From 192298065782d134a0e2b1ccdbc46e5509973015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ned Batchelder Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:17:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] CHANGELOG is dead. --- CHANGELOG.rst | 859 +------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 855 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst index 5d6383562c..0839c68add 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.rst +++ b/CHANGELOG.rst @@ -1,856 +1,5 @@ -Change Log ----------- +We don't maintain a detailed changelog. For details of changes, please see +either the `edX Release Notes`_ or the `GitHub commit history`_. -These are notable changes in edx-platform. This is a rolling list of changes, -in roughly chronological order, most recent first. Add your entries at or near -the top. Include a label indicating the component affected. - -Studio/LMS: Implement cohorted courseware. TNL-648 - -LMS: Student Notes: Eventing for Student Notes. TNL-931 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add course structure view. TNL-762 - -LMS: Student Notes: Scroll and opening of notes. TNL-784 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add styling to Notes page. TNL-932 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add more graceful error message. - -LMS: Student Notes: Toggle all notes TNL-661 - -LMS: Student Notes: Use JWT ID-Token for authentication annotation requests. TNL-782 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add possibility to search notes. TNL-731 - -LMS: Student Notes: Toggle single note visibility. TNL-660 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add Notes page. TNL-797 - -LMS: Student Notes: Add possibility to add/edit/remove notes. TNL-655 - -Platform: Add group_access field to all xblocks. TNL-670 - -LMS: Add support for user partitioning based on cohort. TNL-710 - -Platform: Add base support for cohorted group configurations. TNL-649 - -LMS: Support assigning students to cohorts via a CSV file upload. TNL-735 - -Common: Add configurable reset button to units - -Studio: Add support xblock validation messages on Studio unit/container page. TNL-683 - -LMS: Support adding cohorts from the instructor dashboard. TNL-162 - -LMS: Support adding students to a cohort via the instructor dashboard. TNL-163 - -LMS: Show cohorts on the new instructor dashboard. TNL-161 - -LMS: Extended hints feature - -LMS: Mobile API available for courses that opt in using the Course Advanced -Setting "Mobile Course Available" (only used in limited closed beta). - -Studio: Video Module now has an optional advanced setting "EdX Video ID" for -courses where assets are managed entirely by the video team. This is optional -and opt-in (only used in a limited closed beta for now). - -LMS: Do not allow individual due dates to be earlier than the normal due date. LMS-6563 - -Blades: Course teams can turn off Chinese Caching from Studio. BLD-1207 - -LMS: Instructors can request and see content of previous bulk emails sent in the instructor dashboard. - -Studio: New course outline and unit/container pages with revised publishing model. STUD-1790 (part 1) - -Studio: Backbone version of the course outline page. STUD-1726. - -Studio: New advanced setting "invitation_only" for courses. This setting overrides the enrollment start/end dates - if set. LMS-2670 - -LMS: Register button on About page was active even when greyed out. Now made inactive when appropriate and -displays appropriate context sensitive message to student. LMS-2717 - -Blades: Redirect Chinese students to a Chinese CDN for video. BLD-1052. - -Studio: Show display names and help text in Advanced Settings. Also hide deprecated settings -by default. - -Studio: Move Peer Assessment into advanced problems menu. - -Studio: Support creation and editing of split_test instances (Content Experiments) -entirely in Studio. STUD-1658. - -Blades: Add context-aware video index. BLD-933 - -Blades: Fix bug with incorrect link format and redirection. BLD-1049 - -Blades: Fix bug with incorrect RelativeTime value after XML serialization. BLD-1060 - -LMS: Update bulk email implementation to lessen load on the database -by consolidating chunked queries for recipients into a single query. - -Blades: Fix link to javascript file in ChoiceTextResponse. BLD-1103. - -All: refactored code to handle course_ids, module_ids, etc in a cleaner way. -See