Eucalyptus

Open edX Release 5

Planned Installation Improvements

An installation script that:
- Insists on an OPENEDX_RELEASE value
- Requires fewer commands to be copied and pasted
- Records how it was run
- Logs obsessively
Better-named branches (dogwood.rc is confusing)

Mobile
- Profiles, Native Course Discovery, Push Notifications, and Forums
Front end
- EdX Pattern Library and EdX UI Toolkit (deprecated) are now included in edx-platform
- Many JavaScript libraries have been upgraded to more recent versions (including JQuery, Underscore and Backbone)
- JavaScript tests are run using Karma rather than JS-Test-Tool
- Large number of CoffeeScript files have been converted to JavaScript
- See Initial rollout plan for the UI Toolkit and Pattern Library for more details
- JavaScript translations are now built statically instead of dynamically on each request: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/11381
Notes API?
LMS Next and Previous buttons and eventing
Open Badges improvements: UI for viewing badges in a user's profile, new sharing modal, XBlock service for issuing badges, new configuration options to issue badges
Support for OpenStack Swift as an object store

This change to problem-builder might need a fake-initial, though it's in edx-private: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/11295
CSMH separation: Initial CSMH Separation Migration and official docs
Existing users will be logged out because of changes we made to session handling
Ruby was removed:
OAuth library update requires manual steps:
- Ansible installation currently does not properly handle prereq removal before installing new libraries. This causes `__init__.py` to be removed from django-oauth-toolkit. It can be fixed by running:
  $ pip uninstall django-oauth-toolkit edx-oauth2-provider
  $ pip install -r requirements/edx/base.txt
- Migrations need to be fixed to handle moving edx-oauth2-provider from oauth2_provider to edx_oauth2_provider and installing django-oauth-toolkit.
  $ ./manage.py lms migrate --fake oauth2_provider zero
  $ ./manage.py lms migrate --fake-initial
Bulk Email on the Instructor Dashboard has been disabled as a result of moving the feature flag and will need to be manually re-enabled, See readthedocs for details.

feature flags, configuration options, deployment changes, etc.
We have removed support for the always_recalculate_grades xBlock field. When set to true it caused significant performance issues, and it is not currently used in any of our active XBlocks. Please let Sandy Student (Deactivated) know if you have any questions.