1712)
• Fixed copy of questions between courses (Bug #1714)
• Fixed bug in breadcrumb for shared directory (Bug #1718)
• Improved shared folder when inside session (Bug #1719, #1720, #1721)
• Fixed order in attendance sheets (Bug #1733)
• Fixed encoding problem in announcements in Chinese (Bug #1734)
• Fixed broken UTF-8 text in hotspot (Bug #1752)
• Fixed image insertion in documents (Bug #1760)
• Tests tool: Titles of the imported HotPotatoes tests are retrieved in their original spelling, without modifications due to technical reasons, as it was before. The problem has been reported by Oliver Corre (Bug #1761)
• Fixed PDF export from wiki to limit header/footer repetition (Bug #1767)
• Fixed unclear label in tests list titles (Bug #1770)
• Fixed videoconference starter page (classroom/meeting) (Bug #1774)
• General code cleanup (if conditions) (Feature #1744)

Security

• Fixed security bugs in the wiki (Bug #1666)

Deprecated files

• html2pdf library (replaced by mPDF libray)
• main/WCAG folder has been removed (deprecated)
• main/online folder has been removed (deprecated)

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

• Full UTF-8 support has been implemented (Feature #272)
  • UTF-8 becomes recommended system encoding to be used. It is also recommended that HTML-documents created with external tools be UTF-8 encoded.
  • 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.
  • For upgraded systems: The upgrade procedure automatically changes the character set to UTF-8. During upgrade database tables are converted to UTF-8 and the corresponding changes to text fields are applied. Conversion to UTF-8 of HTML documents stored in the file system is not performed, this is not mandatory.
  • Note about integration with external systems: 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.
• Class attendance (usable in Gradebook), which allows b-learning teachers to keep attendance registers
• Student certificates allow teachers to build certificates in their own format, using online-built HTML templates
• Thematic/Academic progress (shown on course homepage), which allows teachers to show how their courses is progressing following a pre-established schedule
• Timezone management at user and platform level (Feature #599)
• HR dashboard: statistical reporting page (by blocks) about students, courses or sessions, available to platform administrator, session administrator or human resources manager
• Exercise tool: Teachers can delete students results of an exercise (NOT LP results)
• Exercice tool: Shuffle answers
• Exercice tool: Copy exercises, copy questions (Feature #651)
• robots.txt file added (Feature #837)
• Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)
• Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)
• pChart Horizontal bars library added thanks to gferri see (Feature #790)
• Added setting to remove permission for teachers to subscribe students in their course
• Added setting to show "report bug" link in header
• Added new visualization mode for courses: vertical activity
• Improved presentation of courses + sessions in courses list (bigger icons, clearer boxes)
• Adding Ical import funcionality in agenda events see CT#1238
• Updating license version to GNU/GPL v3

Debugging

• Fixed major course copy drawback by which exercise contents were keeping links to the old course (thanks to Ludovic Gasc and SANTEXCEL - BT#658)
• Some PHP short tags fixed. Reported by Sicabol, see http://www.chamilo.org/node/114 (Feature #347)
• Student publications deleted when an user is unsubscribed of a course. Reported and fixed by André Boivin
• 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.
• Corrected mailing functions, now they load the file mail.conf.php. Previously the file mail.conf.dist.php was to be loaded by mistake. (Feature #272)
• Online editor: A new configuration option about editor's background has been proposed by Wofganag Schneider and it has been implemented. See http://www.chamilo.org/node/107 (Feature #347)
• Online editor: IE proprietary commenting tags are desactivated before loading the edited text. This fix has been proposed by Hubert Borderiou. (Bug #573)
• Online editor: Upgraded from FCKEditor 2.6.5 to FCKEditor 2.6.6, Build 25427 - Feature #626
• Fixed bugs caused by the undefined constant REL_SYS_PATH and by the declared twice constant TABLE_MAIN_GROUP. Problems have been reporded by krikrizzz and Knightly. See the related forum topics http://www.chamilo.org/en/node/190 and http://www.chamilo.org/en/node/154 (Feature #347)
• Fixed course copy table lp_item audio not copied. Reported by Henri Hedman (Bug #575)
• Fixed Added an option to cancel prerequisites in a course (Learning path). Fixed by aboivin in http://www.chamilo.org/node/146
• Empty extra user fields are now deleted from the database
• Quiz tool: erasing "rn" characters in fill in blanks and free answer bug fixed (Bug #829). Reported by David Auzeine
• Quiz tool: answer field updated from "id" to "id_auto" in the chamilo_stats.track_e_attempt table when migrating from 1.8.6.2 to 1.8.7
• Quiz tool: Answer list fixed when using "matching" question type (BT#801). Reported by Noa Orizales
• Quiz tool: Fixed problem with open questions when entering words with the "rn" characters see CT#1035
• Quiz tool + LP : Fixed bug when adding a exercise twice in the same LP with multiple attempts or not.
• Quiz tool + LP + Multiple attempts : Pre requisites will work the first time a student pass the LP. If a student finished all steps correctly he will view all steps, prerequisites will not work here.
• Learning Path (Courses): PHP sessions of a LP are destroyed when visiting the main course page.
• Assignment tool: Work.php deletes all homeworks bugs fixed. Reported and fixed by carlosbrolotobar http://www.chamilo.org/node/143
• Core API: Support has been implemented for json_encode() function for PHP version < 5.2. The correspondent bug-report "Hide and show not working" and testing have been done by Hubert Borderiou http://support.chamilo.org/issues/761
• Fixed target problems in links tool, in link edition
• Fixed minor bug in online mail editor in order to show the sender's name and e-mail
• Fixed bug that prevented importing SCORM resource from course archives (Bug #872)
• Fixed bug that prevented proper tests importing from course zip-archives created on systems prior to Chamilo 1.8.6.2 (Bug #879)
• Quiz tool: fixed graphical bug preventing the use of matching-type exercises (thanks to USIL team - BT#914)
• Added hidden debugging feature that marks all right answers (for matching, multiple and single choice questions) (private BT#914)
• Adding javascript library for the Pear HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect class (see CT#883)
• Assignment tool: Fixed problem with work/assignment tool whereby a moved work lost the ability to be scored
• Announcement tool: display images inside content of announcement sent by email (now the attachment images are embedded inside content) - private BT#925
• User image is show in the course list (User portal)
• Copy course sessions fixes see CT#1253
• SQL query fixed Wiki tool see CT#1201. Report by Hubert Borderiou
• Learning path: Show document title instead of filename. Report and fix sent by Hubert Borderiou; See CT#1038
• Many other bug fixes