https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Opaque-Keys for details. - -Blades: Remove Video player outline. BLD-975. - -Blades: Fix Youtube regular expression in video player editor. BLD-967. - -Studio: Support editing of containers. STUD-1312. - -Blades: Fix displaying transcripts on touch devices. BLD-1033. - -Blades: Tolerance expressed in percentage now computes correctly. BLD-522. - -Studio: Support add, delete and duplicate on the container page. STUD-1490. - -Studio: Add drag-and-drop support to the container page. STUD-1309. - -Common: Add extensible third-party auth module. - -Blades: Added new error message that displays when HTML5 video is not supported -altogether. Make sure spinner gets hidden when error message is shown. BLD-638. - -LMS: Switch default instructor dashboard to the new (formerly "beta") - instructor dashboard. Puts the old (now "legacy") dash behind a feature flag. - LMS-1296 - -Blades: Handle situation if no response were sent from XQueue to LMS in Matlab -problem after Run Code button press. BLD-994. - -Blades: Set initial video quality to large instead of default to avoid automatic -switch to HD when iframe resizes. BLD-981. - -Blades: Add an upload button for authors to provide students with an option to -download a handout associated with a video (of arbitrary file format). BLD-1000. - -Studio: Add "raw HTML" editor so that authors can write HTML that will not be -changed in any way. STUD-1562 - -Blades: Show the HD button only if there is an HD version available. BLD-937. - -Studio: Add edit button to leaf xblocks on the container page. STUD-1306. - -Blades: Add LTI context_id parameter. BLD-584. - -Blades: Update LTI resource_link_id parameter. BLD-768. - -Blades: Transcript translations should be displayed in their source language (BLD-935). - -Blades: Create an upload modal for video transcript translations (BLD-751). - -Studio and LMS: Upgrade version of TinyMCE to 4.0.20. Switch from tabbed Visual/HTML -Editor for HTML modules to showing the code editor as a plugin within TinyMCE (triggered -from toolbar). STUD-1422 - -Studio: Add ability to reorder Pages and hide the Wiki page. STUD-1375 - -Blades: Added template for iFrames. BLD-611. - -Studio: Support for viewing built-in tabs on the Pages page. STUD-1193 - -Blades: Fixed bug when image mapped input's Show Answer multiplies rectangles on - many inputtypes. BLD-810. - -LMS: Enabled screen reader feedback of problem responses. - LMS-2158 - -Blades: Removed tooltip from captions. BLD-629. - -Blades: Fix problem with loading YouTube API is it is not available. BLD-531. - -Blades: Fix download subs for non youtube videos and non-en language. BLD-897. - -Blades: Fix issues related to videos that have separate YouTube IDs for the -different video speeds. BLD-915, BLD-901. - -Blades: Add .txt and .srt options to the "download transcript" button. BLD-844. - -Blades: Fix bug when transcript cutting off view in full view mode. BLD-852. - -Blades: Show start time or starting position on slider and VCR. BLD-823. - -Common: Upgraded CodeMirror to 3.21.0 with an accessibility patch applied. - LMS-1802 - -Studio: Add new container page that can display nested xblocks. STUD-1244. - -Blades: Allow multiple transcripts with video. BLD-642. - -CMS: Add feature to allow exporting a course to a git repository by -specifying the giturl in the course settings. - -Studio: Fix import/export bug with conditional modules. STUD-149 - -Blades: Persist student progress in video. BLD-385. - -Blades: Fix for the list metadata editor that gets into a bad state where "Add" - is disabled. BLD-821. - -Blades: Add view for field type Dict in Studio. BLD-658. - -Blades: Refactor stub implementation of LTI Provider. BLD-601. - -LMS: multiple choice features: shuffle, answer-pool, targeted-feedback, -choice name masking, submission timer - -Studio: Added ability to edit course short descriptions that appear on the course catalog page. - -LMS: In left accordion and progress page, due dates are now displayed in time -zone specified by settings.TIME_ZONE, instead of UTC always - -LMS: If the course start date is kept at the default studio value (Jan 1, 2030) -and advertised_start is not set, the start date is not displayed in the -/courses tile view, the course about page, or the dashboard - -LMS: Add ability to redirect to a splash screen. - -Blades: Add role parameter to LTI. BLD-583. - -Blades: Bugfix "In Firefox YouTube video with