25 October 2018, 20:10

Kia ora Mahara community,

We are proud to announce Mahara 18.10. This latest version of Mahara combines features created to improve tagging, finding content, and assessing portfolios.

Highlights in Mahara 18.10 include:

• New navigation menu structure
• Submit a portfolio to an LMS via LTI
• View old versions of your portfolio in a timeline
• Create a page based on tagged content automatically
• Set up institution tags
• Explore other people's portfolios via their tags
• Support blind peer assessments
• Sign off and verify portfolio pages
• Define a custom landing page after login
• Edit plans directly within "Edit" mode of a page
• Copy group portfolios into group member's accounts automatically
• Set up instructions for a page

 Other notable new features include:

• Delete people and groups via CLI in bulk
• Set LDAP as parent authentication method to LTI
• Tag external content blocks

View the Mahara user manual for these new features as well as changed functionality.

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

https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/18.10.0

You can check out the feature release video in a short version and a long one.

Download the code at https://launchpad.net/mahara/18.10/18.10.0.

Alternatively, you can access it via Git from https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara.

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

Mahara 17.10 and 18.04 are still supported for security updates. The support for Mahara 17.04 ends now. Support for Mahara 17.10 will end in April 2019, Mahara 18.04 will be supported until October 2019. Mahara 18.10 will receive updates until April 2020.

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

We recommend you upgrade to 18.10 as that gives you the longest support time frame at the moment. Users of Mahara 17.10 and 18.04 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

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 18.10. New features are listed under the "New in Mahara 18.10" index entry.

http://manual.mahara.org/en/18.10

Credits

Many organisations around the world supported the development of Mahara 18.10 through funding new features, bug fixes, or contributing code. We want to thank the following organisations (in alphabetical order) for their support of this release:

• Australian Catholic University
• Catalyst
• Central Queensland University
• Counties Manukau District Health Board
• Dublin City University
• East Coast Bays Methodist Parish
• Enovation
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• Landesinstitut für Schulentwicklung (State Institute for School Development in Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
• LearningWorks
• Monash College
• PH Bern
• Povsod
• Queen Mary University of London
• SWITCH
• St. Catherine's College, Wellington
• Synergy Learning
• Teachers College, Columbia University
• The Australian National University
• Universität Bremen
• Université de Lausanne
• University of Canberra
• University of Southern Queensland
• Waitemata District Health Board
• York St John University

We also wish to thank the people who contributed code to this release. They are listed according to the number of changesets:

And the organisations they work for or are associated with:

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

• Basque (Contributors over time: Abel Camacho, Asier Iturralde Sarasola, Ibai Oihanguren Sala, Iñaki Arenaza, Juan Ezeiza)
• Czech (Contributors over time: Viktor Fuglík, David Mudrák, Adam Pátek, Matouš Trča, Veronika Karičáková, Marek Drahovzal, Lukáš Kotek, Jiřina Nováková, Tomáš Jeřábek)
• Danish (Contributors over time: Aputsiak Niels Janussen, Jesper Hvirring Henriksen, Per Schou-Nielsen)
• French (Contributors over time: Alain Benoit, Alain Bolli, Alexandre Croteau, Anne017, David Truong, Dominique-Alain Jan, Emilie Lenel, François Lizotte, Hélène V., Jean Marc, londumas, Melvin Romero, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Paula Caterino, Philippe Petitqueux, Pierre Guinoiseau, sic, Stéphane)
• German (Contributors over time: Andy Hediger, Christian Kleinhanss, Daniel Winzen, Dennis Baudys, eledia, Ernst Artner, Ettore Atalan, finnnns, Gunnar Staniczek, Heinz Krettek, Jan Behrens, Jürgen Friedrich, Kristina Hoeppner, Marcel Debray, Mathias, Michael Wuttke, Moritz Ringler, Nico Verse, Patrick Neumann, Ralf Hilgenstock, Silas Zahner, Stefanie Berger, Steffen Pegenau, Tobias Bannert)
• Japanese (Contributor over time: Mitsuhiro Yoshida)
• Slovenian (Contributor over time: Gregor Anželj)

For a full list of translations and contributors, please see

https://translations.launchpad.net/mahara-lang/

A shoutout also to the people who contributed to Mahara 18.10 in their capacity as business analysts, UX researchers, testers, and mobile developers. Mahara couldn't be without their contributions.

And finally, thanks also go to the security researchers who help make Mahara secure.

Cheers

The 18.10 Release Managers at Catalyst