CSS changes

• Added HTML div around plugin areas
• Updated header area (reduced header height)
• Changed .rounded style from background: #ccc to border: 3px solid #CCCCCC in all styles
• By creating a new course, will be enabled default, the option to display the chat in a new window
• When installing the platform will be active by default the following options: Allow edit tutors in the courses of the sessions, social network and sending messages
• When you add an answer in Multiple choice or Multiple answers the score default is zero
• Portal news UI improvements
• User portal page UI improvements

Known issues

• Timezone functionality is not available in the most recent versions of PHP available for CentOS/RHEL ( 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 ) (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-identifiers-list.php). Chamilo now requires PHP 5.1 or superior and highly recommends PHP 5.2.
• When the user publishes an event as announcement, this same announce can be repeat many times
• FCKEditor FLV Videos: If you already insert a FLV video you should re-embed it. The SWFObject was replaced with object tags.

Deprecated files

• Online editor: The plugins "Flash" (obsolete) and "placeholder" (non-relevant to the finished product) have been removed. (Feature #347)

Security

• HTMLPurifier updated to version 4.1.0
• FLV FCKEditor Plugin modified. SWFObject replaced with "object" and embed tags. Avoids the execution of javascript. See CT#1297
• Security: fixed several possible SQL injections in links edition

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

• Implemented by-session content creation tools updates
• Added tabs editor (from admin)
• Added course catalogue
• Added a link to export courses in the "platform administrator > courses list" entry (DT#4257)
• Added sessions history (optional access to previous sessions in read-only or read-write, for students)
• Added advanced search in sessions: you can also search by session name, session category, tutor and visibility. (DT#5541)
• Added an option to configure courses as "auto-registered" (every user has it in his courses list and is automatically subscribed)
• Added chat tool to the groups(DT#3318)
• Allowed password to be recovered using username *or* e-mail
• Added editable section to the registration form
• Added option to send a email to a portal administrator upon course creation (DT#3489)
• Added privacy for the chat tool in a sessions or groups context (DT#5558)
• Added possibility to view glossary terms in exercises and learning paths (courses)
• Reporting: notification of users who have never been active yet
• Reporting: the additional user profile fields (defined by the platform administrator through platform administration > profiling) can now be shown in the reporting screens
• 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)
• Definition of wiki pages as tasks for students is now possible
• Added feedback to student wiki pages, synchronized with their progress in the task
• Added posibility to establish a time limit for each wiki page
• Added posibility to establish a max number of words into each wiki page
• Added posibility to establish a max number of versions for each wiki page
• Improved control of concurrent users in wiki
• Improved the use of wiki pages such as student's portfolios (individual task)
• Added an immediate redirection to the course after login when a user is enrolled only in one course (defined by the platform administrator through platform administration > configuration settings > training)- DT#3466
• Added user's photo into users list interface - DT#5496
• Disabled trainer/tutor name field in create course form, set to current user's name by default. Can be modified into course settings - DT#5496
• Added option to export the training list to CSV in Administration > Training - DT#4256
• Added user tags in social network - DT#5508
• Revamped "Who is online" look - DT#5490
• Added new search tool - DT#5610
• Added user groups at platform level (social network) with posibility to send group messages, add moderators, readers, etc - DT#5611
• Made construction of presentations with the images of document tool easier
• Upgraded from FCKEditor 2.6.4.1 to FCKEditor 2.6.5, Build 23959 - DT#2867
• Added settings for WYSIWYG editor into the Platform Admin Area (instead of files)
• Upgraded html2pdf libray to 3.26
• Upgraded mimetex to 1.71
• Rebuilt social network menu interface
• Improved messages tool: Easier to use, no annoying ajax menun makes it faster and more reliable
• Added multiple attachments to messages sending
• Added possibility to send emails to multiple users
• Improved user portal page when Social Network is enabled: User image, and subscriptions links are shown
• Added inc/ajax library folder to structurer AJAX calls - see CT#431. All new jQuery + AJAX reponses should be located there
• RSS Feed added by default to the extra fields, as well as the user tag. Still requires manual visibility change to be enabled
• Improved reporting tab performance tenfolds (main/mySpace/courseLog.php file)
• 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
• Added new question type in exercise tool: Multiple answer combination a.k.a "Exact answer" - CT#402
• Added e-mail notifications when a student answers an exercise
• Added extensible footer style, allowing for much more information to be shown there
• List of course improved when using Course categories in user_portal.php

