Latest stable version 1.9.9+
There were 5 commits into the stable branch in the last development week (from Tuesday Jun 8 to Monday Jun 14). Martin Dougiamas bumped the version to 1.9.9 and fixed a potential memory overflow problem occurring during the activity import when a teacher is enrolled in many courses (MDL-19880). This fix caused a regression, spotted and patched by Alan Trick and committed by Eloy Lafuente (MDL-22740). Tim Hunt committed patch provided by Vadim Dvorovenko, fixing a typo causing breakage of the questions restore process (MDL-22720). Gordon Bateson committed a patch submitted by Ramon Eixarch, fixing questions import problem in case of Hotpot format JMatch and JMix (MDL-22726).
Security announcements for Moodle 1.9.9 were published yesterday at our MSA page. Moodle 1.9.9 fixes four security problems, two of them are considered critical and one of them major. Registered administrators were notified and encouraged to upgrade their sites before the detailed description of these issues was published, see Moodle security procedures for details.
Future version Moodle 2.0 Preview 3
There were 76 commits into the main development branch during the last week. Repository plugins mahara and remotemoodle were moved from standard distribution into contrib.
Quotes of the week
“Oh dear I’m a geek. New neighbours move into the next flat while their extension’s built. How do I welcome them? Let them connect to my wifi”
– Tim Hunt
“Only people that truly hate PHP can program something with it. The others who love it are not programmers
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– Petr Škoda
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