[LON-CAPA-admin] Version 2.1.1 Released
Guy Albertelli II
guy at albertelli.com
Fri Jan 13 18:07:38 EST 2006
New LON-CAPA Version 2.1.1 Released
- It's highly suggested to install this bugfix release.
Notable Bug Fixes since 2.1.0:
- doc,ppt etc. files switched back to 'showdoc' mode (rather than 'wrapper')
- 'showdoc' files can be navigated now
- "What's New" is available to IN and TA roles, and Custom Roles that are
given the privledge
- display of "What's New" can be configured on a per course basis
- "What's New" page display correct count of course messages again
- TA roles can no longer send broadcast messages or critical messages
by default
- Autoenroll now records a warning if a new username that is being added
shares a student ID with a username already in the course in LON-CAPA
- essay problems with no submissions provide useful feedback when in
answer mode
- the 'modify course documents' privilege is now needed to modify simple
problems
- hidden resources no longer show up on the CLDR
- CLDR items show up in time order
- events that occur exactly at midnight were not showing up on the CLDR
- problems occured when trying to view a COM message that had been sent
by LON-CAPA version 1.2 or older
- some security updates to the COM screens
- display of messages should be significantly faster for users with many roles
- resources that have = in the filename, made it appear that other
resources in the course were 'conditionally hidden'
- directory publication of problems could, in some cases, cause problem to
not end up with IDs assigned to <part>s and <*response>s
- <table> printing improved
- was defaulting to a width of 0 mm if one was unspecified
- images inside of a table were shitfing to different cells
- centering inside of a table cell was causing excess whitespace
- the HTML Entites θ π ρ where being treated as function calls
- PGRD on a .problem in a .page was not working
To install this update:
1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 3 or 4, RHEL ES 4,
SuSe 9.3, or SLES 9
2) If running Fedora, use yum to update your machine and then install the
LONCAPA-prerequisites (if not already installed).
yum update
yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites
If running SuSe or SLES, use you to update your machine.
if running RHEL, use up2date to update your machine.
3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.1.1.tar.gz
and untar it
tar xzvf loncapa-2.1.1.tar.gz
4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-2.1.1
su
./UPDATE
5) restart the LON-CAPA system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
6) restart the webserver:
Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
SuSe / SLES:
/etc/init.d/apache stop
/etc/init.d/apache 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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guy at albertelli.com 0-7-1-8-27,137
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