Release Notes

List of the most important changes for each release.

0.17.4

Fixed

0.17.3

Changed

Added

Fixed

0.17.2

Changed

  • Make ‘save to device’ file downloads initiate immediately by @rtibbles in #12675

0.17.1

Added

  • Allow redirects for file downloads by @rtibbles in #12309

  • Add configuration option to disable Zeroconf by @ozer550 in #12620

Changed

  • Optimise Library page load time when channels have large thumbnails by @thesujai in #12530

  • Provide more helpful error state when trying to import from unprovisioned device during device setup by @nucleogenesis in #12397

  • Upgrade Python dependencies by @rtibbles in #12165

Fixed

  • Preserve the subfolder structure inside the static folder on unzipping for h5p and HTML5 zips by @rtibbles in #12538

  • Fixed variety of inconsistencies with activity notifications by @AlexVelezLl in #12386

  • Fixed mismatch between coach Reports and generated CSV by @AlexVelezLl in #12628

0.17.0

Added

New Feature: Updates to quiz workflow with new sections and question replacement functionality

Updates to our quizzes provide coaches more flexibility in creating quizzes by swapping out questions or removing questions to create the quiz they want. Coaches choose resources from which questions are selected. They can then review individual questions, and replace or remove individual questions, customising the quiz to learner needs. Coaches can also divide the quiz into sections of up to 25 questions each, allowing for longer quizzes.

Noteworthy technical updates include updating to a third version of our Exam model data schema, the addtion of a new draft exam model to allow editing of quizzes before they are made active/syncable, introducing a new accordion component, and changing the quiz creation routing structure to use nested routes and a side-panel style UX.

List of supporting PRs

Github integrations, actions, dev workflow updates

In 0.17, we have also improved many automated workflows to support the dev team, including increased use of dependabot, Slack integrations, and expanded use of Github actions for continuous integration and deployment.

List of supporting PRs

Additional features and improvements

Additional updates include the ability to create a new facility on an existing Kolibri, and updating the tab title to include a realtime percentage of tasks. To help ensure robustness and reliability, we have expanded the range and coverage of our unit tests.

List of supporting PRs

Breaking Changes

Support for Python 2.7, deprecated in 0.16, has been dropped. Support for Internet Explorer 11, deprecated in 0.16, has been dropped.

Changed

Dependencies and support

Important technical changes include adding Python 3.12 support, upgrading Django to version 3.2, upgrading KDS to v4.4.0, and upgrading the Perseus exercise library to a recently released version, and changes to our linting tools to simplify and improve our developer experience. Support for Python 2.7, deprecated in 0.16, has been dropped. Support for Internet Explorer 11, deprecated in 0.16, has been dropped.

List of supporting PRs

Updates to string processes (developer-facing)

This release is the first time that Kolibri will be using “feature file” strings, where all new strings for a feature are introduced into one files. This reduces the overhead for both dev work and translation work.

List of supporting PRs

Refactors

Key refactors include replacing KResponsiveWindow with useKResponsiveWindow across Kolibri, work toward improving the router handler architecture in Coach, and continue work towards introducing more composables.

List of supporting PRs

Fixed

Fixes include accessibility updates, bug fixes, code cleanup, and UI improvements.

0.16.0

Features

Robust syncing of user data and resources

Support for quick learner setup and independent learners

  • Kolibri has a new onboarding experience which allows joining a facility, and streamlines getting started as an independent learner with a rapid “on my own setup” option

  • Independent learners can transfer their existing data and learning progress to a facility. ##### Resource discovery

  • Assigned lesson and quiz resources are now automatically transferred to learner devices, allowing coaches to dynamically manage learner content, rather than an administrator needing to import all content devices before distribution.

  • Administrators and independent learners are now able to view other Kolibri Libraries on their local network and browse their resources, without having to import content. If they are connected to the internet, they will be able to browse resources on the Kolibri Content Library (hosted on Kolibri Studio).

  • Administrators can allow learners to download resources from other Kolibri Libraries to their device to view within Kolibri, even when they are no longer on the same network. ##### Support for administrators

  • Administrators have a new option to add a PIN on learner-only devices, which allows an administrator easy access to the Device page while preventing learners from inadvertently making changes.

  • Administrators are now able to schedule syncing of facility data on a recurring basis at custom intervals.

  • When exporting log files, administrators are able to select the date range for the logs. ##### Practice quizzes

  • This release supports practice quizzes, which are resources in the format of quizzes that learners can take in preparation for an assessment. They are able to see their score, and retry as many times as they would like, independently. Practice quiz resources are available through the Library, or can be assigned as part of a lesson. The same questions can also be assigned as a coach assigned quiz as a standardized assessment.

Changes

Dev documentation/dev updates

  • Updated node version to 18

  • Getting started documentation updated

  • Updated to Webpack 5

  • Created Github actions for build pipeline

  • Created Github action to add assets to PRs

  • Task API changes have been finalized after initial work in 0.15. Documentation is now updated to describe how to interact with the API and define tasks in plugins.