start time plays from 00:00:00". -BLD-708. - -Blades: Fix bug when image response in Firefox does not retain input. BLD-711. - -Blades: Give numerical response tolerance as a range. BLD-25. - -Common: Add a utility app for building databased-backed configuration - for specific application features. Includes admin site customization - for easier administration and tracking. - -Common: Add the ability to dark-launch site translations. These languages - will be unavailable to users except through the use of a specific query - parameter. - -Blades: Allow user with BetaTester role correctly use LTI. BLD-641. - -Blades: Video player persist speed preferences between videos. BLD-237. - -Blades: Change the download video field to a dropdown that will allow students -to download the first source listed in the alternate sources. BLD-364. - -Blades: Change the track field to a dropdown that will allow students -to download the transcript of the video without timecodes. BLD-368. - -Blades: Video player start-end time range is now shown even before Play is -clicked. Video player VCR time shows correct non-zero total time for YouTube -videos even before Play is clicked. BLD-529. - -Studio: Add ability to duplicate components on the unit page. - -Blades: Adds CookieStorage utility for video player that provides convenient - way to work with cookies. - -Blades: Fix comparison of float numbers. BLD-434. - -Blades: Allow regexp strings as the correct answer to a string response question. BLD-475. - -Common: MixedModulestore is now the only approved access to the persistence layer - - takes a new parameter 'reference_type' which can be 'Location' or 'Locator'. Mixed - then tries to ensure that every reference in any xblock gets converted to that type on - retrieval. Because we're moving to Locators, the default is Locator; so, you should change - all existing configurations to 'Location' (unless you're using split) - -Common: Add feature flags to allow developer use of pure XBlocks - - ALLOW_ALL_ADVANCED_COMPONENTS disables the hard-coded list of advanced - components in Studio, and allows any xblock to be added as an - advanced component in Studio settings - - XBLOCK_SELECT_FUNCTION allows the insertion of a custom function - to limit loading of XBlocks with (including allowing pure xblocks) - -Studio: Add sorting by column to the Files & Uploads page. -See mongo_indexes.md for new indices that should be added. - -Common: Previously, theming was activated by providing a value for the THEME_NAME - setting. Now, theming is activated by setting the "USE_CUSTOM_THEME" feature - flag to True -- a THEME_NAME setting is still required to determine *which* - theme to use. - -Studio: Newly-created courses default to being published on Jan 1, 2030 - -Studio: Added pagination to the Files & Uploads page. - -Common: Centralized authorization mechanisms and removed the app-specific ones. - -Blades: Video player improvements: - - Disable edX controls on iPhone/iPod (native controls are used). - - Disable unsupported controls (volume, playback rate) on iPad/Android. - - Controls becomes visible after click on video or play placeholder to avoid - issues with YouTube API on iPad/Android. - - Captions becomes visible just after full initialization of video player. - - Fix blinking of captions after initialization of video player. BLD-206. - -LMS: Fix answer distribution download for small courses. LMS-922, LMS-811 - -Blades: Add template for the zooming image in studio. BLD-206. - -Blades: Update behavior of start/end time fields. BLD-506. - -Blades: Make LTI module not send grade_back_url if has_score=False. BLD-561. - -Blades: Show answer for imageresponse. BLD-21. - -Blades: LTI additional Python tests. LTI must use HTTPS for -lis_outcome_service_url. BLD-564. - -Studio: Enable Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links to be served by - an alternate site. STUD-151. - -Blades: Fix bug when Image mapping problems are not working for students in IE. BLD-413. - -Blades: Add template that displays the most up-to-date features of -drag-and-drop. BLD-479. - -Blades: LTI fix bug e-reader error when popping out window. BLD-465. - -Common: Switch from mitx.db to edx.db for sqlite databases. This will effectively - reset state for local instances of the code, unless you manually rename your - mitx.db file to edx.db. - -Common: significant performance improvement for authorization checks and location