[LON-CAPA-dev] 1.0.2 preliminary announcement
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:48:40 -0400 (EDT)
Looks like we will need to have 1.0.2
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New Version 1.0.2 Released
Notable Bug Fixes:
- online 'exam' mode and 'don't show problem status' work correctly now
To install this update:
1) You will need to be running Redhat 7.X (preferably 7.3)
for this release to work
2) if you haven't already download and install the 3.7 systemperl rpm
If you are running RedHat 7.X get
http://install.loncapa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.7-rh7.i386.rpm
Install it by doing:
rpm -e `rpm -q -a | grep systemperl`
rpm --install --force --nodeps LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.7-rh7.i386.rpm
Verify it is installed by doing:
$ rpm -q LON-CAPA-systemperl
RedHat 7.X will show
LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.7-rh7
3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-1.0.2.tar.gz
and untar it
tar xzvf loncapa-1.0.2.tar.gz
4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.0.2
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
4) Work continues on supporting Redhat 9, and 10, maybe in another
month or so.
----Detailed List of Fixes
- IN have more BRE priv
- Stringresponse doesn't forget settings
- all problems work better in inhibit answer mode
- bugs in the caching of STAT and CHRT data fixed
- lonnavmaps and quickgtrades no longer bleed information
when in no problem status mode
- IDs are now added to match/rank response
- <gnuplot> in &xmlparse() works
- <organic/reaciontresponse> accept arrays of correct answers
- <organicresponse> support more JME options
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guy@albertelli.com LON-CAPA Developer 0-7-5-6-