Moodle 2.0

What’s new in

1. SYSTEM

REQUIRMENTS

Moodle 2.0 is a major release and as a

result there are increases in the

requirements

• PHP 5.2.8 is now the maximum

version supported. This allows

developers to write cleaner code

using the more recent features of PHP.

When upgrading to Moodle 2.0 you

must have Moodle 1.9 or later.

If you are using an earlier version of

Moodle you need to upgrade to Moodle

1.9 (or later) first

2. ADMINISTRATIVE

IMPROVEMENTS

1) Enrolments improvements

including groups

synchronization several major

improvements related to guest

access, course

enrolments, metacourses and

groups

2) Roles administration interface

improvements

3) Standard Web Services Layer

Standard set of core API functions

made available via SOAP and

XML-RPC

4) Development: Site-wide groups

5) Admin report plugins can

choose where in the admin

tree they are added

3. DATABASE

CONTROL

DB LAYER 2.0

Database access is to be refactored

so that, “we can use prepared

statements everywhere for increased

security and some performance,

we put datalib functions in a class to

allow better unit tests and remove

the need for slashes in userspace.

This will cause breakage for 3rd

party modules (but fixing them won’t

be too hard!)”

ANCIENT DB INSTALL /

UPGRADE SYSTEM REMOVED

The deprecated system for installing

or upgrading database entire used

in Moodle< 1.7 will be completely

removed, while supporting only the

new XML based database scheme

introduced in 1.7

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