Release v1.8.4, April 2021

Important improvement for system administrators:

• Add a CLI admin command for deleting old notifications from the database.
  As the current A+ implementation never automatically deletes notifications
  from the database, system administrators should sometimes manually delete
  them with this command. Notifications are used when the student receives
  manual feedback from an assistant/teacher for a submission or when
  the exercise service sets the notification flag in the grading payload.
  For example, Rubyric and MOOC-Jutut have used the A+ notifications to
  students.

Small bug fixes:

• Catch HTTP errors in the aplus-json course import.
• Exclude hidden course modules in the calendar export.
• Exclude build_log_url validation in the aplus-json course import.

Release v1.8.3, March 2021

Important fixes:

• (#791) Pick the latest visible course instance in the redirect
  to the latest course instance.
• (#790) Do not require login in the latest course instance redirect.

For system administrators:

• Add a new CLI command export_submissions that may be used to
  export submission and exercise data into CSV files.
  This command was originally designed for research needs.

Release v1.8.2, February 2021

New features:

• (#743) Add a new support page. It has links to documentation
  and instructions for students and teachers.
• (#578, #772) Add a new page for listing all course instances
  in one course.
  For example, https://plus.cs.aalto.fi/o1/instances/
• (#772) Add a redirect view for the latest course instance.
  For example, https://plus.cs.aalto.fi/o1/

Important fixes:

• Update the accessibility statement for the v1.8 release.
• (#669) Accessibility: add a hidden link to open exercises in
  a new tab / full-page (from content chapter pages).
• Fix the student tagging popover in the A+ participants page.
  The buttons were missing from the popover.

Minor fixes:

• (#749) Fix the HTML and CSS for SITEWIDE_ADVERT:
  no duplicate external link icon, fix the icon position.
• (#769) Add more fields to the list view of the HTMLPlugins
  Django admin page.
• Fix the Django admin view for notifications. The page
  no longer loads all users from the database into
  the HTML form and thus, it loads faster.

For system administrators:

• (#695) Update the deployment documentation.
  Add branding settings to the local_settings.example.py file.

For developers:

• (#600) Refactor code for checking enrollments.
• Change ugettext functions to the gettext ones.
  The old Unicode aliases are deprecated in Django.

Release v1.8.1, January 2021

Hotfix for the JavaScript click event handler issue: #736

Release v1.8.0, January 2021

Release notes: https://apluslms.github.io/releases/v1_8.html

Service break announcement:
https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/EDIT/Aplus+version+upgrade+and+service+break+January+4th+2021

Release v1.7.0, June 2020

Release notes in the wiki: https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/EDIT/Aplus+Service+break+summer+2020

v1.2

Version v1.2

v1.1: Merge pull request #282 from splyysh/master

Production version from Aalto spring 2017 - start of release practice.