“Mahara 1.10.2 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Mahara 1.10.2 is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework.

Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo M?ori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed.

Mahara 1.10.2 also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Changes Details

• Even quicker way to fill in artefact paths
• Display pre-1.10 TinyMCE smiley images
• Updating test/versioncheck.php with latest from master
• Fix MySQL syntax error in cron task
• Count “core” and “local” in the “toupgradecount” for check_upgrades()
• Performance improvements for the code that fills in artefact.path
• Bug 1396565: Error when adding a Group pages block onto a group home page
• Bug 1405427: Group forums posts email don’t show user name of who posted
• Bug 1380203: Giving access to 2 pages only generates 1 access notification
• Bug 1384467: CSS is not stripping out bad css attributes anymore
• Bug 1387858: Draft journal entries are visible to others
• Bug 1394738: Text descriptions of image links on Edit Page need to be modified
• Bug 1399246: PDF embeds fail in sites with subdomains for user pages
• Bug 1400524: Upgrading from 1.7 to 1.10 failed in big databases
• Bug 1401313: Command-line updater not detecting core & local upgrades
• Bug 1408542: TinyMCE emoticons are not displayed in TinyMCE 4
• Bug 1385818: Font size in “Feedback” block pop-up is too small
• Bug 1392700: Images not displayed – blog post by tag
• Bug 1394758: cli not returning the ‘nothing to upgrade’ message when nothing to upgrade anymore
• Bug 1397068: Flickr API now requires use of https for endpoint
• Bug 1399311: SQL syntax error in cron_event_log_expire on key word SECONDS
• Bug 1400511: Cannot cancel comment form after validation fails

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“Dada Mail 7.0.0 mandatory update.”

Mahara 1.9.1 is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework.

Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo M?ori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed.

Mahara 1.9.1 also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Changes Details

• Bug #1250302: A site admin who belongs to an institution with skins disabled, gets an error trying to edit site skins
• Bug #1305451: Content editor sidebar doesn’t work on Chrome
• Bug #1307760: Problems saving view layout – no option selected by default
• Bug #1310761: public group and allow submissions problem
• Bug #1311876: textbox attachment chooser tabs cause the config form to shrink
• Bug #1311940: Error shown when changing your profile icon to default “Standard or external avatar”
• Bug #1315226: Can’t expand “Share with other users and groups” for sharing institution pages
• Bug #1317295: Problem with pagination and plan blocks
• Bug #1318430: php max execution time needs to be increased for install
• Bug #1308479: License help not found for blocks

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“Mahara 1.8.2 this is a security and maintenance release.”

Mahara 1.8.2 is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework.

Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo M?ori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed.

Mahara 1.8.2 also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Changes Details

• Bug 1239461: External feed has duplicate rows causing problems
• Bug 1249858: Mahara can’t figure out mime types because of a finfo() bug
• Bug 1256118: elasticsearch install hangs if ElasticSearch Server not running
• Bug 1257953: public group forum info do not show up in elasticsearch
• Bug 1262050: Same profile picture used on “Shared with me”
• Bug 1264105: Problem with deleting skins that are attached to a portfolio page
• Bug 1265049: forum post notifications have escaped <br> in message in inbox
• Bug 1266317: Institution/group ownership of custom flexible layouts
• Bug 1266976: Update to HTMLPurifier 4.6.0
• Bug 1268788: mobile_api_json_reply sends extra stuff at the top, making it invalid json
• Bug 1270752: “shared with me” pagination fails with IE 9
• Bug 1284876: Suspended users can log in via password reset email
• Bug 1284878: external feed rss not updating
• Bug 1287350: New Google Drive URL
• Bug 1290649: fonts not working under https
• Bug 1064780: Default journal of a Persona auth account doesn’t have user’s name
• Bug 1070046: select query uses more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE on mysql
• Bug 1086569: Lang string misleading when inst. staff doesn’t have stats access
• Bug 1099811: group files error after upgrade
• Bug 1239928: Prezi doesn’t load
• Bug 1259377: Explanation when there are no tasks in a plan is unclear
• Bug 1262932: Bad data in the DB can cause the schema correction SQL to throw a fatal error
• Bug 1278667: Two error messages when uploading files without accepting upload agreement
• Bug 1284869: Suspended user login attempts show up in “Online Users” list
• Bug 1287262: unable to create group home page
• Bug 1064219: “Add page to watchlist” not clear on artefact page
• Bug 1067724: Unable to read language directory
• Bug 1195120: Delete superflous fullstop on /admin/groups/uploadcsv.php
• Bug 1203082: Change password warning contains escaped html
• Bug 1231920: Duplicate tags in page creation gives error message
• Bug 1253462: Undefined property: stdClass::$urlid after doing feedback
• Bug 1267240: Clicking on new change layout icon needs to warn if navigating away without saving

