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Kristina Hoeppner
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30 April 2025, 23:06

Kia ora,

We are happy to announce the release of Mahara 25.04, which we released today, 30 April 2025.

Highlights in Mahara 25.04 include:

  • Enhancements to the CPD functionality
  • Adjust the 'Peer assessment' block into a (peer or self) 'Assessment' block
  • Make outcomes portfolios copyable
  • Combine 'Image' and 'Image gallery' blocks
  • Extra grading option for portfolio submissions
  • Escalate issue reports
  • Change to Material icons
  • Custom maintenance message
  • Unlock and lock portfolios as administrator
  • Optionally change the legal consent acceptance behaviour
  • CLI script to allow the adding / updating of email address from command line
  • Bulk update authentication via a CLI script

Watch the feature release video for a brief description of the highlights in this release.

The Mahara manual is in the process of being updated with these and other new features as well as changed functionality.

The code for Mahara 25.04 is available to subscribers in our repository, both in Git and as downloadable package.

Supported releases

Mahara 24.04 is still supported for security updates. Support for Mahara 24.04 will end in October 2025. Mahara 25.04 will receive updates until October 2026.

Support and bugs

If you find any issues in this new release, please feel free to use our issue tracker to report them.

If you need help with anything, the support forum is the best place to ask your questions.

Contributors

Several organisations contributed to the release of Mahara 25.04 through funding new features and bug fixes. We want to thank all of them (in alphabetical order):

We would also like to thank all subscribers who through their subscription contribute financially to the overall project, enabling our team to fix issues, maintain the project infrastructure, and also create new features from our roadmap.

We also wish to thank the people who contributed code changes to this release:

Contributor Change sets
Robert Lyon (Catalyst IT) 142
Doris Tam (Catalyst IT 106
Phil Sainty (Catalyst IT) 32
Yvonne Waterman (Catalyst IT) 22
Evonne Cheung (Catalyst IT) 13
Djarran Cotleanu (Catalyst IT) 8
Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) 5
OpenEdu 3
Francis Devine (Catalyst IT) 2
Guillaume Colson (Université de Lorraine) 2
Steve Massicotte (Université de Montréal) 2
Fyfa Main (Catalyst IT summer intern) 1
Kirill Roskolii (Catalyst IT) 1
Maria Sokolova (Catalyst IT summer intern) 1
Nathan Nguyen (Catalyst IT) 1
Ocean Steer (Catalyst IT) 1
Tatiana Glushchenko (Catalyst IT) 1

 

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, José Miguel Andonegi, Juan Ezeiz, Ramón Ovelar
  • Catalan. Contributors over time: Albert Gasset, Anna, David Planella, Joan Queralt Gil, JoanColl, Juan Segarra Montesinos, Puri Andrés, Richard Samson, Robert Antoni Buj Gelonch
  • Dutch. Contributors over time: Balaam's Miracle, Bas Brands, Eric, Jeroen Hendrickx, Joost Elshoff, Koen Roggemans, M Kerkhoff, Marinka van der Kolk, OpenEdu, Raoul Dorrisen, rmob, Snicksie, Volker Schmidt
  • French. Contributors over time: Alain Benoit, Alain Bolli, Alexandre Croteau, Anne017, Aurelien Besson, Cmathieu, David Truong, Dominique-Alain Jan, Emilie Lenel, Équipe StudiUM, Eric Breton, François Lizotte, Giulia Vighetti, Hélène V., Jean Marc, londumas, Melvin Romero, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Paula Caterino, Philippe Petitqueux, Pierre Guinoiseau, sic, Stéphane, Yannick Cordel
  • German. Contributors over time: Andy Hediger, Anne Spindler, Bradley Pfau, Christian Kleinhanss, Daniel Winzen, Dennis Baudys, eledia, Ernst Artner, Ettore Atalan, Gunnar Staniczek, Heinz Krettek, Jan Behrens, Jonas Renggli, Jürgen Friedrich, Klaus Steitz, Kristina Höppner, Luca Bösch, M. Ehlers, Marcel Debray, Mathias, Michael Engel, Michael Wuttke, Moritz Ringler, N2k1, Nico Verse, Patrick Neumann, Ralf Hilgenstock, Ralph Ballier, Silas Zahner, Stefanie Berger, Steffen Pegenau, Stephan Woidowski, Tobias Bannert, TZI
  • Japanese. Contributor over time: Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Te reo Māori. Contributor over time: Ian Cormack

There are many more translations of Mahara at varying stages of completeness.

The Mahara manual is also being translated. Many thanks to everyone contributing to that.

We want to acknowledge other groups of people as well who contributed to Mahara 25.04: graphic designers, business analysts, UX researchers, accessibility consultants, testers, documentation writers, system administrators, developers improving supporting infrastructure, and security researchers.

Ngā mihi

The 25.04 Release Managers at Catalyst

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