Hello everyone,
The following versions of Totara have now been released:
- 2.9.3
- 2.7.11
- 2.6.28
- 2.5.35
- 2.4.38
Please note that these releases do not contain any security fixes, however two important bugs have been fixed that may lead to changes in audience membership. Please review the changelogs for details.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this release:
- Pavel Tsakalidis from Kineo UK - TL-7560
- Russell England from Kineo USA - TL-8191
Kind regards
Sam Hemelryk
Release 2.9.3 (18th January 2016):
Important:
TL-7896 Fixed dynamic audience rules that reference an organisation menu type custom field
Dynamic audience rules for Organisation menu custom fields can have one of
two operators, "Equal to" and "Not equal to".
Prior to this fix these operators functioned in reverse. "Equal to" would
lead to users within an organisation for which the custom field did NOT
include the selected options.
Likewise if "Not equal to" was used users within organisations for which
the selected value was used would be included as audience members.
After this fix the operators are applied correctly.
If you have dynamic audiences with rules based upon organisation menu
custom fields then we strongly recommend you review these dynamic audience
rules and the associated audience memberships.
During upgrade these rules will be corrected and audience memberships may
change.
If you have affected audiences, you can fix them without incurring
membership changes by following these steps:
1. Disable cron prior to your upgrade.
2. Upgrade your site.
3. Review the dynamic audiences that are affected. If you need memberships
to stay exactly the same then changing the condition on the rule from
"Equals to" to "Not equals to" (or vice-versa) will ensure that audience
memberships stay as they were prior to this version.
4. Approve your changes and review the audience memberships.
5. Re-enable and run the cron.
TL-8047 Fixed a bug found within SQL search routines used by both dialog searches and dynamic audience rules.
Prior to this fix if you had a dynamic audience with two or more rules in a
single ruleset, where the rules have comma separated values specified in
conjunction with any of the following conditions "Contains", "Is equal to",
"Starts with", "Ends with" then membership may be incorrect.
The bug is due to multiple value search SQL not being correctly wrapped in
brackets.
After this fix comma separated values are correctly applied when
determining dynamic audience membership.
Depending upon the order of the rules and how they apply to the users
currently in the audience, membership may or may not change.
If you have an audience you believe is affected we strongly urge that you
first test this version on a copy of your site and after upgrading, closely
review audience membership.
You will need to review and amend the audience rules if users are removed
and you require them to still be included.
This bug may also have affected dialog searches when multiple values were
being used. Searching in dialogs now correctly handles multiple search
values.
Improvements:
TL-7560 Added missing foreign key to the type field in the pos_assignment table
TL-7816 Time can now be set when assigning due dates for programs
Previously when setting fixed due dates for a program or certification,
only the date could be set but not the time, which would fall at the
beginning of the day for the person setting it. Now the time can also be
set which means less ambiguity for when a due date will expire,
particularly for sites where users are in different timezones from each
other.
If a user is requesting an extension of their due date in a program, they
can also specify the time.
If a manager's team members have pending extension requests, the manager
can now navigate to the page where these requests are updated via the 'My
Team' page. Previously they could only get to the page by a link in an
email or typing in the url.
TL-7973 Added a warning for Report builder when internally required columns break custom aggregations
TL-8133 Renamed the Position and Organisation Report builder filters to be more consistent
TL-8144 Improved the multi-lang support for Appraisal management pages
TL-8155 Improved compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.5
TL-8166 Added a new column 'Course Completions as Evidence' to the My Team embedded report
TL-8183 Improved the Face-to-face session room filter
TL-8210 Replaced the logos in the standardtotararesponsive theme with SVG equivalents.
TL-8228 Improved the multi-lang support for Questions in Appraisals and Feedback360
Bug fixes:
TL-7012 Fixed the course completion progress bar for courses within a completed learning plan
The course completion progress bar was not being correctly displayed in the
Record of Learning for course that are part of an already completed
learning plan
TL-7527 Fixed the default settings for the example appraisal
The example appraisal previously required some of the question content to
be opened and saved via the interface before goals or competencies could be
selected by learners. On a new install of Totara, example appraisals can
now be assigned and activated without having to open the question settings
beforehand. This also fixes certain instances where a manager could not
review goals after they had been reviewed by the learner.
TL-7608 Increased the maximum character length to 255 for various user fields in HR Import
The maximum character length of the institution, department, address and
password fields have been increased to 255 to match those allowed through
the user interface.
