Release notes for WeBWorK 2.12
WeBWorK
Online Homework Delivery System
Version 2.12
Copyright 2000-2016, The WeBWorK Project
All rights reserved.
Details
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Release date: May ??, 2016
Github repository: https://github.com/openwebwork
Modules: webwork2 pg ww_install
Contents
Cautions
| Warning : | There are significant database upgrades since 2.11, as well as potential new modules. There are also changes to the configuration files which will need to be integrated into your existing configurations. The process for upgrading to 2.12 is described below.: |
Upgrade Instructions
1) Go to /opt/webwork/webwork2, /opt/webwork/pg and run
git pull origin master
on each directory (assuming that origin is your remote name for the openwebwork repo).
2) Depending on your system there may be new perl modules added for 2.11. Run check_modules.pl and look for missing modules. They may include:
4) Check localOverrides.conf.dist and look for changes to add to the existing localOverrides.conf. There are a couple of important things here that will negatively affect your system if you don't deal with them.
5) Check site-conf.dist and look for changes to add to the existing site.conf. Things to look for include:
6) Check your apache configuration dist file and look for changes to add to the existing apache configuration file. Things to look for include
7) Restart the webserver. (with apachectl graceful or similar command.)
8) Run the upgrade admin database script. You will not be able to access your admin course until this is done, and you will need to do that to upgrade the course databases.
9) Log into the admin course and upgrade the databases for all of your courses. Your server will not be functional until you perform this step.
10) Download the latest version of the OPL using
cd /opt/webwork/libraries/webwork-open-problem-librarygit pull originOPL-update
Primary Changes
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Smaller Changes
Installer
The ww_install installer has been updated to support version 2.12. It has been tested on all of the distributions listed below. The installer has also been refactored to be more modular when it comes to different distributions. If you are interested in modifying the installer to work with your distribution post an issue on the ww_install github. You can read more about it at WeBWorK Installer Guide
Supported Distributions
The following are the distributions and features that are officially still supported. They have all been tested with the webwork installer. You still can use WeBWorK on whatever you like, of course. In particular if you install WeBWorK on a very recent version of Ubuntu or Fedora and have problems let us know.
- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS)
- Debian 8
- CentOS 7
- Fedora 22
- Fedora 23
