Totara Talent Experience Platform Release Notes

Security releases for Totara 2.9.7, 2.7.15, 2.6.32, 2.5.39, 2.4.41, and 2.2.47 released 23rd May 2016

 
Sam Hemelryk
Security releases for Totara 2.9.7, 2.7.15, 2.6.32, 2.5.39, 2.4.41, and 2.2.47 released 23rd May 2016
di Sam Hemelryk - Sunday, 22 May 2016, 22:30
Gruppo Totara

Hello everyone,

The following versions of Totara have now been released:

  • 2.9.7
  • 2.7.15
  • 2.6.32
  • 2.5.39
  • 2.4.41
  • 2.2.47

These versions do contain security fixes and for this reason we strongly recommend upgrading.
Each release also includes bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this release:

  • Artur Poninski at Webanywhere - TL-8599
  • Carlos Jurado at Kineo - TL-8960
  • Chris Wharton at Catalyst NZ - TL-8867
  • Davo Smith at Synergy Learning - TL-8788
  • Francis Devine at Catalyst NZ - TL-8919
  • Malgorzata Dziodzio at Webanywhere - TL-8376
  • Stacey Walker at Catalyst EU - TL-8936

Kind regards

Sam Hemelryk


Package information:
SHA checksumPackage nameSize
57d01b0b655f8de86072d21bd851655eeb73638etotaralms-2.2.47.tar.gz26mb
fc8d8425719eae25208021537833060e6e5470aatotaralms-2.4.41.tar.gz32mb
bfb48abff060990f052dc4171f40de6247f4800dtotaralms-2.5.39.tar.gz44mb
e02e36e60071caf58c1c8cbc8362062aea3eb179totaralms-2.6.32.tar.gz50mb
c0e1e338177095630036bb3014980eee88d0ec3dtotaralms-2.7.15.tar.gz56mb
5bcad3359da88d49d85758b160e9a94c6507ea5btotaralms-2.9.7.tar.gz47mb
Release 2.9.7 (23rd May 2016):

Important:

    TL-8973        Activity completions will now always reset on archive regardless of their visibility

                   When activity completions were archived during a certification window
                   opening, the completions for activities set to hidden were ignored and
                   would be retained. Activity completions are now archived regardless of
                   their visibility. 
                   
                   This patch also fixes an issue where Face-to-face completion data was not
                   being fully reset if the completion time of the Face-to-face activity was
                   changed to a later time.
                   
                   This change means that after the archive_course_activities function is run,
                   any activities that should not be complete will have no record in the
                   course_modules_completion table, rather than have one which is set to
                   incomplete.
                   
                   As well as affecting certification window opening, these changes will also
                   apply when using the archive completions function within a course.


Security issues:

    TL-9057        Added sesskey checks when applying automatic fixes on the check completions page in the Program completion editor 

Improvements:

    TL-6666        Enabled the randomisation of test table ids

                   In Moodle 2.9 phpunit testing was changed so that the auto-increment IDs of
                   records created in each table started with a different value. This was
                   designed to improve the testing quality by preventing code and tests from
                   using the wrong ID, but still coincidently passing the tests. For example,
                   if a course and certification were created during a test, previously it
                   could be possible to reference the course ID when the certification ID
                   should be used, because they were both 1, but with the change the two IDs
                   will be different, and use of the incorrect ID will be illuminated. This
                   improvement was initially disabled because many tests needed to be updated
                   to support it - the improvement has now been enabled and all of the core
                   tests have been updated to run with it. Any custom tests using fixed record
                   IDs may need to be updated.

    TL-7993        Removed the obsolete 'Manager emails' settings from Face-to-face
    TL-8237        Improved the reliability of behat in Firefox and Chrome using the latest version of Selenium

                   The behat integration has been tuned for the latest releases of Selenium.
                   Several old "hacks" made in Totara to get behat working have been removed
                   as the Selenium drivers have improved. This has greatly improved both the
                   performance and reliability of behat in core, though could have some impact
                   on any custom behat tests.

