Author Site Release Logs

Below is a list of releases and release logs for each version.

Developer Rolling release of latest features, recommended for development environments only (previously called "latest").
Archived Version no longer available.
Developer

v1.152.3 – 4th December 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the application.

Archived

v1.152.2 – 20th November 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.152.1 – 7th November 2024

Features

  • Fixed a bug that caused an internal server error when no organization (Item bank) was associated with the account.

Archived

v1.152.0 – 7th November 2024

Features

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.151.1 – 26th September 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the layout in the preview of various Question types containing tables was not rendered correctly due to global Author site style overrides.

Archived

v1.151.0 – 11th September 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.150.0 – 28th August 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: the Author Site will now log users out after their sessions expire, without the need to refresh the page.

Archived

v1.149.0 – 17th July 2024

Features

  • Added a new cookie policy page and cookie management tool.
  • Added Author Aide API in place of Author Site's implementation.

Archived

v1.148.2 – 19th June 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: removed legacy code.

Archived

v1.148.1 – 5th June 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: updated the default config settings for generative AI.

Archived

v1.148.0 – 8th May 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where a 500 error would be thrown when trying to access a page belonging to a non-existent organisation.
  • Fixed a bug where Item picker user interface routes were not supported for random Activities.
  • Fixed a bug where the duplicate button was enabled for random Activities.

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.147.1 – 10th April 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Tag list did not return all Tags.

Archived

v1.147.0 – 27th March 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where default reference settings were not added in Author Aide.

Archived

v1.146.1 – 13th March 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: Updated feedback collection tool configuration options.

Archived

v1.146.0 – 28th February 2024

Features

  • Added more language support to Author Aide.

Archived

v1.145.2 – 14th February 2024

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.145.1 – 31st January 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where user management navigation from Author Site to Learnosity Console threw an error, '500'.

Archived

v1.145.0 – 17th January 2024

Features

  • Added in re-generation limits to Author Aide.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where audit trail content would not load if there was a large amount of data.
  • Fixed a bug where user management navigation from Author Site to Learnosity Console threw an error, '500'.

Archived

v1.144.1 – 6th December 2023

Polish

  • Improvement: Added generative AI beta flag to enable it by default.
  • Improvement: Added support for Spanish, British and Chinese dialects to translation mode.

Archived

v1.144.0 – 22nd November 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Author Aide did not retrieve the correct version of Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activities menu was not highlighted while using the Activity editor.

Polish

  • Improvement: increased the maximum length accepted by the Learning Standards input from 500 characters to 1000 characters.
  • Improvement: increase Author Aide stability and robustness.

Archived

v1.143.1 – 1st November 2023

Polish

  • Improvement: internal changes in preparation for an upcoming feature.
  • Improvement: Added default config settings for generative AI.

Archived

v1.143.0 – 27th September 2023

Features

  • Added a revision page to Author Aide Question generation.

Archived

v1.142.0 – 6th September 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where created_through and translated_through were not correctly saved in the database.

Polish

  • Added UI polishes for Author Aide.

Archived

v1.141.1 – 16th August 2023

Features

  • Added the ability to update Tags/Tag Types which have more than 70k Items associated with them.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where clicking the "More" button in the Item editor history tab would timeout.

Archived

v1.140.0 – 26th July 2023

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Archived

v1.139.1 – 29th June 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Tags and Tag Types associated with many Items could not be updated or deleted. A limit has been added to prevent this.
  • Fixed a bug where bulk updating too many Items or Activities would fail. A limit has been added to prevent this.

Archived

v1.139.0 – 29th June 2023

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Archived

v1.138.0 – 7th June 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where control/command clicking, or right-clicking, to open an Item from the Item list in a new tab or window would result in a HTTP 404 not found error.

Archived

v1.137.0 – 17th May 2023

Features

  • Added a search field allowing authors to filter Tag types. The search requires a minimum of two characters and uses a right wildcard.