TL-7809 Updated the language strings for the learning plans "objectives approval" and "status" columns
TL-7826 Course completions stats on the My Team report now include RPL completions
Switched the Course Completion statistics on the My Team embedded report to
use course_completion records instead of block_totara_stats.
TL-7946 Removed the link from progress icon if the user is not enrolled in the course
If a user is enrolled in a program but not yet enrolled in a course within
that program (e.g. they have not yet launched the course), the progress
icon included a link to their completion status. Clicking on this would
take that user to a page with an error saying they are not yet enrolled.
The progress icon now only acts as a link if they are enrolled or already
have a completion status by some other means.
TL-7978 Fixed the layout of strings in the Completion status block
A couple of strings in the completion status block were appended together
and were missing spaces. The second part of the string is now passed into
the language string which fixes the layout and also allow the string to be
translated correctly which previously was not possible.
TL-8041 Fixed access controls when adding and removing audiences while editing courses
When adding audiences via the course edit page, the checks are now ensuring
that the cohort enrolment plugin is enabled and that the logged in user has
the capabilities 'moodle/course:enrolconfig' and 'enrol/cohort:config' in
the course or higher context. Also the audience selector now only displays
audiences that the user can view (with 'moodle/cohort:view' in the
necessary context).
TL-8049 Fixed an error when hiding blocks on learning plan pages
Previously when trying to hide a block in a learning plan page
(totara/plan/component.php) an error would be displayed and the block would
not be hidden.
TL-8056 Fixed styles for the assignment marking guide criterion form section
TL-8083 Removed dashboards associated with deleted audiences
TL-8124 Fixed error when deleting course with Face-to-face activities
TL-8127 Fixed filters requiring javascript in embedded Audience Member reports
TL-8128 Fixed the link edit current user profile in the navigation block
TL-8129 Fixed the homepage redirect when a dashboard is set to be the default homepage
TL-8135 Fixed the risk displayed for the totara/program:markstaffcoursecomplete capability
TL-8160 HR Import now correctly sets the default language when creating users
TL-8167 The Graphical report block now uses the default sort order of the report
TL-8173 Fixed HTML validation error due to missing closing div tag on the program assignments page
TL-8184 Stopped timezones being displayed in Face-to-face reports when they are disabled in the plugin settings
TL-8185 Fixed the pagination on the "Manage programs" and "Manage certifications" pages
TL-8191 Fixed the validation of Report builder date filters using number of days selectors
TL-8197 Fixed text placement for RTL graphical reports in Internet Explorer and Edge
TL-8207 Fixed notice when editing pages with custom block regions without JavaScript
TL-8221 Course icons are now shown in all circumstances
With the enhanced course catalogue disabled, the course icons previously
had an incorrect URL causing them to not be displayed. We now validate the
URL to ensure it is correct.
TL-8229 Changed the required learning page to show user's program details even if complete
Previously, if a manager tried to view a learner's program or certification
and it was complete, the manager would instead see their own status in the
program or the learner's Required Learning page, rather than their
student's.
TL-8231 Switched the Face-to-face edit attendees from sending GET params to POST params
Prior to this change when editing the attendees of a Face-to-face session
the dialog would submit any changes made as GET params.
If the session had hundreds or thousands of attendees this could lead to an
exceptionally long URL.
The length of the URL may then cause problems on some systems, particularly
IIS and any site running Suhosin.
TL-8245 Fixed cohort log data in site logs
TL-8251 Fixed an error with updating competency properties in a learning plan with JavaScript disabled
When updating either priority or status for a competency in a Learning Plan
with JavaScript turned off there was a error message thrown. The update was
saved but an message was displayed every time there was an update.
TL-8263 Fixed room validation during Face-to-face session creation when the datetime is not known
Prior to this fix when creating a Face-to-face sessions, if a room is
selected then a date is selected which causes a resource conflict when
saving. If the user then sets "date/time known" to "No" the validation
would still fail and stop the session from being saved.
Contributions:
* Pavel Tsakalidis from Kineo UK - TL-7560
* Russell England from Kineo USA - TL-8191
Release 2.7.11 (18th January 2016):
Important:
TL-7896 Fixed dynamic audience rules that reference an organisation menu type custom field
Dynamic audience rules for Organisation menu custom fields can have one of
two operators, "Equal to" and "Not equal to".