    TL-8376        Refactored the Face-to-face completion state SQL to improve performance
    TL-8629        Rephrased the help text for the SCORM activity's "Force new attempt" setting to improve its clarity
    TL-8665        Added an environment check for "always_populate_raw_post_data"
    TL-8705        Improved how deleted users are being handled on the browse list of users page

                   The detection of legacy deleted users, checking that their email address
                   field is set to an MD5, has been improved by using a regular expression.
                   Users who have an invalid email address (without an @ symbol) will now show
                   in the user list on the "Browse list of users" page.

    TL-8768        Improved the wording on the Documentation settings page, and ensured that all the settings work correctly
    TL-9020        Created initial Program and Certification completion transaction logs

                   If a user assigned to a Program or Certification did not have any
                   transaction logs, a snapshot log record will be created during upgrade.
                   Likewise, a certification settings snapshot will be created if none exists.
                   This will help with diagnosing future problems.

    TL-9022        Added confirmation when applying automated fixes to program completions

                   When using the program or certification completion checker or editor, when
                   you activate one of the fixes, you will now need to confirm the action.
                   This is to prevent accidental clicks, and provides additional warnings.

    TL-9033        Increased the form field lengths on the Certification settings form

Bug fixes:

    TL-8046        An editor is displayed when editing role descriptions

                   This change reverted MDL-50222 which converted the role description from an
                   editor to a plain text field as it was deemed to be internal only. Totara
                   however uses this field more than Moodle and the above change was reported
                   as a bug.
                   
                   We have now reverted Moodle's change and returned the editor for that
                   field.

    TL-8247        Fixed missing history records when not overriding the current record during a course completion import

                   Previously if you ticked the override checkbox when uploading course
                   completions, but the most recent completion date in the upload was less
                   than the current completion date in an existing record, the upload would
                   ignore the first record and move straight on to the next one. That first
                   record is now placed into history instead.

    TL-8389        Fixed an issue with empty variables inside aggregate questions
    TL-8408        Fixed the Face-to-face user cancellation status by checking the user's current status, avoiding multiple cancellations
    TL-8472        Fixed the Terms & Conditions dialog box for Face-to-face self approval
    TL-8494        Fixed changes to editing trainer assignments not being reflected in the course catalog immediately
    TL-8554        Fixed zero values for appraisals rating questions

                   Both positive and negative numbers are valid values for ratings questions
                   in Appraisals, but a lot of the validation checks were using !empty() which
                   caused problems when trying to use zero. These checks have been updated and
                   zero is now an acceptable value in both numeric and custom ratings

    TL-8561        Changed the display of certification settings in the completion editor to use translatable strings
    TL-8587        Improved the 'Grade to pass' setting validation in Quizzes

                   If the 'Require passing grade' activity completion setting is enabled, the
                   'Grade to pass' must now have a greater-than-zero value. This restriction
                   is also enforced when editing Quiz settings in the gradebook.

    TL-8599        Corrected the completion time used for completion criteria based on completion of another course

                   Completion criteria based on completion of another course now use the
                   completion time of that course when setting the completion time of the
                   criteria, rather than using the time that the criteria was aggregated.

    TL-8605        Fixed certification completon records affected by the reassignment bug

                   Patch TL-6790 in the March release of Totara changed the behaviour when
                   re-assigning users onto a certification. This patch repairs certification
                   completion records for users who were, before that patch, re-assigned and
                   ended up being unable to certify. All users which are identified by the
                   completion checker as "Program status should be 'Program incomplete' when
                   user is newly assigned. Program completion date should be empty when user
                   is newly assigned.", and have an "unassigned" historical completion record,
                   will have that historical record restored, as is the current behaviour when
                   reassigning users. Any records which do not meet these specific criteria,
                   or would be in an invalid state if the change was applied, will not be
                   affected and must be processed manually.

    TL-8621        Fixed the progress bar on the Required learning page when Programs use "AND" courseset operators
    TL-8667        Added functionality to fix duplicated Face-to-face notifications

                   In extremely rare cases the automatic notifications for Face-to-face are
                   being duplicated. If this happens, a warning box will appear for course
                   administrators on the session or  notifications pages and it will be
                   possible to remove the duplicated notifications leaving only the required
                   ones.