Polish

  • Improvement: updated the login page and top navigation bar to resolve certain accessibility issues, including:
    • Adding alternative text on the logo,
    • Fixing contrast on the login button,
    • Fixing the contrast of the small text CSS selector,
    • Fixing invalid role on mandatory fields indicator, and
    • Adding lang attribute to HTML element.
  • Improvement: updated the user interface area to align input fields vertically. Fixed styling of the delete button so that the red color renders.

Archived

v1.136.1 – 29th March 2023

Polish

  • Improvement: update 2FA registration process by removing the phone verification step.

Archived

v1.136.0 – 8th March 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the back button on the 2FA registration form (mobile verification step) didn't work as expected, where it got redirected to the login screen, instead of going on to the next phase of registration, to scan the QR code.
  • Fixed a bug with AWS credentials.

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived

v1.135.1 – 15th February 2023

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Item list searches from one tab were affecting other tabs.
  • Fixed a bug where the organisation ID was not included in the URL of the Activity editor page.

Archived

v1.135.0 – 31st January 2023

Features

  • Added the EOLA banner for the legacy Activity Editor on all pages, instead of just the Activity pages.

Archived

v1.134.1 – 14th December 2022

Polish

  • Improvement: removed legacy search code.

Archived

v1.134.0 – 23rd November 2022

Features

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the cookie banner used an incorrect font.

Archived

v1.133.0 – 2nd November 2022

Features

  • Added a banner allowing users to decide on their cookie preferences.

Archived

v1.132.6 – 14th September 2022

Polish

  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.

Archived

v1.132.5 – 24th August 2022

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Activity list search parameters were being cleared when clicking the "Back to Activity list" button in the Activity editor.

Archived

v1.132.4 – 13th July 2022

Polish

  • Improvement: added support for the 'developer' API version.

Archived

v1.132.3 – 1st June 2022

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal tracking mechanisms.

Archived

v1.132.2 – 11th May 2022

Polish

  • Fixed a bug where navigation in the legacy Activity preview was not possible.

Archived

v1.132.1 – 30th March 2022

Polish

  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.

Archived

v1.132.0 – 9th March 2022

Features

  • Added an end of life announcement banner for the legacy Activity editor.

Polish

  • Improvement: upgraded internal libraries to improve compatibility, security and performance.

Archived

v1.131.0 – 16th February 2022

Features

  • Added Item Settings to the left hand navigation bar, when editing an Item within an Activity.

Archived

v1.130.2 – 6th January 2022

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where trying to access an organisation the user didn't have access to resulted in a 500 error instead of the appropriate error page.

Archived

v1.130.1 – 9th December 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the side navigation menu in the Activity editor would disappear when editing an Item.

Archived

v1.130.0 – 9th December 2021

Features

  • Improvement: when editing an Item inside an Activity on the Author site, the ‘next/previous' as well as the 'duplicate activity' buttons are no longer available to the user.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the "All Activities" main menu option was not being highlighted while users were on the Activities editor page.

Archived

v1.129.0 – 17th November 2021

Features

  • Improvement: upgraded internal libraries to improve compatibility, security and performance.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Activity history was not retrieved if the Activity's reference contained a space.

Archived

v1.128.1 – 28th October 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Items in the Item list were not properly updated after a bulk update.
  • Fixed a bug where Items saved with many Tags sometimes did not return when searching by one of those Tags.

Archived

v1.128.0 – 8th October 2021

Features

  • Added URL routing support in the new Author Site for the Author API based Resource Item feature.
  • Added next and previous buttons to the Activity Editor to navigate between Activities.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Item edit settings screens were not available when editing Items inside Activities in the new Author Site.

Archived

v1.127.1 – 15th September 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the audit history button for an Activity was shown for a new Activity.

Archived

v1.127.0 – 25th Aug 2021

Features

  • Added the End of Life (EOL) announcement for the v0 version of Author Site.

Polish

  • Set all new activities to "unpublished" by default.

