The sixth Open edX release. Please add information here that will be useful when it comes time to package the release.
New Services & Major Upgrades Planned for This Release
What new products, applications, services, etc have we built since Eucalyptus?
Deployment Issues to Keep in Mind
What has changed in the devops/configuration world? Are there manual steps needed to move from Eucalyptus to Ficus?
- Mongo will be upgraded to at least 3.0 and will switch to using the Wired Tiger storage engine. This storage engine will not transparently read MMAPv1 files from 2.6 and will require a dump/restore most likely.
- ElasticSearch will be upgraded, probably to 1.5 which is what we use in production. This will coincide with changes to the forums service to support the newer version.
Monthly product notes
Any unusual things changed in the product that adopters or developers should know about?
- Preview Language options changed from query parametes (preview-lang) to a form that requires login on LMS and Studio. This form can be found by appending /update_lang/ to the root URLs of either site.