Integration, exposed

Cold numbers:

28 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 102 in the queue. 93% success!

Notes:

• Some important dates related to the Moodle 4.4 release cycle:
  • 4 March - Continuous integration period begins
  • 11 March - Code freeze begins. Please send improvements and new features you would like to be part of the 4.4. release to integration before the cut-off time of 11:00 UTC. Although there are no guarantees, we will do our best to go through them.
  • 18 March - The QA test cycle begins
  • 25 March - Aim for Moodle 4.4 Beta within this week
  • 22 April - Moodle 4.4 release day
• Moodle LMS will drop Oracle database support after the 4.5 LTS release. For more information, check out the announcement in the General developer forum.

Hot topics:

• MDL-73483 - New hooks that will allow plugins to extend the course editing form and its functionality
• MDL-80395 - Refactor mixins that have been dropped in Bootstrap 5
• MDL-75794 - Behat step deprecations for mod_data
• MDL-68674 - Set block headings to h3 to prevent skipped heading accessibility issues. For block plugin developers, please make sure that headings in your block's contents start at h4.

Warm thanks:

• To Helen Foster, who has helped the Moodle community for over 17 years. Check out this interview for her 17th Moodleversary, recently featured on Moodle.com!