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Dogwood

Dogwood

May 16, 2022

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

  • 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  • Removed support for the outdated ispublic field on the Course Module, including its corresponding ACCESS_REQUIRE_STAFF_FOR_COURSE feature flag.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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