Debugging

• Simplified SCORM engine, making it more reliable but supporting less SCORM messages (interactions and objectives disabled for now)
• Fixed a bug in course homepage always showing a box even when no tools were shown (r8747:3ad59f6aed1f)
• Score result in reporting is expressed as a percentage
• CSV export of reporting no longer contains html code in the last column
• The course list is now sorted like you have defined on the course management page
• Display order in LP fixed (Organize view) #5668
• Automatic deletion of a link in gradebook fixed - DT#5229

CSS changes

• New Chamilo themes added
• Fixed older styles support
• Added iepngfix hack to support png images in IE6
• Changed footer to allow for extensible height
• Added many CSS elements to support new tools (social network, glossary, etc)

Known issues

• In Hotspot under Windows® (server-side), uploading a PNG file results in an unstable exercise
• Scorm: Objectives and interactions are not supported
• Scorm: Hotspot and Exact type of questions can't be exported in a SCORM package
• Course backup: When trying to generate a backup the image/video paths are not update with the new course code see CT#521
• If the "Show glossary terms" option is selected for the lessons tool (SCORM) and exercises, the description of the exercise might contain the answers to the question. Need human intelligence to avoid this.

Deprecated files

• main/btf_functions.php file deleted. All functions are in the new class inc/lib/course_home.lib.php
• main/messages/message.class.php moved to inc/lib/message.lib.php in messages tool
• main/messages/message.css is now useless
• main/messages/cookies.js is now useless
• message_for_group_form_inc.php in social tool moved to the inc/ajax library
• main/social/select_options.php moved to inc/ajax library

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

• Implemented new sub-language feature by which language terms redefinition becomes possible through the admin section (FS#4321)
• Admin: Terms and conditions added DT#4320
• Improvements in document tool, allow seeing glossary terms (FS#4337)
• Small improvements in SCORM export(FS#4300)
• At the beginning of the installation script, added an imperative check for PHP 5 has been added. (FS#4296)
• When the system Dokeos is switched into "Test server" mode, a clickable indicator appears in the footer. This indicator is visible by platform administrators only. (FS#4341)
• A transliteration function has been added. Currently, it is used in uploading files. Files with non-English names get names that contain ASCII letters only, remaining readable in the corresponding language. Rationale: The PHP5 run-time environment does not manage file name encodings, adding such a non-native feature involves too much work. For avoiding character encoding problems, transliteration of file names is the possible solution. (FS#306)
• An internationalization option has been added for improving sorting in arbitrary language. When the intl php-extension has been installed, various sorting routines exploit it for better sorting. Rationale: The PHP5 run-time environment does not provide native and reliable way of sorting UTF-8 strings. (FS#306)
• Installation script: The page about system requilements has been updated. Also, at the very beginning, a check has been added whether the mbstring php-extension is installed - see the related forum topic. (FS#306)
• A new php-based configuration for the online editor has been implemented, see dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/myconfig.php. Also, toolbar definitions have been split in separate php-files within the directory dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/toolbars/ . Customization of the editor is more convenient and flexible now. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: A upgrade from FCKEditor 2.6.4 to FCKEditor 2.6.4.1 has been implemented. (FS#4383)
• Online editor: Blocking copy/paste for trainees has been added. The feature is configurable through editing the toolbar definition files within the directory dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/toolbars/ . (FS#2867)
• Online editor: Preview tabs have been added to the dialogs for inserting video, flv-video, and YouTube video. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: The audio plugin has been activated by default as an implementation of the "Insert audio / Audio properties" dialog. This new plugin is intended to replace the "MP3" plugin. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: The simple file manager, the advanced file manager and the image manager have been integrated by default with the editor's dialog system. Thus, they work faster and in a more secure way. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: Configuration of the mimetex plugin has been reworked to gain simplicity. The procedure for configuration has been updated, see the related forum topic. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: A new asciimath plugin for inserting mathematical formulas has been added. It is based on the ASCIIMathML.js library. (FS#2867)
• Social: Added possibility to define RSS feeds inside personal page of social network (need to define an 'rssfeeds' extra user text field)

