It is mid April and thus time for another Mahara release. We have a number of great new features and bug fixes again.
https://launchpad.net/mahara/1.9/1.9.0
Without further ado, here are some of the highlights:
Other notable new features include:
See the full list of new features and bug fixes here:
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.9.0
You can find instructions on how to install a new Mahara site or upgrade an existing one on our wiki:
https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator's_Guide/Installing_Mahara
https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator's_Guide/Upgrading_Mahara
If you are looking for translations, have a look at this page:
https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Language_Packs
Both Mahara 1.7 and 1.8 are still supported for security updates. The support for Mahara 1.7 will end with the release of 1.10 (targeted for October 2014), and the support for Mahara 1.8 will end in April 2015.
For more information, please see https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/SupportedVersions
If you are running a Mahara site lower than 1.7, we highly recommend you upgrade to 1.9 to receive security updates. Users of Mahara 1.7 and 1.8 can stay on their versions until that support runs out.
All site administrators running a supported version of Mahara are encouraged to subscribe to our security announcements:
http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/view.php?id=43
If you find any bugs in this new release, please feel free to use our bug tracker to report them:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+filebug
And if you need help with anything, the support forum is the best place to ask your questions:
http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/view.php?id=2
The user manual is being updated for Mahara 1.9. New features are listed under the "New in Mahara 1.9" index entry. We expect all features to be documented within the next two weeks.
http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.9
We would like to thank the following organisations for funding the features and bug fixes that have gone into Mahara 1.9 (in alphabetical order):
Mahara Partner fees contributed to infrastructural support.
We would also like to highlight all the people who have contributed code to this release.
Code contributors (listed are the number of changesets per contributor):
Developers with the most changesets:
Robert Lyon | 106 | 28.3% |
Jono Mingard | 83 | 22.1% |
Aaron Wells | 78 | 20.8% |
Son Nguyen | 32 | 8.5% |
Mike Kelly | 9 | 2.4% |
Kristina Hoeppner | 8 | 2.1% |
Yuliya Bozhko | 7 | 1.9% |
Evonne Cheung | 7 | 1.9% |
Logan Walker | 7 | 1.9% |
Piper Biswell | 7 | 1.9% |
Ghada El-Zoghbi | 6 | 1.6% |
Leo Xiong | 4 | 1.1% |
Gregor Anželj | 3 | 0.8% |
Nathan Lewis | 3 | 0.8% |
Tobias Zeuch | 3 | 0.8% |
Tony Butler | 2 | 0.5% |
Valerii Kuznetsov | 2 | 0.5% |
Adrian Schlegel | 1 | 0.3% |
Chris Cormack | 1 | 0.3% |
Christian Tuveve-Aiono | 1 | 0.3% |
Craig Miskell | 1 | 0.3% |
Matt Kolb | 1 | 0.3% |
Robert Boloc | 1 | 0.3% |
Ruslan Kabalin | 1 | 0.3% |
Sean Brennan | 1 | 0.3% |
And the organisations they work for or are associated with:
Catalyst IT | 323 | 86.1% |
Catalyst Open Source Academy | 16 | 4.3% |
Totara LMS | 12 | 3.2% |
University of the Arts London | 9 | 2.4% |
Gimnazija Bežigrad | 3 | 0.8% |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 3 | 0.8% |
Deltak Innovation | 1 | 0.3% |
Lancaster University | 1 | 0.3% |
Liip | 1 | 0.3% |
The most complete translations at the time of writing (at least 90%):
For a full list of translations and contributors, please see
https://translations.launchpad.net/mahara-lang/
And finally, thanks also go to the security researchers who help make Mahara secure.
Cheers
The 1.9 Release Managers
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