[LON-CAPA-admin] Premilinary 2.0 released (1.99.0)

[Guy Albertelli II]

New Testing Version 1.99.0 Released

It looks pretty good so far. We will be installing this at MSU next
week. So anyone else who can install it and give a poke I would love
to hear how it goes.


Notable Changes:
- things should be faster
- lots of documentation updates
- /etc/init.d/loncontrol reload (tells lonc & lond to reread hosts.tab)
- internal caching updates faster 
- bridge tasks
- What's New page for Course Coordinators
- SPRS is faster
- Cut Copy and Paste items in DOCS
- new tags <chem> <num> <parse> <algebra> ease display of data
- score upload allows more formats and upload by ID
- IMS import of WebCT 4
- New Role 'Assitant Author' for authors that shouldn't have access to 
    anything outside of CSTR
- PARM screens has been reorganized and made easier to use
- DOCS has ability to recover from accidental resource removal
- ability to automate course creation
- format a number to n significant figures 
- scantron support of number and letter formats
- <m> tag output configurable
- 


Student Interface Change:
- 'Submit Answer' only submits a single part (used to submit everything)


To install this update:

1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 to work
   (Fedora Core 4 will be supported very soon, next week most likely)


2) Use yum to update your machine and then install the
      LONCAPA-prerequisites

yum update
yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites



3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-1.99.0.tar.gz

and untar it

tar xzvf loncapa-1.99.0.tar.gz



4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.99.0
su
./UPDATE



5) restart the system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start




----NOTES
1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
   http://bugs.lon-capa.org
3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org

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