New features

• It is now possible for supervisors at institutions to create and manage their own groups. This should allow a long-requested feature, namely project groups.
• MathML embedding now uses native HTML5 method via MathJax 2.0 library. Browsers without native MathML support uses fallback method.

Enhancements

• The list of groups associated with a user (my contacts) should now include all relevant groups.
• The group management workflow has been rewritten and substantially cleaned up.
• Invalid institution roles are no longer allowed in Manage institution page.
• SVG rendering uses native HTML5 method if available. On Internet Explorer 8 or older traditional iframe embedding is used.
• Upgraded to jQuery 1.7.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.18.

Bugfixes

• JavaScript apps without filename set should now render properly.
• Fix a possible javaScript error on Internet Explorer 9 because of gzip compression.
• Institution administrator role now displays properly in user profile.
• Courses can be deleted again.
• The assign to course action in collection now lists institution administrator again.

New features

• API for making JavaScript, Java and Flash apps in Portfolio. It is extensible, and other languages like SilverLight and Dart could quite easily be supported as well.
• • The editor field has been completely removed from object custom_init.
  • The codebase field (used by Java applets) has been completely removed from object custom_init.
  • The flash-settings, flash-data, java-settings and java-data object types should no longer be used (deprecated). You should use the object types app-input and app-output instead. They can be used by any app, regardless of implementation language.
• New course_enrollment_ui() template handler. This makes it possible to create documents that allow students to enroll themselves into courses without institution administrator involvement.

Enhancements

• The search feature (top right in most templates) has been reimplemented, and now allows fairly easy addition of new search providers.
• • Translations for our supported languages are now also available.
  • Lexin search providers and others that use Latin1 encoding should now work with non-ASCII letters.
  • A good amount of Lexin nynorsk search providers have been added.
  • A lot of existing search providers have been updated with working URLs.
• It is now possible to locate users in the new message dialog with autocomplete.
• The course assignment to institution user-interface have been completely redesigned. It should now be much easier to assign course licenses to institutions, and also notice any excessive license usage.
• Unlimited license count can now be accomplished by setting the license count to 0.
• It is now possible to forcibly navigate to a course's root container when using nav_course request handler.

Bugfixes

• Plain textareas should now use a monospace font again.
• When a user navigates to a course, their course progress is always updated.
• Tables that used the tablesorter system should now properly sort cells with HTML in them.
• Institution administrator role should now be reported properly in all reports.
• Creating new groups with non-ASCII characters in them should no longer cause encoding error.
• Invert checkboxes toggle in file manager should now work in Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

We've now upgraded our database server to a powerful Dell PowerEdge R710. This should give us quite a lot more of backend power, which should be apparent on the time it takes to render several types of reports.

If you're still having problems with timeouts we'd appreciate the feedback.

We've just updated to version d635521, which should ensure the excessive response times we've been seeing lately to be a lot lower.

A small fix for grammar mistakes in the Swedish version of the CEFR placement test email report has also been included.

A new server will be added on Friday, which should further increase the response time. Pay attention to the message of the day, it will inform you when this new hardware will be installed. The system will be offline while we install this new hardware.

This update (7088655) brings with it the following changes: