We are pleased to announce the final release of Mahara 1.4 - https://launchpad.net/mahara/1.4/1.4.0
While this release has focussed on bug fixing and increasing the stability and security of this Open Source social e-portfolio platform, it also includes the following new features:
- new Google Apps and Image Gallery blocks
- star ratings with comments
- easier page for sharing content with others
- ability to add comments on file artefacts
- support for SSL-based SMTP and LDAP servers
- administration interace for mail server configuration
- remote avatar (Gravatar) support for HTTPS sites
Other notable changes and bug fixes include:
- "views" are now "pages" and "blogs" are now "journals"
- lots of small changes to make the interface more consistent
- pages can now display more than one embedded video at a time
- added a fullscreen button to the internal video player
- added spellchecker and undo button to the WYSIWYG editor
- spam checks now also performed on forum posts
- support for new Youtube Iframe embed code
- optional site-wide maximum quota
- working start/stop overrides on pages
- removal of the obsolete and broken Solr search plugin
- removal of the httpswwwroot setting
- removal of the .htaccess file
End of security support for Mahara 1.2
As per the Mahara Community's standard security policy, security support is only offered for the last two major releases of Mahara (1.3 and 1.4).
If you are running a 1.2 installation, please feel free to contact us for advice and support regarding upgrading your Mahara site now.
