Integration, exposed

Cold numbers:

23 issues have been successfully integrated, 1 rejected and 94 in the queue.

Notes:

• We're on track for the minor release of Moodle versions 4.5.1, 4.4.5, 4.3.9, and 4.1.15 on December 9!
• The environment requirements for Moodle 5.0 have been finalised!
  • PHP 8.2 (changed from 8.1)
  • Moodle 4.2.3 will be required for upgrades (changed from 4.1.2).
  • PostgreSQL 14 (changed from 13)
  • MySQL 8.4 (changed from 8.0)
  • MariaDB 10.11.0 (changed from 10.6.7)
  • SQL Server 2017 (v14) (same)
  • Oracle - N/A (removed)
  The environment checks for these requirements will take effect in the main branch once MDL-83470 lands. So, please ensure your dev environments meet these requirements for your Moodle instances based on the main branch to keep running.
• While the upgradenotes tool is handy for writing upgrade notes, please remember that it is only available from Moodle 4.5. Patches for Moodle 4.4 and earlier versions will still have to provide upgrade notes in the upgrade.txt files of their respective components. 

Hot topics:

• MDL-70556 - Increase course full name database field length beyond 254 characters
• MDL-83391 - Remove hard-coded "support" for webservers
• MDL-82500 - Replace moodle_read_slave_trait with moodle_read_replica_trait and replacing "master"/"slave" wordings with "primary"/"replica"

Warm thanks:

• To all participants in the recently concluded MoodleMoot Global 2024 in Merida, Mexico!
• Did you miss the Global Moot this year? No worries! You can watch the awesome presentations on Moodle's YouTube channel!