Architectural changes

  • There is a new page architecture that is used across all Kolibri plugins, and the component has been removed. (Selected relevant high level issues and PRs: #9102, #9128, 9134.)

  • The Kolibri Process Bus has been updated to support easier composability for custom deployment architectures.

  • Conditional promises have been removed.

  • To support the new onboarding process for Kolibri, Kolibri apps can now access a capability to provide access controls based on the currently active operating system user.

API Breaking Changes

  • Tasks API has now been finalized, previous methods for interacting with tasks that do not use the pluggable Tasks API have been removed.

  • The drive info endpoint has been moved the into the device app but functionality remains the same

  • The API for coordinating learner only device synchronization within a local area network has been updated to ensure robust and reliable syncing. Any users wishing to use learner only device synchronization must update all Kolibri devices to this newer version

API Additions (non-breaking changes)

  • REST API for enabling and disabling plugins

  • Add API endpoint and hook driven capability for UI initiated device restart

  • Public signup viewset

  • Public content metadata endpoints to support granular resource import

Accessibility improvements

  • Landmarks have been added and refined across the Library page and its related subpages, for better accessibility. This is a first step in support of more robust accessibility support, particularly in terms of page navigation for screen reader users.

Deprecations

  • Support for Python 2.7 will be dropped in the upcoming version, 0.17. Upgrade your Python version to Python 3.6+ to continue working with Kolibri. More recent versions of Python 3 are recommended.

  • Support for this Internet Explorer 11 will be dropped in the upcoming version, 0.17. We recommend installing other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, in order to continue working with Kolibri.

Kolibry Design System upgrades

  • Kolibri is now using kolibri-design-system v2.0.0 (a major version upgrade!). Please see the KDS release’s Github page for documentation and full details about breaking changes and new features.

0.15.12

Added

  • Added localization support for Haitian Creole

  • Added annotation layer to PDF viewer

Changed

  • Updated PID file when the zipcontent server starts

Fixed

  • Ensure startremotecontentimport and startdiskcontentimport pass through the fail_on_error option to the importcontent command

0.15.11

Fixed

  • Fixed progress tracking edge case where float rounding issues prevent progress reaching 100%

0.15.10

Added

  • Add PDF accessibility support for screen readers

  • Add support for captions for audio

Fixed

  • Fixed overflowing title alignment on content cards

  • Improved visible focus outline

  • Fixed positioning of transcript layout when language is set to a right-to-left language

  • Fixed calculation for number of users displayed on the User Tables

Changed

  • Only display the completion modal on the finish event when the resource is also complete

0.15.9

Added

  • Specified pre-commit hook python version to 3.10

  • Added Python3.11 to supported python versions ### Fixed

  • Fixed PDF completion issues

  • Fixed learner-facing metadata display of content duration

  • Fixed “Mark as complete” functionality to allow learners to mark resources as complete when allowed by the resource

  • Disable forward/back buttons on EPUB renderer until locations are properly loaded

  • Fix issue that causes learners to skip every other question in an exercise

  • Fix searchbox outline

  • Fix title spacing in app bar

  • Fix bookmark data loading issues that caused inaccurate bookmark display ### Changed

  • Changed __init__.py from 5 tuple to 3

  • Set a max width on Library main content grid to display properly on extra large monitors

  • Remove “All options” from filters in Learn search/filtering side panel

  • Switch display of the completion modal to require both completed progress and the resource to be finished

  • Add tests to assert totalattempts behaviour

  • Display completion modals only on first completion, and allow user to reopen the modal if needed

  • Update category search for each level to be searchable

  • Update KDS to 1.4.1

0.15.8

Added

  • Adds job storage sanity check to ensure that Kolibri will not fail to start if the asynchronous job storage is malformed

Changed

  • Logging: remove unused simple formatter, add asctime to color formatter

  • Order resume content display by last interaction

  • Upgrade morango and lower default sync chunk size through CLI

  • Make learners only appear once in reports when assigned from both groups and individually to lessons and quizzes.

  • Persist collection tokens when switching between individual and bulk import workflows for channels

Fixed

  • CSV Endpoint permissions and error handling

  • Adds fix for multiple worker processes duplicating jobs.

  • Adds translated string for user kind in the user table

  • Check for an array’s length to avoid breaking errors

  • Fixes Version logic not handling non-tripartite version strings

  • Filters out empty nodes, add safety to breaking code

  • Prevent controls for the PDF renderer from overlapping content

  • Fix quiz completion regression which caused the notification to contain the incorrect score

  • height = width in import cards on thumbnail, fix misaligned text

  • Update levels to display translated strings, not constant ids

0.15.7

Added

Fixed

Changed

0.15.6

Added

Changed

Fixed

0.15.5

Overview

This release fixes a regression with quiz display for non-admins.

Fixed

0.15.4

Overview

This release of Kolibri includes security fixes to reduce the vulnerability of online Kolibri instances to discovery of user credentials and to sanitize exported CSV files.

Additional changes include small improvements to coach workflows in quiz and lesson workflows and fixing a regression with searching for users during class assignment.

Added

Changed

Fixed

0.15.3

Overview of new features

The goal of this release was to make improvements to the accessibility of Kolibri and to content display. Fixes include improvements to the focus outline that appears for keyboard navigation and fixes to notifications used in screen readers, as well as small improvements to content layout.

Additions and Fixes: Accessibility

Additions and Fixes: Content Display

Changes

0.15.2

Internationalization and localization

New language support for: Ukrainian

Added

Changed

Fixed

0.15.1

Overview of new features

The goals of this release were to fix a bug preventing proper syncing of an individual user’s data across multiple devices and to made some small frontend improvements

Added

  • Deprecation warnings for Python 3.4 and 3.5

  • Added auto-alignment property for text display in cards, based on the language

  • Allow untranslated headers in csv imports and correct serialization into json

Changed

  • Updated morango to v0.6.8 to support syncing fixes

  • Bump zeroconf for fix to properly trigger service update events

  • Bump KDS version to v1.3.0

  • Updated translations to support minor translation fixes

  • Updated gherkin scenarios for new features

  • Content API: Change default ordering to combination of “lft” and “id”

Fixed

  • Keyboard accessibility/tab navigation focusing for searching and filtering

  • Allow for scrolling in side panel, and have side panel always take up full height of page even with 0 results

  • Small UI improvements including focus ring spacing, button alignment

  • Hide hints column in Perseus renderer when it could not be displayed to improve display on smaller screens

  • Handle no xAPI statements existing when calculating H5P and HTML5 progress

  • Don’t package core node_modules dir

  • Refactor card components for consistency and comprehensibility

  • Address tech debt around KDS theming colors

  • Fixed several front end console errors

  • Ensure that we filter by subset_of_users_device on network location API

0.15.0

Internationalization and localization

New language support for: Hausa, Georgian, Indonesian, Mozambican Portuguese, and Greek

Overview of major new features

This release includes a new Learn experience featuring:

  • An updated Home page with new layout and interactions

  • A new library page featuring a better content browsing, filtering, and search experience

  • An update page for browsing individual channels, with new layout and browse/search interactions

  • A new bookmarks page and ability to bookmark content within the content renderer

  • Sync capabilities for Subset of Users Devices (SoUDs)

Selected high-level technical updates:

  • Adding API for SoUD devices, allowing them to request syncing

  • Updates to Zeroconf to support SoUD syncing

  • Updates to progress tracking

  • Consolidation of exam logging

  • Fix dataset mismatch between exams and lessons, to allow for syncing

  • Adding content metadata search, API, and fields

Fixed

  • #8442 Segments SQLite databases to allow concurrent writes to SyncQueue and NetworkLocation models

  • #8446 Forces Learner only device sync request retries when server responds with 500+ status code

  • #8438 Fixes failure to sync FacilityUser updates when a login has occurred on a Learner only device prior to syncing

  • #8438 Fixes failure to sync all updated records when multiple learner only devices have been setup for a single FacilityUser

  • #8069 Fix backdrop not being shown while searching resources on mobile

  • #8000 Ensure progress_fraction is propagated through resource API

  • #7983 Validate usernames during sign-in flow, fix bug in facility settings page

  • #7981 Correct the component namespace in the JSON files

  • #7953 Fix non-localized numerals

  • #7951 Tasks queue cleared on server start

  • #7932 Fix DemoBanner focus

  • #8174 Fix errors from ContentNodeResource changes

  • #8162 Fix dynamic file discovering and serving on Windows

  • (#8159, #8132) Fix IE11 compatibility

  • #8199 Don’t modify lessons when content is deleted

  • #8133 Prevent iterable changes size during iteration

  • #8121 Error properly on startup

  • #8103 Update values viewset implementation and pagination

  • #8102 Fix KLabeledIcon UI

  • #8101 Stop TextTruncator flash of full text before truncation

Changed

  • #8220 Update reference to most recent Kolibri Design System

  • #8194 Update data flow docs for accuracy

  • #8088 Update DeviceSettingsPage layout. Add labels, tests

  • #7936 Change template for personal facility name to “Home facility for {name}”

  • #7928 Update memberships, roles, and permissions handling and validation

  • #8195 Use a double tap strategy to ensure against zombies

  • #8184 Bump morango version to 0.5.6

  • #8168 Use consistent “not started” icon and background color in AnswerHistory and AttemptLogList

  • #8143 Increase scrolling room for question lists in MultiPanelLayout

  • #8130 Replace migration applied check

  • #8123 Don’t use KResponsiveElementMixin in all ContentCards

  • #8592 Fix quiz log syncing

Added

  • (#8185, #8595) Add setup wizard for SoUD configuration

  • #8229 Add SoUD setup via command line

  • (#8202 , #8247 , #8329) Add UI for sync status reporting with notifications for coaches and learners

  • (#8192, #8205) Create user sync status tracking, add add permissions to model

  • (#8333, #8342, #8345, #8349, #8262) Create queue for SoUD syncing

  • #8223 Add notification generation during cleanup stage of sync

  • #8222 Add device info versioning

  • #8219 Assignment handling within single-user syncing

  • #8126 Create API for a subset of user devices to request permission to sync

  • #8122 Zeroconf broadcast of SoUD status

  • #8165 Initiate auto-syncing from zeroconf

  • #8228 Sidechannel loading of assignments

  • (#8212, #8215) Create channel-based quizzes, and corresponding gherkin scenarios

  • #8095 Add Bookmarks API

  • #8084 Allow Kolibri themes to provide a “Photo credit” for the Sign-In page background image

  • #8043 Add explicit include_coach_content filter instead of role filter

  • (#7989, #8214) Frontend only H5P Rendering and xAPI progress tracking integration

  • #7947 Open CSV file with utf-8 encoding in Py3

  • #7921 Add content tags to ContentNodeViewset

  • #7939 Add endpoint to check for duplicate username and use it to check for existing username while creating an account

  • (#8150, #8151) Add learning activity bar component, constants, and icon components

  • (#8190, #8180 ) Add support for multiple learning activities icon, and create related constants

  • #8186 Create API endpoint for Tasks backend

  • #8177 Return learning_activities and duration from contentnode endpoints

  • #8142 Add task decorators and task APIs for functions registered via decorators

  • #8138 Add Tree viewset for retrieving nested, paginated views of topic trees

  • #8136 Add new card design to AllClassesPage and ClassAssignmentPage and add base card elements

  • #8134) Update navigateTo for non-custom HTML5 Apps

  • (#8118, #8146) Add @vue-composition-api plugin, and expose through apiSpec, so it is available to all SPAs

  • #8117 Add vacuum for morango tables in Postgresql databases

  • #8367 Ensure the user will see the welcome modal after login

  • #8370 Restart zeroconf after setup

  • #8383 filter SoUD devices when scanning the network to import new facilities

  • #8385 Do not create accounts in Subset of users devices

  • #8411 Upgrade zeroconf

  • #8412 Reduce default sync retry interval

  • #8413 Reuse kolibriLogin to begin user sessions in the setup wizard

  • #8596 Add new icons

  • #8742 Allow facility forking and recreation

(Full Release Notes)

(0.15.0 Github milestone)

0.14.7

Internationalization and localization

  • Updated localizations

Fixed

  • #7766 Content imported by administrators was not immediately available for learners to use

  • #7869 Unlisted channels would not appear in list in channel import-workflow after providing token

  • #7810 Learners’ new passwords were not being validated on the Sign-In page

  • #7764 Users’ progress on resources was not being properly logged, making it difficult to complete them

  • #8003, #8004, #8010 Sign-ins could cause the server to crash if database was locked

  • #8003, #7947 Issues downloading CSV files on Windows

Changed

  • #7735 Filtering on lists of users returns ranked and approximate matches

  • #7733 Resetting a facility’s settings respects the preset (e.g. formal, informal, nonformal) chosen for it during setup

  • #7823 Improved performance on coach pages for facilities with large numbers of classrooms and groups

(0.14.7 Github milestone)

0.14.6

Fixed

  • #7725 On Firefox, text in Khmer, Hindi, Marathi, and other languages did not render properly.

  • #7722, #7488 After viewing a restricted page, then signing in, users were not redirected back to the restricted page.

  • #7597, #7612 Quiz creation workflow did not properly validate the number of questions

(0.14.6 Github milestone)

0.14.5

(Note: 0.14.4 contained a critical issue and was superseded by 0.14.5)

Changed

  • File downloads now run concurrently, taking better advantage of a device’s bandwidth and reducing the time needed to import resources from Kolibri Studio or other content sources

  • When setting up a new device using the Setup Wizard’s “Quick Start” option, the “Allow learners to create accounts” setting is enabled by default.

  • The provisiondevice management command no longer converts the user-provided facility name to all lower-case

  • Markdown descriptions for resources now preserve line breaks from the original source

Fixed

  • Multiple bugs when creating, editing, and copying quizzes/lessons

  • Multiple bugs when navigating throughout the Coach page

  • Multiple bugs specific to Kolibri servers using PostgreSQL

  • On Safari, sections of the Facility > Data page would disappear unexpectedly after syncing a facility

  • On IE11, it was not possible to setup a new device by importing a facility

  • Missing thumbnails on resource cards when searching/browsing in channels

  • Numerous visual and accessibility issues

  • Facilities could not be renamed if the only changes were to the casing of the name (e.g. changing “Facility” to “FACILITY”)

(0.14.5 Github milestone)

0.14.3

(Note: 0.14.0-2 contained regressions and were superseded by 0.14.3)

Fixed

  • Some links were opening in new browser windows

(0.14.3 Github milestone)

0.14.2

Fixed

  • Prevent SQL checksum related too many variables errors

(0.14.2 Github milestone)

0.14.1

Changed

  • Responsive layout for channel cards of Learn Page changed to use horizontal space more efficiently

