The software update being performed today (version b8b14e9) brings with it a lot of improvements. Administrators will specifically like this update, as it brings with it several performance improvements. Read below for more details.

• New feature: Search for objects/folders within course content.
• New feature: Search for objects/folders within a given folder.
• New feature: Search for objects/folders within a given site (from site's root folder).
• New feature: Search for objects/folders in the entire database.
• New feature: Parent institution can now be specified.
• New feature: Contact manager can now be used for selecting users, groups and institutions. It is also much easier to use from a template.
• Performance improvement: Search responses with lots of hits now respond faster.
• Performance improvement: Search within site should be much faster.
• Performance improvement: Listing the contents of folders should be somewhat faster.
• Performance improvement: Listing institutions should be quite a lot faster.
• Performance improvement: Using the assign to group action inside collection should now respond in reasonable time.
• Performance improvement: Listing course/student/teacher connections should be significantly faster.
• Performance improvement: Listing courses should be faster.
• Performance improvement: Managing site folders should be significantly faster.
• Performance improvement: Managing course content should be quite faster.
• Performance improvement: Internet Explorer 9 users now benefit from GZip compression on all content.
• Performance improvement: Removed unnecessary GZip compression on static images and MP3 files.
• Enhancement: When doing search within course or folder, the folder menu (usually on the left of the screen) is now populated with the currently searched folder.
• Enhancement: When adding/editing an institution, searching for owner and institution now uses contact manager.
• Enhancement: It is now possible to unpack zip archives with file names in either UTF8 or ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding.
• Enhancement: Bundled jQuery library updated to 1.5.1.
• Enhancement: Bundled jQuery UI library updated to 1.8.9.
• Enhancement: Bundled SoundManager2 library updated to 2.97.
• Permission change: Search within folder is now available to anonymous users.
• Bugfix: Disabled HTML5 audio with SoundManager on IE9. Should fix MP3 playback issue.
• Bugfix: Fixed problem with playback of multiple sounds concurrently (Lesedilla).
• Bugfix: Word audio playback feature now skips iframes and form elements (Lesedilla).
• Bugfix: Fixed internal server error in configuration set management workflow.
• Bugfix: TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG editor) should now be served with a versioned URL (should fix potential caching problems).
• Bugfix: Thumbnail URL generation in file chooser now uses versioned URL (should fix potential caching problems).