28 April 2016, 21:42

Hello Mahara users,

We are excited to announce our latest version of Mahara, version 16.04, which we have released today. We'd like to thank everybody who has contributed to this release by reporting, discussing, fixing, developing, and testing patches and new features, translating the interface, and testing the release candidates over the past weeks.

https://launchpad.net/mahara/16.04/16.04.0

Highlights in Mahara 16.04 include:

• Embed internal video and audio via HTML5-based media player
• Display Open Badges in a block
• Embed content via Embedly

Other notable new features include:

• Choose tags via a select box
• Embed OGA and OGV media files
• Style guide for developers
• Send wall post notifications via email
• Scale internal videos, and images in text entries automatically

See the full list of new features and bug fixes here:

https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/16.04.0

If you'd like to have a quick overview of the important features, you can check out a recent presentation or its recording.

How to install / upgrade

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

Supported releases

Both Mahara 15.04 and 15.10 are still supported for security updates. The support for Mahara 15.10 will end with the release of the next version in April 2017, and the support for Mahara 15.04 will end in October 2017. Since the 15.04 release is the last one before moving to Bootstrap, we extended the support for it to 2.5 years instead of the usual 1.5 years to give institutions more time to upgrade if they have a lot of customizations.

For more information, please see https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/SupportedVersions

If you are running a Mahara site lower than 15.04, we highly recommend you upgrade to 16.04 to receive security updates. Users of Mahara 15.04 and 15.10 can stay on their versions until that support runs out. Mahara 1.10 will receive one more minor version update.

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

Support and bugs

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 has been updated for Mahara 16.04. New features are listed under the "New in Mahara 16.04" index entry.

http://manual.mahara.org/en/16.04

Credits

We would like to thank the following organisations for funding the features and bug fixes that have gone into Mahara 16.04 (in alphabetical order):

• Athabasca University
• Cardiff University
• Catalyst
• Catalyst Open Source Academy
• Discendum
• Federation University Australia
• Pace University
• Povsod
• Province of Tirol
• Southampton Solent University
• SWITCH
• Université de Montreal
• Yale University
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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):

And the organisations they work for or are associated with:

The most complete translations at the time of writing (at least 90%):

• Basque (Contributors: Abel Camacho, Asier Iturralde Sarasola, Ibai Oihanguren Sala, Iñaki Arenaza, Juan Ezeiza)
• Catalan (Contributors: Albert Gasset, David Planella, Joan Queralt Gil, JoanColl, Juan Segarra Montesinos, Puri Andrés)
• Czech (Contributors: David Mudrak, Dominik Fellner, Viktor Fuglík)
• French (Contributors: Alain Benoit, Alexandre Croteau, David Truong, Dominique-Alain Jan, François Lizotte, Hélène V., Jean Marc, londumas, Melvin Romero, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Paula Caterino, Pierre Guinoiseau, sic, Stéphane)
• German (Contributors: Andy Hediger, Christian Kleinhanss, Daniel Winzen, Dennis Baudys, eledia, Ernst Artner, Heinz Krettek, Jan Behrens, Jürgen Friedrich, Kristina Hoeppner, Marcel Debray, Mathias, Michael Wuttke, Moritz Ringler, Nico Verse, Patrick Neumann, Ralf Hilgenstock, Stefanie Berger, Steffen Pegenau, Tobias Bannert)
• Japanese (Contributor: Mitsuhiro Yoshida)
• Slovenian (Contributor: Gregor Anželj)

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 16.04 Release Managers