Fixed

  • Resources could not be removed from lessons

  • Inaccurate information on Device > Info page when using Debian installer

(0.14.1 Github milestone)

0.14.0

Internationalization and localization

  • Added German

  • Added Khmer

  • CSV data files have localized headers and filenames

Added

  • In the Setup Wizard, users can import an existing facility from peer Kolibri devices on the network

  • Facility admins can sync facility data with peer Kolibri devices on the network or Kolibri Data Portal

  • Facility admins can import and export user accounts to and from a CSV file

  • Channels can display a learner-facing “tagline” on Learn channel list

  • Device and facility names can now be edited by admins

  • Super admins can delete facilities from a device

  • Quizzes and lessons can be assigned to individual learners in addition to whole groups or classes

  • Super admins can view the Facility and Coach pages for all facilities

  • Pingbacks to the telemetry server can now be disabled

Changed

  • New card layout for channels on Learn Page is more efficient and displays new taglines

  • Simplified setup process when using Kolibri for personal use

  • Improved sign-in flow, especially for devices with multiple facilities

  • The experience for upgrading channels has been improved with resource highlighting, improved statistics, and more efficient navigation

  • Improved icons for facilities, classrooms, quizzes, and other items

  • More consistent wording of notifications in the application

  • Quizzes and lessons with missing resources are more gracefully handled

  • Shut-down times are faster and more consistent

Fixed

  • Many visual and user experience issues

  • Language filter not working when viewing channels for import/export

  • A variety of mobile responsiveness issues have been addressed

(0.14.0 Github milestone)

0.13.3

Changed or fixed

  • Fixed: Infinite-loop bug when logging into Kolibri through Internet In A Box (IIAB)

  • Fixed: Performance issues and timeouts when viewing large lists of users on the Facility page

  • Fixed: Startup errors when Kolibri is installed via pip on non-debian-based Linux distributions

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Simplified Chinese

(0.13.3 Github milestone)

0.13.2

Changed or fixed

  • Fixed: In the Device Page, multiple bugs related to managing channels.

  • Fixed: Problems viewing African Storybook content on iPads running iOS 9.

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Italian

(0.13.2 Github milestone)

0.13.1

Added

  • Python version is shown on the ‘Device > Info’ page in the ‘Advanced’ section

  • Improved help information when running kolibri --help on the command line

Changed or fixed

  • Various layout and UX issues, especially some specific to IE11 and Firefox

  • ‘Device > Info’ page not accessible when logged in as a superuser

  • Channels unintentionally reordered on ‘Device > Channels’ when new content is imported

  • Video captions flashing in different languages when first opening a video

  • Changes to channels updated and republished in Studio not being immediately reflected in Kolibri

  • Occasional database blocking errors when importing large collections of content from external drives

  • Occasional database corruption due to connections not being closed after operations

  • Automatic data restoration for corrupted databases

  • Recreate cache.db files when starting the Kolibri server to remove database locks that may not have been cleanly removed in case of an abrupt shut-down.

(0.13.1 Github milestone)

0.13.0

Added

  • Improved content management

    • Queues and task manager

    • Granular deletion

    • Improved channel updating

    • Disk usage reporting improvements

    • Auto-discovery of local Kolibri peers

  • Demographics collection and reporting

  • MacOS app

  • High-performance Kolibri Server package for Debian

  • Pre-built Raspberry Pi Kolibri image

  • Video transcripts

  • Downloadable and printable coach reports

  • New device settings

  • “Skip to content” keyboard link

Changed or fixed

  • Preserve ‘unlisted’ status on channels imported from token

  • Allow duplicate channel resources to be maintained independently

  • Auto-refresh learner assignemnt view

  • Unclean shutdowns on very large databases, due to prolonged database cleanup

  • Facility admin performance improvements

  • Jittering modal scrollbars

  • Updated side-bar styling

  • Improved form validation behavior

  • Improved learner quiz view

  • Improved keyboard accessibility

(0.13.0 Github milestone)

0.12.9

Added

  • Improved error reporting in Windows

Changed or fixed

  • Database vacuum now works correctly

  • Fixes related to network detection

  • Improve performance of classroom API endpoint to prevent request timeouts

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Korean

(0.12.9 Github milestone)

0.12.8

Changed or fixed

  • Fixed: users creating accounts for themselves not being placed in their selected facility

  • Fixed: images in Khan Academy exercises not appearing on occasion

  • Fixed: “Usage and Privacy” modal not closing when clicking the “Close” button

(0.12.8 Github milestone)

0.12.7

(Note: 0.12.6 contained a regression and was superseded by 0.12.7)

Changed or fixed

  • Facility user table is now paginated to improve performance for facilities with large numbers of users.

  • Various usability and visual improvements, including improved layout when using a RTL language

  • On Windows, kolibri.exe is automatically added to the path in the command prompt

  • Improved system clean-up when uninstalling on Windows

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Latin American Spanish (ES-419)

(0.12.7 Github milestone)

(0.12.6 Github milestone)

0.12.5

  • Upgraded Morango to 0.4.6, fixing startup errors for some users.

