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Mahara 1.8.0 Release Notes

This is a stable release of Mahara 1.8. Stable releases are fit for
general use. If you find a bug, please report it to the tracker:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+filebug

This release includes an upgrade path from 1.1.0. If you wish to
upgrade, we encourage you to make a copy of your website and test the
upgrade on it first, to minimise the effect of any potential
unforeseen problems.

Changes from 1.7:

New features:
 ** Turned the block chooser vertical and scrolling, to accomodate longer Pages
 ** The Image block and Text Box block are now conveniently at the top of the block chooser
 ** Page layouts can now have rows as well as columns
 ** Users can import leap2a files into their existing Mahara account
 ** PDF block allows PDFs to be viewed inlin...

New features:
 ** Turned the block chooser vertical and scrolling, to accomodate longer Pages
 ** The Image block and Text Box block are now conveniently at the top of the block chooser
 ** Page layouts can now have rows as well as columns
 ** Users can import leap2a files into their existing Mahara account
 ** PDF block allows PDFs to be viewed inline in a Page
 ** Resume elements can have attachments
 ** Notes (and text box blocks) can have attachments
 ** Users are notified when they try to navigate away from a page with unsaved changes
 ** Many more types of user content can have tags
 ** Resume entries for electronic publications can now be hotlinks
 ** Drag-and-drop to upload files
 ** Page skins, which give individual users the ability to change the CSS of their Pages
 ** Admins can search for users with duplicate email addresses
 ** Admins can filter user search by auth method
 ** Elasticsearch search plugin
 ** "Additional HTML" config option for things such as Google Analytics
 ** A cron job in the LDAP auth plugin to synchronize Mahara accounts with LDAP

Security bugs:
 * Security Bug #1034180: A group member with no access rights to folder can still view it
 * Security Bug #1236636: Can attach other users' Folders to your Image Gallery block

Other bugs:
 * Bug #1180625: Update ADOdb library to version 5.18
 * Bug #1187964: Use adodb "mysqli" instead of "mysql"
 * Bug #1180624: Add support for SQL temp tables
 * Bug #1184450: Add mysql collation mode to pre-install sanity check
 * Bug #1235305: Image slideshow fails first time when selecting 'Style: Slideshow'
 * Bug #1045563: Email address in the 'Required profile fields' form must be validated
 * Bug #1097565: Automatic account expiry doesn't happen
 * Bug #1140836: 'Max. items per page' doesn't work for group pages
 * Bug #1160093: Don't display a remote username on /admin/users/edit.php if no remote username exists
 * Bug #1187963: Updating group members by CSV caused existing group admins removed
 * Bug #1211621: Centralized license and copyright info from file headers into README
 * Bug #1214124: Improve stylesheet cacheing
 * Bug #1239539: Registration: Force Terms and Conditions - error text
 * Bug #993676: Members did not show up in second search if the first search found no results
 * Bug #1046114: Errors when adding new institution members
 * Bug #1127801: consecutive deleted forum posts for same user should be grouped
 * Bug #1158086: Forum: error after deleting a post that is the child of another deleted post
 * Bug #1187571: Updating groups by CSV caused 'Not found' page
 * Bug #1193757: Institution admin needs tob e able to change auth method "No institution" to one of their own
 * Bug #1203965: Increase number of characters in collection tabs
 * Bug #1204309: Edit forum post error if parent is deleted
 * Bug #1220639: mp4 file has wrong icon
 * Bug #1223063: Deleting display name does not remove it
 * Bug #1234487: Put the system requirements for each Mahara release into README
 * Bug #1238407: Mahara 1.0 upgrade path depends on no-longer-supported "ENGINE=INNODB"
 * Bug #1240746: Plans page displaying 1 block of text when I used 3 paragraphs
 * Bug #1242263: Switch suspension reason and "Suspend" button around
 * Bug #703980: personal information pulled into add resume even if there is nothing in it
 * Bug #959926: No warning when deleting a profile picture that is used in a portfolio page
 * Bug #1017281: The pagination drop down shows when less than 10 entries on the page.
 * Bug #1078591: ClamAV path missing/not detected. No option to provide path to Clamav
 * Bug #1114790: masqueradingreasonrequireddescription string is misleading about settings
 * Bug #1165300: Year not shown for post dates on "Topics"
 * Bug #1166578: auth/session.php incorrectly multiplies $cfg->session_timeout by 60
 * Bug #1168422: clamdscan permission issues
 * Bug #1182649: uploading multiple files - only last one gets marked complete
 * Bug #1191605: blocktype/externalfeed/lib.php throws array_chunk errors
 * Bug #1201052: Notification to anonymous user when comment was submitted
 * Bug #1201055: Change lang string for updated comments when moderation is turned on
 * Bug #1208287: Clarify error message in Mahara syntax checker about table names with {}
 * Bug #1211161: Creating a new group with cleanurls active, throws a warning
 * Bug #1220108: 'usersuniquebyusername' config option not in lib/config-defaults.php
 * Bug #1222200: Make the masquerade "Log in anyway" link more noticeable to admins
 * Bug #1230044: Wording in password reset phrase in English
 * Bug #547386: Linking to electronic publications
 * Bug #680710: Revive the Solr plugin using elasticsearch
 * Bug #1036556: Embed PDF
 * Bug #1046750: Show more of the file name
 * Bug #1050297: drag & drop content from desktop
 * Bug #1073625: Add additional html interface
 * Bug #1083263: Filter by auth method in "User search"
 * Bug #1103942: Allow uploading attachments to Resume composites
 * Bug #1117237: Allow uploading attachments to Textboxes/Notes
 * Bug #1166499: Filter out accounts with duplicate email address
 * Bug #1168213: Wishlist/Feature Request: Customise page themes (skins)
 * Bug #1180622: Integrate Patrick Pollet's ldap sync plugin into the core auth/ldap plugin
 * Bug #1180997: Add tagging feature for all user's content
 * Bug #1182739: Display a warning message when navigating away without saving
 * Bug #1183612: Make it easier to change a user's profile picture
 * Bug #1185209: Allow existing users to import LEAP2A content into their portfolio
 * Bug #1190720: Edit access page needs default share with text
 * Bug #1194672: Drop-down navigation option be overridden at institutional level
 * Bug #1197154: Hide or move the "Retractable" and "Automatically retract" controls for blocks
 * Bug #1201258: artefact chooser panel
 * Bug #1193936: License info is NOT updated when using content from other text boxes
 * Bug #1235813: "Your entire resume" should be "My entire resume"
 * Bug #959926: No warning when deleting a profile picture that is used in a portfolio page