Dogwood

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Last updated: May 16, 2022 by Wes Mason [he / him / his] (Deactivated)Version comment
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Open edX Release 4  OPEN-776 - Getting issue details... STATUS

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

Anticipated final release: Week of   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
  • /wiki/spaces/TNL/pages/34013441
    • Working with T&L Lahore
  • OPEN-507 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • 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
  • CohortMembership fix ( TNL-3478 - Getting issue details... STATUS )
    • 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.
    • OPS-631 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  • 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

Release Checklist

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