(0.12.5 Github milestone)

0.12.4

Added

  • Device Settings Page - The default language can now be changed under Device > Settings. This is the language that will be used on browsers that have never opened Kolibri before (but can be changed after opening Kolibri using the language selector).

  • Coach Reports - Users can preview quizzes and lessons and edit their details from their associated report, without having to go to the “Plan” sub-page.

  • Added a kolibri manage deleteuser command to remove a user from a server, as well as all other servers synchronized with it.

  • Added a new theming system for customizing various colors that appear in Kolibri.

Changed or fixed

  • EPUB documents with large tables are displayed in a single-column, scrollable format to improve their readability.

  • EPUB viewer now saves font and theme settings between sessions.

  • Quiz creation workflow only places unique questions in a quiz, removing duplicates that may appear in a topic tree.

  • Title and name headers are consistently accompanied by icons in Kolibri symbol system to help orient the user.

(0.12.4 Github milestone)

0.12.3

Changed or fixed

  • Improved handling of partially-download or otherwise corrupted content databases

  • Fixed regression where users could not change their passwords in the Profile page

  • Improved PostgreSQL support

  • Added fixes related to coach tools

(0.12.3 Github milestone)

0.12.2

Added

  • Coaches can edit lessons from the Coach > Reports page

  • Coaches can preview and edit quiz details from the Coach > Reports and Plan pages

Changed or fixed

  • Coaches can edit quiz and lesson details and statuses in the same user interface

0.12.2

Added

  • Dynamic selection for CherryPy thread count based on available server memory

Changed or fixed

  • Alignment of coach report icons when viewed in right-to-left languages corrected

  • Fixes to loading of some HTML5 apps

  • Lessons are now correctly scoped to their classes for learners

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Gujarati

  • Fixed missing translations in coach group management

(0.12.2 Github milestone)

0.12.1

Added

  • Initial support for uwsgi serving mode.

Changed or fixed

  • Fixed 0.12.0 regression in HTML5 rendering that affected African Storybooks and some other HTML5 content.

  • Fixed 0.12.0 regression that prevented some pages from loading properly on older versions of Safari/iOS.

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Burmese

(0.12.1 Github milestone)

0.12.0

Added

  • Coach Dashboard - added regularly updating notifications and new information architecture for the coach interface, to provide actionable feedback for coaches about learner progress

  • New capability for sandboxed HTML5 app content to utilize sessionStorage, localStorage and cookies, with the latter two restored between user sessions

  • Support for enrolling learners in multiple groups in a class

  • Management command to reorder channels to provide more customized display in learn

Changed or fixed

  • Exams are now known as Quizzes

  • Quizzes with content from deleted channels will now show an error message when a learner or coach is viewing the problems in the quiz or quiz report

  • Lessons with content from deleted channels will have those contents automatically removed. If you have created lessons with deleted content prior to 0.12, learner playlists and coach reports for those lessons will be broken. To fix the lesson, simply view it as a coach under Coach > Plan, and it will be fixed and updated automatically

  • Changes the sub-navigation to a Material Design tabs-like experience

  • Make facility log exporting a background process for a better user experience when downloading large logs

  • Allow appbar to move off screen when scrolling on mobile, to increase screen real estate

  • Kolibri now supports for iOS Safari 9.3+

  • Validation is now done in the ‘provisiondevice’ command for the username of the super admin user being created

  • Disable import and export buttons while a channel is being downloaded to prevent accidental clicks

  • Prevent quizzes and lessons in the same class from being created with the same name

  • Update quiz and lesson progress for learners without refreshing the page

  • Improved focus rings for keyboard navigation

  • Coach content no longer appears in recommendations for non-coach users

  • The Kolibri loading animation is now beautiful, and much quicker to load

  • Icons and tables are now more standardized across Kolibri, to give a more consistent user experience

  • Enable two high contrast themes for EPUB rendering for better accessibility

  • Supports accessing Kolibri through uwsgi

Internationalization and localization

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Fulfulde Mbororoore, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yoruba

(0.12.0 Github milestone)

0.11.1

Added

  • Support for RTL EPubs

  • Support for Python 3.7

Changed or fixed

  • Fullscreen renderer mode now works in Chrome 71

  • Account sign up now works when guest access is disabled

  • Navigating in and out of exercise detail views is fixed

  • Misleading exam submission modal text is now more accurate

  • Browsing content tree in exam creation is now faster

  • Unavailable content in coach reports is now viewable

  • Content import errors are handled better

  • Added command to restore availability of content after bad upgrade

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Fufulde Mboroore

(0.11.1 Github milestone)

0.11.0

Added

  • Support for EPUB-format electronic books

  • Upgrades to exam and lesson creation, including search functionality and auto-save

  • New error handling and reporting functionality

  • Channel import from custom network locations

  • Setting for enabling or disabling guest access

  • Basic commands to help with GDPR compliance

  • Privacy information to help users and admins understand how their data is stored

