Jun 30 2008
There’s a bug in Moodle 1.9 dealing with “restoring an existing course in 1.9.1 to a new course in 1.9.1 on same server results in categories and formulas being lost in gradebook”.
Sounds nasty. Tracker report here:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15160
I haven’t verified it myself yet, but it’s officially on the list.
Jun 20 2008
Yep, another problem with stripslashes, this while editing questions in the Feedback module for Moodle 1.9
To recreate the problem:
1. Create a Feedback.
2. Add a question with a quote or apostrophe in it.
3. Save the question.
4. Edit the question. The backslash should appear.
5. Save the question. The backslash is saved to the database.
They made some changes to it to separate out the HTML from the PHP code, and in doing so removed the stripslashes_safe function that was keeping the database escape slashes out of the questions.
Tracker report and patch here:
Jun 20 2008
Event names and body text in Calendar are not properly escaped with stripslashes. This causes slashes to appear in front of apostrophes when you edit, save and then re-edit an event that occurs over multiple dates. This bug has existed since Moodle 1.7. I’ve updated the tracker report, and attached a patch to it.
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10633
My initial diagnosis of the problem was wrong; I was coming off a problem with stripslashes_recursive elsewhere in Moodle and leapt to conclusions. I also didn’t read the code quite right; the bit I ‘fixed’ was actually for logging, and it was a happy accident that it happened to fix the problem in Moodle 1.8.
With Moodle 1.9 I think I’ve nailed the problem; now it’s just a question of whether we should use stripslashes or stripslashes_safe in this instance (my patches use the former, but after reading the docs for the later, stripslashes_safe is probably the way to go).
Jun 18 2008
The Scheduler module had a bug under Moodle 1.9 that prevented teachers from scheduling groups to a slot, and students from signing up their group for a slot. The latest version of Scheduler — Scheduler v11 — fixes this problem.
http://www.ethnoinformatique.fr/course/view.php?id=122〈=en_utf8
Jun 18 2008
Quickmail has a problem with groups under Moodle 1.9, stemming from its use of old private functions that changed in the new version. It needs to be updated to use the new public Moodle 1.9 group function. I’ve posted a potential patch to this ticket within Moodle Tracker:
Jun 18 2008
The summer is upon us, and that means its time for the big Moodle 1.8 to Moodle 1.9 upgrade. And in turn, that means I need to start blogging here again to keep track of what I’ve found.
Right now I’m concentrating on verifying that our contributed modules/blocks work properly, specifically:
