The 19th Open edX community release will be named Sumac. It will be released Dec 9th, 2024. The open-release/sumac.master branches will be created one month earlier, on November 9th. Code on master/main as of November 9th will be part of Sumac. Code merged after that will need special handling to be part of Sumac.
Put stuff here that we have to remember when we start packaging up Sumac. Especially important is information that system installers or operators will need to know. Please include your name when you add an item, so that we can get back to you with questions.
Operational
Course asset middleware converted to view — Tim McCormack
Background: The LMS/CMS previously handled course asset requests (
asset-v1:andc4xURLs) via a middleware calledStaticContentServer. This middleware has been converted to a view.Action: If your deployment has a custom
MIDDLEWARElist in Django, you will need to remove this item at the time of upgrade to Sumac. Otherwise, no action is needed.
Ubuntu 22.04 Related Operators Note – Feanil Patel
See https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/35450 for details
In newer versions of ubuntu the MD4 hashing algorithm
is disabled by default. To enable it the openssl config needs to be
updated in a manner similar to what's being done here. Alternatively,
you can set the FEATURES['ENABLE_BLAKE2B_HASHING'] setting to True
which will switch to a newer hashing algorithm where MD4 was previously
used.Because this hashing is being used as a part of the edx-platform caching
mechanism, this will effectively clear the cache for the items that use
this hash. The will impact any items where the cache key might have been
too big to store in memcache so it's hard to predict exactly which items
will be impacted.
Added override options to commerce related CTA URLs in edx-platform – Ahtasham ul Hassan
Background: Extension points have been added have been added to commerce app in: PR1, PR2 so openedX community members who wants to extend the commerce functionality can do so without explicitly adding code into
edx-platformcodebase. For more information into extension points seePluggable overridesection in : https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/blob/master/docs/concepts/extension_points.rstAdditional Considerations: Commerce app itself is slated for deprecation nevertheless.
How to setup Aspects on your instance: See the Aspects configuration documentation to learn about setting up Aspects for your production environment or to upgrade Aspects if you’re already using it.
Deprecations and Removals
In frontend-app-learner-dashboard — Max Frank
support for Optimizely has been removed along with the ProductRecommendations widget
removed the RecommendationsPanel widget
In edx-platform – Ahtasham ul Hassan
commerce-coordinatorrelated code has been removed.