Changed or fixed

  • Improvements to rendering of some pages on smaller screens

  • Improvements to search behavior in filtering and handling of large result sets

  • Improvements to the setup wizard based on user feedback and testing

  • Improvements to user management, particularly for admins and super admins

  • Fix: Allow usernames in non-latin alphabets

  • Fix: Drive listing and space availability reporting

  • Auto-refresh in coach reports

  • Added more validation to help with log-in

  • Security: upgraded Python cryptography and pyopenssl libraries for CVE-2018-10903

Internationalization and localization

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yoruba

  • Improved consistency of language across the application, and renamed “Superuser” to “Super admin”

  • Many fixes to translation and localization

  • Consistent font rendering across all languages

(0.11.0 Github milestone)

0.10.3

Internationalization and localization

  • Added Mexican Spanish (es_MX) and Bulgarian (bg)

Fixed

  • Upgrade issue upon username conflict between device owner and facility user

  • Channel import listing of USB devices when non-US locale

  • Counts for coach-specific content would in some cases be wrongly displayed

(0.10.3 Github milestone)

0.10.2

  • Performance improvements and bug fixes for content import

  • Exam creation optimizations

(0.10.2 Github milestone)

0.10.1

  • Bug fix release

  • Several smaller UI fixes

  • Fixes for SSL issues on low-spec devices / unstable connectivity

  • Compatibility fixes for older system libraries

(0.10.1 Github milestone)

0.10.0

  • Support for coach-specific content

  • Content import/export is more reliable and easier to use

  • Search has improved results and handles duplicate items

  • Display of answer history in learner exercises is improved

  • Login page is more responsive

  • Windows-specific improvements and bug fixes

  • New Kolibri configuration file

  • Overall improved performance

  • Auto-play videos

  • Various improvements to PDF renderer

  • Command to migrate content directory location

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Burmese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Yoruba, and Zulu

(0.10.0 Github milestone)

0.9.3

  • Compressed database upload

  • Various bug fixes

(0.9.3 Github milestone)

0.9.2

  • Various bug fixes

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Yoruba, and Zulu

(0.9.2 Github milestone)

0.9.1

  • Fixed regression that caused very slow imports of large channels

  • Adds new ‘import users’ command to the command-line

  • Various consistency and layout updates

  • Exercises with an error no longer count as ‘correct’

  • Fixed issue with password-less sign-on

  • Fixed issue with editing lessons

  • Various other fixes

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

(0.9.1 Github milestone)

0.9.0

  • Consistent usage of ‘coach’ terminology

  • Added class-scoped coaches

  • Support for multi-facility selection on login

  • Cross-channel exams

  • Show correct and submitted answers in exam reports

  • Added learner exam reports

  • Various bug fixes in exam creation and reports

  • Various bug fixes in coach reports

  • Fixed logging on Windows

  • Added ability for coaches to make copies of exams

  • Added icon next to language-switching functionality

  • Languages: English, Arabic, Farsi, French, Hindi, Spanish, Swahili, and Urdu

(0.9.0 Github milestone)

0.8.0

  • Added support for assigning content using ‘Lessons’

  • Updated default landing pages in Learn and Coach

  • Added ‘change password’ functionality to ‘Profile’ page

  • Updates to text consistency

  • Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, French, Haitian Creole, and Burmese

  • Various bug fixes

(0.8.0 Github milestone)

0.7.2

  • Fix issue with importing large channels on Windows

  • Fix issue that prevented importing topic thumbnail files

0.7.1

  • Improvements and fixes to installers including Windows & Debian

  • Updated documentation

0.7.0

  • Completed RTL language support

  • Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Swahili, Urdu, and French

  • Support for Python 3.6

  • Split user and developer documentation

  • Improved lost-connection and session timeout handling

  • Added ‘device info’ administrator page

  • Content search integration with Studio

  • Granular content import and export

0.6.2

  • Consistent ordering of channels in learner views

0.6.1

  • Many mobile-friendly updates across the app

  • Update French, Portuguese, and Swahili translations

  • Upgraded Windows installer

0.6.0

  • Cross-channel searching and browsing

  • Improved device onboarding experience

  • Improved device permissions experience (deprecated ‘device owner’, added ‘superuser’ flag and import permission)

  • Various channel import/export experience and stability improvements

  • Responsive login page

  • Dynamic language switching

  • Work on integrated living style guide

  • Added beta support for right-to-left languages

  • Improved handling of locale codes

  • Added support for frontend translation outside of Vue components

  • Added an open-source ‘code of conduct’ for contributors

  • By default run PEX file in foreground on MacOS

  • Crypto optimizations from C extensions

  • Deprecated support for HTML in translation strings

  • Hide thumbnails from content ‘download’ button

  • Automatic database backup during upgrades. #2365

  • … and many other updates and fixes

0.5.3

  • Release timeout bug fix from 0.4.8

0.5.2

  • Release bug fix from 0.4.7

0.5.1

  • Python dependencies: Only bundle, do not install dependencies in system env #2299

  • Beta Android support

  • Fix ‘importchannel’ command #2082

  • Small translation improvements for Spanish, French, Hindi, and Swahili

0.5.0

  • Update all user logging related timestamps to a custom datetime field that includes timezone info

