Hello Everyone,
I am pleased to announce that the Totara 16.0 release is now available.
This release includes:
- Numerous improvements for system notifications
- A new relationship for selecting perform activity participants
- The full release of the linkedin learning integration
- The ability to sync workspaces with audiences
Along with many more improvements and fixes, please refer to the full changelogs below.
A big thank you as well to everyone who has contributed to this release!
Kind regards,
Release Team
Release 16.0 (26th April 2022):
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New features:
TL-32888 Added modern course and activity notification events
Several course and activity notification events were added to the modern
notification system:
* Learner enrolled in course
* Learner unenrolled from course
* Learner completed course
* Learner completed activity
Activity completion notifications can be set up in a course or individual
activities. If it is set up in a course, then notifications will be sent on
completion of each activity within the course.
Note that no default notifications have been provided using these new
notification events. As with other modern notification events, admins can create
notifications in the site-level notifications interface, which will apply to all
courses and activities, or they can be created in individual courses or
activities.
TL-33032 Added new core 'direct report' relationship for perform activity participants selection
In response to a number of requests we've added a new 'direct reports'
participant relationship.
This relationship selects users as participants where their manager in any job
assignment is a subject of the activity.
Of note are the associated changes made to manage closing activities at the due
date and managing non-participation. See TL-33053
TL-33093 Added modern course due date notification event to enable reminder notifications
A "Course due date" notification event was added to the modern notification
system. This allows admins to configure "reminder" notifications to be sent
before or after a user's due date in a course. This notification is only sent if
the user has not completed the course.
The course due date for each user is determined by the new "Due date" settings
found under "Completion tracking" in course settings. "Due date" can only be
configured when "Enable completion tracking" is enabled in the course. The due
date is currently used only for the purpose of notifying users, and no other
action occurs when the due date is reached. Additional functionality may be
added to it in the future.
Note that no default notifications have been provided using this new
notification event. As with other modern notification events, admins can create
notifications in the site-level notifications interface, which will apply to all
courses, or they can be created in individual courses.
TL-33321 Added modern seminar notifications
Modern notification events and default notifications have been added to
seminars. Additionally, settings have been provided to allow either a whole site
or individual seminars to choose between using legacy notifications or modern
notifications. The combination of settings ensures that notifications cannot be
sent using both notification systems for the same event, preventing users from
receiving duplicate notifications, while allowing an easy migration path for
existing sites.
A large number of notification events have been added which allow admins to
configure notifications to be sent from seminars. These notification events
cover most use cases of the legacy notifications, and they were extended to
include additional use cases. Default notifications were created based on the
legacy notifications with enhanced clarity.
A site-level setting has been added to allow sites to completely disable legacy
notifications in seminars. When disabled, the legacy notification interfaces are
hidden. Legacy notifications are disabled by default on new sites, while
upgraded sites will continue to use legacy notifications until admins choose to
switch over to use the modern notifications.
When legacy notifications are enabled at the site level, a new setting within
each seminar will allow the seminar to send notifications using either the
legacy or modern notification systems. Admins are able to work with
notifications in both systems, allowing them to manually migrate customised
notification content from legacy notifications into modern notifications. Once
admins are confident that their modern notifications are configured correctly,
the seminar can be switched to using the modern notifications.
Previously, it was possible to create additional messages in the legacy
notification system by going to the Notifications admin page within a seminar
and selecting "Add". This functionality has been separated into two parts. A new
admin link "Ad-hoc messages" will allow admins to create and send messages that
were previously configured with Scheduling set to "Send now", while messages
that were previously configured with Scheduling set to "Send later" can be
created using the modern notification system. The "Ad-hoc messages" link is
available even when legacy notifications are completely disabled.
Sending notifications to third-party email recipients works differently in
modern notifications. The list of recipients is still configured in each
seminar, but now individual notifications must be created as required with the
recipient set to "Third-party email recipients". No default notifications are
provided which are set to be sent to the third-party email addresses.
iCal attachments work differently in modern seminar notifications. When a
seminar event contains multiple sessions, a single notification will be sent
with one iCal attachment for each session. The legacy "One message per date"
setting does not affect this.
TL-33426 LinkedIn Learning content marketplace activities can be added to courses directly.
Previously it was only possible to create single-activity courses containing
LinkedIn Learning activities. It is now possible to choose the 'Content
Marketplace' activity when editing an existing multi-activity course, and select
a LinkedIn Learning item to insert as an activity.
