It's been some time since we our last update - apologies for the interupation and thanks to David Monllaó who provided this update on behalf of the integration team:
Cold numbers:
488 issues have been successfully integrated since the last integration exposed post, with 43 issues reopened and 13 delayed, a 92% success
Notes:
- Next Monday (9th January) we will release Moodle 3.2.1, it is a good moment to upgrade your sites to to 3.2 branch. Along with it we will release new versions for all maintained stable versions: Moodle 3.1.4, Moodle 3.0.8 and Moodle 2.7.18
- The continuous integration and on-sync periods are over, we started Moodle 3.3 development cycle, new features and improvements are already landing in master branch, which already diverged from MOODLE_32_STABLE
- Nice new docs page for people interested in moving your institution's theme to a boost-based theme https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Creating_a_theme_based_on_boost
- We are increasing the number of user interfaces that are generated or updated through Javascript, it is becoming more and more important that we are all aware of common promises pitfalls and the best practices to follow. Request for comments: Ensuring promise best practices with eslint-plugin-promise
- Yummy list of issues that are waiting for a peer reviewer https://tracker.moodle.org/issues/?filter=13607
Hot topics:
- MDL-38158: Introduce pluggable media players in Moodle, add VideoJS player
- MDL-29795: Add user/group overrides for mod/assign
- MDL-48498: Create a setting for a blacklist of disallowed hosts for the curl class in Moodle
- MDL-48468: Add a Redis cache store to Moodle core
MDL-55927: Move the radius authentication plugin to contrib
MDL-56911: Theme CSS setting:name failed to operate in RTL
- MDL-56051: Add support for drag and drop blocks in boost
- MDL-57194: Allow chart colours to be customised site-wide.
- MDL-57023: User tours should remember previous step when revisitng the page
- MDL-56139: Message area should update with ajax rather than page reload
- MDL-56431: Messages page is not accessible
Warm thanks:
To everybody involved in 3.2 release, from people involved in designing new features, to issues reporters, developers, reviewers, testers, Helen and Mary, marketing... It has been tough but the result is great!