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Mahara 1.7.3  Stable releases are fit for general use. 

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo M?ori, is user centered environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed.

Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Changes Details

• Unset deleted institutions as parent authority to other institutions
• For private profiles, hide all profile information from logged-out users
• Bug – Make sure user has permission to publish artefacts
• Bug – Check if the block instance belongs to the view
• Bug – Add alt and title tag for blocks
• Bug – Add missing lang string for warning
• Bug – Fix permissions of group area
• Validate $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] before using it
• Stop empty resume birthdate from auto-filling to Jan 1, 1970
• LDAP support for LDAP URLs with non-standard ports
• Bug – Missing lang string for group page with clean URL
• Bug – Rss images rendering too large in external feed block
• Bug – Fix for pagination when in edit blockinstance doing search
• Fix display of the name of the sharing group on the Group Participation report
• Reduce false positives in syntax checket for unbracketed SQL tables.
• Correct Mahara 1.7 version number
• Bug – New fix for the YouTube issue
• admin/upgrade.php: Make installer jump to the bottom of the page when install is done
• Bug – Returning red colour to the ‘cron is not running’ message
• Bug – Revert “Add protocol to Youtube iframe code”
• view/view.php: Squelch a “headdata already sent” warning
• Bug – Fix “Loading” message issue.
• Update PREG_CLASS_SEARCH_EXCLUDE to latest from Drupal 6
• Bug – Add protocol to Youtube iframe code

Fixed Bugs

Security issues

• Arbitrary image download
• User supplied $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] can be used for injections
• Not checking ownership of blocks before editing them

Other issues

• Make profile information not avaialble for public when not shared
• The embedded iframe filter doesn’t support scheme-relative URLs such as “//youtube.com” (now used in the YouTube and Vi$
• Pager in search in a block doesn’t work
• After installation, make the installer “jump” to the “Continue” link at the bottom of the page
• When an auth instance is deleted, disable it as a parent authority
• LDAP support for non-standard port LDAP Urls
• Reduce false positives in syntax checker for unbracketed SQL tables
• Alt tag in the artefact chooser panel only says “Preview”
• Some RSS feed channel images are rendered too large in External feeds block
• Missing lang string for group page with clean URL
• Missing lang string for existing URL on allowed iframes
• Uploading a file – “Loading” message remains
• “Cron is not running” not displayed in red anymous
• Page view throws headdata warning, if group submissions enabled
• Undefined variable $id in group/report.php
• Internal search ignores ‘KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK’

More Information

• Try Online Demo:
  Mahara (Softaculous external link)
  Mahara Changelog (Official website, external link)

• Start Mahara
  In order to use Mahara you need a domain name (ex. yoursite.com) and web hosting service.
  If you don’t have a domain name Register a Domain Name.
  To install Mahara choose one of our hosting plans. (all our packages includes Softaculous).

• Hosted Mahara
  Contact us if you don’t need a domain or hosting service, and want to use Mahara anyway.

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