eFront 3.6.3 build 7455 now available

[periklis]

note: edited to depict 7455 release
eFront team is excited to announce the availability of eFront 3.6.3 build 7455
This is the most important release after 3.6.0 (which was released early this year) and brings a wealth of new features, along with many fixes and improvements.
As a general note, this version focuses on performance from one hand and on gradually shifting to a course-centric implementation on the other. A separate post will be made available shortly that goes into more depth explaining new features. Meanwhile, the changelog follows, along with the diff files for language and css (rather large one the latter, due to new functionality and new image maps).
So, go grab the new version, perform the upgrade (which is now much faster, as promised) and don't hesitate to share your impressions with us, by posting here!

Always backup your data first

Users of the commercial editions of eFront will find the update soon in the "registration" section of their admin account

Changelog:
=== Version 3.6.3 build 7455 ===
- Fixed error in course completion page
- Fixed lesson assignment to users issue

=== Version 3.6.3 build 7400 ===
- Added course instances functionality (educational/enterprise)
- Added feedback functionality
- Added curriculum functionality (educational/enterprise)
- Added enterprise options to system settings (educational/enterprise)
- Added find user functionality and paired them closely to groups (educational/enterprise)
- Added quick upgrade functionality
- Added purge logs functionality in admin -> maintenance
- Added option in custom user types for dashboard
- Added option about where to redirect after user login (user dashboard or user courses)
- Added debugging mode option
- Added option to show only courses in progress in user's courses list
- Added "completed lesson" block
- Added "reset course progress" functionality
- Radical performance and memory consumption improvements
- Unassigning and reassigning a user to a course/lesson now retains his/her progress
- By default only courses/lessons in progress show up in users' catalog
- Made RSS module installed by default and connect to eFront's RSS
- Updated adodb libraries to 5.10
- Updated phplivedocx_server value to https://api.livedocx.com/1.2/mailmerge.asmx?WSDL
- Updated layout to better support IE6/7 (eliminates annoying white empty space)
- Fixed security vulnerabilities discovered by VUPEN Security http://www.vupen.com. The issue regarded XSS attacks via POST and was addressed by adding an optional parameter to sanitize POST parameters in admin's system settings
- Fixed issue about counting deactivated uses in license users count
- Fixed bug in notifications about returning archived courses as well
- Fixed display issue in lesson information about lesson completion rules
- Fixed issue about inserting (in caret) file to editor from file manager
- Fixed issue with update unit/create subunit links when redirected to first unit
- Fixed issue about not sending mass e-mails when a user has not e-mail address defined
- Fixed issue with new line in lesson information
- Fixed bug about taking into account archived lessons in users page
- Fixed bug about string compare instead of numeric in ini_set
- Fixed bug about importing lesson with glossary terms
- Fixed issue with php.ini when it exists in www folder by copying it to install folder
- Fixed issue about displaying all tests in reports for a multi-roled user
- Fixed problems with show correct answers and custom css files
- Fixed issue with progress bar when user had seen a deleted unit
- Fixed issue with active field in personal settings
- Fixed bug in storing unit visited into logs
- Fixed issue with background in editor popups and colored themes
- Fixed layout issue with simulatenously showing sidebar and header enabled
- Disabled save button in copy content from another lesson, until ajax response
- Hundreds of smaller fixes and updates

[papagel]

For in-depth description of the changes in this build please check:
http://docs.efrontlearning.net/index.php/Release_3.6.3

[skippybosco]

Congrats to the team. While this is certainly a great release, the wiki article on the release is the best I've seen.

Great job!

[y.sulistya]

awesome!

[shalb]

Hello,

regarding the new css file is it necessary in case of an own theme to change that global.css or is it sufficient meanwhile to keep the own file and put the new css into the default theme?

[periklis]

I'm afraid you would need to tweak your css file, merging the changes of the file, because otherwise icons may appear displaced due to new image maps