Release notes for WeBWorK 2.8

This article is under construction. Use the information herein with caution until this message is removed.

Cautions

Warning :

Because new tables and fields have been added to the OpenProblemLibrary and for new MathAchievement features upgrading from stable webwork (WW-2.7) will require:

• Upgrading the tables by visiting the admin page. (The main change will be to add the field "description" to the set and user_set tables.)
• Updating the library collection webwork-open-problem-library
• Running webwork2/bin/OPL-update to update the library tables.

• To use these instructions your server will require at least perl version 5.10.x (5.12.x would be better, 5.18 is the current version) to run weBWorK release/2.7. Type perl --version on the command line of your server to check.

What's new?

At the moment this is in no particular order.

• level search capability added to LibraryBrowser
• Add requirement for JSON.pm (for sage)
• Add requirement for HTML::Scrubber (to for anti XSS fixes)
• OPL is now default library for sure
• Remove old methods of displaying math
  • Should ascii math be retained?
  • Should LatexMathML be retained?
  • Should jsMath be retained?
• WEBWORK_DIRECTORY is insured to be defined in WeBWorK::Constants.
• numOfAttempts should now give the expected results in homework sets. (Gatewayquizzes need more testing.)
• OPL-update improvements
  • OPL taxonomy also stored in json file.
• Datepicker (calendars) in Homeworksets1 & 2
• Math4 theme updates. (Goehle and Hsu)
• More like this tag in OPL
• js directory reorganization
  • this should be reviewed for more tweaking
• MathAchievement upgrades -- "potions" -- allow for perks for doing well on homework.
  • (requires database upgrade?)
  • Add tabs to Achievement editor.
• MathJax configured to provide better accessibility. Configured now only defaults.config.
• Cosign.pm -- fix typos
• Fixed glitch in Statistics graph
• Massive amount of tweaks to make the basic WeBWorK CMS interface validate to W3 standards. Problems will usually not validate, mainly because of the use of $PAR which is not a container.
• Tweaks to update course page -- slightly less scary error messages. -- adding harmless: in front of the message helps but we should change the color on these.
• Instructors can choose to show paths on hardcopy.
• Chinese and Korean translations added.
• Add homework set descriptions as well as file names -- helps keep file names short. (requires database upgrade?)