    TL-8696        Added a workaround for incorrect rendering of tables in pdf exports using wkhtmltopdf
    TL-8721        Fixed the download file functionality for file pickers when using Internet Explorer
    TL-8732        Fixed capability checks around suspended users within the course enrolment interfaces
    TL-8753        Added an automatic fix for mismatched program and certification completion dates

                   The program completion date should match the certification completion date
                   when a user's certification is "Certified, before the window opens". To
                   repair records where the date is incorrect, this patch added an automated
                   fix which can be triggered to copy the certification completion date to the
                   program completion date. Relates to TL-9014.

    TL-8764        Deleted orphaned course reminders for deleted courses
    TL-8771        Removed duplicated Face-to-face event action icon titles
    TL-8785        Removed the incorrect 'leave this page' warning when editing Feedback activity questions
    TL-8788        Fixed the display of the program completion block when there are no programs visible
    TL-8793        Reminders which are sent belonging to a user are now deleted when the user is deleted
    TL-8807        Fixed search in the completion upload results report
    TL-8867        Fixed the incorrect display of hidden positions and organisations during self registration
    TL-8872        Fixed the ordering of the transaction logs in program and certification completion editors
    TL-8919        Fixed incorrect id being used when preparing an overview for a SCORM activity
    TL-8936        Fixed access to course/info.php when audience visibility is in use
    TL-8942        Fixed test failures caused by a new timezone in Venezuela
    TL-8960        Fixed an issue with creating courses, caused by a guest access setting

                   Previously if you set "require password" for the guest access enrolment
                   plugin, and set the plugin to add a new instance to all new courses. When
                   you then attempted to create a new course, the setting would not be copied
                   to the new course correctly.

    TL-8969        Fixed an issue with the display of users fullnames and improved the internal documentation

                   In 2.6 and 2.7 the "fullnamedisplay" setting was incorrectly falling back
                   to the format specified in language pack. This has been reverted and the
                   overriding fallback happens only if the value "firstname" is specified in
                   the "fullnamedisplay" setting.
                   
                   A new setting in 2.9 "alternativefullnameformat" has already resolved this
                   in a different way.

    TL-8983        Fixed the repeating update of signup status for suspended and deleted users in Face-to-face

                   Previously a cancellation status update was written to the database for
                   each deleted or suspended user who had signed up to a Face-to-face session
                   prior to deletion/suspension, this happened every time cron ran.
                   Face-to-face now correctly checks if the user already has a cancellation
                   status and does not write a redundant duplicate status.

    TL-8991        Fixed the wrong date being used to calculate the certification completion date

                   If a certification had a course set with more than one course, where not
                   all of the courses were required for completion. And before being assigned
                   to the certification, a user completed (manually or via course completion
                   upload) enough of the courses to complete the course set. The certification
                   completion date was being incorrectly calculated as the latest date of all
                   completed courses, rather than the maximum course set completion date. This
                   patch corrects this, and provides an automated fix (part of the
                   Certification completion editor) to repair any affected records.

    TL-9017        Fixed the incorrect redirection to file serving scripts after interruption actions

                   This fix makes two changes:
                   1) File serving scripts no longer set themselves to the return URL if
                   triggered during an interruption action such as the user being forced to
                   change their password.
                   2) Blocks are no longer shown on the change password screen, it now uses
                   the "login" page layout, the same as the main login page.

    TL-9021        Fixed a race condition when loading JavaScript for Totara dialogs

                   When in an appraisal there was a chance that dialogues were attempted to be
                   initialised before the dialog code was downloaded.