Debugging

• Online editor: Several known bug-fixes from FCKEditor 2.6.5 SVN have been implemented, tickets #1537, #2156, #2689, #2821, #2856, #2874, #2915, #3120, #3181, #3427, #3429, #3439, #3446, #3481, #3677, #3818, #3880, #3925. (FS#2867)
• Online editor: The toolbar icons have been upgraded to those from FCKEditor 3.0. (FS#2867)
• A solution has been implemented for fixing the "__flash__removeCallback" bug, which affects the media player on Internet Explorer browser. (FS#4378 and FS#2867)
• Quiz: fixed bug in multiple-choice/single-answer questions results (whereby the wrong answer was saved)
• Admin: Added courses from sessions inside AJAX popup of courses list in users list (SVN#22398)
• Admin: Showing full-length course titles in list of courses while adding to sessions(SVN#22399)
• Admin: Added session name in title of session edition pages(SVN#22400)

CSS changes

• Sticky footer now available in all Dokeos stylesheets. If you own a custom stylesheet you will need to update it, see DT#3549 for further details.

Known issues

Deprecated files

• The whole main/inc/lib/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/ directory should be removed for security reasons

Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard - June 2009

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard is a major release including new features. 

New Features

• FCKEditor 2.6.4, build 21629 added (FS#2528 and FS#2867)
• Improvements to the profiling tool (previously called "User fields") to improve presentation and flexibility, and allow edition
• Added new authorized charsets for learning path tool
• Official code available in My Reporting (FS#2640)
• Added possibility to switch fill-in-the-blanks answers (FS#2683)
• Now hiding database password field with *** in install/upgrade procedure (FS#2680)
• Added attempts limit to tests
• Hide language form if only one language available
• Added possibility for the course teacher and tutor to delete quiz attempts by users
• Added possibility for session coaches to register external users directly to their session (FS#2700)
• Added possibility to allow coach to access a defined number of days before and after a session (FS#2724)
• Activates unique (ajax) and multiple (multiple select) inscriptions for courses and users in sessions (FS#2719)
• Handling of sessions in tools has been improved : for example we can't see anymore an annoucment of another session (FS#2743)
• Tests : In students results page, set the question comment in red when the student's answer is wrong. Set in green when the answer id good
• New audio recorder in learning path
• New mp3 player (FS#2977)
• New Glossary tool (FS#3248)
• Integrated the gradebook at course level (FS#3173)
• New wiki tool (considerably improved, built on CoolWiki plugin) (FS#2873)
• Remove possibility to delete system directories in documents tool (FS#1522)
• Database server: no more need for special SQL modes for MySQL 5.0 to be turned off through the "sql_mode" setting. The Dokeos system does it internally (FS#2787)
• Some low-level functions that intensively use the language translation sub-system have been optimized for speed (FS#3260)
• Documents tool: The document-type icons have been made clickable (FS#3296)
• Documents tool: Online editor has been disabled for HotPotatoes tests in order their functionality to be preserved (FS#3345)
• Allow ZIP export of assignments for teacher and tutor
• Added attach documents to Agenda
• Added Web Services Interface (SOAP)
• Added Google Maps support
• Added Imagemap editor
• Online editor: Inserting links to YouTube streaming service has been added (FS#2867)
• 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)
• Option to hide/show e-mail addresses to all users (FS#3244)
• Added an introduction section for each group area (FS#3200)
• New Global Agenda (FS#3391)
• New Notebook tool in courses
• Added reporting on the last connections of a user in the chat
• Added link create course message to go directly to the course(SVN#17497)
• Added ability to take partial surveys and finish them later (FS#2510)
• New Survey Feature: Surveys without invitation mail (FS#3403)
• Added Booking system (a.k.a Reservation 2 Extension) (FS#821)
• Added user profiling fields in auto-registration page (FS#2666)
• Added check for writeable status of session save path in installation directory (FS#2970)
• Allow forum threads to be moved (FS#3460)
• Minor - Added update information for quizzes (FS#3417)
• Sending e-mails to all admin on user account creation confirmation (FS#3475)
• Changed user profile setting defaults to make phone field disabled and picture enabled (FS#3474)
• Added intermediary buttons in platform settings pages to avoid scrolling too much to apply atomic changes (FS#3473)
• Simplify default platform language choice by adding quick icon (FS#3472)
• Session admins can now add users to the portal (FS#3476)
• Added Advanced File Manager (FCKEditor plugin) to improve flexibility in files upload (FS#2970)
• Added New Message Tool (a.k.a Message 2 Plugin) (FS#3503)
• Added Question difficulty level in Exercises (FS#3515)
• Added Removed buggy audio recorder and added new MP3 player with easy upload (FS#3515)
• Improved Survey export (SVN#17927)
• Students can now view their uploaded works in Work tool (FS#3486)
• Implemented add to calendar an assignment with the date when it is completely closed, also when you remove it from assignment tool, it's removed into calendar too, the same case when it's edited, for that I had to change the value of add_calendar field into student_publication_assignment table, now when it's sent to calendar this value is the id into calendar_event table, instead this value is 0.
• Added Social tool + friend list (FS#3383)
• Added introduction section to blog and course description (FS#3165)
• Added import/export (CSV/XML) of extra user fields
• Added ability to import users in XML and subscribe to visual code (FS#3552)
• Added pChart v1.1.2 library to manage charts in Gradebook tool(FS#3718) and the Access details of a user
• Added SHA1 as a possibility to encrypt user passwords (FS#3798)
• Added global templates to use between courses (SVN#18955)
• Added To change your password, you must enter your current password (SVN#19225)
• Added New Dokeos stylesheets
• Improvements to the User profile
• Improvements to the Learning path display view (no more frames)
• Added HTML Purifier
• Added tracking/logging of admin activity FS#842