Prior to this fix these operators functioned in reverse. "Equal to" would
lead to users within an organisation for which the custom field did NOT
include the selected options.
Likewise if "Not equal to" was used users within organisations for which
the selected value was used would be included as audience members.
After this fix the operators are applied correctly.
If you have dynamic audiences with rules based upon organisation menu
custom fields then we strongly recommend you review these dynamic audience
rules and the associated audience memberships.
During upgrade these rules will be corrected and audience memberships may
change.
If you have affected audiences, you can fix them without incurring
membership changes by following these steps:
1. Disable cron prior to your upgrade.
2. Upgrade your site.
3. Review the dynamic audiences that are affected. If you need memberships
to stay exactly the same then changing the condition on the rule from
"Equals to" to "Not equals to" (or vice-versa) will ensure that audience
memberships stay as they were prior to this version.
4. Approve your changes and review the audience memberships.
5. Re-enable and run the cron.
TL-8047 Fixed a bug found within SQL search routines used by both dialog searches and dynamic audience rules.
Prior to this fix if you had a dynamic audience with two or more rules in a
single ruleset, where the rules have comma separated values specified in
conjunction with any of the following conditions "Contains", "Is equal to",
"Starts with", "Ends with" then membership may be incorrect.
The bug is due to multiple value search SQL not being correctly wrapped in
brackets.
After this fix comma separated values are correctly applied when
determining dynamic audience membership.
Depending upon the order of the rules and how they apply to the users
currently in the audience, membership may or may not change.
If you have an audience you believe is affected we strongly urge that you
first test this version on a copy of your site and after upgrading, closely
review audience membership.
You will need to review and amend the audience rules if users are removed
and you require them to still be included.
This bug may also have affected dialog searches when multiple values were
being used. Searching in dialogs now correctly handles multiple search
values.
Improvements:
TL-7560 Added missing foreign key to the type field in the pos_assignment table
TL-7816 Time can now be set when assigning due dates for programs
Previously when setting fixed due dates for a program or certification,
only the date could be set but not the time, which would fall at the
beginning of the day for the person setting it. Now the time can also be
set which means less ambiguity for when a due date will expire,
particularly for sites where users are in different timezones from each
other.
If a user is requesting an extension of their due date in a program, they
can also specify the time.
If a manager's team members have pending extension requests, the manager
can now navigate to the page where these requests are updated via the 'My
Team' page. Previously they could only get to the page by a link in an
email or typing in the url.
TL-7973 Added a warning for Report builder when internally required columns break custom aggregations
TL-8133 Renamed the Position and Organisation Report builder filters to be more consistent
TL-8144 Improved the multi-lang support for Appraisal management pages
TL-8153 Backported support for MySQL 5.7
TL-8155 Improved compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.5
TL-8166 Added a new column 'Course Completions as Evidence' to the My Team embedded report
TL-8183 Improved the Face-to-face session room filter
TL-8210 Replaced the logos in the standardtotararesponsive theme with SVG equivalents.
TL-8228 Improved the multi-lang support for Questions in Appraisals and Feedback360
TL-8254 Backported grunt support for building of JS and CSS
Bug fixes:
TL-7012 Fixed the course completion progress bar for courses within a completed learning plan
The course completion progress bar was not being correctly displayed in the
Record of Learning for course that are part of an already completed
learning plan
TL-7527 Fixed the default settings for the example appraisal
The example appraisal previously required some of the question content to
be opened and saved via the interface before goals or competencies could be
selected by learners. On a new install of Totara, example appraisals can
now be assigned and activated without having to open the question settings
beforehand. This also fixes certain instances where a manager could not
review goals after they had been reviewed by the learner.
TL-7608 Increased the maximum character length to 255 for various user fields in HR Import
The maximum character length of the institution, department, address and
password fields have been increased to 255 to match those allowed through
the user interface.
TL-7809 Updated the language strings for the learning plans "objectives approval" and "status" columns
TL-7826 Course completions stats on the My Team report now include RPL completions
Switched the Course Completion statistics on the My Team embedded report to
use course_completion records instead of block_totara_stats.
TL-7946 Removed the link from progress icon if the user is not enrolled in the course
If a user is enrolled in a program but not yet enrolled in a course within
that program (e.g. they have not yet launched the course), the progress
icon included a link to their completion status. Clicking on this would
take that user to a page with an error saying they are not yet enrolled.