    TL-9030        Fixed the removal of text formatting in the display of descriptions for Report builder reports
    TL-9044        Fixed the calculation of substitute colours within the custom Totara responsive theme

                   In the Custom Totara responsive theme, there was an error in the text
                   colour calculation where it would always result in going to the dark
                   colour, regardless of what the background colour was. Now if the background
                   colour is dark, the text will be light

    TL-9052        Fixed the status of notification templates when they were updated by a user
    TL-9061        Fixed an error when double clicking on filters in the enhanced catalog

Contributions:

    * Artur Poninski at Webanywhere - TL-8599
    * Carlos Jurado at Kineo - TL-8960
    * Chris Wharton at Catalyst NZ - TL-8867
    * Davo Smith at Synergy Learning - TL-8788
    * Francis Devine at Catalyst NZ - TL-8919
    * Malgorzata Dziodzio at Webanywhere - TL-8376
    * Stacey Walker at Catalyst EU - TL-8936

Release 2.7.15 (23rd May 2016):

Important:

    TL-7818        Changed certification window opening to also reset RPL activities

                   Previously, when the recertification window opened, RPL course completions
                   were being reset, but RPL activity completions were not. This could cause
                   the situation where a course would re-complete due the RPL activity
                   completions, which in turn triggered certification completion. Depending on
                   certification settings, this could cause a repeating loop. Now, like
                   courses, RPL activity completions will also be reset when the
                   recertification window opens.
                   
                   This change in behaviour brings Totara 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 in line with 2.9
                   (which has had this change since 2.9.0).

    TL-8973        Activity completions will now always reset on archive regardless of their visibility

                   When activity completions were archived during a certification window
                   opening, the completions for activities set to hidden were ignored and
                   would be retained. Activity completions are now archived regardless of
                   their visibility. 
                   
                   This patch also fixes an issue where Face-to-face completion data was not
                   being fully reset if the completion time of the Face-to-face activity was
                   changed to a later time.
                   
                   This change means that after the archive_course_activities function is run,
                   any activities that should not be complete will have no record in the
                   course_modules_completion table, rather than have one which is set to
                   incomplete.
                   
                   As well as affecting certification window opening, these changes will also
                   apply when using the archive completions function within a course.


Security issues:

    TL-9057        Added sesskey checks when applying automatic fixes on the check completions page in the Program completion editor 

Improvements:

    TL-7993        Removed the obsolete 'Manager emails' settings from Face-to-face
    TL-8237        Improved the reliability of behat in Firefox and Chrome using the latest version of Selenium

                   The behat integration has been tuned for the latest releases of Selenium.
                   Several old "hacks" made in Totara to get behat working have been removed
                   as the Selenium drivers have improved. This has greatly improved both the
                   performance and reliability of behat in core, though could have some impact
                   on any custom behat tests.

    TL-8376        Refactored the Face-to-face completion state SQL to improve performance
    TL-8665        Added an environment check for "always_populate_raw_post_data"
    TL-8705        Improved how deleted users are being handled on the browse list of users page

                   The detection of legacy deleted users, checking that their email address
                   field is set to an MD5, has been improved by using a regular expression.
                   Users who have an invalid email address (without an @ symbol) will now show
                   in the user list on the "Browse list of users" page.

    TL-9001        Backported mysqli improvement MDL-53944 for sql_cast_char2real()
    TL-9020        Created initial Program and Certification completion transaction logs

                   If a user assigned to a Program or Certification did not have any
                   transaction logs, a snapshot log record will be created during upgrade.
                   Likewise, a certification settings snapshot will be created if none exists.
                   This will help with diagnosing future problems.

    TL-9022        Added confirmation when applying automated fixes to program completions

                   When using the program or certification completion checker or editor, when
                   you activate one of the fixes, you will now need to confirm the action.
                   This is to prevent accidental clicks, and provides additional warnings.

    TL-9033        Increased the form field lengths on the Certification settings form

Bug fixes:

    TL-8247        Fixed missing history records when not overriding the current record during a course completion import

                   Previously if you ticked the override checkbox when uploading course
                   completions, but the most recent completion date in the upload was less
                   than the current completion date in an existing record, the upload would
                   ignore the first record and move straight on to the next one. That first
                   record is now placed into history instead.

