Dogwood

Open edX Release 4 https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/OPEN-776

Anticipated cut date: Week of Oct 26, 2015  Will not be cut until Django upgrade is released and stable, anticipating mid December timeframe.

Anticipated final release: Week of Dec 7, 2015  Currently aiming at mid-January, due to Django upgrade and December US holidays.

Note: We aim to get the Django upgrade into this release, so dates are extremely tentative until we have a clearer picture of when this work will land.

New Services & Major Upgrades Planned for This Release

• Ecom Services for Dogwood

  • Only outstanding item is documentation

• Insights in Dogwood

  • Plan forthcoming

• Django Upgrade 1.4 to 1.8

  • Working with T&L Lahore

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/OPEN-507

  • Necessary for SSO and LTI applications to work

  • Desire to get this into next named release; contingent perhaps around getting better ux support

• MongoDB/Pymongo Upgrade

  • @Feanil Patel (Deactivated) to provide some tickets for this work (Ops & Platform work)

• CohortMembership fix (https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/TNL-3478)

  • Includes a management command, course_groups/post_cohort_membership_fix, to be run after data migrations.

• Python 2.7.10 Upgrade

  • Users will have to re-build virtualenvs from scratch.

  • New vagrant images will have the correct virtualenvs and Python version.

  • https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/OPS-631

• Course Overviews as source of truth for list of courses.

  • Includes a management command, "manage.py lms --settings=X generate_course_overview --all", to be run after data migrations.

  • If this management command is not run,

    • deployments that run with ENABLE_COURSE_DISCOVERY set to False, may see courses missing on their Course Catalog page

    • the Courses API "/api/courses/v1/courses/" may not include all courses in the system

Deprecations

• "shoppingcart" functional should be considered deprecated as of Dogwood and will be removed in a future release. Similar services will be provided by "Otto" going forward

• ORA1 code is completely removed

• Legacy instructor dash is turned off by default, and will be removed entirely in Eucalyptus

• Old code has been removed:

  • Admin dashboard

  • abtest_module

  • Psychometrics

  • "Licenses" djangoapp

  • FoldIt XModule

  • Studio course checklists

• Removed support for the outdated ispublic field on the Course Module, including its corresponding ACCESS_REQUIRE_STAFF_FOR_COURSE feature flag.  Instead, operators should use COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION and COURSE_ABOUT_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION settings.

• The "graphical_slider_tool" is deprecated, and will no longer be available starting in in Eucalyptus (the code has been removed from Master).

Things that didn't make it into Dogwood

• Student Notes in Dogwood

  • Probably won't happen - work is on the bubble

• NLTK upgrade https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/TNL-2486 (delayed to Eucalyptus)

• Badging in Dogwood

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