This option appears once LinkedIn Learning has been configured and the content
catalog has been synced with your Totara site.
TL-33474 LinkedIn Learning content marketplace is now out of beta
The LinkedIn Learning feature is now fully available to all customers. This
marketplace requires a LinkedIn Learning professional subscription. It supports
browsing, selecting and importing LinkedIn Learning content into Totara,
launching LinkedIn Learning courses and tracking progress from LinkedIn Learning
directly within those courses in Totara.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33846 Workspaces can now be fully synced with Audiences
A new "Add Audiences" option now replaces the "Bulk Add Audiences" option in the
Workspaces owner menu. This option is available to anyone with the capability to
edit audiences.
When used, all members of the selected Audiences will be added to the Workspace
initially. As membership in the Audience changes, members will be added and
removed from the assigned Workspaces automatically.
Additionally, the notification sent to users when they are added to a Workspace
(either by an Audience or by a Workspace Owner directly) can now be edited or
disabled on the Admin Notifications page.
Important:
TL-34110 Fixed the migration of evidence to learning plan relationships when upgrading to TXP
Evidence was redesigned in Totara 13, and an entirely new data structure was
adopted to benefit the evidence feature set. During the upgrade to Totara 13
(that all sites must go through during the upgrade process) Evidence data is
migrated from the pre-13 structure to the new structure.
The migration moves data item per item, sequentially. Due to a bug in the
migration process, links between an evidence item and a user’s learning plan
may be broken, with evidence items being incorrectly related to the incorrect
learning plan. This mis-mapping can cause evidence items belonging to one user
to end up being linked to the learning plan of another user. This affects
historic data only, as all future relations are formed correctly post upgrade.
The migration has now been fixed to ensure the relationship between an evidence
item and a learning plan is correctly maintained.
For sites who have already upgraded the following SQL query can be used to
determine if your site was affected.
If a number greater than 0 is returned then please seek support from us and we
will assist you in confirming the issue, and in supporting you to recover the
lost relationships.
SELECT COUNT(dper.id)
FROM mdl_dp_plan_evidence_relation dper
JOIN mdl_totara_evidence_item tei ON tei.id = dper.evidenceid
JOIN mdl_dp_plan dp ON dp.id = dper.planid
WHERE dp.userid != tei.user_id;
TL-28247 Updated library GraphQL to version 14.11.3 (includes breaking changes)
This patch updates the webonyx GraphQL library to version 14.11.3 which comes
with breaking changes.
The biggest change is that now all scalar types are validated with strict
coercion. This means loose variable values, i.e. passing a number as string
instead of an expected integer would now throw an exception. Previously this
was accepted and internally converted.
If you have created or modified any GraphQL queries or mutations please make
sure that the scalar types are passed correctly.
Also some classes got renamed or have changed signatures.
All important changes are outlined here in detail:
https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php/blob/v14.0.0/UPGRADE.md
Security issues:
TL-30921 Hardened security around data serialization in core.
Several places in Totara will use the PHP serialize/unserialize functions to
persist data in different locations. The following places have been changed to
increase security by limiting what kind of data can be used:
* The language customisation tool now stores the filters as JSON encoded strings
across page requests.
* The Flickr tag block no longer allows objects to be instantiated when the
results are parsed.
* The $CFG->custom_context_classes option no longer allows objects to be
instantiated.
* The XMLDB Editor stores only the known XMLDB object types across page
requests.
TL-33756 Improved validation of badge criteria to prevent SQL injection
Improved the validation of badge criteria in order to ensure individual criteria
would correctly fail form validation.
Also available in 12.41 and later releases.
Performance improvements:
TL-31099 Improved performance of the record of learning course report source
Previously the report source for the "Record of learning: Course" has been using
a poorly performing base query. This patch introduces a new table which holds
the record of learning records for each user and is now used as the base for the
report. This will improve the performance of the report considerably.
The new table will be automatically filled with the records when a site is
upgraded. This can take a few minutes and depends on the size of the database.
The table is also updated when users are enrolled in courses, courses are
completed or courses are added to learning plans.
A new task "\totara_plan\task\update_record_of_learning_task" will run every 10
minutes to keep the new table in sync. In most cases the table will
automatically be updated through event observers but in rare cases the task will
need to run to keep the table up-to-date.
