[LON-CAPA-dev] 2.5.1 pre-announce
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:20:10 -0400
Hi All,
2.5.1 nears release
here is the first draft email, let me know if I'm missing anything
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New Version 2.5.1 Released
This is a bugfix release.
Notable Changes from 2.5.0:
- support creating author accounts with @ in the username
- krb5 authentication errors logged to lond.log
- if cloning is requested but not allowed create course doesn't
create an empty course
- PGRD of a radiobutton response shows the students answer correctly
- IMS import into a course works correctly
- time intervals set for resource in the top level map shows the course
name rather than the string 'default.sequence'
- fixes to the seeting of the permenant email when modfying a user
- improvements to user search
- add user search type 'begins with'
- enroll a single student now uses the user searching mechanism
- clicker grading handles mutliple users with same clicker id and
ignores ex-students
- .html with lon-capa custom tags in it could leave xml parser unclean
- German translation updated
To install this update:
1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 5, 6, or 7, RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5,
SUSE 9.3 10.1 or 10.2, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5
(Fedora Core 4 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
2) If running Fedora or RHEL 5, 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 9.3 or SLES 9, you will need to use yast to remove
and readd the lon-capa repository source and then force the update of
LONCAPA-prerequisites
If running SUSE 10.2, 10.1 or SLES 10, use rug to update your machine.
if running RHEL 4, use up2date to update your machine.
3) After updating check that you have version 1-9 of
LONCAPA-prerequisities installed
rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
4) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.5.1.tar.gz
and untar it
tar xzvf loncapa-2.5.1.tar.gz
5) stop the Lon-CAPA system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
6) stop the webserver:
Fedora/RHEL:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
/etc/init.d/apache stop
SUSE 10.1/SLES 10:
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
7) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-2.5.1
su
./UPDATE
8) restart the Lon-CAPA system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
9) restart the webserver:
Fedora/RHEL:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
/etc/init.d/apache start
SUSE 10.1,2/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
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guy@albertelli.com 0-7-0-9-27,137