    TL-8389        Fixed an issue with empty variables inside aggregate questions
    TL-8408        Fixed the Face-to-face user cancellation status by checking the user's current status, avoiding multiple cancellations
    TL-8472        Fixed the Terms & Conditions dialog box for Face-to-face self approval
    TL-8554        Fixed zero values for appraisals rating questions

                   Both positive and negative numbers are valid values for ratings questions
                   in Appraisals, but a lot of the validation checks were using !empty() which
                   caused problems when trying to use zero. These checks have been updated and
                   zero is now an acceptable value in both numeric and custom ratings

    TL-8561        Changed the display of certification settings in the completion editor to use translatable strings
    TL-8599        Corrected the completion time used for completion criteria based on completion of another course

                   Completion criteria based on completion of another course now use the
                   completion time of that course when setting the completion time of the
                   criteria, rather than using the time that the criteria was aggregated.

    TL-8605        Fixed certification completon records affected by the reassignment bug

                   Patch TL-6790 in the March release of Totara changed the behaviour when
                   re-assigning users onto a certification. This patch repairs certification
                   completion records for users who were, before that patch, re-assigned and
                   ended up being unable to certify. All users which are identified by the
                   completion checker as "Program status should be 'Program incomplete' when
                   user is newly assigned. Program completion date should be empty when user
                   is newly assigned.", and have an "unassigned" historical completion record,
                   will have that historical record restored, as is the current behaviour when
                   reassigning users. Any records which do not meet these specific criteria,
                   or would be in an invalid state if the change was applied, will not be
                   affected and must be processed manually.

    TL-8732        Fixed capability checks around suspended users within the course enrolment interfaces
    TL-8753        Added an automatic fix for mismatched program and certification completion dates

                   The program completion date should match the certification completion date
                   when a user's certification is "Certified, before the window opens". To
                   repair records where the date is incorrect, this patch added an automated
                   fix which can be triggered to copy the certification completion date to the
                   program completion date. Relates to TL-9014.

    TL-8764        Deleted orphaned course reminders for deleted courses
    TL-8785        Removed the incorrect 'leave this page' warning when editing Feedback activity questions
    TL-8793        Reminders which are sent belonging to a user are now deleted when the user is deleted
    TL-8807        Fixed search in the completion upload results report
    TL-8872        Fixed the ordering of the transaction logs in program and certification completion editors
    TL-8881        Fixed html blocks from losing images when being customised.
    TL-8942        Fixed test failures caused by a new timezone in Venezuela
    TL-8969        Fixed an issue with the display of users fullnames and improved the internal documentation

                   In 2.6 and 2.7 the "fullnamedisplay" setting was incorrectly falling back
                   to the format specified in language pack. This has been reverted and the
                   overriding fallback happens only if the value "firstname" is specified in
                   the "fullnamedisplay" setting.
                   
                   A new setting in 2.9 "alternativefullnameformat" has already resolved this
                   in a different way.

    TL-8983        Fixed the repeating update of signup status for suspended and deleted users in Face-to-face

                   Previously a cancellation status update was written to the database for
                   each deleted or suspended user who had signed up to a Face-to-face session
                   prior to deletion/suspension, this happened every time cron ran.
                   Face-to-face now correctly checks if the user already has a cancellation
                   status and does not write a redundant duplicate status.

    TL-8990        Backported upstream fixes for time zone related issues
    TL-8991        Fixed the wrong date being used to calculate the certification completion date

                   If a certification had a course set with more than one course, where not
                   all of the courses were required for completion. And before being assigned
                   to the certification, a user completed (manually or via course completion
                   upload) enough of the courses to complete the course set. The certification
                   completion date was being incorrectly calculated as the latest date of all
                   completed courses, rather than the maximum course set completion date. This
                   patch corrects this, and provides an automated fix (part of the
                   Certification completion editor) to repair any affected records.

