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1: LAMS 2.3.5 is out!
01/05/11 09:53 AM
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Fellas,

The installers and upgraders for LAMS 2.3.5 are finally out. Please find them in the Downloads Wiki page.

LAMS 2.3.5 is about double the size of previous upgrades and that's because it has bug fixes, a number of improvements and quite a few important new features.

The most important once I would say are:

* Ability to clone lessons
* Ability for a course manager to see *all* lessons
* New event logging mechanism
* Easier way to remove people from courses/groups
* Major improvements in localisation and time zones
* Fix lots of UTF8 character issues (some more to go though)
* A new tool: e-Adventure integration with LAMS
* Integrated SMTP to send emails.

Here are the full release notes.

This time, and in order to make things easier for new comers, we have released a 2.3.5 upgrader, for those who already have 2.3.4 installed *and* a full 2.3.5 installer. So people that want to install LAMS to its latest version, don't have to install 2.3 and then the other 5 patches.

The installers/upgraders are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. (I'll get to the Debian/Ubuntu one as soon as have a chance!).

As always, we would like to thanks all the awesome translators for their great work and we all can benefit greatly! Many thanks for all of them.

Many thanks for Spyros Papadakis and Fiona Malikoff for their help in testing the upgraders and installers.

Enjoy!

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

2: Re: LAMS 2.3.5 is out!
In response to 1 01/05/11 11:41 AM
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Thanx, good to see that LAMS is alive and improving/growing :)

(1) I made an upgrade from 2.3.4 under Solaris. Script needed two little fixes, well, at least one:

SunOS 5.10 Generic_127111-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

L237: du -s $LAMS_DIR $JBOSS_DIR
L335: cp -pr assembly/lams.ear/* $EAR_DIR > log/update-files.log

... LAMS seems to work fine, but I didn't do any real testing. I'll wait for complaints from my students ;)

(2) Fix a typo in the next release
Check server/defalt/log/boot.log and server/defalt/log/server.log to see if LAMS has started correctly.

(3) Do you have an ETA for the moodle 2.0 extension ? Would be cool to have this sometimes soon, since there will be semester breaks in early feb (less risk to disrupt classes).

- cheers and a happy new year ! - Daniel

Posted by Daniel Schneider

3: Re: Re: LAMS 2.3.5 is out!
In response to 2 01/05/11 12:58 PM
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Hi Daniel, 

Thanks for you help with this. 

> SunOS 5.10 Generic_127111-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
> 
> L237: du -s $LAMS_DIR $JBOSS_DIR
> L335: cp -pr assembly/lams.ear/* $EAR_DIR > log/update-files.log

Good point! 

I've just now added a check in the script that would determine the attributes for the DU and the CP commands:

if [[ "$(uname)" = "SunOS" ]]
then
    # This is SunOS                                                                                                          
    CP_ATT=" -pr"
    DU_ATT=" -s"
else
   # This is Linux/MacOSX                                                                                                    
    CP_ATT=" -pvr"
    DU_ATT=" -chs"
fi

Here's the full script (http://is.gd/kaQCP)

> (2) Fix a typo in the next release
> Check server/defalt/log/boot.log and server/defalt/log/server.log to see if
> LAMS has started correctly.

Ah Thanks, I'll fix this too. 

> (3) Do you have an ETA for the moodle 2.0 extension ?

Now that I have 2.3.5 out of my plate, I'll be focusing *just* on that. 

Thanks again for the help and your French translations :-) 

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

4: Re: LAMS 2.3.5 is out!
In response to 1 01/06/11 01:11 AM
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Hi Ernie,

Good job!

Have you add time zones parameter into bulk_user_list (lams_users_template.xls)?

Spyros

Posted by Spyros Papadakis

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