The progress icon now only acts as a link if they are enrolled or already
have a completion status by some other means.
TL-7978 Fixed the layout of strings in the Completion status block
A couple of strings in the completion status block were appended together
and were missing spaces. The second part of the string is now passed into
the language string which fixes the layout and also allow the string to be
translated correctly which previously was not possible.
TL-8041 Fixed access controls when adding and removing audiences while editing courses
When adding audiences via the course edit page, the checks are now ensuring
that the cohort enrolment plugin is enabled and that the logged in user has
the capabilities 'moodle/course:enrolconfig' and 'enrol/cohort:config' in
the course or higher context. Also the audience selector now only displays
audiences that the user can view (with 'moodle/cohort:view' in the
necessary context).
TL-8049 Fixed an error when hiding blocks on learning plan pages
Previously when trying to hide a block in a learning plan page
(totara/plan/component.php) an error would be displayed and the block would
not be hidden.
TL-8056 Fixed styles for the assignment marking guide criterion form section
TL-8083 Removed dashboards associated with deleted audiences
TL-8088 Fixed regression when displaying Face to face attendees
TL-8124 Fixed error when deleting course with Face-to-face activities
TL-8127 Fixed filters requiring javascript in embedded Audience Member reports
TL-8135 Fixed the risk displayed for the totara/program:markstaffcoursecomplete capability
TL-8160 HR Import now correctly sets the default language when creating users
TL-8167 The Graphical report block now uses the default sort order of the report
TL-8173 Fixed HTML validation error due to missing closing div tag on the program assignments page
TL-8184 Stopped timezones being displayed in Face-to-face reports when they are disabled in the plugin settings
TL-8185 Fixed the pagination on the "Manage programs" and "Manage certifications" pages
TL-8191 Fixed the validation of Report builder date filters using number of days selectors
TL-8197 Fixed text placement for RTL graphical reports in Internet Explorer and Edge
TL-8207 Fixed notice when editing pages with custom block regions without JavaScript
TL-8221 Course icons are now shown in all circumstances
With the enhanced course catalogue disabled, the course icons previously
had an incorrect URL causing them to not be displayed. We now validate the
URL to ensure it is correct.
TL-8231 Switched the Face-to-face edit attendees from sending GET params to POST params
Prior to this change when editing the attendees of a Face-to-face session
the dialog would submit any changes made as GET params.
If the session had hundreds or thousands of attendees this could lead to an
exceptionally long URL.
The length of the URL may then cause problems on some systems, particularly
IIS and any site running Suhosin.
TL-8245 Fixed cohort log data in site logs
TL-8251 Fixed an error with updating competency properties in a learning plan with JavaScript disabled
When updating either priority or status for a competency in a Learning Plan
with JavaScript turned off there was a error message thrown. The update was
saved but an message was displayed every time there was an update.
TL-8263 Fixed room validation during Face-to-face session creation when the datetime is not known
Prior to this fix when creating a Face-to-face sessions, if a room is
selected then a date is selected which causes a resource conflict when
saving. If the user then sets "date/time known" to "No" the validation
would still fail and stop the session from being saved.
Contributions:
* Pavel Tsakalidis from Kineo UK - TL-7560
* Russell England from Kineo USA - TL-8191
Release 2.6.28 (18th January 2016):
Important:
TL-7896 Fixed dynamic audience rules that reference an organisation menu type custom field
Dynamic audience rules for Organisation menu custom fields can have one of
two operators, "Equal to" and "Not equal to".
Prior to this fix these operators functioned in reverse. "Equal to" would
lead to users within an organisation for which the custom field did NOT
include the selected options.
Likewise if "Not equal to" was used users within organisations for which
the selected value was used would be included as audience members.
After this fix the operators are applied correctly.
If you have dynamic audiences with rules based upon organisation menu
custom fields then we strongly recommend you review these dynamic audience
rules and the associated audience memberships.
During upgrade these rules will be corrected and audience memberships may
change.
If you have affected audiences, you can fix them without incurring
membership changes by following these steps:
1. Disable cron prior to your upgrade.
2. Upgrade your site.
3. Review the dynamic audiences that are affected. If you need memberships
to stay exactly the same then changing the condition on the rule from
"Equals to" to "Not equals to" (or vice-versa) will ensure that audience
memberships stay as they were prior to this version.
