Release notes for WeBWorK 2.20

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New WeBWorK Features

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.