12 April 2022, 18:12

Hello everyone,

Now that April's Fools is over and the Easter egg hunts haven't begun yet, it's a good time to make the preview version of Mahara 22.04 available.

You can download the release candidate or access it on Git.

If you come across any bugs, please report them by 22 April 2022 if possible. We will then review them and decide whether we can still fix them before the release of Mahara 22.04.0 by the end of April 2022, or whether they will go into a later release.

There are a number of new features in Mahara 22.04. The biggest of them are

• support for Elasticsearch 7 (Elasticsearch 5/6 support is still available in 22.04)
• web services extension to support submitting of portfolios to Ouriginal via its Moodle plugin (Moodle plugin part is not yet publicly available)
• new institution support administrator role

These features will soon be documented in the Mahara manual for Mahara 22.04.

You can view a list of all the bugs that have been fixed and new features that will go into Mahara 21.10.

If you reported bugs and they have been fixed, pay particular attention to them and check that all is working now.

You can use our developer instance developer instance to check out the new features of Mahara that don't require site administrator access if you can't install it yourself.

After the release, I will be running a number of free sessions:

• Introduction to Mahara
• New features in Mahara 22.04

These sessions cater to different time zones. Pick the one that suits you best.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers
The Mahara 22.04 Release Managers at Catalyst