- [Bugfix] Fix dependency error during `pip install tutor` due to urllib3 incompatibility
- [Bugfix] Fix user ID checking under Windows.
- [Bugfix] Fix template rendering for Windows users.
- [Improvement] Switch to `bcrypt` for htpasswd password generation, for better portability on Windows.
- [Improvement] In the openedx production docker image, add some jitter to the gunicorn worker restart process to prevent all workers from restarting at the same time.
- [Improvement] Mount config and setting files in read-only mode
- 💥[Improvement] Enable unit completion tracking by default.
- [Bugfix] Run `apt update` before `apt install` when installing deps in
the openedx Dockerfile
- [Improvement] Make all commands considerably faster
- [Improvement] Make it easier to override Mongodb connection parameters
- [Bugfix] Add support for .woff and .woff2 font files in themes (thanks @mrtndwrd!)
Tutor was making many calls to iter_installed (~100 on my machine with a
dozen installed plugins). Turns out it's useless to cache Plugin and
Renderer instances, as the config keeps changing all the time. Instead,
we cache the list of installed plugins, which does not change in the
course of a single run.
On my machine this speeds up `tutor config save` by 5x, going from 7.5s
to 1.3s.
Right now if I add .woff or .woff2 fonts files to an Indigo-based theme's `lms/static/fonts` directory, I get the following error:
```
$ /indigo-folder# make
tutor config render --extra-config ./config-totem.yml ./theme "$(tutor config printroot)/env/build/openedx/themes/indigo-totem"
Error loading template lms/static/fonts/NotoSans-Bold.woff
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/maarten/.local/bin/tutor", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/maarten/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tutor/commands/cli.py", line 38, in main
cli() # pylint: disable=no-value-for-parameter
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/decorators.py", line 27, in new_func
return f(get_current_context().obj, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/maarten/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tutor/commands/config.py", line 86, in render
renderer.render_all_to(dst)
File "/home/maarten/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tutor/env.py", line 153, in render_all_to
rendered = self.render_file(template)
File "/home/maarten/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tutor/env.py", line 137, in render_file
template = self.environment.get_template(path)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 830, in get_template
return self._load_template(name, self.make_globals(globals))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 804, in _load_template
template = self.loader.load(self, name, globals)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/loaders.py", line 113, in load
source, filename, uptodate = self.get_source(environment, name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/loaders.py", line 175, in get_source
contents = f.read().decode(self.encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 10: invalid start byte
make: *** [Makefile:2: render] Error 1
```
CORS headers are no longer handled by nginx, but directly by the LMS.
This makes it possible by 3rd-party apps to easily add domain names to
the CORS whitelist, even when they are not subdomains of the LMS.
- [Feature] Add ``images printtag`` command
- [Improvement] Make it possible to override individual contact email
addresses with plugins
- [Bugfix] Replace "no-reply@LMS_BASE" email address by regular contact
email address
- [Bugfix] Disable learner records globally by default
- [Improvement] Upgrade to the latest release of MySQL 5.6
- [Improvement] Non-plugin settings added by "set" directives are now
automatically removed when the plugin is disabled (#241)
- [Improvement] Add CORS basic configuration to LMS for subdomains of
the LMS
- [Feature] Add support for `images build --add-host` option (thanks
@grinderz!)
- [Bugfix] Fix podman compatibility by replacing `docker-compose rm`
command by `docker-compose stop` when stopping containers
- [Improvement] Improve plugin data deletion
- [Improvement] Introduce the `OPENEDX_COMMON_VERSION` setting
- [Bugfix] Make it possible to run init jobs without starting the entire
platform
- [Improvement] Reduce "openedx" Docker image size with static asset
de-duplication
This is done by explicitely listing job dependencies. Unfortunately,
it's not yet possible to move `init` before `start` in `quickstart`,
because some services, such as discovery, depend on the LMS, which takes
a few seconds to boot up. Actually, discovery also depends on ngins, as
it points to "local.overhang.io" when referring to the lms.
- [Bugfix] Upgrade all services to open-release/juniper.3
- [Bugfix] Fix upload of video transcripts to S3
- [Improvement] Memorize whether the user is running a production
platform during interactive configuration
- [Bugfix] Fix incorrect loading of some resources from localhost:18000
in development
- [Bugfix] Fix Samesite=None Secure=False cookie error for users
accessing the LMS with the latest release of Google Chrome
- [Security] Apply javascript security patch ([pull
request](https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/24762))
- [Bugfix] Fix "FileError" on Scorm package upload in Scorm XBlock
- 💥[Improvement] Serve openedx static assets with
[whitenoise](http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/) instead of nginx.
This removes the `k8s-deployments-nginx-init-containers` patch. Plugins
are encouraged to implement static asset serving with Whitenoise as
well.