translations. - Ensure all auth checks, check all possible permutations of the auth key (Instructor dashboard - now shows when it should for all courses in lms). - Made queries for Studio dashboard 2 orders of magnitude faster (and fewer). - -Blades: Video Transcripts: Fix clear and download buttons. BLD-438. - -Common: Switch over from MITX_FEATURES to just FEATURES. To override items in - the FEATURES dict, the environment variable you must set to do so is also - now called FEATURES instead of MITX_FEATURES. - -LMS: Change the forum role granted to global staff on enrollment in a -course. Previously, staff were given the Moderator role; now, they are -given the Student role. - -Blades: Fix Numerical input to support mathematical operations. BLD-525. - -Blades: Improve calculator's tooltip accessibility. Add possibility to navigate - through the hints via arrow keys. BLD-533. - -LMS: Add feature for providing background grade report generation via Celery - instructor task, with reports uploaded to S3. Feature is visible on the beta - instructor dashboard. LMS-58 - -Blades: Added grading support for LTI module. LTI providers can now grade -student's work and send edX scores. OAuth1 based authentication -implemented. BLD-384. - -LMS: Beta-tester status is now set on a per-course-run basis, rather than being - valid across all runs with the same course name. Old group membership will - still work across runs, but new beta-testers will only be added to a single - course run. - -Blades: Enabled several Video Jasmine tests. BLD-463. - -Studio: Continued modification of Studio pages to follow a RESTful framework. -includes Settings pages, edit page for Subsection and Unit, and interfaces -for updating xblocks (xmodules) and getting their editing HTML. - -LMS: Improve accessibility of inline discussions in courseware. - -Blades: Put 2nd "Hide output" button at top of test box & increase text size for -code response questions. BLD-126. - -Blades: Update the calculator hints tooltip with full information. BLD-400. - -Blades: Fix transcripts 500 error in studio (BLD-530) - -LMS: Add error recovery when a user loads or switches pages in an -inline discussion. - -Blades: Allow multiple strings as the correct answer to a string response -question. BLD-474. - -Blades: a11y - Videos will alert screenreaders when the video is over. - -LMS: Trap focus on the loading element when a user loads more threads -in the forum sidebar to improve accessibility. - -LMS: Add error recovery when a user loads more threads in the forum sidebar. - -LMS: Add a user-visible alert modal when a forums AJAX request fails. - -Blades: Add template for checkboxes response to studio. BLD-193. - -Blades: Video player: - - Add spinner; - - Improve initialization of modules; - - Speed up video resizing during page loading; - - Speed up acceptance tests. (BLD-502) - - Fix transcripts bug - when show_captions is set to false. BLD-467. - -Studio: change create_item, delete_item, and save_item to RESTful API (STUD-847). - -Blades: Fix answer choices rearranging if user tries to stylize something in the -text like with bold or italics. (BLD-449) - -LMS: Beta instructor dashboard will only count actively enrolled students for -course enrollment numbers. - -Blades: Fix speed menu that is not rendered correctly when YouTube is -unavailable. (BLD-457). - -LMS: Users with is_staff=True no longer have the STAFF label appear on -their forum posts. - -Blades: Video start and end times now function the same for both YouTube and -HTML5 videos. If end time is set, the video can still play until the end, after -it pauses on the end time. - -Blades: Disallow users to enter video url's in http. - -Studio/LMS: Ability to cap the max number of active enrollments in a course - -LMS: Improve the acessibility of the forum follow post buttons. - -Blades: Latex problems are now enabled via use_latex_compiler -key in course settings. (BLD-426) - -Blades: Fix bug when the speed can only be changed when the video is playing. - -LMS: The dialogs on the wiki "changes" page are now accessible to screen -readers. Now all wiki pages have been made accessible. (LMS-1337) - -LMS: Change bulk email implementation to use less memory, and to better handle -duplicate tasks in celery. - -LMS: When a topic is selected in the forums navigation sidebar, fetch -the thread list using the /threads endpoint of the comments service -instead of /search/threads, which