[LON-CAPA-dev] Draft of 2.6.2 Release Announcement
Stuart Peter Raeburn
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:47:37 -0500
Hi,
Please let me know of any corrections or omissions.
Thanks,
Stuart
New Version 2.6.2 Released
This is primarily a bug fix release for versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
It is recommended to update 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 installations with 2.6.2
Specifically, 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 and
matchresponse problems (multiple bubble lines are used in a single problem
in this case).
- 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 correspoding 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.
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 sepcified 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 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