For those that may not already know. Moodle 1.9.5 was released today to the world.<br><br>Highlights include:<br><ul><li> New options to allow Moodle to be configured to comply with European and US privacy regulations, like FERPA.
<ul><li> New <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Site_policies" title="Site policies">Site policies</a> setting for disabling <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Notes" title="Notes">Notes</a> completely
</li><li> New <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Internal_enrolment" title="Internal enrolment">Internal enrolment</a> settings for enforcing <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Enrolment_key" title="Enrolment key">enrolment key</a> usage and complexity
</li><li> New <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Security_overview" title="Security overview">Security overview</a> report
</li><li> Separate capabilities for each report and other parts with sensitive information
</li></ul>
</li><li> <a href="http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10011&query=categor*+-question&summary=true&description=true&resolution=1&fixfor=10300&assigneeSelect=specificuser&assignee=timhunt" class="external text" title="http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10011&query=categor*+-question&summary=true&description=true&resolution=1&fixfor=10300&assigneeSelect=specificuser&assignee=timhunt" rel="nofollow">Fix multiple bugs</a>
relating to creating and editing course categories. Previously, giving
admin permissions in a category and its subcategories did not work
reliably. In the process, the separate create, update and delete
category capabilities were replaced with <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/moodle/category:manage" title="Capabilities/moodle/category:manage">moodle/category:manage</a>, and moodle/category:visibility was renamed to <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/moodle/category:viewhiddencategories" title="Capabilities/moodle/category:viewhiddencategories">moodle/category:viewhiddencategories</a>.
</li><li> Essay questions can now be randomised by random questions. This must be enabled under <i>Administration > Miscellaneous > Experimental</i>.
</li><li> A new capability <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts" title="Capabilities/mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts">mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts</a>, separate from <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/mod/quiz:attempt" title="Capabilities/mod/quiz:attempt">mod/quiz:attempt</a>.
This let's you create a read-only role that lets students see what they
have done on a course in the past, without being able to change
anything any more.
</li><li> A new capability <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/mod/scorm:deleteresponses" title="Capabilities/mod/scorm:deleteresponses">mod/scorm:deleteresponses</a> allowing deletion of SCORM attempts
</li><li> Email notification of <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Course_request" title="Course request">course requests</a>, and a new capability <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Capabilities/moodle/course:request" title="Capabilities/moodle/course:request">moodle/course:request</a> to control who can request courses.
</li><li> New <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_settings" title="Forum settings">Forum setting</a> for enabling <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_ratings" title="Forum ratings">AJAX forum ratings</a>
</li><li> New option (named "Yes, object") for the <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/File_or_website_link" title="File or website link">file resource</a>
"Keep page navigation visible on the same page" setting. This option
displays a resource in a XHTML strict page. Other options have been
kept.
</li><li> Some <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/editing_a_database" title="Adding/editing a database">database module settings</a>
have been fixed ('Required Entries' and ' Required Entries before
viewing). If the fix has an impact on your Moodle installation, you
will be warned during upgrade.
</li></ul>You can download from here:<br><ul><li><a href="http://download.moodle.org/">http://download.moodle.org/</a></li></ul>Julian<br>