Release notes for WeBWorK 2.20

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New WeBWorK Features

• Improvements to efficiency of database calls
• Fix a memory leak
• Change student and instructor emails from plain text to HTML
• LTI Section information
• You can now load a problem directly from the Problem Editor, or start with any of the sample problems
• Use achievement item form??
• Change field types when upgrading database - update tables in admin course

New PG Features and Improvements

• TODO

Breaking changes

• TODO

Deprecated Functionality

• TODO

Upgrade Instructions

• First update the webwork2 and pg code. For this run

  > cd /opt/webwork/webwork2

  > git fetch origin

  > git checkout WeBWorK-2.20

  > git pull

  > cd /opt/webwork/pg

  > git fetch origin

  > git checkout PG-2.20

  > git pull

• Update the javascript and css assets for webwork2 and pg with

  > cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/htdocs

  > npm ci

  > cd /opt/webwork/pg/htdocs

  > npm ci

• Run bin/check_modules.pl to ensure you have all programs/modules (although there are no new dependencies for this release).
• Restart the webwork2 server: >sudo systemctl restart webwork2
• If you use the webwork2 job queue, then that will also need to be restarted. Do that with: >sudo systemctl restart webwork2-job-queue
• You should update the modelCourse via: rsync -av /opt/webwork/webwork2/courses.dist/modelCourse/ /opt/webwork/courses/modelCourse/
• Upgrade the admin course by executing the upgrade_admin_db.pl script.
• Make sure to upgrade courses from the admin course to relegate changes to the database.