WeBWorK Online Homework Delivery System

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 2.3.1

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                                     WeBWorK                                    
                         Online Homework Delivery System                        
                                  Version 2.3.1                                 

                    Copyright 2000-2006, The WeBWorK Project                    
                              All rights reserved.                              

Introduction

   The [1]WeBWorKTeam is pleased to announce the release of WeBWorK
   2.3.1. This release builds on WeBWorK 2.3.0, adding several bug fixes
   and low-impact feature enhancements. Changes include:

     * LaTeXMathML mode now works with MSIE.
     * login.log formatting fix.
     * Improve LDAP error checking, get LDAP settings from global.conf.
     * Preserve the last field in a classlist file when importing, even
       if the field is empty.
     * Put the "Save" button before the "Save As" button in the File
       Manager's file editor. This avoids "Save" disappearing off the
       right-hand side when the browser windows isn't big enough to show
       it.
     * Report gateway tests graded in the grace period after the due time
       as having been completed at exactly the maximum allowed time.
       Thus, if a test allows 20 minutes and there is a grace period
       (defined in global.conf) of 2 minutes, a test submitted after 21
       minutes will be reported here as having been completed in 20
       minutes, not 21. This avoids some confusion for instructors who
       aren't aware of the grace period.
     * Resolve "undefined value in subtraction" errors during gateway
       testing.
     * Fixed problem where Show Past Answers would incorrectly includes
       answers for students whose login names have the current student's
       login name as a suffix. (See bug_small.gif [2]Bug #1102.)
     * Update jsMath to version 3.3g. See
       [3]http://www.math.union.edu/locate/jsMath/changes.html for
       specific changes.
     * Fix runtime_use so that importing actually works, allow the
       specification of import lists.
     * Apache 2 compatibility fixes for Feedback and Email modules.
     * Improve parameter handling under Apache 2.
     * Fix a bug where leading spaces in a scoring file would be
       incorporated into the student ID field rather than ignored. (See
       bug_small.gif [4]Bug #932.)
     * Fixed a number of errors caused by commenting out
       $courseFiles{problibs} in global.conf. (See [5]4261: Homework Sets
       Editor- Error message and global.conf.dist for more information.)
     * Two enahancements to the Feedback mechanism. (See [6]4503: WebCT
       Connection.)
          + Make the name of the Feedback button configurable. Default it
            still "Email instructor". Customization requires the addition
            of the $feedback_button_name item to global.conf.
          + Allow replacing the Feedback button with a link to an
            arbitrary URL. Customization requires the addition of the
            $courseURLs{feedbackURL} item to global.conf.
     * Fixed a problem where email could not be sent from PG problems.
     * Fixed a problem in classlist file import where if the password
       field existed but was empty the student ID would not be used as
       the password and an invalid password would be set. (Thanks bcamp.)

Installation

   WeBWorK 2.3.1 is available from our CVS repository, or as a tarball
   from our SourceForge file release page. We recommend that you install
   from CVS. Keep in mind that because of the layout of files within the
   webwork2 directory tree, upgrading an existing installation is harder
   using a tarball than using CVS.

   Installation instructions are available from
   [7]InstallationManualV2pt3.

   You must also have [8]PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1 installed. The
   installation manual also covers installing PG.

   If you are upgrading from WeBWorK 2.2.x, you will need to upgrade your
   database. See [9]"Automatic" database upgrades in the installation
   manual.

Help

   If you need help installing or using WeBWorK, visit the [10]WeBWorK
   discussion group and post your question there. The developers and many
   experienced WeBWorK users monitor this forum.

Bug Reports & Feature Requests

   Please submit bug reports and feature requests at
   [11]http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/.

   -- [12]SamHathaway - 03 Nov 2006

References

   1. http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/WeBWorKTeam
   2. http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1102
   3. http://www.math.union.edu/locate/jsMath/changes.html
   4. http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=932
   5. http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/msgReader$4261
   6. http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/msgReader$4503
   7. http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/InstallationManualV2pt3
   8. http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1
   9. http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/InstallationManualV2pt3#Automatic_database_upgrades
  10. http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/
  11. http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/
  12. http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/SamHathaway


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