Archived

v1.126.1 – 15th July 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the table head elements in Author site weren't styled bold by default.
  • Fixed a bug, an issue where italics were not being applied to text in the edit panel stimulus section.
  • Fixed a bug, where 'Generate Hash' button in the administration panel settings in the Activity editor was broken.
  • Fixed a bug where the side menu would disappear in the Item and Activity editors at exactly 1200px browser screen width.

Archived

v1.126.0 – 23rd June 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the option to duplicate Activities with no Items was disabled in the Activity editor.
  • Fixed a bug where adaptive assessments could not be saved in the Author Site.

Polish

  • Improvement: removed the Questions, Assess and Question Editor API versions from the organisation list view. Reordered Author API version field in organisation edit view.

Archived

v1.125.2 – 13th May 2021

Polish

  • Improvement: updated dependency libraries as part of ongoing maintenance of Author Site.

Archived

v1.125.1 – 29th April 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Items were not accessible for editing from the reports tab, in the Author Site-based Activity editor.

Archived

v1.125.0 – 21st April 2021

Features

  • Added next and previous buttons to the Item Editor of the new Author Site. This allows authors to easily navigate between neighbouring Items in the sorting order specified in the Item List.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Action builder user interface controls were not available in the old Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where Item edit side bar buttons disappeared at certain screen widths.

Archived

v1.124.1 – 31st March 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where redirection to the intended URL did not always work after logging in via two factor authentication.

Archived

v1.124.0 – 10th March 2021

Polish

  • Improvement: side navigation menu Items in the Item editor, which were not applicable for read only Items, are now hidden.
  • Improvement: upgraded vendors to improve compatibility.

Archived

v1.123.0 – 18th February 2021

Features

  • Added support for read only configuration within the Author Site for Items.

Archived

v1.122.1 – 7th January 2021

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Items that were saved as objects from being used in Activity reports.

Archived

v1.122.0 – 9th December 2020

Polish

  • Improvement: the bulk update functionality for Items and Activities is now only available to users with the bulk update manager role.

Archived

v1.121.0 – 18th November 2020

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Item and Activity bulk update menu items were mixed up in the mobile view.
  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to click on a tag with an empty name in the edit Tag type page of the Tag manager.

Archived

v1.120.0 – 28th October 2020

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug, a login redirection issue where the user was being redirected to a default URL after re-authenticating.

Polish

  • Improvement: separated the bulk update functionality from the legacy Item list page into its own menu item and page.
  • Improvement: separated the bulk update functionality from the legacy Activity list page into its own menu item and page.
  • Added a new condition to enable the Author API-based Activity editor only when the organisation's Author API version is set to 2020.2.LTS or above.

Archived

v1.119.0 – 8th October 2020

Features

  • Added the ability to enable the Author API based Activity editor with options to create and edit Items within Activities. The Author API based Activity editor also works with permission groups to configure access to the Activity editor features and access to Activities in the Item bank.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Author API save and back buttons could be enabled via organisation settings configuration, which conflicted with the new Author Site user interface.
  • Fixed a bug that overrode the ui_style attribute in the activity editor in Author site.

Polish

  • Improvement: various updates to support upgrading to Symfony v4.

Archived

v1.118.0 – 16th September 2020

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where opening an Item written in the legacy format caused the settings tab in the Item edit screen to not work properly.

Polish

  • Improvement: changed the way Item and Activity references are generated. The references now use UUIDs instead of incremental IDs. This avoids collisions when multiple authors are simultaneously creating new Items or Activities.

Archived

v1.117.0 – 27th August 2020

Features

  • Added a section in the navigation bar to show the version of Author API currently being used.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug which caused performance degradation and delays in Tag hierarchy updates.

Polish

  • Removed deprecated functions.

Archived

v1.116.0 – 5th August 2020

Features

  • Added an animation to the Item save and Item duplicate buttons when clicked. This indicates to the user the button is about to be activated.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Author Site fetched the latest label bundle for the Activity editor, regardless of the version Assess API was pinned to.

