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Released: 7 March 2008

This is a beta release of Mahara 1.0 Alomohora. Things will be broken! However, we are now soliciting bug reports, should you find a bug. You can report bugs to the tracker:

https://eduforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=176&atid=739

Please choose 'HEAD/trunk' as the version of your bug.

In this release, upgrading from the 0.9 stable version is possible. This does not mean that this should be done on a live website! Furthermore, upgrading from this release to any future release will not be supported either, so please perform any testing you might want to make on either a new install of this release or a copy of your 0.9 site.

This release includes:

  • The shiny new theme!
  • AJAX login functionality
  • Removal of a bunch of unnecessary files and scripts, making the download smaller
  • Many fixes to MySQL support
  • Many bug fixes and usability improvements

New Theme

The new theme will be the default for 1.0 and beyond. It has a much more neutral colour palette, making it easier to customise for institutions. However, it is _very_ likely that any customised themes that you have made based of the 0.9 and before theme will not work properly! You will have to re-base your theme on top of the 1.0 theme if you wish to use 1.0 and beyond.

There are no plans to maintain the old theme into the future. The new theme will likely be the default theme for the entire 1.X series.

Some other notes about the theme:

  • The edit profile screen is now in tabs if you have javascript
  • Parts do not work properly in IE7. This will be rectified for beta3

AJAX login functionality

This is a new feature that allows you to re-log in if you perform an AJAX based operation when your session has timed out. A log in box will pop up asking for your username and password, then the request will continue. So do not be surprised if you see this! :)


As mentioned above, the upgrade should not be attempted on a live site yet. Instead, make a copy of your database and dataroot, set up a new Mahara using them, and test upgrading on that.

Also as mentioned above, upgrading from this release will not be supported.