[LON-CAPA-announce] New version released - LON-CAPA 2.6.2

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

New Version 2.6.2 Released 

This is primarily a bug fix release for versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
It is highly recommended to update 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 installations with 2.6.2 
if LON-CAPA is used for scantron grading in your domain. 

Changes from 2.6.1 

Bug fixes:
 - Validation of scantron files again accommodates optionresponse, 
matchresponse and rankresponse problems (multiple bubble lines are used in a 
single problem in these cases).
 - Bridge Tasks to be graded are again listed as items for handgrading in the 
What's New page.
 - Edit XML and Edit links for a file in a directory listing in Construction
Space go directly to the corresponding edit screen, again, as expected.
 - Day of the week is now correct when language preference is not English.
 - LaTeX jobs stuck in a loop now timeout and cease to consume processor
time.
 - When cloning a course, usernames set in course parameters (e.g.,
recipients of messages about course policy, content etc.) are no longer
copied to the new course.
 - Link/Button to access Construction Space now added to Main Menu/Remote
Control for Assistant Co-authors.
 - A table of contents is available again in the PDF version of the Author 
Manual. 

Enhancements:
 - Practice problems are marked as "not graded" in a course's table of
contents.
 - Solution of a practice problem results in a message that "submissions for
practice problems are not preserved" instead of a receipt.
 - Resources can be printed with associated annotations made by the user.
 - The problem type (exam, survey or homework) can be specified when printing 
a problem in Construction Space.
 - Some localization updates.
 - Some German translations added or updated. 

To install this update: 

1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, or 8, RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5,
SUSE 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5
 (Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.) 

2) If necessary update to the current LONCAPA-prerequisites (1-10), and
replace gnuplot_loncapa with gnuplot 4.2.  Note: if you already updated to
2.6.0 or 2.6.1, you will have already done this so you can skip this step. 

(a) Fedora
For Fedora 5 and 6 you will need to import the LON-CAPA public key.  For
Fedora 7 and 8, it is assumed that this occurred previously during the 
original installation. 

rpm --import http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/RPM-GPG-KEY-loncapa 

yum update --obsoletes 

(b) RedHat Enterprise 4 

up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
up2date -i gnuplot 

(c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5 

yum update --obsoletes 

(d) SuSE/SLES 

Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
Use yast->Software Management->Search to update LONCAPA-prerequisites (to
version  1-10), install gnuplot and delete gnuplot_loncapa. 

On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have the
correct versions of LONCAPA-prequisites and gnuplot installed before
proceeding. 

rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
rpm -q gnuplot 

should report:
LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-10.X
gnuplot-4.2.0.X 

(where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc) 

3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.6.2.tar.gz 

and untar it 

tar xzvf loncapa-2.6.2.tar.gz 

4) stop the LON-CAPA system services 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop 

5) stop the webserver:
Fedora/RHEL:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop 

SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
/etc/init.d/apache stop 

SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop 

6) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-2.6.2
su
./UPDATE 

7) restart the LON-CAPA system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start 

8) restart the webserver: 

Fedora/RHEL:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start 

SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
/etc/init.d/apache start 

SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
/etc/init.d/apache2 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 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group