Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] 1.99.2 out there

From: Guy Albertelli II <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:46:47 -0400 (EDT)

Hi All,

1.99.2 is out there, how does this release notice sound:

New Version 1.99.2 Released

Notable Changes (from 1.99.1):
- public browsing users can now interact with _all_ types of problems
- you can control the display engine used for an <m> tag
   for example: <m display="tth">
- Parameter Helper works again
- can clear all bombs in a hierarchy of directories
- What's New screen, all boxes now work
- <div> is supported in printing

Bug fixes:
- tex in helpfiles works correctly again
- no longer cache the error page as the thumbnail of the resource
- <gnuplot> print again
- checking of the instructors answer in <numericalresponse> and <formularesponse> works correctly for vector style answers, and displays better information
- WebCT 4 import supports the numerical style questions more fully  
- track student xml file parsing is much faster
- printing resources with <p align="something"> will work better when </p> is not used
- a bunch of other small things

To install this update:

1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 or 4 to work
   (SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 support is coming soon.)

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-1.99.2.tar.gz

and untar it

tar xzvf loncapa-1.99.2.tar.gz

4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.99.2
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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