    TL-9052        Fixed the status of notification templates when they were updated by a user

Contributions:

    * Artur Poninski at Webanywhere - TL-8599
    * Malgorzata Dziodzio at Webanywhere - TL-8376

Release 2.6.32 (23rd May 2016):

Important:

    TL-7818        Changed certification window opening to also reset RPL activities

                   Previously, when the recertification window opened, RPL course completions
                   were being reset, but RPL activity completions were not. This could cause
                   the situation where a course would re-complete due the RPL activity
                   completions, which in turn triggered certification completion. Depending on
                   certification settings, this could cause a repeating loop. Now, like
                   courses, RPL activity completions will also be reset when the
                   recertification window opens.
                   
                   This change in behaviour brings Totara 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 in line with 2.9
                   (which has had this change since 2.9.0).

    TL-8973        Activity completions will now always reset on archive regardless of their visibility

                   When activity completions were archived during a certification window
                   opening, the completions for activities set to hidden were ignored and
                   would be retained. Activity completions are now archived regardless of
                   their visibility. 
                   
                   This patch also fixes an issue where Face-to-face completion data was not
                   being fully reset if the completion time of the Face-to-face activity was
                   changed to a later time.
                   
                   This change means that after the archive_course_activities function is run,
                   any activities that should not be complete will have no record in the
                   course_modules_completion table, rather than have one which is set to
                   incomplete.
                   
                   As well as affecting certification window opening, these changes will also
                   apply when using the archive completions function within a course.


Security issues:

    TL-8615        Added noreferred attribute to links set to open in a new tab or window

                   This is a backport of MDL-52651 to Totara 2.5.39, and 2.6.32

    TL-9006        Locked user profile fields could be edited by the user despite being locked
    TL-9008        Fixed an exploit with the window opened when working with SCORMS in new windows

                   This is a backport of MDL-53546 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9009        Added a missing sesskey check to forum/markposts.php

                   This is a backport of MDL-53755 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9010        Fixed capability checks when viewing a user's badges

                   This is a backport of MDL-53589 to Totara 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and 2.6.32

    TL-9011        Backport MDL-51369 course idnumber is now correctly protected during restore
    TL-9057        Added sesskey checks when applying automatic fixes on the check completions page in the Program completion editor 

Improvements:

    TL-7993        Removed the obsolete 'Manager emails' settings from Face-to-face
    TL-8237        Improved the reliability of behat in Firefox and Chrome using the latest version of Selenium

                   The behat integration has been tuned for the latest releases of Selenium.
                   Several old "hacks" made in Totara to get behat working have been removed
                   as the Selenium drivers have improved. This has greatly improved both the
                   performance and reliability of behat in core, though could have some impact
                   on any custom behat tests.

    TL-8376        Refactored the Face-to-face completion state SQL to improve performance
    TL-9001        Backported mysqli improvement MDL-53944 for sql_cast_char2real()
    TL-9020        Created initial Program and Certification completion transaction logs

                   If a user assigned to a Program or Certification did not have any
                   transaction logs, a snapshot log record will be created during upgrade.
                   Likewise, a certification settings snapshot will be created if none exists.
                   This will help with diagnosing future problems.

    TL-9022        Added confirmation when applying automated fixes to program completions

                   When using the program or certification completion checker or editor, when
                   you activate one of the fixes, you will now need to confirm the action.
                   This is to prevent accidental clicks, and provides additional warnings.


Bug fixes:

    TL-8247        Fixed missing history records when not overriding the current record during a course completion import

                   Previously if you ticked the override checkbox when uploading course
                   completions, but the most recent completion date in the upload was less
                   than the current completion date in an existing record, the upload would
                   ignore the first record and move straight on to the next one. That first
                   record is now placed into history instead.

    TL-8415        Fixed audience enrolment sync

                   Suspended enrolments are now correctly reactivated when user becomes member
                   of audience again.

    TL-8599        Corrected the completion time used for completion criteria based on completion of another course

                   Completion criteria based on completion of another course now use the
                   completion time of that course when setting the completion time of the
                   criteria, rather than using the time that the criteria was aggregated.