If you experience problems with the Record of Learning report and data not being
displayed correctly you can adjust the frequency of the task to your needs. The
runtime of the task depends on the size of the database but so we recommend
testing its runtime (by running it individually) on the individual site and take
this into account when adjusting the frequency.
Apart from the base table the report itself is still working in a fully
backwards compatible way so any adjustments or embedded reports based on top of
it will continue to work as before.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32776 Improved the performance of the events report source query in seminars.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32858 Improved the performance of the user content restriction for direct and temporary reports in the report builder
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33003 Improved general performance of report exports
Previously when exporting a report or displaying a large number of records in a
report display classes for columns were determined for each column and for each
row. This lead to a lot of unnecessary class resolution calls which can have a
noticeable impact on the performance of the export or display of the report.
This patch fixes this and only determines the display class for each column only
once.
In addition the display class for relationships have been improved. They now
cache the result of loading a relationship.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33019 Improved performance of the audience report builder content restriction
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-33048 Implemented a cache for \core_component::get_namespace_classes() to improve performance
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33071 Improved performance of the report used in the completion editor
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33222 Improved performance of capability checks for managing performance activities or reporting on user's responses
Previously on a large site the performance of the user activity page could have
been severely affected due to the use of the has_capability_in_any_context()
function which is very complex and does not scale very well.
In places where we don't necessarily need to call this function we changed it to
an alternative approach. In other places we optimised the underlying queries so
that they can perform as fast as possible. On large sites the reports to manage
participation or report on performance activity responses might still have
slightly longer loading times but this should be in the normal range for complex
reports.
If you are using \mod_perform\rb\util::get_manage_participation_sql() or
\mod_perform\rb\util::get_report_on_subjects_sql() in your custom code please
note that the query you are using this function in has to join the context table
with the user id and the user context level. This change was necessary to reduce
the number or records the query has to process.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33252 Improved the performance of the navigation by optimising notification class loading
This improves the performance of most pages throughout the site, but is most
notable in development and testing environments where debugging has been enabled
or caching has been disabled.
For production sites it will still have an impact, but it will be less
noticeable.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-34017 Searching for a user while sharing a resource now batches keyboard presses
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
Improvements:
TL-14090 Introduced the ability for privileged users to archive and reset an individuals progress in a course
This change introduces two new capability controlled opt-in improvements, and
improved the access control for the existing archive all users completion
functionality within courses.
This allows a user who has the 'totara/core:archivemycourseprogress' capability
to archive and reset their progress in a course.
In order to perform the action the user must hold the required capability,
completion must be enabled for the site and for the course, and the course must
not be a part of either a program or a certification, and the user must hold a
completion tracked role within the course.
A user with this capability will have a see a link to 'Reset this course' within
the course administration block when viewing the course.
The new capability is not given to any roles by default.
It also allows a user who has the 'totara/core:archiveusercourseprogress'
capability to archive and reset the progress of another user within a course.
In order to perform the action the user must hold the required capability,
completion must be enabled for the site and for the course, the course must not
be a part of a program or a certification, and the user whose progress is being
archived and reset must hold a completion tracked role within the course.
A new action has been added to the course completion report to enable this.
The new capability is not given to any roles by default.
Finally, the existing archive and reset completion functionality now has a new
dedicated capability 'totara/core:archiveenrolledcourseprogress'.
Previously users were required to have the ability to delete the course in order
to archive and reset progress for all enrolled users.
To ensure backwards compatibility during upgrades when the new capability is
installed roles that hold the moodle/course:delete capability are given this
permission.
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-22564 Standardised up and down chevrons
TL-25962 Added the ability to remove a link from Weka while maintaining the link text
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-27465 Page style improvements made on the 'your workspaces' page
Made several minor cosmetic improvements to the 'your workspaces' page such as
white spacing and content alignment
TL-28408 Amended content spacing on the manage performance activities tabs
TL-30456 Added a way to define a common plugin name for notification grouping
Prior to this patch, the grouping of notifications in the modern notification
administration was done by the language string for the notifications' component
names. With this patch, this name can be overridden for a component by adding a
language string with the key 'pluginname_totara_notification'.
