[LON-CAPA-dev] Draft of 2.6.3 Release Announcement
Stuart Peter Raeburn
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:28:15 -0400
Hi,
Please let me know of any corrections or omissions.
Thanks,
Stuart
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New Version 2.6.3 Released
This is primarily a bug fix release.
Changes from 2.6.2
Bug fixes:
- Erroneous timeouts when generating printouts eliminated.
- Warning is displayed if resource(s) could not be retrieved when generating
printouts.
- Warning is displayed if resource(s) could not be retrieved when grading.
- "Missing bubble" prompts suppressed again during scantron verification for
parts in included in a problem's "list of hidden parts".
- Access to uploaded PDF files now controlled by content opening/close
dates.
- Domain Coordinator can again add roles in the domain for users from other
domains.
- Complete log messages available again when creating courses with batch
creation.
- Kerberos 5 authentication modified to work with Authen::Krb5 perl module v
1.7.
- Certain types of maxima set-up delays eliminated.
- Duplicate entry for Top level sequence in folder dropdown box in CHRT
eliminated.
- User data directories receive correct ownership when a Domain Coordinator
is created from the command line.
- More compact display for Advanced Resource Assembly Tool (RAT) when Remote
Control active.- Icons frame takes up less space when displaying external
resources if display mode is set to "icons-only".
- Improved randomly generated answers for numericalresponse items in exam
mode when the correct answer is 0.
- Better handling of encrypted/unencrypted URLs during generation of
printouts for sequences/folders with mixed URL types.
Enhancements:
- Each new "course message" listed on the "What's New" page links directly
to the message.
- "uriprint" and "anchorprint" parameters can by used to allow/suppress
inclusion of URLs and anchors when generating printouts.
- Warning provided when publishing resource with dependencies on file(s)
with variable names.
- Warning when authoring an HTML/XML document if balanced <html>, <body> or
<xml> tags are absent.
- When the answer submitted to a mathresponse or formularesponse item is an
equation instead of an expression, submission is identified as a
'BAD_FORMULA' instead of 'INCORRECT'.
- Some localization updates.
- Some German translations added or updated.
- Documentation added for LON-CAPA functions: &cas() and
&implicit_multiplication().
- Helpfile added to aid students entering answers to formularesponse
problems.
- Option to use dashed lines when generating dynamic plots using GNUplot
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, 2.6.1, or 2.6.2 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-2.6.3.tar.gz
and untar it
tar xzvf loncapa-2.6.3.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-2.6.3
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