  • Added daemon mode (system service) to run kolibri start in background (default!) #1548

  • Implemented kolibri stop and kolibri status #1548

  • Newly imported channels are given a ‘last_updated’ timestamp

  • Add progress annotation for topics, lazily loaded to increase page load performance

  • Add API endpoint for getting number and total size of files in a channel

  • Migrate all JS linting to prettier rather than eslint

  • Merge audio_mp3_render and video_mp4_render plugins into one single media_player plugin

  • KOLIBRI_LISTEN_PORT environment variable for specifying a default for the –port option #1724

0.4.9

  • User experience improvements for session timeout

0.4.8

  • Prevent session timeout if user is still active

  • Fix exam completion timestamp bug

  • Prevent exercise attempt logging crosstalk bug

  • Update Hindi translations

0.4.7

  • Fix bug that made updating existing Django models from the frontend impossible

0.4.6

  • Fix various exam and progress tracking issues

  • Add automatic sign-out when browser is closed

  • Fix search issue

  • Learner UI updates

  • Updated Hindi translations

0.4.5

  • Frontend and backend changes to increase performance of the Kolibri application under heavy load

  • Fix bug in frontend simplified login code

0.4.4

  • Fix for Python 3 compatibility in Whl, Windows and Pex builds #1797

  • Adds Mexican Spanish as an interface language

  • Upgrades django-q for bug fixes

0.4.3

  • Speed improvements for content recommendation #1798

0.4.2

  • Fixes for morango database migrations

0.4.1

  • Makes usernames for login case insensitive #1733

  • Fixes various issues with exercise rendering #1757

  • Removes wrong CLI usage instructions #1742

0.4.0

  • Class and group management

  • Learner reports #1464

  • Performance optimizations #1499

  • Anonymous exercises fixed #1466

  • Integrated Morango, to prep for data syncing (will require fresh database)

  • Adds Simplified Login support as a configurable facility flag

0.3.3

  • Turns video captions on by default

0.3.2

  • Updated translations for Portuguese and Kiswahili in exercises.

  • Updated Spanish translations

0.3.1

  • Portuguese and Kaswihili updates

  • Windows fixes (mimetypes and modified time)

  • VF sidebar translations

0.3.0

  • Add support for nested URL structures in API Resource layer

  • Add Spanish and Swahili translations

  • Improve pipeline for translating plugins

  • Add search back in

  • Content Renderers use explicit new API rather than event-based loading

0.2.0

  • Add authentication for tasks API

  • Temporarily remove ‘search’ functionality

  • Rename ‘Learn/Explore’ to ‘Recommended/Topics’

  • Add JS-based ‘responsive mixin’ as alternative to media queries

  • Replace jeet grids with pure.css grids

  • Begin using some keen-ui components

  • Update primary layout and navigation

  • New log-in page

  • User sign-up and profile-editing functionality

  • Versioning based on git tags

  • Client heartbeat for usage tracking

  • Allow plugins to override core components

  • Wrap all user-facing strings for I18N

  • Log filtering based on users and collections

  • Improved docs

  • Pin dependencies with Yarn

  • ES2015 transpilation now Bublé instead of Babel

  • Webpack build process compatible with plugins outside the kolibri directory

  • Vue2 refactor

  • HTML5 app renderer

0.1.1

  • SVG inlining

  • Exercise completion visualization

  • Perseus exercise renderer

  • Coach reports

0.1.0 - MVP

  • Improved documentation

  • Conditional (cancelable) JS promises

  • Asset bundling performance improvements

  • Endpoint indexing into zip files

  • Case-insensitive usernames

  • Make plugins more self-contained

  • Client-side router bug fixes

  • Resource layer smart cache busting

  • Loading ‘spinner’

  • Make modals accessible

  • Fuzzy searching

  • Usage data export

  • Drive enumeration

  • Content interaction logging

  • I18N string extraction

  • Channel switching bug fixes

  • Modal popups

  • A11Y updates

  • Tab focus highlights

  • Learn app styling changes

  • User management UI

  • Task management

  • Content import/export

  • Session state and login widget

  • Channel switching

  • Setup wizard plugin

  • Documentation updates

  • Content downloading

0.0.1 - MMVP

  • Page titles

  • Javascript logging module

  • Responsiveness updates

  • A11Y updates

  • Cherrypy server

  • Vuex integration

  • Stylus/Jeet-based grids

  • Support for multiple content DBs

  • API resource retrieval and caching

  • Content recommendation endpoints

  • Client-side routing

  • Content search

  • Video, Document, and MP3 content renderers

  • Initial VueIntl integration

  • User management API

  • Vue.js integration

  • Learn app and content browsing

  • Content endpoints

  • Automatic inclusion of requirements in a static build

  • Django JS Reverse with urls representation in kolibriGlobal object

  • Python plugin API with hooks

  • Webpack build pipeline, including linting

  • Authentication, authorization, permissions

  • Users, Collections, and Roles