This has been applied to the program component whose notifications are now
grouped under 'Program', replacing the previous name 'Program management'.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-30666 Resized the default thumbnail images for course, program, certification and resource in Ventura theme
TL-30928 Changed webservice exception type from servicenotavailable to sessionerroruser for call_external_function() when the user is not logged in
TL-31252 Options to manage relationship participant instances dynamically
Participants are added to performance activities as individuals associated with
Performance activity roles e.g. peer, or as formal relationship roles e.g.
manager, appraiser. The relationship roles are defined within the job
assignments for the subject.
As changes occur to personnel in an organisation people move around in their
roles. Some organisations mandate regular changes of management.
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task.{color}
{color:#172b4d}These changes provide options for Admins to define how users
exiting activity relations and roles will be have their participant instances
closed and or hidden (or not) from an activity. And that users entering
activity relationships and roles will be have participant instances added to the
activity.{color}
There are two new options in the 'Perform settings' section of the feature
configuration:
* Enable role change participant instance creation
When enabled, this will create a new participant instance for existing open
activities when a new user enters a relationship for that activity.
* Enable role change participant instance closure
When enabled, this will close participant instances for open activities when a
user leaves a relationship for that activity.
{color:#172b4d}These settings can be applied Globally to all activities in the
Perform settings.{color}
{color:#172b4d}Admins can override these default settings in an individual
activity's config. {color}
The intention is that these transitions can be largely automated
TL-31523 When a LinkedIn Learning course is created from a specific category, the catalog import page now uses the category as the default category for selected items.
TL-31706 Added OAuth2 authentication to outgoing SMTP mail service
With this patch outgoing email connections can now be configured using the
XOAuth2 protocol. To make use of this protocol you will need to configure an
OAuth2 service with your provider and connect with a system account. Afterwards
the OAuth2 service can be chosen on the Outgoing email configuration page.
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-31869 Improved form error notifications when editing programs
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-32087 An administrator can delete a client provider on client provider settings
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32088 Oauth2 providers can now be added via the user interface
Oauth2 providers can be added to the system by administrators. As part of this
change the task that automatically created a LinkedIn Learning provider has been
removed - the administrator must now manually add the provider when setting up
the integration.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32118 Updated data type of fields in Workspaces Engagement report to make them graphable
The updated fields are:
* Discussions
* Comments in discussions
* Linked playlists
* Linked resources
* Files
* Members
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32167 Updated performance activities page filters and current tab to be persistent across page loads
TL-32253 Improved behaviour of closing attempts for timed quizzes
This pulls in 5 patches for the quiz module from Moodle:
MDL-65864 question engine: fix re-saving a new usage
MDL-54907 quiz generator: defaults should match a new Moodle install
MDL-66685 questions: should able to save an empty question usage
MDL-54907 quiz: better timefinish for attempts finished asynchronously
MDL-68970 quiz: prevent page caching during attempts
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-32343 UI improvements on indentation and hover state of the administration tree component
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32356 Report Builder description of the report is now displayed when exporting to PDF
TL-32367 Added a new option "--is-pending" to the upgrade cli script
The new option enables admins to detect whether an upgrade is necessary without
actually running the upgrade. This can be useful for pre-upgrade checks or
automation.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32473 Allow manual deletion of instances of a performance activity
In 15.4 we added the ability to delete subjects and participants from a
performance activity. Because this addressed a privacy risk the change has
been backported to the last stable version of all major releases, so that it is
available to all version of Perform.
In version 16 we have made a small design improvement to shift all the
participation controls into an ellipsis menu, so this is complies with the
Totara visual design.
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-32490 Added a new filter to show or remove already imported courses in the content marketplace catalog import
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32592 Implemented truncating the title of the performance activity in the task card on the activity page
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32624 Improved workflow for users requesting to join a private workspace, and a new notification to users if the request was declined
* Added pending request status and 'cancel' button to workspace card in Find
workspaces
* Added option for users to include a personal message to workspace owner in the
request
* Added option for workspace owner to include a personal message when declining
a request
* Added a new notification to inform users when their request was declined
TL-32718 Added the operation name to single GraphQL URLs for easier debugging
TL-32728 Improved the Atto editor auto-sizing to match the textarea(s) it replaces
TL-32756 Added a progress bar to LinkedIn Learning activities
This progress bar will reflect progress towards completion of the external
activity, as long as the customer's LinkedIn Learning account has been
configured to send progress events.