    TL-8605        Fixed certification completon records affected by the reassignment bug

                   Patch TL-6790 in the March release of Totara changed the behaviour when
                   re-assigning users onto a certification. This patch repairs certification
                   completion records for users who were, before that patch, re-assigned and
                   ended up being unable to certify. All users which are identified by the
                   completion checker as "Program status should be 'Program incomplete' when
                   user is newly assigned. Program completion date should be empty when user
                   is newly assigned.", and have an "unassigned" historical completion record,
                   will have that historical record restored, as is the current behaviour when
                   reassigning users. Any records which do not meet these specific criteria,
                   or would be in an invalid state if the change was applied, will not be
                   affected and must be processed manually.

    TL-8753        Added an automatic fix for mismatched program and certification completion dates

                   The program completion date should match the certification completion date
                   when a user's certification is "Certified, before the window opens". To
                   repair records where the date is incorrect, this patch added an automated
                   fix which can be triggered to copy the certification completion date to the
                   program completion date. Relates to TL-9014.

    TL-8764        Deleted orphaned course reminders for deleted courses
    TL-8872        Fixed the ordering of the transaction logs in program and certification completion editors
    TL-8969        Fixed an issue with the display of users fullnames and improved the internal documentation

                   In 2.6 and 2.7 the "fullnamedisplay" setting was incorrectly falling back
                   to the format specified in language pack. This has been reverted and the
                   overriding fallback happens only if the value "firstname" is specified in
                   the "fullnamedisplay" setting.
                   
                   A new setting in 2.9 "alternativefullnameformat" has already resolved this
                   in a different way.

    TL-8991        Fixed the wrong date being used to calculate the certification completion date

                   If a certification had a course set with more than one course, where not
                   all of the courses were required for completion. And before being assigned
                   to the certification, a user completed (manually or via course completion
                   upload) enough of the courses to complete the course set. The certification
                   completion date was being incorrectly calculated as the latest date of all
                   completed courses, rather than the maximum course set completion date. This
                   patch corrects this, and provides an automated fix (part of the
                   Certification completion editor) to repair any affected records.

    TL-9005        Fixed program enrolment messages not being sent

                   When users were becoming assigned to a program or certification due to
                   "first login" or "indirect" assignment (some action which was not manually
                   performed in the Assignments interface, such as when a user becomes a
                   member of an audience which is already assigned to a program), they were
                   not receiving any configured program enrolment messages. This has been
                   fixed. This patch does not retroactively send program/certification
                   enrolment messages that were missed.


Contributions:

    * Artur Poninski at Webanywhere - TL-8599
    * Malgorzata Dziodzio at Webanywhere - TL-8376

Release 2.5.39 (23rd May 2016):

Important:

    TL-7818        Changed certification window opening to also reset RPL activities

                   Previously, when the recertification window opened, RPL course completions
                   were being reset, but RPL activity completions were not. This could cause
                   the situation where a course would re-complete due the RPL activity
                   completions, which in turn triggered certification completion. Depending on
                   certification settings, this could cause a repeating loop. Now, like
                   courses, RPL activity completions will also be reset when the
                   recertification window opens.
                   
                   This change in behaviour brings Totara 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 in line with 2.9
                   (which has had this change since 2.9.0).

    TL-8973        Activity completions will now always reset on archive regardless of their visibility

                   When activity completions were archived during a certification window
                   opening, the completions for activities set to hidden were ignored and
                   would be retained. Activity completions are now archived regardless of
                   their visibility. 
                   
                   This patch also fixes an issue where Face-to-face completion data was not
                   being fully reset if the completion time of the Face-to-face activity was
                   changed to a later time.
                   
                   This change means that after the archive_course_activities function is run,
                   any activities that should not be complete will have no record in the
                   course_modules_completion table, rather than have one which is set to
                   incomplete.
                   
                   As well as affecting certification window opening, these changes will also
                   apply when using the archive completions function within a course.