4. Approve your changes and review the audience memberships.
5. Re-enable and run the cron.
TL-8047 Fixed a bug found within SQL search routines used by both dialog searches and dynamic audience rules.
Prior to this fix if you had a dynamic audience with two or more rules in a
single ruleset, where the rules have comma separated values specified in
conjunction with any of the following conditions "Contains", "Is equal to",
"Starts with", "Ends with" then membership may be incorrect.
The bug is due to multiple value search SQL not being correctly wrapped in
brackets.
After this fix comma separated values are correctly applied when
determining dynamic audience membership.
Depending upon the order of the rules and how they apply to the users
currently in the audience, membership may or may not change.
If you have an audience you believe is affected we strongly urge that you
first test this version on a copy of your site and after upgrading, closely
review audience membership.
You will need to review and amend the audience rules if users are removed
and you require them to still be included.
This bug may also have affected dialog searches when multiple values were
being used. Searching in dialogs now correctly handles multiple search
values.
Improvements:
TL-8166 Added a new column 'Course Completions as Evidence' to the My Team embedded report
Bug fixes:
TL-7012 Fixed the course completion progress bar for courses within a completed learning plan
The course completion progress bar was not being correctly displayed in the
Record of Learning for course that are part of an already completed
learning plan
TL-7826 Course completions stats on the My Team report now include RPL completions
Switched the Course Completion statistics on the My Team embedded report to
use course_completion records instead of block_totara_stats.
TL-8124 Fixed error when deleting course with Face-to-face activities
TL-8135 Fixed the risk displayed for the totara/program:markstaffcoursecomplete capability
TL-8191 Fixed the validation of Report builder date filters using number of days selectors
TL-8231 Switched the Face-to-face edit attendees from sending GET params to POST params
Prior to this change when editing the attendees of a Face-to-face session
the dialog would submit any changes made as GET params.
If the session had hundreds or thousands of attendees this could lead to an
exceptionally long URL.
The length of the URL may then cause problems on some systems, particularly
IIS and any site running Suhosin.
TL-8245 Fixed cohort log data in site logs
Contributions:
* Russell England from Kineo USA - TL-8191
Release 2.5.35 (18th January 2016):
Important:
TL-8047 Fixed a bug found within SQL search routines used by both dialog searches and dynamic audience rules.
Prior to this fix if you had a dynamic audience with two or more rules in a
single ruleset, where the rules have comma separated values specified in
conjunction with any of the following conditions "Contains", "Is equal to",
"Starts with", "Ends with" then membership may be incorrect.
The bug is due to multiple value search SQL not being correctly wrapped in
brackets.
After this fix comma separated values are correctly applied when
determining dynamic audience membership.
Depending upon the order of the rules and how they apply to the users
currently in the audience, membership may or may not change.
If you have an audience you believe is affected we strongly urge that you
first test this version on a copy of your site and after upgrading, closely
review audience membership.
You will need to review and amend the audience rules if users are removed
and you require them to still be included.
This bug may also have affected dialog searches when multiple values were
being used. Searching in dialogs now correctly handles multiple search
values.
Improvements:
TL-8166 Added a new column 'Course Completions as Evidence' to the My Team embedded report
Bug fixes:
TL-7012 Fixed the course completion progress bar for courses within a completed learning plan
The course completion progress bar was not being correctly displayed in the
Record of Learning for course that are part of an already completed
learning plan
TL-7826 Course completions stats on the My Team report now include RPL completions
Switched the Course Completion statistics on the My Team embedded report to
use course_completion records instead of block_totara_stats.
TL-8135 Fixed the risk displayed for the totara/program:markstaffcoursecomplete capability
TL-8231 Switched the Face-to-face edit attendees from sending GET params to POST params
Prior to this change when editing the attendees of a Face-to-face session
the dialog would submit any changes made as GET params.
If the session had hundreds or thousands of attendees this could lead to an
exceptionally long URL.
The length of the URL may then cause problems on some systems, particularly
IIS and any site running Suhosin.
Release 2.4.38 (18th January 2016):
Bug fixes:
TL-8231 Switched the Face-to-face edit attendees from sending GET params to POST params
Prior to this change when editing the attendees of a Face-to-face session
the dialog would submit any changes made as GET params.
If the session had hundreds or thousands of attendees this could lead to an
exceptionally long URL.
The length of the URL may then cause problems on some systems, particularly
IIS and any site running Suhosin.