TL-32788 Added additional spacing when viewing a forum within a course
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32824 Added the ability for administrators to see a list of all OAuth 2 providers
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32870 Added a new 'For use in' column to the 'Manage evidence types' report source
This column indicates which types can be used in completion record imports, or
while adding evidence manually. This column will be added to default reports for
new installs, upgrading sites will have to add this column manually or reset the
report.
TL-33005 Added the ability to authenticate incoming email using OAuth2
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33100 Improved the display of individual notifications while modifying
Previously individual notifications were organised in a table. Now cards are
used instead of that table.
TL-33113 Converted notification override checkbox to a toggle
TL-33118 Added an information notification to the manage performance activities page while trying to view section elements without responding participants
TL-33141 When an administrator manually overrides LinkedIn Learning activity completion to complete, the progress bar on the activity now shows as 100%
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-33144 Improved the spacing between components on the LinkedIn Learning course activity page
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-33187 Added an accessible label to the saved search dropdown in reports
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33212 Updated HR import completed log entries to include the element name
The element name associated with the HR Import run is now shown to the user.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33219 Added a new ‘totara/oauth2:manageproviders’ capability to the system administrator default role that allows them to manage the OAuth2 providers
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33298 Changed legacy user dialogues to display fields enabled in 'showuseridentity' setting
Previously the dialogue to select users in the following locations did not take
the fields configured in the 'showuseridentity' setting into account but always
showed only the full name and the email address of the users:
* Job assignments (choosing appraiser, manager and temporary manager)
* Seminars (choosing approvers and internal user for facilitator)
* Program assignment (choosing an individual to assign)
* Scheduled report (Choose system users to send report to)
* Feeback 360 - legacy (Choose recipients for feedback request)
With this patch all these dialogues are now showing the additional fields
configured in the 'showuseridentity' setting. Additional fields like idnumber or
department can now be displayed as part of the user information to help
identifying individual users.
If a site has not changed this setting nothing changes as email is already
enabled by default. If the setting deviates from the default then after upgrade
additional information might be shown to users who have the
"moodle/site:viewuseridentity" capability. This is consistent to other parts of
the system.
TL-33302 Moved the 'audience-based visibility' setting away from the 'enrolled audiences' setting on the 'Edit course' page
This is to help prevent configuration errors due to their associated labels.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33304 Improved the wrapping of page layouts when titles contain long words
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33378 Improved the use of browser's 'back' button in resources to lead back to the 'library' tab
TL-33419 Added more user placeholder options to modern notifications
This change extends the list of user placeholders in notifications by adding:
* User's ID Number.
* User's address.
* User's description.
* User's institution.
* User's language.
* User's Skype ID.
* User's phone number.
* User's mobile phone number.
* User's URL
TL-33442 Added success notification toasts for all UI toggles on manage performance activity notifications tab
TL-33533 Gave more visual prominence to the performance activity participant selection banner
TL-33547 Improved layout of labels in legacy course activity adders
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33550 Added support for completion archiving to lesson modules
Previously the lesson module did not support completion archiving, this meant
that if you used the "Reset completions" functionality under "Course
administration" that lesson data persisted. Support for this has been added and
now if you reset completions for a course it will also remove lesson timing
data, lesson attempt data, and lesson overrides for completed users in the
course.
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33566 Added list columns to the My Bookings report
Three new columns have been added to the 'My Bookings' report to display the
facilitators, rooms and assets linked to a specific session as lists instead of
adding duplicate rows for a single session that have multiple facilitators,
rooms or assets.
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33595 Fixed goals not working when multi tenancy was enabled
Previously, goals functionality was not fully working when multi tenancy was
enabled, especially if isolation mode was enabled. With this patch goals are now
working within the restrictions of multi tenancy. This means that management of
company goals can only be done with system permissions by system users. Company
goal assignment and personal goals management can be done by tenant users or
their managers (depending on how the permissions are set up). There are some
restrictions if isolation is enabled, the viewing of company goals or goal
frameworks is not possible as tenant users and the links to these pages are not
shown in this case.
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33654 Added information about changes to appraiser and temporary manager to job assignment events
Added data for old & new appraiser as well as old & new temporary manager to the
created, updated and deleted events for job assignments . This is to enable
observers to detect changes to a job assignment's appraiser or temporary
manager.
TL-33679 Changed form action to 'GET' for manage dashboard single button
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33733 Add additional options to instance creation reference dates on a performance activity to support creating instances based on the closure of another activity.
