2011-03-25 21:00 CET: The update has now been completed.
The software update being performed today (version b8b14e9) brings with it a lot of improvements. Administrators will specifically like this update, as it brings with it several performance improvements. Read below for more details.
- New feature: Search for objects/folders within course content.
- New feature: Search for objects/folders within a given folder.
- New feature: Search for objects/folders within a given site (from site's root folder).
- New feature: Search for objects/folders in the entire database.
- New feature: Parent institution can now be specified.
- New feature: Contact manager can now be used for selecting users, groups and institutions. It is also much easier to use from a template.
- Performance improvement: Search responses with lots of hits now respond faster.
- Performance improvement: Search within site should be much faster.
- Performance improvement: Listing the contents of folders should be somewhat faster.
- Performance improvement: Listing institutions should be quite a lot faster.
- Performance improvement: Using the assign to group action inside collection should now respond in reasonable time.
- Performance improvement: Listing course/student/teacher connections should be significantly faster.
- Performance improvement: Listing courses should be faster.
- Performance improvement: Managing site folders should be significantly faster.
- Performance improvement: Managing course content should be quite faster.
- Performance improvement: Internet Explorer 9 users now benefit from GZip compression on all content.
- Performance improvement: Removed unnecessary GZip compression on static images and MP3 files.
- Enhancement: When doing search within course or folder, the folder menu (usually on the left of the screen) is now populated with the currently searched folder.
- Enhancement: When adding/editing an institution, searching for owner and institution now uses contact manager.
- Enhancement: It is now possible to unpack zip archives with file names in either UTF8 or ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding.
- Enhancement: Bundled jQuery library updated to 1.5.1.
- Enhancement: Bundled jQuery UI library updated to 1.8.9.
- Enhancement: Bundled SoundManager2 library updated to 2.97.
- Permission change: Search within folder is now available to anonymous users.
- Bugfix: Disabled HTML5 audio with SoundManager on IE9. Should fix MP3 playback issue.
- Bugfix: Fixed problem with playback of multiple sounds concurrently (Lesedilla).
- Bugfix: Word audio playback feature now skips iframes and form elements (Lesedilla).
- Bugfix: Fixed internal server error in configuration set management workflow.
- Bugfix: TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG editor) should now be served with a versioned URL (should fix potential caching problems).
- Bugfix: Thumbnail URL generation in file chooser now uses versioned URL (should fix potential caching problems).