Polish

  • Improvement: Hid the close button of the Item duplication confirmation screen in the new Author site.

Archived

v1.115.0 – 16th July 2020

Features

  • Added a spinner to the save button that appears when the Item is being saved. This makes it clear that the app is doing something when the save button is clicked.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where a layout exception error was thrown in the new Author site when Question Editor API custom layouts are used.

Polish

  • Improvement: disabled the save button in the Item editor when the correct answer field needs to be filled in for auto-scorable Question types. The save button is now enabled by default when editing a Widget.

Archived

v1.114.0 – 25th June 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Duplicate item and Save buttons were enabled when the workflow settings modal window was open while editing an Item in the new Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where asset files weren't being cache busted.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented users from correctly setting the border color of a table header.

Archived

v1.113.0 – 3rd June 2020

Features

  • Improvement: various updates to support PHP 7.4 compatibility.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Item editor mode would fail to load using Author API v2019.1.LTS.
  • Fixed a bug where saving a Tag type caused a 500 error.
  • Fixed a bug where retrieving Tags in the old Author Site failed.

Archived

v1.112.0 – 21st May 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the organization item in the navigation menu would not be visible when there was only one organization available.

Archived

v1.111.0 – 28th April 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the user interface breakpoints set by the Responsive Design in Author API were not respected because padding was applied directly on the Author API container.

Archived

v1.110.0 – 1st April 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the math modal was inaccessible through the math Question generator.
  • Fixed a bug where Item references with slashes were not handled correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the "Add Math" button inside the rich text editor and then quickly going to Item settings would cause the page to freeze.

Archived

v1.109.1 – 12th March 2020

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where an encoding issue with UTF-8 conversion affected preview and reports in Activities.

Archived

v1.109.0 – 11th March 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the duplicate Item confirmation screen was not being displayed in the new Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where the create new Item and Activity pages would load an existing entity when there were over 30 digits in the incremental references.

Archived

v1.108.0 – 20th February 2020

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where italics, numbered lists and bulleted lists were shown as plain text without appropriate styles.

Polish

  • Added minor visual updates to the two-factor authentication setup and login screens, to improve appearance and accessibility.

Archived

v1.107.0 – 29th January 2020

Features

  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where text inside a <blockquote> element had the wrong font size.
  • Fixed a bug in legacy Author site where the simple feature modal window wasn't working properly.

Archived

v1.106.0 – 8th January 2020

Features

  • Added polishes and enhancements to new version of the Author Site.

Archived

v1.105.0 – 11th December 2019

Features

  • Added a new version of the Author Site which needs to be configured through your support contact.

Archived

v1.104.0 – 20th November 2019

Features

  • Added functionality (beta) to prepare for future security enhancements to our login mechanisms.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the URL to review Items/Activities linked to a Tag that did not work.

Archived

v1.103.0 – 31st October 2019

Features

  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.

Bug fixes


Archived

v1.102.0 – 9th October 2019

Features

  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where bulk updating Items and Activities does not update the last_updated_by field to the correct user who performed the said action.
    Fixed a bug where bulk updating Activities does not update the dt_updated field to the correct date and time when the said action was performed.

Archived

v1.101.0 – 19th September 2019

Features

  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.

Archived

v1.100.0 – 28th August 2019

Features

  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.

Bug fixes

  • Added (reintroduced) the "content Items" feature.

Archived

v1.99.1 – 7th August 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Tags containing HTML character entities were converted to the actual character. This also resulted in the existing Tag not being recognized and a new one created.

Archived

v1.99.0 – 17th July 2019

Polish

  • Remove deprecated features: content Items, Item recommended time setting and DB migration.

Archived

v1.98.0 – 26th June 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Adaptive Activities such as ItemBranching could not be previewed in the Author Site.

Archived

v1.97.0 – 5th June 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that was causing the Activity preview to throw an error, when the organisation was set to Assess API's latest version, and the inline checkbox was selected.

Archived

v1.96.0 – 15th May 2019

Features

  • Improved the appearance of the login page and added new intro text.