The new options are:
* Close date of another activity instance
* Close or completion date of another activity instance (whichever is sooner)
TL-33734 Added closure trigger types for repeating instances on performance activities
Added closure trigger types for repeating instances and updated the UI to
accommodate this change.
This adds a 'closed_at' column for the perform_subject_instance table. The
upgrade process populates this column with the latest subject instance closed
event timestamps from the logstore_standard_log table if there are any.
Otherwise the column value is the upgrade time.
TL-33735 Updated the UI of the 'activity job assignment-based instances' setting on manage performance activities page
TL-33737 Updated the UI of the due date setting on manage performance activities page
Moved the enable toggle within the due date block and refactored the component
to handle it's own validation
TL-33871 Added notification preference and recipient/target user to resolver's file attachment request
TL-33970 Added appropriate CSS class to topics format General section when header colour is enabled
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33975 Increased the top and bottom margin of the 'Load more' button in the Adder.vue component
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33977 Added a visual loading state to the create button of the performance activity creation modal
TL-33992 Changed button text on confirm model in playlist
TL-34102 The totara_mobile_certification query now returns a 'viewable' flag for all courses in certifications
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-34113 Fixed that workspaces show as Courses in Audience under enrolled Learning tab
TL-34114 Updated the OriginalSpaceCard TUI component to focus the action button when closing modals on the "Find workspaces" page
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
Accessibility improvements:
TL-31867 Improved keyboard accessibility when using the Dropdown menu
Bug fixes:
TL-23318 Catalog cards are now closer in appearance to engage resource cards
TL-27410 Removed the automatic scroll when clicking on the edit pencil on a perform element
TL-30977 Fixed an issue where the redisplay element incorrectly showed ‘your response’ when the current user hasn’t provided a response
TL-32766 Update user progress when a user is enrolled in a course via external content marketplace
TL-33390 Fixed an issue where the browser back and forward buttons didn't update the performance activity filters
TL-33449 Fixed error when closing subject instances after a session timeout
TL-33972 Fixed class path for grading report unit test
TL-33982 The modal now closes immediately when removing assignments from a performance activity
TL-33990 Fixed joined dropdown in workspace to not being disabled
TL-34004 Fixed that the request and decline message modal will close accidentally
TL-34005 Added additional space between request and buttons when viewing requests to join a workspace
TL-34016 Improved assign users modal loading state
TL-34022 Fixed hyphenation issue and refactored engage workplace request
TL-34031 Fixed resource styling at smaller viewports
TL-34050 Added loading state to existing resource modal
TL-34066 Updated OriginalSpaceCard.vue to dismiss the confirmation modal after leaving a workspace from the 'Find workspaces' page
TL-34074 Fixed Grades: Outcomes page formatting
TL-34096 Changed default background colour in email template to Ventura default
Technical changes:
TL-28678 Removed deprecated functions in javascript-static
There were a number of functions that were deprecated in Totara 12 which were
throwing a JavaScript error or warning when called. These have now been removed
TL-30246 Updated the profileimage field in the mobile user_own_profile query to return null when empty
TL-32041 Added configurable number filter to report builder
This filter allows filtering numerical data using an operator that is specified
in the report source.
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-32155 Added ability to disable grouping for a column in a report source
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-32613 Improved tile layout on workflow manager page
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-32764 Added a new 'get_progress' function to the activity course completion criterion
The progress of an activity course completion criterion is now extracted from
the 'progress' field where the information is available.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32840 The totara_mobile_program query now returns a 'viewable' flag for all courses in the program
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-32894 Removed deprecated code in /admin/ directory
TL-32968 Added support for activity completion progress
With this change it is possible for activity modules to optionally set a
percentage progress towards activity completion, in order to make it possible to
report on more fine grained progress towards completing an activity.
At this point the new API is not implemented for any activities yet, and there
is no interface changes which display activity progress.
This change includes a database upgrade to add a new "progress" field to the
"course_modules_completion" table. The new field supports values between 0 and
100. Existing records will be given a "progress" of "null".
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-33054 Added support for entity snapshots to events
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33070 Refactored xAPI receiver code to avoid need to specify component that will handle the request
The xAPI statement receiver endpoint no longer expects the component to be
specified - instead the receiver handles authentication and basic validation
then triggers a xapi_statement_created event that can be handled by any
component or plugin.
The existing LinkedIn Learning code was updated to make use of the new event.
