Operational

• Settings Update: https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/pull/38758

• Setting added: REDACT_CERTIFICATES_HISTORICAL_PII

  • Default: False

  • Description: When enabled, this setting removes the name field from the django-simple-history audit table for the certificate records of retired users.

  • PR - https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/pull/38671

• https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/pull/38720

  • Related Frontend Impact: https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-authoring/pull/3088

Deprecations and Removals

Defaults Changing for Willow

End User Impact

• Instructor Dash: In the Student Profile Information CSV report, cells for unset fields (city, country, language, mailing address, etc.) that used to read the literal text "None" are now empty cells. Country cells that used to be empty stay empty.

  • https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/pull/38763

  • This change was triggered by a major version update in an underlying library and resolves an inconsistency where previously some unset fields were empty while others had the literal “None” text in them.