Debugging

• Improved security in exercises module
• Fixed issue in dropbox documents zipping feature - see related forum post
• Increased size of php_session data field to allow for reasonable-sized session to be kept in the database (FS#2657)
• Fixed a few issues in mailing and codes for survey tool (FS#2662)
• Considerably improved migration of SCORM learning paths from Dokeos 1.6.x to 1.8.x
• Added student-view link for platform admin
• Fixed bug about last access reporting in dropbox tool (FS#2458)
• Saving survey invitation's mail subject (FS#2662)
• Various improvements in clone cleanliness - avoiding many notice-level error reports
• Fixed user picture problems in admin pages
• Mysql error fixed in Reporting in a single DB installation (FS#2638)
• Fixed phone number field missing during registration (FS#2639)
• Fixed breadcrumb in portal administration (FS#2642)
• Fixed issues in FCKeditor edition of documents with video, flash and mp3 included (FS#2679)
• Fixed security issue affecting Windows servers with system file inclusion on homepage (FS#2692)
• Fixed one-question-per-page view in Quiz tool (FS#2678)
• Removed possible risk of having a database code too large for the course.db_name field (FS#2426)
• Added missing online help for blogs (FS#811)
• Fixed bug showing whole article as link in blog (FS#811)
• Fixed bug whereby the course permissions were not updated when using the multiple-action mode in course users list
• Fixed bug preventing opening of a learning path item following a failed prerequisite condition (SVN#15853)
• Fixed bug preventing the activation of plugins (FS#2771)
• Fixed bug adding double comments in dropbox tool in IE only (FS#2757)
• Fixed IMS/QTI2 little export problem (FS#2634)
• The learners can't send files anymore to other learners if "Do not allow students to send documents to other students within a course" is false (FS#2780)
• The mails sent in exercises tool are sent from the address defined in admin (FS#2712)
• "Next" and "Previous" page now works when searching a session (FS#2721)
• Fixed bug when launching a quiz with one question per page (FS#2738)
• Fixed javascript bug with swap menu in ie6 (FS#2815)
• Fixed bug in surveys when we want to display answers of an invited person (FS#2731)
• Fixed bug when copying a course with surveys. There is now a check for existing surveys with the same code and language (FS#2734)
• Fixed bug when seeing matching results in quiz tool (SVN#15987)
• Added filtering of SCORM objectives when writing to DB (SVN#16437)
• Removed duplication of database write operations for SCORM objectives (SVN#16438)
• Fixed HTTP_REFERER bug in ical_export (FS#3041)
• Fixed bug in SQL queries for new installs, preventing the creation of the course_module table (FS#3040)
• Fixed the fact that the password was never sent by e-mail when encrypted, even when it had just been changed for a user, causing a useless e-mail to be sent (SVN#16673)
• Fixed bug in users pictures display when using the tuning setting of splitting users dirs (SVN#16673)
• Fixed bug in documents picture gallery preventing uppercase image extensions to be seen (SVN#16755)
• Fixed bug whereby the repeated agenda items in groups were visible to all (FS#3095)
• Fixed bug whereby e-mails sent did not have the standard syntax (SVN#16708)
• Fixed bug whereby an empty institution name gave a useless output in the header (SVN#16710)
• Fixed bug whereby questions ordering was broken when deleting one question in the middle (SVN#16879)
• Fixed bug in user fields, not displayed the default value in profile and add user, and you could modify this values(see FS#3307)
• Fixed bug in link (see FS#3306)
• Improved display of human resource manager option (see FS#3304)
• Documents tool, folder selector: Fixed a bug that prevented Home (root) folder to be shown (FS#3089)
• Users tool: Fixed a bug preventing detailed information about a user to be shown or edited (FS#3009)
• Fixed a bug causing various problems due to improper priority order of loading PEAR packages (FS#3237)