does not sort and paginate -correctly. This requires at least version 31ef160 of -cs_comments_service. - -LMS: Improve forum error handling so that errors in the logs are -clearer and HTTP status codes from the comments service indicating -client error are correctly passed through to the client. - -LMS: Improve performance of page load and thread list load for -discussion tab - -LMS: The wiki markup cheatsheet dialog is now accessible to screen readers. -(LMS-1303) - -Common: Add skip links for accessibility to CMS and LMS. (LMS-1311) - -Studio: Change course overview page, checklists, assets, import, export, and course staff -management page URLs to a RESTful interface. Also removed "\listing", which -duplicated "\index". - -LMS: Fixed accessibility bug where users could not tab through wiki (LMS-1307) - -Blades: When start time and end time are specified for a video, a visual range -will be shown on the time slider to highlight the place in the video that will -be played. - -Studio: added restful interface for finding orphans in courses. -An orphan is an xblock to which no children relation points and whose type is not -in the set contentstore.views.item.DETACHED_CATEGORIES nor 'course'. - GET http://host/orphan/org.course returns json array of ids. - Requires course author access. - DELETE http://orphan/org.course deletes all the orphans in that course. - Requires is_staff access - -Studio: Bug fix for text loss in Course Updates when the text exists -before the first tag. - -Common: expect_json decorator now puts the parsed json payload into a json attr -on the request instead of overwriting the POST attr - ----------- split mongo backend refactoring changelog section ------------ - -Studio: course catalog, assets, checklists, course outline pages now use course -id syntax w/ restful api style - -Common: - separate the non-sql db connection configuration from the modulestore (xblock modeling) configuration. - in split, separate the the db connection and atomic crud ops into a distinct module & class from modulestore - -Common: location mapper: % encode periods and dollar signs when used as key in the mapping dict - -Common: location mapper: added a bunch of new helper functions for generating -old location style info from a CourseLocator - -Common: locators: allow - ~ and . in course, branch, and block ids. - ----------- end split mongo backend section --------- - -Blades: Hovering over CC button in video player, when transcripts are hidden, -will cause them to show up. Moving the mouse from the CC button will auto hide -them. You can hover over the CC button and then move the mouse to the -transcripts which will allow you to select some video position in 1 click. - -Blades: Add possibility to use multiple LTI tools per page. - -Blades: LTI module can now load external content in a new window. - -LMS: Disable data download buttons on the instructor dashboard for large courses - -Common: Adds ability to disable a student's account. Students with disabled -accounts will be prohibited from site access. - -LMS: Fix issue with CourseMode expiration dates - -LMS: Ported bulk emailing to the beta instructor dashboard. - -LMS: Add monitoring of bulk email subtasks to display progress on instructor dash. - -LMS: Refactor and clean student dashboard templates. - -LMS: Fix issue with CourseMode expiration dates - -CMS: Add text_customization Dict to advanced settings which can support -string customization at particular spots in the UI. At first just customizing -the Check/Final Check buttons with keys: custom_check and custom_final_check - -LMS: Add PaidCourseRegistration mode, where payment is required before course -registration. - -Studio: Switched to loading Javascript using require.js - -Studio: Better feedback during the course import process - -Studio: Improve drag and drop on the course overview and subsection views. - -LMS: Add split testing functionality for internal use. - -CMS: Add edit_course_tabs management command, providing a primitive -editing capability for a course's list of tabs. - -Studio and LMS: add ability to lock assets (cannot be viewed unless registered -for class). - -Studio: add restful interface for paging assets (no UX yet, but just add -/start/45/max/50 to end of url to get items 45-95, e.g.) - -LMS: First round of improvements to New (beta) Instructor Dash: -improvements, fixes, and internationalization to the Student Info section. - -LMS: Improved