OpenOlat 20.2 released

[Florian Gnägi]

Dear OpenOlat community

Some weeks ago we released OpenOlat 20.2. The OpenOlat 20.2 release is an iterative evolution of the 20.x release series. It includes also several important security improvements, thus we recommend updating to the newest 20.1.x release as soon as possible. 

You can download it from here: https://www.openolat.org/downloads.html

The most important highlights are: 

• Certification program: automatically manage certification and recertification processes in the Course Planner module
  • Overview dashboard
  • Manage all certified users in one location
  • Automatic recertification using credit points
  • Reminders and communication management
• Redesigned Coaching Tool
  • Coaching dashboard
  • Many new lists and views optimized for coaches and teachers
• Essay question type
  • Download essay as PDF for correction
  • Archive all essays in one ZIP archive
• Course templates: create and work with didactical course presets
  • Many new and improved actions
  • Save as template
  • Create from template
• Other
  • Catalog: prioritize items  in the sorting  algorithm 
  • BBB: Create online meetings with BBB support via REST
  • New bento-box styled dashboard infrastructure
  • Content Creator: many UX improvements
  • LTI role mapping presets
  • Performance improvements in the virtual filesystem implementation
• ...

There are many more new features, improvements and bugfixes, please read the full release notes for OpenOlat 20.2 at https://docs.openolat.org/release_notes/Release_notes_20.2/

OpenOlat 20.2 is the best and most secure OpenOlat release yet and we recommend installing it as soon as possible for all OpenOlat users.

OpenOlat 20.2 can be downloaded from there: https://github.com/OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT/tags

If you rather prefer cloning from the repository, make sure you clone from the 20.2 maintenance branch and not from master: 

https://github.com/OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT/tree/OpenOLAT_20.2

See  https://docs.openolat.org/manual_user/ for the OpenOlat manual.

Thanks for the bugreports and code contributions made by the community, we appreciate those inputs a lot! 

Enjoy the new release and send us your feedback!

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