• The PclZip library has been upgraded to version 2.6. Additionally, a known bug has been fixed - improper processing of the option PCLZIP_OPT_REMOVE_PATH on Windows (FS#3243)
• Fixed a bug causing improper numeric sorting of data displayed in various tables (FS#3282)
• Agenda tool: Fixed a wrong range for hour selection. The bug has been reported and solved in a forum by TL (FS#3324)
• Agenda tool: style changes - Align drop-down lists in date and time when you add a new calendar event and modify it
• Fixed Date Validation when you add a new exercises and modify it (FS#3249)
• Tests tool: Fixed broken filter on orphan questions in questions pool, reported and solved in the forums by mark111 (FS#3329)
• Fixed security flaw allowing anonymous user to enter "open to the platform" courses (FS#3359 - SVN#17499)
• Fixed forum visibility bug for private groups forum (FS#3327)
• Fixed many links bugs when using a forum inside a learning path (FS#3256)
• Fixed: dropbox changed notification icon appears while dropbox inaccessable (FS#3395)
• Fixed: access to a hidden document was possible (FS#2835)
• Dropbox fix: move multiple selected files to category feature is back. (FS#3005)
• Fixed: Long lines in Announcements did not show up in email (FS#2988)
• Fixed: the productions users aren't saved in the the correct directory (FS#3456)
• Fixed error in install/htaccess.dist whereby the url-append was not set correctly (SVN#17791)
• Fixed missing check on cDir in local.inc.php (SVN#17793)
• Removed possibility to create sub-directories in the dropbox tool - wasn't working anyway for various versions (FS#3434)
• Improved access control for group tool (FS#3209)
• Fixed profiling date field popup bug (FS#2985)
• Added check on max members in group before subscribing new people (FS#3453)
• Changed usage of mail functions to use api_mail() everywhere and fix mail headers problems (FS#2445)
• Fixed bug changing the language to false in platform settings (FS#3472)
• Fixed various HTTPS + IE related bugs, related to caching in general (SVN#17795)
• Fixed 31 bugs in file/image/sounds/flash uploads/delete/permissions in profile/homepage/agenda edition pages
• Fixed a bug in migration for several versions at once whereby new course tools were repeated several times (SVN#17935)
• Fixed security issue allowing users to upload php files on the server through FCKEditor (FS#2970)
• Fixed folders by default into document tool must not be removed - see FS#3611
• Fixed qualification of themes into forum tool - see FS#3609
• allow show results with floating point,in exercice tool - (partial FS#3630) - SVN#18367
• Fixed event into agenda when it's sent from assignment and Improved display form when you create an assignment - see FS#3583
• Fixed difficulty of the question lost - see FS#3659
• Fixed XML user import for single courses import (related to FS#3552)
• Fixed bug with user image not showing in upgrade from previous versions
• Fixed bugs causing wrong attempts to translate some icons on course homepage when the server is in testing mode (FS#3285)
• A fix for the Oogie converter to work on Windows OS has been applied. Initial code has been proposed in the Dokeos forums by Øyvind Johansen (oyvind) and wilbrod - see FS#3969
• Fixed Windows-related bugs preventing creation of SCORM packages from presentations, see FS#3972. The problem has been reported in the Dokeos forums by irvienhooi
• Some minor bugs have been fixed in "Document Metadata" form (FS#4030)
• Fixed a bug preventing updating dates of group documents after edition. Many thanks to Ludwig Theunis, nickname: TL (FS#4072)

CSS changes

• Added classes glossary-term, glossary-term-title, glossary-term-desc, glossary-term-action-links for the glossary tool
• Added personal-notes tool-related styles
• Changed many things in the public-admin style (Dokeos default) to improve design - will probably affect other styles a little despite efforts not to
• Added new styles