accessibility of parts of forum navigation sidebar. - -LMS: enhanced accessibility labeling and aria support for the discussion forum -new post dropdown as well as response and comment area labeling. - -Blades: Add Studio timed transcripts editor to video player. - -LMS: enhanced shib support, including detection of linked shib account -at login page and support for the ?next= GET parameter. - -LMS: Experimental feature using the ICE change tracker JS pkg to allow peer -assessors to edit the original submitter's work. - -LMS: Fixed a bug that caused links from forum user profile pages to -threads to lead to 404s if the course id contained a '-' character. - -Studio/LMS: Add password policy enforcement to new account creation - -Studio/LMS: Added ability to set due date formatting through Studio's Advanced -Settings. The key is due_date_display_format, and the value should be a format -supported by Python's strftime function. - -Common: Added configurable backends for tracking events. Tracking events using -the python logging module is the default backend. Support for MongoDB and a -Django database is also available. - -Blades: Added Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) blade. Now LTI components -can be included to courses. - -LMS: Added alphabetical sorting of forum categories and subcategories. -It is hidden behind a false defaulted course level flag. - -Studio: Allow course authors to set their course image on the schedule -and details page, with support for JPEG and PNG images. - -LMS, Studio: Centralized startup code to manage.py and wsgi.py files. -Made studio runnable using wsgi. - -Blades: Took videoalpha out of alpha, replacing the old video player - -Common: Allow instructors to input complicated expressions as answers to -`NumericalResponse`s. Prior to the change only numbers were allowed, now any -answer from '1/3' to 'sqrt(12)*(1-1/3^2+1/5/3^2)' are valid. - -Studio/LMS: Allow for 'preview' and 'published' in a single LMS instance. Use -middlware components to retain the incoming Django request and put in thread -local storage. It is recommended that all developers define a 'preview.localhost' -which maps to the same IP address as localhost in his/her HOSTS file. - -LMS: Enable beta instructor dashboard. The beta dashboard is a rearchitecture -of the existing instructor dashboard and is available by clicking a link at -the top right of the existing dashboard. - -Common: CourseEnrollment has new fields `is_active` and `mode`. The mode will be -used to differentiate different kinds of enrollments (currently, all enrollments -are honor certificate enrollments). The `is_active` flag will be used to -deactivate enrollments without deleting them, so that we know what course you -*were* enrolled in. Because of the latter change, enrollment and unenrollment -logic has been consolidated into the model -- you should use new class methods -to `enroll()`, `unenroll()`, and to check `is_enrolled()`, instead of creating -CourseEnrollment objects or querying them directly. - -LMS: Added bulk email for course feature, with option to optout of individual -course emails. - -Studio: Email will be sent to admin address when a user requests course creator -privileges for Studio (edge only). - -Studio: Studio course authors (both instructors and staff) will be auto-enrolled -for their courses so that "View Live" works. - -Common: Add a new input type ```` for Formula/Numerical -Responses. It periodically makes AJAX calls to preview and validate the -student's input. - -Common: Added ratelimiting to our authentication backend. - -Common: Add additional logging to cover login attempts and logouts. - -Studio: Send e-mails to new Studio users (on edge only) when their course creator -status has changed. This will not be in use until the course creator table -is enabled. - -Studio: Added improvements to Course Creation: richer error messaging, tip -text, and fourth field for course run. - -Blades: New features for VideoAlpha player: -1.) Controls are auto hidden after a delay of mouse inactivity - the full video -becomes visible. -2.) When captions (CC) button is pressed, captions stick (not auto hidden after -a delay of mouse inactivity). The video player size does not change - the video -is down-sized and placed in the middle of the black area. -3.) All source code of Video Alpha 2 is written in JavaScript. It is not a basic -conversion from CoffeeScript. The structure of