Release Notes¶
List of the most important changes for each release.
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
0.14.6¶
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
0.14.5¶
(Note: 0.14.4 contained a critical issue and was superseded by 0.14.5)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
provisiondevicemanagement command no longer converts the user-provided facility name to all lower-caseMarkdown 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”)
0.14.3¶
(Note: 0.14.0-2 contained regressions and were superseded by 0.14.3)
0.14.2¶
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
0.14.0¶
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
0.13.3¶
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
pipon non-debian-based Linux distributions
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.
0.13.1¶
Added¶
Python version is shown on the ‘Device > Info’ page in the ‘Advanced’ section
Improved help information when running
kolibri --helpon 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.
0.13.0¶
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
0.12.9¶
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
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
0.12.7¶
(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.exeis automatically added to the path in the command promptImproved system clean-up when uninstalling on Windows
Internationalization and localization¶
Added Latin American Spanish (ES-419)
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 deleteusercommand 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.
0.12.3¶
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
0.12.2¶
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
0.12.1¶
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.
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
0.11.1¶
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
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
0.10.3¶
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
0.10.2¶
Performance improvements and bug fixes for content import
Exam creation optimizations
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
0.10.0¶
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
0.9.2¶
Various bug fixes
Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinyanja, Farsi, French, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Yoruba, and Zulu
0.9.1¶
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
0.9.0¶
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
0.8.0¶
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
0.7.2¶
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 startin background (default!) #1548Implemented
kolibri stopandkolibri status#1548Newly 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