Cold numbers:
40 issues have been successfully integrated, 4 rejected and 116 in the queue 🤐
Notes:
- 🍀 Our target is to roll out the beta next week, ideally on Tuesday. Let's continue the strong work to make it happen! Moodle 5.0 is scheduled for release on April 14th.
- 🧪 Moodle 5.0 QA testing update:
- ✅ 287 issues passed
- ❌ 10 failed
- ⏸️ 32 on hold
- 🔝 84 waiting for your help 🤓
- 🎥 In last Tuesday's developer meeting, Marie Achour and Mark Johnson presented exciting future plans for Moodle Products' growth, as well as the requirements for the new question type restore API. If you missed their insightful presentations (or want to revisit them!), the recording is now available on the Developer meeting - March 2025 page.
- 🧐 An unscheduled release of Moodle LMS occurred on Monday, March 17th, 2025. Versions 4.5.3, 4.4.7, 4.3.11, and 4.1.17 are now available. These releases include critical bug fixes and security patches, so please upgrade your sites promptly. Thanks to our community contributors! Further details can be found in this post.
Hot topics:
- MDL-83006 AI: Provider Plugin - Ollama
- MDL-84555 Add purpose color to activity icons in course activities overview and default activity completion form
- MDL-84301 Add peak memory usage info for adhoc & scheduled tasks
- MDL-83518 SMS notifications: Implement SMS as a new notification method and set up for Assignment notifications
- MDL-82565 Add support for routing of regular pages
- MDL-78428 TinyMCE - Improve media adding
Other hot topics for this week can be found by searching for issues labelled with developer_notes.
Warm thanks:
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To Lionel Richie and all the musicians who provide the soundtrack that makes our work more enjoyable. Music definitely adds a spark and makes life more fun 🎶