the player has been changed. -4.) A lot of additional unit tests. - -LMS: Added user preferences (arbitrary user/key/value tuples, for which -which user/key is unique) and a REST API for reading users and -preferences. Access to the REST API is restricted by use of the -X-Edx-Api-Key HTTP header (which must match settings.EDX_API_KEY; if -the setting is not present, the API is disabled). - -LMS: Added endpoints for AJAX requests to enable/disable notifications -(which are not yet implemented) and a one-click unsubscribe page. - -Studio: Allow instructors of a course to designate other staff as instructors; -this allows instructors to hand off management of a course to someone else. - -Common: Add a manage.py that knows about edx-platform specific settings and -projects - -Common: Added *experimental* support for jsinput type. - -Studio: Remove XML from HTML5 video component editor. All settings are -moved to be edited as metadata. - -Common: Added setting to specify Celery Broker vhost - -Common: Utilize new XBlock bulk save API in LMS and CMS. - -Studio: Add table for tracking course creator permissions (not yet used). -Update rake django-admin[syncdb] and rake django-admin[migrate] so they -run for both LMS and CMS. - -LMS: Added *experimental* crowdsource hinting manager page. - -XModule: Added *experimental* crowdsource hinting module. - -Studio: Added support for uploading and managing PDF textbooks - -Common: Student information is now passed to the tracking log via POST instead -of GET. - -Blades: Added functionality and tests for new capa input type: -choicetextresponse. - -Common: Add tests for documentation generation to test suite - -Blades: User answer now preserved (and changeable) after clicking "show answer" -in choice problems - -LMS: Removed press releases - -Common: Updated Sass and Bourbon libraries, added Neat library - -LMS: Add a MixedModuleStore to aggregate the XMLModuleStore and -MongoMonduleStore - -LMS: Users are no longer auto-activated if they click "reset password" -This is now done when they click on the link in the reset password -email they receive (along with usual path through activation email). - -LMS: Fixed a reflected XSS problem in the static textbook views. - -LMS: Problem rescoring. Added options on the Grades tab of the -Instructor Dashboard to allow a particular student's submission for a -particular problem to be rescored. Provides an option to see a -history of background tasks for a given problem and student. - -Blades: Small UX fix on capa multiple-choice problems. Make labels only -as wide as the text to reduce accidental choice selections. - -Studio: -- use xblock field defaults to initialize all new instances' fields and - only use templates as override samples. -- create new instances via in memory create_xmodule and related methods rather - than cloning a db record. -- have an explicit method for making a draft copy as distinct from making a - new module. - -Studio: Remove XML from the video component editor. All settings are -moved to be edited as metadata. - -XModule: Only write out assets files if the contents have changed. - -Studio: Course settings are now saved explicitly. - -XModule: Don't delete generated xmodule asset files when compiling (for -instance, when XModule provides a coffeescript file, don't delete -the associated javascript) - -Studio: For courses running on edx.org (marketing site), disable fields in -Course Settings that do not apply. - -Common: Make asset watchers run as singletons (so they won't start if the -watcher is already running in another shell). - -Common: Use coffee directly when watching for coffeescript file changes. - -Common: Make rake provide better error messages if packages are missing. - -Common: Repairs development documentation generation by sphinx. - -LMS: Problem rescoring. Added options on the Grades tab of the -Instructor Dashboard to allow all students' submissions for a -particular problem to be rescored. Also supports resetting all -students' number of attempts to zero. Provides a list of background -tasks that are currently running for the course, and an option to -see a history of background tasks for a given problem. - -LMS: Fixed the preferences scope for storing data in xmodules. - -LMS: Forums. Added handling for case where discussion module can get `None` as -value of lms.start in `lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/utils.py` - -Studio, LMS: Make