Mahara

Geared toward building an online community of professionals, Mahara lets an admin create and manage a Web space where people share their portfolios, blogs and resumes.

Mahara is specifically designed to provide users with the tools to create a personal and professional learning and development environment.

Support is included for an admin panel, user management, user profiles, blogs, and resumes.

What is new in this release:

• Sending notifications to multiple people
• Entering links to current social media sites
• Listing submitted collections on the group homepage instead of just all pages
• Reporting objectionable content on forum topics and posts
• Moving posts between forums
• Dragging and dropping pages into a collection
• Copying a secret URL with one click
• The return of the simple, no-frills "Text" block alongside the more elaborate "Note" block
• Editing the default dashboard page, profile page and group homepage in the site administrator interface

What is new in version 15.04.2:

• Sending notifications to multiple people
• Entering links to current social media sites
• Listing submitted collections on the group homepage instead of just all pages
• Reporting objectionable content on forum topics and posts
• Moving posts between forums
• Dragging and dropping pages into a collection
• Copying a secret URL with one click
• The return of the simple, no-frills "Text" block alongside the more elaborate "Note" block
• Editing the default dashboard page, profile page and group homepage in the site administrator interface

What is new in version 15.04.1:

• Sending notifications to multiple people
• Entering links to current social media sites
• Listing submitted collections on the group homepage instead of just all pages
• Reporting objectionable content on forum topics and posts
• Moving posts between forums
• Dragging and dropping pages into a collection
• Copying a secret URL with one click
• The return of the simple, no-frills "Text" block alongside the more elaborate "Note" block
• Editing the default dashboard page, profile page and group homepage in the site administrator interface

What is new in version 15.04.0:

• Sending notifications to multiple people
• Entering links to current social media sites
• Listing submitted collections on the group homepage instead of just all pages
• Reporting objectionable content on forum topics and posts
• Moving posts between forums
• Dragging and dropping pages into a collection
• Copying a secret URL with one click
• The return of the simple, no-frills "Text" block alongside the more elaborate "Note" block
• Editing the default dashboard page, profile page and group homepage in the site administrator interface

What is new in version 1.10.2:

• Sending notifications to multiple people
• Entering links to current social media sites
• Listing submitted collections on the group homepage instead of just all pages
• Reporting objectionable content on forum topics and posts
• Moving posts between forums
• Dragging and dropping pages into a collection
• Copying a secret URL with one click
• The return of the simple, no-frills "Text" block alongside the more elaborate "Note" block
• Editing the default dashboard page, profile page and group homepage in the site administrator interface

What is new in version 1.9.0:

• Fulltext search support for MySQL with Elasticsearch
• Series of accessibility improvements to achieve W3C WCAG 2.0 Level AA (except for some admin pages)
• Place feedback for a page in a block
• Institution-specific dashboard and default language
• Profile completion progress bar
• Spam protection enhancements

What is new in version 1.8.0:

• Entirely new icon set and updated stylesheets and templates
• Content / artifact chooser is now on the left-hand side
• ElasticSearch search plugin (PostgreSQL support in 1.8 only; MySQL support projected for 1.9)
• Flexible page layouts allowing users to align content in rows and not only columns
• Page skins
• Import Leap2A files into an existing account
• Attachments on resume fields and text boxes / notes
• Embedding of PDFs in a page
• Drag and drop files into the files area
• Tags on all internal artefacts
• LDAP user and group sync
• Admin features: Filter for duplicate email addresses, display authentication method in the user search

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• This release fixes a major security bug, and a number of non-security bugs in the system, perhaps the highlight of which is a compatibility fix for a recent change in YouTube's embedded video syntax.

What is new in version 1.7.1:

• Fixed:
• "artefact_license" error when trying to install with $cfg->dbprefix
• Remove Explicit CAST from textbox to artefact upgrade queries
• Comment moderation of anonymous comments can't make them public
• Require re-entering RSS feed password when you change the URL
• Updating group fails fatally under certain conditions
• Extracting zip files causes multiple empty folders to appear
• Warnings when adding existing users by CSV
• Change message background to red when exceeding disk quota
• YouTube video icon is outdated
• In Site Administration -> Groups -> Manage groups, the "Manage" label doesn't popup
• License issue on vanilla 1.7

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• Fixed bugs:
• Facebook doesn't pick up Mahara's Facebook logo
• Quota exceeded message for groups
• "Text on background" does not change for top right-hand corner in configurable theme
• "Delete users" button should be red on /admin/users/suspended.php
• Activating spellchecker brings up warning
• Hard-coded plural logic on /group/find.php
• Refactor login form elements code duplication
• Warning when adding a new user or add users via CSV
• Warning after installing other language packs
• Wrong result when searching for the special string: '0'
• Plain editor not available in Resume area instead of WYSIWYG editor
• Export fails if files missing from dataroot
• Split function is deprecated but still used
• WMV files are not recognized by Internal Media block when uploaded directly in the block
• Added user-unique message IDs to forum emails
• "Allow copying" is not shown on the institution and site access list
• Updated of user information brings warnings

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• Removed the wwwroot from redirect URL concatenation.
• Removed the default theme collection nav template.
• Display plain editor if the 'HTML editor' option is disabled.
• Additional processing fixes for rss to avoid fatal errors.
• Fixed double encoding of & in 'URL' for a pagination.
• Fixed pagination double encoding.
• Fixed regression in user link display for feedback.
• Removed useragent from SSO session check.

What is new in version 1.6.2:

• Fixed the RSS image exceptions preventing updating.
• Check originals directory before iterator in upgrade.
• Fixed mnet jump-back link regression.
• Escaped table names in profile image query.

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• A new "responsive theme", designed to work fluidly on many screen sizes; especially mobile devices
• Members of multiple institutions can decide which theme to use
• Ability to add journal entries directly from a page
• Tagged journal entries block can show full entries
• Mobile uploads support multiple devices
• Mobile API support for journal entries and attaching files to journal entries
• Mobile API support for syncing messages, tags, files, and journals
• New "Unpublish" button for journal entries
• Optional "Clean URLs" for user profiles, portfolio pages, groups and group pages with support for subdomains
• Group information expanded to include number of forums, topics and posts
• Group admins can enable and view participation reports within groups
• Editability of group content can be limited with a start and end time
• Pagination for forum topics
• Statistics for institutions and more statistics at the site level
• Cron error message appears red for visibility
• Option to add institution staff rights during registration approval
• Configurable SafeIframe site list
• Option to allow self registration process for users authenticating via Persona
• Cron can poll an imap inbox for mail bounces
• Option to allow local customisation of "Edit site pages" list