I just upgraded to the latest CVS for "1.4.2 nearly ".
Now whenever I click on the settings link within a course, as an admin, I am getting the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: parameter() in /var/www/html/myclass/course/edit.php on line 8
Unless someone tells me that this is some oversight or idiosyncracy on my part, I will add this to the bigtracker in the next hour...