When configuring xAPI reporting in LinkedIn Learning it is no longer necessary
to include the component parameter in the xAPI Server URL field.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33094 Moved subject and manager recipient classes to core for increased re-usability
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33124 Activity modules can now introduce notifications via modern notifications
Notifiable events can be added to all context levels. However, the navigation
system does not provide links to add, edit, delete custom notifications at these
levels.
This change introduces a manage notification link to the activity settings
branch in the navigation tree providing there is at least one relevant resolver.
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-33375 Deprecated totara_tenant\entity\tenant
totara_tenant\entity\tenant is a duplicate of core\entity\tenant
TL-33380 Allow notifications to be sent to third-party email recipients
The new notifications system has been improved to allow recipient groups to
return lists of virtual users. These virtual users should each contain a valid
email address. When the recipient group is selected in a notification, the
notification will be sent to these email addresses.
TL-33422 Fixing incompatible function return type signatures in preparation for PHP 8.1 support.
TL-33454 Improved the email_to_user() function to allow for multiple file attachments in a single email
This change allows multiple attachments to be passed through to the
'email_to_user()' function by passing the attachments through in the new
attachment_list parameter. This list should contain [attachment_name =>
attachment_file]
TL-33457 Added support for customfield placeholders in notifications
TL-33470 Updated the minimum Totara server and database requirements
We have updated the supported server versions for Totara 16.
* The minimum PostgreSQL version has been increased to 10. PostgreSQL 9.6 and
below are no longer supported.
* The minimum MariaDB version has been increased to 10.3.17. MariaDB 10.2 and
below are no longer supported.
* The minimum Apache version has been increased to 2.4. We do not recommend
running Totara on the Apache 2.2 line.
* The maximum PHP version is set to 8.0.x. PHP 8.1 and above are not yet
supported.
* PostgreSQL 14 support has been added. The enable_memoize option must be
disabled in your database configuration.
* MariaDB 10.6 support has been added. The innodb_read_only_compressed option
must not be enabled.
The full list of server requirements are outlined in the readme file.
The Environment Check page has been updated in Totara 13 and above and can be
used to check if your setup meets the minimum server requirements for Totara 16.
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-33494 Configured pytest to log with the xmlunit1 log format for the recommendations system unit tests.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33727 Incremented web browser supported versions
Official support for Edge Legacy (Edge <= 18) has been dropped, and the
officially supported minimum Safari version has been increased to 13.1.
TL-34000 Changed name field format to 'PLAIN' for 'totara_oauth2_client_provider' type
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-34168 Updated the minimum supported versions for MariaDB and MySQL
The readme has been updated with explicit minimum versions for both MariaDB and
MySQL.
MariaDB we have set the minimum to the first stable release of each line. Alpha
and beta release versions are not supported.
MySQL 8.0.1 is the minimum. MySQL 8.0 does not include the required encoding
Totara needs.
In all cases, we recommend using the latest version in each database release
line.
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
Tui front end framework:
TL-25683 Removed file paths from jest descriptions
TL-25928 Weka editor now has the same focus outline as other inputs
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-26643 Added a optional large set size popover setting
Added a setting to allow popovers to be set to a large size for correctly
displaying larger amounts of content.
TL-30088 Uploaded videos have the same max width as YouTube or Vimeo Videos
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-30760 Updated CheckboxGroup and RadioGroup Tui components to trigger required validation on blur
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-30762 Updated TUI Select and FormSelect components to correctly trigger required validation on blur
Also fixed issue where 'touch' wasn't included in the FormScope Reform element
reformScope.
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-31255 Uniform date selector now shows validation immediately after entering a value
Previously this was only shown once the form was attempted to be submitted
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-31967 Fixed issue where collapsing the tables on the 'manually rate competencies' page would remove the table header
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-32441 Updated produce() immutable helper to support objects frozen with Object.freeze(), such as Apollo results
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32542 Added an open in new window setting when creating a link in Weka
TL-32619 Use ConfirmationModal for Engage confirmation modals
TL-32695 Replaced 'char length' field on the NotepadLines page in the Tui samples library with a select list
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-32823 Updated the form/Radio Tui sample component to only include relevant sample props
Also fixed the sample props that weren't yet bound to the component
Also available in 15.2 and later releases.
TL-32995 Prevented moving an item to the same position on the dragdrop component
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-33000 Fixed accessibility issue with disabled buttons
Also available in 15.1 and later releases.