Archived

v1.95.0 – 30th April 2019

Features

  • Updated configuration options for Author API, to support upcoming features.

Archived

v1.94.0 – 3rd April 2019

Features

  • Added annotations settings to Activity editor, so that users can toggle the enable/disable button to show/hide annotations tools.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused the Annotations' notepad to be covered by the website's main toolbar.

Archived

v1.93.1 – 13th March 2019

Features

  • Improved the username field to be 255 characters long, supporting the standard email format.
  • Fixed a bug where opening the Item picker in Activity edit didn't work if one of the added Items has a forward slash in its reference.

Archived

v1.93.0 – 20th February 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Question Editor init options configured in the organisation settings were being incorrectly overridden by the user's authoring permission group.

Archived

v1.92.0 – 30th January 2019

Features

  • Added support for resource Items in Activity builder. For a chemistry Question, an example of a resource could be the periodic table, which students might need.

Archived

v1.90.0 – 13th November 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where, when editing the last Activity of a given page, trying to navigate to the next Activity throws an error.
  • Fixed a bug where searching and adding Tags with double quotes resulted in an error.

Archived

v1.89.0 – 24th October 2018

Features

  • Added a new Tag Hierarchy Manager role. This role can access and edit Tag hierarchies in order to define the categorization model used for Items.

Archived

v1.88.1 – 8th October 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where tag suggestions didn't work due to the user not having the Tag Manager role.

Archived

v1.88.0 – 3rd October 2018

Features

  • Added a new feature, that starts the Tag search in Author Site if three or more characters have been typed.
  • Restricted the Tags section so that it can only be accessed by users with the Tag Manager role. This gives administrators finer control over who is allowed to create and modify Tags.
  • Improvement: make Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) more specific.
  • Improved the Author Site's history source diff view, using a new library to enable a better copy and pasting experience. This now allows authors to copy widget JSON with ease.

Archived

v1.87.0 – 12th September 2018

Features

  • Added a new Activity manager role. Only users with the Admin or Activity manager role can now access Activities.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where adding Tags to Items via bulk update does not update the dt_updated field to the current time.
  • Added a feature to read the prefix for new Items from the Author API configuration, if Author API is enabled.

Archived

v1.86.1 – 23rd August 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the "back to Item" button wouldn't prompt the user about unsaved changes, causing loss of data.
  • Fixed an issue where the internationalization label "screenReaderOnly" was incorrect.

Archived

v1.86.0 – 1st August 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the assessment element was duplicated when previewing an Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where duplicating an Item with shared passage did not work if the Item reference was changed before duplication.

Archived

v1.85.0 – 20th June 2018


Archived

v1.84.1 – 31st May 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug, applying a height of 500 pixels to the container where Assess API is rendered, so that the Items region is not clipped, when Assess API has the vertical stretch option enabled.

Archived

v1.84.0 – 9th May 2018

Features

  • Increased the number of Tags that are displayed during a Tag search from eight to twenty. This makes the Tag search more effective for authors.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Author Site couldn't load Items with more than few hundred tags.

Archived

v1.83.7 – 2nd May 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Author Site couldn't load items with more than few hundred tags attached to them.

Archived

v1.83.6 – 18th April 2018

Features

  • Added forgot password functionality to the Author Site login screen. This enables users to send themselves an email to reset their password.
  • Improved the Author Site user profile edit page. Username is now Username/Email and must be a valid email. Password is mandatory when saving changes. Users are notified via email if their Username/Email or Password is changed. This enables users to reset their passwords by ensuring all users have a valid email. This also improves security for user account management by ensuring users confirm their password to make changes and are notified in the event of a change.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Author Site did not navigate to the confirm Item duplicate site.
  • Fixed a bug in Author Site where navigating back to Item search threw an error.

Archived

v1.83.5 – 15th February 2018

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where a consumer with access to multiple organisations gets tags belonging to one organisation suggested in the `Find by Tags` search field of another organisation.

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