Important language changes

• Changed "courses" to "trainings" in English and "Cours" to "Formations" in French. This change is likely to be very confusing to most users! Please either update your language files or warn your users if you are willing to keep that change.
• Changed "Learning Path" link to "Course" in English and French
• Changed and unified work/assignment/student publications tool as "assignments"
• Changed "Dropbox" tool to "Documents sharing" (or "Documents sharing space" when referring to one's own space in the tool)
• Changed "Student View" link to "Teacher view" and vice-versa
• Many buttons now have more defined action names

Known issues

• Inserting the same exercise twice in one learning path may generate score inconsistencies

Deprecated files

• The whole main/inc/lib/xajax/tests/ should be removed

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

• Considerable security improvements - 2 major and 1 minor security patches have been applied since the latest stable version
• SCORM export improvement (now generates SCORM 1.2 compliant packages and transforms Dokeos quizzes into SCO items, using interactions as a bonus)
• Possibility to filter extension of submitted files all around Dokeos
• OpenID authentication support
• Possibility to import Word documents
• Possibility to import docx and pptx documents (new MS-Office format)
• Grades, evaluations and success certificates available thanks to the integration of the gradebook extension. Activating this module will clash with a gradebook extension installation made previously
• Coloured icons added to courses list in administration panel to show access permissions
• Logout button now shows the username of the current user
• Student view re-activated and fully-functional
• Searching the forum is now possible so you can use the forum as a knowledge base. The search results are highlighted throughout the forum and you can search on multiple words also.
• Group members are now displayed in a sortable table
• Possibility to export survey results in XLS format
• Documents, Works and Dropbox tools usability has been improved in many ways
• In the agenda, you can display the X upcoming events (can be configured by the platform admin)
• The course agenda now has a month view like the my agenda
• In the user list of the platform administration you can now quickly see for what courses the user is subscribed by hovering over the courses icon
• The platform system announcements can now be sent through email also
• User fields have been added globally, allowing you to add user data like birthdate, mother tongue, city or whatever data you want to ask your users
• LDAP
  • The LDAP code has changed. If you had some customisations there, you might want to save them and re-apply them after the upgrade
  • Functions renamed to respect coding conventions and use ldap_ namespace
  • Most parameters moved to the administration panel. You will need to configure the administration panel with the settings that were previously in ldap_var.inc.php
  • Added non-anonymous mode (just add a login and a password in the configuration panel)
  • Added search domain configuration through panel
  • Added customizable field-check for student-teacher switch
  • The installation guide has been updated to help you find your way through the new LDAP configuration panel
  • You still need to activate LDAP by uncommenting two lines in configuration.php
• New stylesheets can be added through the platform administration interface
• Notification by email has been improved in the forum. You can now indicate that you want to be informed of messages on the forum level or on the thread level, even if you did not participate in the discussion yet.
• The platform administrator can decide to display the courses that are not open on the login page. When these courses are displayed on the campus startpage then the user that is logged in can quickly subscribe to this course.
• When creating a new group you can decide to create a public or private forum or no forum at all. These are group category settings.
• Group forum is also displayed in the group space
• Surveys that are not based on invitation but open to all (or certain) members of the course are now available
• Agenda
  • iCal import and export of course events, with a choice of public, private or confidential markers
  • Repetitive course events can be created (and exported to iCal). Repetitions types supported are: daily, weekly, monthly by date (e.g. the 5th of each month) and yearly by date
• Document templates have been greatly improved to speed-up custom course content creation
• Audiorecorder (depending on streaming server) now records sounds in the document/audio directory, making them easily reusable by the course admin
• Audiorecorder is not loaded by default (took too long) and you can load it with a simple click
• W3C - Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional has been improved
• Tracking - A new page to display access details by user is available under the Reporting tab, in the user details in a course
• Removed header from learning path tool. It was taking too much space and was not flexible enough for CSS styling
• Improved speed of 1.6 to 1.8 migration by adding indexes

Debugging

• Prerequisites management in learning paths fixed (includes quizzes, hotpotatoes and SCORM)
• Various minor bugs fixed in the learning path tool (scoring, copy, re-ordering)
• Various minor bugs fixed in the session handling
• Fixes to the survey tool (date management, questions order in export)
• Fixes to the calendar tool (access by students)
• Fixes to the announcement tool (access by students)
• Fixes to the group tool (default group settings)
• Bugfix: complete export in survey tool displayed the question of all the surveys and not only those of the selected survey
• Bugfix: registering a new user resulted in the language field of the user being empty which resulted in an english profile by default. This has now been changed to the platform language.
• Performance improvement in the user list of the platform administration
• Bugfix: group tutors were not migrated from 1.6 to 1.8
• SCORM export: fixes in export method
• Documentation is now fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant
• Fix FCKeditor Flash upload lack of usability and problems with IE

Known issues

• Audiorecorder takes a few seconds to write the audio file back to the document directory, so the page shouldn't be changed too quickly after recording a sound track
• When migrating from 1.6 to 1.8, some SCORM learning paths might need to be re-imported, which means their tracking is lost

Dokeos 1.8.4 - September 2007

Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.4 is both a features and debuggingmajor release. 