Security issues:

    TL-8615        Added noreferred attribute to links set to open in a new tab or window

                   This is a backport of MDL-52651 to Totara 2.5.39, and 2.6.32

    TL-9008        Fixed an exploit with the window opened when working with SCORMS in new windows

                   This is a backport of MDL-53546 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9009        Added a missing sesskey check to forum/markposts.php

                   This is a backport of MDL-53755 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9010        Fixed capability checks when viewing a user's badges

                   This is a backport of MDL-53589 to Totara 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and 2.6.32

    TL-9057        Added sesskey checks when applying automatic fixes on the check completions page in the Program completion editor 

Improvements:

    TL-7993        Removed the obsolete 'Manager emails' settings from Face-to-face
    TL-8866        Increase the max year in date pickers to 2037

                   Due to the Year 2038 bug we can only increase this to 2037 in 2.5. See
                   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem for details on this issue.

    TL-9020        Created initial Program and Certification completion transaction logs

                   If a user assigned to a Program or Certification did not have any
                   transaction logs, a snapshot log record will be created during upgrade.
                   Likewise, a certification settings snapshot will be created if none exists.
                   This will help with diagnosing future problems.

    TL-9022        Added confirmation when applying automated fixes to program completions

                   When using the program or certification completion checker or editor, when
                   you activate one of the fixes, you will now need to confirm the action.
                   This is to prevent accidental clicks, and provides additional warnings.


Bug fixes:

    TL-8605        Fixed certification completon records affected by the reassignment bug

                   Patch TL-6790 in the March release of Totara changed the behaviour when
                   re-assigning users onto a certification. This patch repairs certification
                   completion records for users who were, before that patch, re-assigned and
                   ended up being unable to certify. All users which are identified by the
                   completion checker as "Program status should be 'Program incomplete' when
                   user is newly assigned. Program completion date should be empty when user
                   is newly assigned.", and have an "unassigned" historical completion record,
                   will have that historical record restored, as is the current behaviour when
                   reassigning users. Any records which do not meet these specific criteria,
                   or would be in an invalid state if the change was applied, will not be
                   affected and must be processed manually.

    TL-8753        Added an automatic fix for mismatched program and certification completion dates

                   The program completion date should match the certification completion date
                   when a user's certification is "Certified, before the window opens". To
                   repair records where the date is incorrect, this patch added an automated
                   fix which can be triggered to copy the certification completion date to the
                   program completion date. Relates to TL-9014.

    TL-8764        Deleted orphaned course reminders for deleted courses
    TL-8872        Fixed the ordering of the transaction logs in program and certification completion editors
    TL-8991        Fixed the wrong date being used to calculate the certification completion date

                   If a certification had a course set with more than one course, where not
                   all of the courses were required for completion. And before being assigned
                   to the certification, a user completed (manually or via course completion
                   upload) enough of the courses to complete the course set. The certification
                   completion date was being incorrectly calculated as the latest date of all
                   completed courses, rather than the maximum course set completion date. This
                   patch corrects this, and provides an automated fix (part of the
                   Certification completion editor) to repair any affected records.

    TL-9005        Fixed program enrolment messages not being sent

                   When users were becoming assigned to a program or certification due to
                   "first login" or "indirect" assignment (some action which was not manually
                   performed in the Assignments interface, such as when a user becomes a
                   member of an audience which is already assigned to a program), they were
                   not receiving any configured program enrolment messages. This has been
                   fixed. This patch does not retroactively send program/certification
                   enrolment messages that were missed.


Release 2.4.41 (23rd May 2016):

Security issues:

    TL-9008        Fixed an exploit with the window opened when working with SCORMS in new windows

                   This is a backport of MDL-53546 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9009        Added a missing sesskey check to forum/markposts.php

                   This is a backport of MDL-53755 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9010        Fixed capability checks when viewing a user's badges

                   This is a backport of MDL-53589 to Totara 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and 2.6.32


Release 2.2.47 (23rd May 2016):

Security issues:

    TL-9008        Fixed an exploit with the window opened when working with SCORMS in new windows

                   This is a backport of MDL-53546 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32

    TL-9009        Added a missing sesskey check to forum/markposts.php

                   This is a backport of MDL-53755 to Totara 2.2.47, 2.4.41, 2.5.39, and
                   2.6.32