- [Bugfix] Fix dependency on mysql service when mysql is not activated
- [Improvement] Improve openedx Docker image build time and size with
multi-stage build
- 💥[Feature] Get rid of outdated sysadmin dashboard in LMS at /sysadmin
In the LMS, some resources where loaded from localhost:18000. For
instance: http://localhost:18000/static/images/logo.png
This was due to the fact that the LMS_BASE, LMS_ROOT_URL and thus
SITE_NAME settings are overwritten by the devstack settings, so we need
to define them again in development.
This drastically simplifies volume management, as it is no longer
necessary to manually copy static assets from the docker image to the
bind-mounted volume.
This deprecates the "k8s-deployments-nginx-init-containers" patch, as we
no longer need to init the nginx container. Plugins are encouraged to
start using whitenoise as well for serving static assets.
TODO:
- test media serving: DOES NOT WORK. Whitenoise was designed to serve a
fixed list of static files. Godammit.
- compare performances
This reduces the size of the final image from 3.25Gb to 2.8Gb. Also, it
should be faster to rebuild the image in most cases. For instance, we
will not have to re-install nodejs requirements after part of the
edx-platform repo was modified.
- [Security] Apply edx-platform upstream xss security fixes ([pull
request](https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/24568))
- 💥[Feature] Make it possible to override the docker registry for just
a few services by setting `DOCKER_IMAGE_SERVICENAME` values.
Previously, it was not possible to override the docker registry for just
one or a few services. Setting the DOCKER_REGISTRY configuration
parameter would apply to all images. This was inconvenient. To resolve
this, we include the docker registry value in the DOCKER_IMAGE_*
configuration parameters. This allows users to override the docker
registry individually by defining the DOCKER_IMAGE_SERVICENAME
configuration parameter.
See https://discuss.overhang.io/t/kubernetes-ci-cd-pipeline/765/3
The dashboard is available at /sysadmin. It's a CRUD interface for
managing users and courses.
Enabling this interface required that the DATA_DIR setting was not a
string, but a Path object.
Close #353.
In k8s, creating a user is an interactive command, so it needs to run in
exec. Thus, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE needs to be defined for this
command.
Close #344
In production, the ALTERNATE_WORKER_QUEUES setting is overridden by ""
(empty string). This might prevent LMS from sending tasks to the CMS. We
have not seen this issue emerge yet, but better be safe than sorry.
We must be careful not to process the tasks from the CMS, just like for
the CMS worker which does not process the tasks from the LMS.
Half of the tasks from edx.lms.core.default celery queue were being
processed by the CMS worker. Unfortunately, this CMS worker crashes on
some of those tasks. For instance, activation emails complain of a
missing "django_markup" template tag library because "xss_utils" is not
part of the installed app in the CMS.
The problem is that we need this edx.lms.core.default queue to be part
of the CELERY_QUEUES in the cms in order to send tasks from the CMS to
the LMS. The trick to resolve this situation is to ask the CMS celery
worker to not process the tasks from this queue.
To debug this issue, run in the LMS:
from student.tasks import send_activation_email
send_activation_email("{}")
Then watch the logs of the lms and cms workers. If the CMS workers picks
up this task (50% of the time prior to this change) then we have an
issue.
See:
https://discuss.overhang.io/t/reset-password-email-sent-but-activation-email-dont/690
This was due to incorrectly loading the coursewarehistoryextended in the
installed applications. Also, the database router in charge of routing
requests to the student_history_module database must be disabled.
In CI, the webpack-stats.json file sometimes contains just:
{"status":"compiling"}
This was due to the fact that the `subprocess.call(...)` command in
openedx-assets did not check whether the command was killed -- for lack
of memory for instance. This is resolved by replacing "call(...)" by
"check_call(...)".
Here, we upgrade the Open edX platform from Ironwood to Juniper. This
upgrade does not come with many feature changes, but there are many
technical improvements under the hood:
- Upgrade from Python 2.7 to 3.5
- Upgrade from Mongodb v3.2 to v3.6
- Upgrade Ruby to 2.5.7
We took the opportunity to completely rething the way locally running
platforms should be accessed for testing purposes. It is no longer
possible to access a running platform from http://localhost and
http://studio.localhost. Instead, users should access
http://local.overhang.io and https://studio.local.overhang.io. This
drastically simplifies internal communication between Docker containers.
To upgrade, users should simply run:
tutor local quickstart
For Kubernetes platform, the upgrade process is outlined when running:
tutor k8s upgrade --from=ironwood
- [Improvement] Add `dig`, `ping` utilities to openedx-dev Docker image
- [Bugfix] Resolve "Can't connect to MySQL server" on init
- [Improvement] Make it possible to customize the MySQL root username,
for connecting to external MySQL databases
- [Improvement] Upgrade Android app to v2.21.1 and enable many features,
such as downloading videos to SD card. Thanks for the help @ejklock!
- [Bugfix] Fix Android app crash when accessing course
- [Improvement] Add ability to rescore SCORM units
- [Bugfix] Fix scoring of graded SCORM units
- [Improvement] Increase maximum uploaded file size in the CMS from 10
to 100 Mb.