TL-33197 Added "contextMode" prop to LabelledButtonTrigger with default set to "uncontained" to fix display issues with long names
Also added hyphenation to text in LikeRecordsList for overflowing names
Also available in 15.3 and later releases.
TL-33349 Updated Collapsible to add new visual style options
TL-33389 Updated Table to take a headerHasLoaded prop so the header will render while the body loads
TL-33407 Changed delete comment modal to use ConfirmationModal
TL-33413 Fixed the handling of null in tui/immutable produce()
Previously, returning null in produce() was the same as not returning anything.
It is now treated as returning a value, so it is now possible to have `null` as
the result of a recipe.
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-33466 Fixed encapsulation of Vue CSS in notifications
TL-33497 Fixed error modal "copy all" in IE 11
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33528 Updated the ToggleSwitch TUI component to match the design spec when disabled
Also updated the colours to be inline with the current design and updated the
TUI samples page to allow for testing of the disabled setting
TL-33554 Improved display when changing the time on a video added with Weka
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-33572 Fixed visual clipping on the ParticipantGeneralInformation TUI component
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33687 Changed HTTP method from POST to GET when loading the data for a Totara dialogs
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33759 Fixed Reform displaying errors on touched fields before validations were complete
TL-33920 Fixed an issue where importing Vue in ext_ Tui components would end up with a separate copy of Vue instead of referencing the one in the core bundle
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
TL-33921 Implemented triggering an error to prevent the compilation of large SCSS files containing non-ASCII characters on PHP < 7.4 to hang
Due to PHP bug 72685, versions of PHP before 7.4 cannot efficiently run Unicode
regexes over large strings. We work around this by removing non-ASCII characters
from comments to avoid hitting the Unicode path where possible, and by erroring
instead of hanging on large files in order to communicate the source of the
problem.
This behavior can be disabled through the "Allow unperformant CSS" option in the
Tui frontend framework settings.
Also available in 15.6 and later releases.
Recommendations engine:
TL-33600 Fixed the headers of exported `item_data_x.csv` files for the recommendation engine
The headers that related to the course tags and engage topics were being
prefixed with 'topic_' string. This would cause buggy computations in the
recommendation engine when some tags and labels shared the same name. This bug
is fixed so tags and labels will have relevant prefixes 'tag_' and 'topic_',
respectively.
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33681 The warning issue with the new APScheduler package is resolved
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33682 Fixed the favicon issue after Flask upgrade
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
TL-33696 Updated the requirements file of the recommendations engine with specific library versions
Prior to this change only directly added libraries were recorded in the
requirements.txt. Any dependencies for these libraries would load the most
recent version it could, which could result in things breaking if a new version
introduced a breaking change and did not report it correctly.
With this patch, we have pinned all dependencies to specific versions that we
have tested works with the recommendations engine.
Also available in 15.5 and later releases.
Library updates:
TL-28214 Updated PHPSpreadsheet library to version 1.19.0
TL-28228 Updated library xhprof to version 2.3.4
TL-28235 Moved library SCSSPHP to composer
TL-28238 Updated library GeoIP2 to version 2.11.0
Also moved into /libraries/required and to use composer
TL-28242 Upgraded the window.fetch polyfill library to version 3.6.2
TL-28257 Updated DOMPdf library to version 1.0.2
TL-28258 Updated library SVGGraph to version 2.30.0
TL-28259 Upgraded PHPSec library to version 2.0.35
TL-28260 Updated library jQuery Datatables to 1.11.3
TL-28261 Updated library Flexitour to 0.12.3
TL-28262 Updated popper.js to 1.16.1-lts
TL-28266 Moved library setasign/fpdi to composer
TL-28267 Updated prosemirror libraries to latest versions
TL-28269 Updated date-fns library to version 2.24.0
TL-28272 Updated library Vue to version 2.6.14
TL-31405 Updated library lessphp to version 3.1.0
TL-31637 Upgraded Flask library from 1.1.2 to 2.0.3
Also available in 15.4 and later releases.
TL-32263 Updated PEAR core library to version 1.10.13
TL-32317 Updated library core-js to version 3.19.1
TL-33077 Updated FPDI-1.6.2 library to support PHP8.x
TL-33555 Imported mustache library version 2.14.1
Contributions:
* Brad Simpson at Kineo USA - TL-33547