Release notes for WeBWorK 2.5.1

                                     WeBWorK                                    
                         Online Homework Delivery System                        
                                  Version 2.5.1                                

                    Copyright 2000-2012, The WeBWorK Project                    
                              All rights reserved.                              

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Release date: June, 2012

Github repository:  https://github.com/openwebwork
Modules:    webwork2   pg

 IMPORTANT!! The configuration files have been rewritten.  You will need to configure the prelocal.conf and postlocal.conf files when installing this version.

This will help simplify the webwork2 upgrade process since fewer modifications will need to be made to the configuration files.

Community Developments as of June 2012

• Doxygen is now used to manage the POD documentation (thanks to Djun Kim and Jason Aubrey)
• Github and git are now being used to manage WeBWorK development. The switch over took some time but it seems to be paying off in terms of flexibility.
  • The goal is to encourage more participation in the development of WeBWorK ( see how to become a developer pages )
• A blog aggregator has been installed at https://webwork.maa.org/planet which will collect blog posts about webwork development and webwork use.
  • Send email to Jason Aubrey or Mike Gage to have your blog url added to our list
  • How to include your blog in the webwork.maa.org planet aggregator.
• The localization project continues but needs a volunteer to help coordinate efforts. The link is to a blog post that gives detailed news about the localization effort.

New features for 2.5.1

• Highlights
  • MathAchievements module added. When turned on it provides "gamefication" for WeBWorK.
  • New configuration files
  • New features for Admin courses editor page.
  • New Experimental editor pages:
  • New authentication modules
  • New theme management

• Configuration files
  • configuration files split into prelocal.conf, global.conf.dist,postlocal.conf
  • (2.5.1.1 addition) the files above were renamed sites.conf, default.config and localOverrides.conf respectively. They were also refined considerably by Danny Glin
  • These files make incremental upgrading of webwork2 much easier since the configuration files will not in general need to be rewritten.

• Editor pages
  • There are new (beta) editors HmwkEditor1,2; ClasslistEditor1,2,3 PGProblemEditor1,2, 3 and LibraryBrowser1,2,3
  • There is a setting in postlocal.conf which allows you to determine which links to editors are displayed in the left margin. (You can hide the more experimental browsers if you wish.)

• Authorization
  • Add module for authorizing using the shibboleth module. (thanks to Pan Luo)
  • LTI standard interface installed allowing for WeBWorK integration into Course Management Systems using that standard. (thanks to Bill Wheeler)

• Themes
  • Themes are now placed in htdocs/themes
    • Adding a folder 'newTheme' containing system.template, newTheme.css etc to the themes directory will automatically add newTheme to the menu on the Course Configuration page.

New features for PG 2.5.1

• contextLeadingZero.pl added
• bug fixes to level_curve_check()
• Under the hood
  • bug fixes on includePGproblem