v0.16.8

Bug fixes

• Mac OSX installer version (based on pyrun) crashes :url-issue:5211
• Confusing and harmless "error" message removed from first-runs :url-issue:5236
• Tests now run several minutes faster and are more reliable :url-issue:5242

Known issues

• Windows installer tray application option "Run on start" does not work see learningequality/installers#106 <https://github.com/learningequality/installers/issues/106>__
• Learner is not notified of mastery level, exercises keep displaying :url-issue:4875
• Writing to server.log is disabled on Windows :url-issue:5057
• Installing on Windows 8, 32bit is reported to take ~1 hour before eventually finishing.

Paper cuts

• Exercise "Measure area with unit squares" is broken :url-issue:5130
• VTT Subtitles are broken in Epiphany browser :url-issue:5125
• Viewing subtitles on Ubuntu requires ubuntu-restricted-extras :url-issue:4993
• Individual Student Progress Report may take a long time to load :url-issue:5106
• Button "Show Keypad" may be missing on some exercises due to upstream data API issue :url-issue:5103

v0.16.7

Bug fixes

• Restore learner stats: Correctly display login count and aggregate login durations (previously uncollected data!) #5157
• Mastery percentage wrongly displayed on learner stats page #5181
• Speed up content scanning for up to 10x speedup when scanning big video directories, meaning content scanning drops from hours to minutes #5201
• Lockdown fix for user logins #5202
• Initial "pragma" support for SQLite and setting CONTENT_DB_SQLITE_PRAGMAS. Use this to improve performance, such as allocating more memory for caching. Peewee docs<http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/peewee/database.html#pragma-statements>__. #5225
• Put max-height CSS rule on navbar logo #5206
• Submit correct HTTP user-agent for learningequality.org stats #5226
• Broken legacy assessment item download fixed (affects mainly some Debian packages) #5214
• Fix automatic CI tests so they now run (development issue, not related to deployments) #5201
• Added automatic coverage reports (development issue, not related to deployments) #5230
• Running setup command as root will give a warning + prompt, because we don't advice running as root. #5032
• Docs updates: Tested and updated Apache/Nginx WSGI guide, updated PPA setup to work on Debian/Raspbian
• Content packs: Added ~1700 dubbed videos in Non-English versions of the content packs, populating content databases and thus adding language support for: Burmese, Indonesian, Kannada, Swahili, Tamil, Xhosa, Zulu. learningequality/content-pack-maker#28 #5120

Known issues

• Mac OSX installer version (based on pyrun) crashes #5211
• Learner is not notified of mastery level, exercises keep displaying #4875
• Writing to server.log is disabled on Windows #5057
• Exercise "Measure area with unit squares" is broken #5130
• VTT Subtitles are broken in Epiphany browser #5125
• Viewing subtitles on Ubuntu requires ubuntu-restricted-extras #4993
• Individual Student Progress Report may take a long time to load #5106
• Button "Show Keypad" may be missing on some exercises due to upstream data API issue #5103

v0.16.7b2

• CONTENT_ROOT can now be set by an environment variable. #5189
• video scanning is now much faster. #5201

v0.16.6post1

Bug fixes

• Content packs updated, bulk of broken exercises fixed and all languages rebuilt (and should be re-downloaded), pay attention to a couple of known issues!
• Allow logins during LOCKDOWN #5117
• Remove RPI warning message about max number of concurrent downloads, there’s no longer a limit on small platforms #4982
• Make ROOT_DATA_PATH consider the KALITE_DIR environment variable #5143
• Restore downloading on RPI w/ m2crypto: Unbundle requests and use requests.get instead of urllib.urlretrieve #5138
• Docs: Add warning message on KA Lite windows application docs #5137
• Treat socket.error as if no server is running #5135
• Docs: Connect to ka-lite on IRC #ka-lite (Freenode) - #5127
• Notify student when all exercises in a series are completed (level has been mastered) #4875
• Use current year in parts of footer #5112
• Handle socket.error: Fix some cases where KA Lite fails to start due to a previous unclean shutdown #5132
• Content packs 1800 outdated questions (assessment items) inside exercises (English version) used to cause problems due to their widgets and have been removed - not only by KA Lite, but also on KhanAcademy.org. This does not affect the number of exercises and there are still 29,839 assessment items left, so it’s not a big concern! #5131

Known issues

Please note that issues with content packs are not related to the software itself but are being fixed and updated along side our release.

Watch individual issues on Github or [email protected] for announcements and updates.

• Content packs ~1700 dubbed videos are missing in Non-English versions of the content packs, making several languages like Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu have empty content databases. These issues can be tracked in content-pack-maker#28. #5120 #5091
• Learner is not notified of mastery level, exercises keep displaying #4875
• Login counts and session times in Learner progress reports are wrong #5157
• Browsers on Windows XP are experiencing issues with SVG images #5140
• Exercise “Measure area with unit squares” is broken #5130
• VTT Subtitles are broken in Epiphany browser #5125
• Viewing subtitles on Ubuntu requires ubuntu-restricted-extras #4993
• Individual Student Progress Report may take a long time to load #5106
• Button “Show Keypad” may be missing on some exercises due to upstream data API issue #5103
• Writing to server.log is disabled on Windows #5057

Notes

This release is a re-release of 0.16.6 due to a re-built on PyPi and some documentation consolidation

v0.16.6

• Content packs updated, bulk of broken exercises fixed and all languages rebuilt (and should be re-downloaded), pay attention to a couple of known issues!
• Allow logins during LOCKDOWN #5117
• Remove RPI warning message about max number of concurrent downloads, there’s no longer a limit on small platforms #4982
• Make ROOT_DATA_PATH consider the KALITE_DIR environment variable #5143
• Restore downloading on RPI w/ m2crypto: Unbundle requests and use requests.get instead of urllib.urlretrieve #5138
• Docs: Add warning message on KA Lite windows application docs #5137
• Treat socket.error as if no server is running #5135
• Docs: Connect to ka-lite on IRC #ka-lite (Freenode) - #5127
• Notify student when all exercises in a series are completed (level has been mastered) #4875
• Use current year in parts of footer #5112
• Handle socket.error: Fix some cases where KA Lite fails to start due to a previous unclean shutdown #5132

v0.16.5

Fixes:

• Missing fonts for some icons and math symbols #5110

v0.16.4

Fixes:

• Update Perseus JS modules resulting in many broken exercises ( #5105 #5036 #5099 )
• Fix broken unpacking of legacy assessment items zip ( #5108 )

v0.16.3

Fixes small issue #5087 most likely not affecting too many installations, only relevant for certain *nix systems with unconventional kernel version numbers.

v0.16.2

Changes:
- Fix attemptlog filtering (#5082)

0.15.0 (stable major release)

Changelog coming up. Installers in the making.