ModelTypes more strict about their expected content (for -instance, Boolean, Integer, String), but also allow them to hold either the -typed value, or a String that can be converted to their typed value. For -example, an Integer can contain 3 or '3'. This changed an update to the xblock -library. - -LMS: Courses whose id matches a regex in the COURSES_WITH_UNSAFE_CODE Django -setting now run entirely outside the Python sandbox. - -Blades: Added tests for Video Alpha player. - -Common: Have the capa module handle unicode better (especially errors) - -Blades: Video Alpha bug fix for speed changing to 1.0 in Firefox. - -Blades: Additional event tracking added to Video Alpha: fullscreen switch, -show/hide captions. - -CMS: Allow editors to delete uploaded files/assets - -XModules: `XModuleDescriptor.__init__` and `XModule.__init__` dropped the -`location` parameter (and added it as a field), and renamed `system` to -`runtime`, to accord more closely to `XBlock.__init__` - -LMS: Some errors handling Non-ASCII data in XML courses have been fixed. - -LMS: Add page-load tracking using segment-io (if SEGMENT_IO_LMS_KEY and -SEGMENT_IO_LMS feature flag is on) - -Blades: Simplify calc.py (which is used for the Numerical/Formula responses); -add trig/other functions. - -LMS: Background colors on login, register, and courseware have been corrected -back to white. - -LMS: Accessibility improvements have been made to several courseware and -navigation elements. - -LMS: Small design/presentation changes to login and register views. - -LMS: Functionality added to instructor enrollment tab in LMS such that invited -student can be auto-enrolled in course or when activating if not current -student. - -Blades: Staff debug info is now accessible for Graphical Slider Tool problems. - -Blades: For Video Alpha the events ready, play, pause, seek, and speed change -are logged on the server (in the logs). - -Common: all dates and times are not time zone aware datetimes. No code should -create or use struct_times nor naive datetimes. - -Common: Developers can now have private Django settings files. - -Common: Safety code added to prevent anything above the vertical level in the -course tree from being marked as version='draft'. It will raise an exception if -the code tries to so mark a node. We need the backtraces to figure out where -this very infrequent intermittent marking was occurring. It was making courses -look different in Studio than in LMS. - -Deploy: MKTG_URLS is now read from env.json. - -Common: Theming makes it possible to change the look of the site, from -Stanford. - -Common: Accessibility UI fixes. - -Common: The "duplicate email" error message is more informative. - -Studio: Component metadata settings editor. - -Studio: Autoplay for Video Alpha is disabled (only in Studio). - -Studio: Single-click creation for video and discussion components. - -Studio: fixed a bad link in the activation page. - -LMS: Changed the help button text. - -LMS: Fixed failing numeric response (decimal but no trailing digits). - -LMS: XML Error module no longer shows students a stack trace. - -Studio: Add feedback to end user if there is a problem exporting a course - -Studio: Improve link re-writing on imports into a different course-id - -Studio: Allow for intracourse linking in Capa Problems - -Blades: Videoalpha. - -XModules: Added partial credit for foldit module. - -XModules: Added "randomize" XModule to list of XModule types. - -XModules: Show errors with full descriptors. - -Studio: Add feedback to end user if there is a problem exporting a course - -Studio: Improve link re-writing on imports into a different course-id - -XQueue: Fixed (hopefully) worker crash when the connection to RabbitMQ is -dropped suddenly. - -XQueue: Upload file submissions to a specially named bucket in S3. - -Common: Removed request debugger. - -Common: Updated Django to version 1.4.5. - -Common: Updated CodeJail. - -Common: Allow setting of authentication session cookie name. - -LMS: Option to email students when enroll/un-enroll them. - -Blades: Added WAI-ARIA markup to the video player controls. These are now fully -accessible by screen readers. - -Common: Added advanced_module for annotating images to go with the ones for text and videos. +.. _edX Release Notes: http://edx.readthedocs.org/projects/edx-release-notes/en/latest/ +.. _GitHub commit history: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/commits/master