Release notes for WeBWorK 2.5.1.3

                                     WeBWorK                                    
                         Online Homework Delivery System                        
                                  Version 2.5.1                                

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Release date: January 2013

Github repository:  https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2-dev (as of January 2013) branch:  ww2.5.1.3
Modules:    webwork2   pg

Warning :

The ww2.5.1.3 release will require you to upgrade your course.!

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

Software repo

This repo is currently in openwebwork/webwork2-dev branch: ww2.5.1.3

Warning :

Because new tables and fields have been added for the essayQuestion feature upgrading from ww2.5.1.1 will require:

• Replacing the current database.conf with database.conf.dist (assuming you have made no changes to your local database.conf version)
  • new tables and fields have been added for the essayQuestion feature.
• Upgrading the tables by visiting the admin page -- which will create also create showPastAnswers table
  • This replaces the showPastAnswers logs and also supports the essayQuestion feature.

New features for WW2.5.1.3

• Highlights

• • The principal reason for this release is to provide support for the essayQuestions feature. This requires

changes to the database as described above.

• • • If you upgrade the course databases and then revert to ww2.5.1.1 the "upgrade course" report displayed on the admin

page will announce that there are discrepancies between the schema and the database. The usual fields mentioned

are "flags" and "published" and sometimes "visible". The data field named "published" has been replaced by a field "visible" to conform with the homework sets "visible" state described on the homework editor page.

• • • If the message says that there are extra fields in the database tables which have to be removed by hand, you can ignore the message. The extra fields will not get in the way of operations

of ww2.5.1.1. If then switch back once more to ww2.5.1.3 the error messages will change or go away.

• • • In general if the message says that the course database has to be upgraded to add a field then you should upgrade the course.

• • • If the message says there is an extra field in the course database which can only be removed by hand then you can ignore it. It's annoying but does no harm. You can use the command line tool mysql to remove the field (if you know what you are doing). WeBWorK will add field but never removes them automatically for fear of destroying data.

Release notes for PG 2.5.1

• Under the hood

We have not updated the release number

• Several feature updates and bug fixes have been added to the essayQuestion modules.