New Features

• Templates. See http://www.dokeos.com/templates.php
• Wide Hotspots tests to allow real-life situations simulation
• Flash video import and streaming
• Installation guide renewed. See http://www.dokeos.com/doc/installation_guide.html
• Added animated Mr Dokeos character : http://www.dokeos.com/mrdokeos.php
• English and Dutch teacher manual added
• Assignments form now fills automatically with document title and user name
• Document authoring space now bigger
• IMS/QTI export of tests
• Export of media (images, Flash, Audio) and tests in SCORM export
• Agenda default time management for an event improved
• Oogie PowerPoint converter setup simplified
• Improved support for other character sets (enabling better support for UTF-8 and russian and asian fonts)

Debugging

• Upgrade script improved : now possible to upgrade direct from 1.6 to 1.8.4. 
• Blogs user rights
• FCK Editor image import
• Videoconferencing slides now include Documents directory of course
• SCORM content can be displayed Full Screen
• SCORM interactions now properly running
• Hotspots tests redesigned and bigger hotspots zone
• Alphabetical sorting of lists fixed
• Excel export in reporting now removes HTML tags
• My profile page display layout
• Import HotPotatoes tests scoring
• Images gallery in Documents bad display
• Agenda default date now more relevant
• Tests random questions order option clarified
• Templates editing and media removal now easier
• Apostrophe bug in Learning path Build mode
• Table of contents wider in Learning path
• Audio player now autostarts
• Spelling mistakes in French and English
• Group features now related to group, not generic
• Blogs SQL errors fixed
• Introduction images were missing in tests reporting
• SCORM export now working
• My agenda Personal events editor bug fixed
• Oogie PowerPoint import installation easier
• Time spent on platform tracking improved
• Course Backup/restore bugs fixed
• Course copy bugs fixed
• Default visibility status of learning paths fixed
• Images gallery display reordering
• Agenda default time management for an event improved
• Groups display alphabetical sorting fixed

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

• Ms-PowerPoint® to Learning Path conversion
• Integrated Live Conferencing 
• Templates and styles for rapid online authoring
• Search engine 
• New question types: hotspots and open answers
• Reporting dashboard with export to Ms-Excel
• Surveys
• Educational blogs
• Learning Path: better import and export of SCORM, IMS and AICC
• Documents tool: PowerPoint and Word into HTML file type conversion
• Tests tool: less sequential and more user-friendly
• Forum : better admin and content management
• code cleanup
• new nice looking icons
• new layout for the course homepage
• Version check: be informed when a new Dokeos release is available.
• Platform Statistics so you can boast with your campus.

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

• Campus home page can be edited online
• Improved translations, made with the new Dokeos translation tool
• Language switch - when you enter the portal, you can choose your language.
• Who is online: a list of users who are logged in, you can click to see their pictures and portfolio, or click to talk to them through our built-in web chat tool.
• Learning path - import and export of SCORM packages, improved layout, prerequisites based on score in tests
• Agenda - many new options, e.g. every user can add personal agenda items.
• Document tool - many new options, improved layout, improved HtmlArea
• Security - PHP register globals setting don't need to be on anymore
• Administration section - all functions are easier to access, you can configure many options through the web interface instead of by digging through the code.
• Improved course management - completely rewritten course import/export functions, easily copy content from one course to another
• Plugins and modularity - new system to add plugins to Dokeos more easily
• API libraries - our function libraries have been expanded and improved
• Interoperability: support for SCORM import/export, XML import/export for some features, IEEE LOM Metadata support in documents and groups, import of Hotpotatoes, connection with QuestionMark (this last one will be available as plugin).

Roadmap

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

Dokeos 1.5.5

• Learning path : Scorm content import tool
• WYSIWYG editor : create content on the fly
• Table of contents : structure content on the fly
• Dropbox : peer2peer content sharing management
• Links categories : structure links catalogue
• New navigation : one click to tool
• Events since my last visit : be informed of what has changed since your last login
• My agenda : synthetic weekly view of all the events related to you
• Add a picture to my profile : see who is who
• Security : privacy and anti-cracking protection
• 5 more languages : russian, catalan, vietnamese, brazilian, thai and a revised chinese
• New chat tool : real-time textual discussion
• Audio & video conference : real-time live broadcasting of events + textual interaction with ore than 200 people.
• Announcements to some users or some groups only
• Time-based learning management : add resources to time line in Agenda
• Audio & video in Tests tool : create listening comprehensions, situation-based questions on the fly
• Forum thread/flat view : see discussions in more detail
• Forum email notification : get an email when your forum topic is active
• language revision : dokeos vocabulary has been generalised to be adapted to different types of organisations and not only universities