Category: News

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.6.10, 2.7.7, 2.8.5

There are three new CLAMP releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. This release incorporates both the initial releases made by Moodle core on March 9, and the emergency releases made the same day after a regression was discovered.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases on the 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 branches are slated for May 18. Core has scheduled the Moodle 2.9 release for the same window; CLAMP anticipates releasing a beta in late May and a production release following the MUG and Hack/Doc Fest at the College of the Holy Cross in June.

I would like to thank Kevin Wiliarty (Smith College) and Willy Lee (Carleton College) for packaging and testing this set of releases.

CLAMP MUG arrives at Holy Cross in June 2015

CLAMP’s second Moodle User Group (MUG) meeting will be held at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, MA from Monday, June 22 through Tuesday, June 23, 2015. The event’s website is mug2015.clamp-it.org.

Learn about what topics may be presented at the event by visiting our Call for Presentations page or submit your own proposal using our online form.

The MUG will be followed by CLAMP’s biannual Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, a three-day event where developers, instructional technologists, and others come together to work on the open source learning management system. Hack/Doc runs from Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26, 2015. Learn more about Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.

 

LAE Security Releases

Due to a recent emergency security release of Moodle, CLAMP is issuing new versions of all of its supported releases. CLAMP strongly recommends that you upgrade to one of these security releases.

Moodle is withholding public details of the vulnerability until next week. Registered Moodle admins should have received details via email. The vulnerability could allow authenticated users to submit malformed requests to get files outside of the Moodle directory.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases on the 2.8, 2.7 and 2.6 branches are still slated for March 16.

Versions prior to 2.6 are also vulnerable. In Moodle 2.3 and 2.4, only instances hosted on Windows are vulnerable. Starting with Moodle 2.5, the vulnerability affected all server operating systems. If you are running one of these versions in production, you should apply the fix directly. If this applies to you and you need help, please contact wlee@carleton.edu or fultonc@lafayette.edu for help.

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.6.7, 2.7.4, 2.8.2

There are three new CLAMP releases. This is the initial release on the 2.8 branch. The 2.7 and 2.6 releases include an updated version of the Roster report; the 2.7 release includes an updated version of the Edit Dates report.

The 2.8 release includes major changes to the LAE distribution: we have removed LAE Grader, LAE User, and “old” Quickmail; we have added the News Forum local module. These changes are fully described in the 2.8 release notes below. The removal of the LAE grader reports is made possible by the significant improvements to the core grader reports in the 2.8 release, with which Bob Puffer of Luther College was heavily involved.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases on the 2.8, 2.7 and 2.6 branches are slated for March 16.