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Ukrainian translation of Moodle LMS

Posted on by Michael G
by Jessica Gramp.  

One of the greatest strengths of Moodle is our global community of developers, system administrators, educators, and translators, who contribute to evolving Moodle in an ongoing cycle of improvement.

We are very proud that Moodle is available in over 100 languages and this would not be possible without the volunteers that suggest improvements to an existing language or start translating Moodle into a new language.

In the last few weeks, the translation of Moodle into the Ukrainian language has jumped from 77% to 100%.  This is the result of the Ucr@ ina Project of the University of Turin, coordinated by Prof. Marina Marchisio and Sergio Rabellino.  The project aims to help secondary Ukrainian school students who have left Ukraine to be tutored by University of Turin students on the Moodle platform.   The tutors have been recruited and trained through funding by the De Agostini Foundation.

Congratulations to the University of Turin and its tutors on this important project.  Not only does this directly benefit these Ukrainian secondary students, but all other Ukrainian speakers using the Moodle platform.

Anyone can help contribute to Moodle’s many language packs. If you’d like to get involved, please visit Moodle’s translation site.

In addition, you may be interested in helping to translate our Moodle Academy course content into other languages too. If so, we encourage you to watch Moodle Academy’s webinar on “Translating content in Moodle courses and sites”, which is available below and also as a downloadable file on the Moodle Academy Translation course.

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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 July 2022

Posted on by Michael G

Happy Friday, everyone –let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week:

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.
 – Registrations are open for ApacheCon North America, 2022 https://www.apachecon.com/acna2022/register.html

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 July 2022. Running Board calendar and minutes are available.

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF’s Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 271 Apache Committers and 752 contributors changed 1,776,706 lines of code over 3,430 commits. Top five contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Liang Zhang, Jarek Potiuk, and Minghui Liu.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Attic – provides process and solutions when an Apache project has reached its end of life.
 – Apache Chemistry is now retired https://s.apache.org/hqruj 

Big Data —
 – Apache Flink 1.15.1 released 
 – Apache Druid CVE-2022-28889: Clickjacking in the web console 

Business Intelligence/Data Visualization —
 – Apache Superset CVE-2021-37839: Improper access to dataset metadata information 
Eventing —

 – Apache EventMesh (incubating) 1.5.0 released

IoT —
 – Apache IoTDB 0.14.0 released 

Library —
 – Apache Commons CVE-2022-33980: Configuration insecure interpolation defaults 

Logging Services —
 – Apache Log4j 2.18.0 released

Machine Learning —
 – Apache SystemDS 3.0.0 released 

Messaging —
 – Apache Qpid ProtonJ2 1.0.0-M7 released
 – Apache Curator 5.3.0 released 
 – Apache Pulsar 2.10.1  released 

Middleware —
 – Apache Linkis 1.1.2-RC2 (incubating) released

Release Auditing —
 – Apache Creadur RAT 0.14 released on June 13 

Web Frameworks —
 – Apache Portals CVE-2022-32533: XSS, CSRF, SSRF, and XXE issues 

Workflow —
 – Apache DolphinScheduler 3.0.0-beta-2 released 

Apache Community Notices

 – Apache in 2021 – By The Digits + Video highlights 

 – Watch “Trillions and Trillions Served“, the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) “Apache Everywhere” [6 min] 3) “Why Apache” [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 – ASF Annual Report: FY2021 (PDF)

 – The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 – Foundation Reports and Statements

 – Presentations from 2021’s ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

 – “Success at Apache” focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works.” 

 – Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and The ASF page LinkedIn. 

 – Follow the Apache Community on Facebook and Twitter. 

 – Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our “Powered By” logos.

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Python 3.11.0b4 is now available

Posted on by Michael G

I cannot believe I am writing this, but Python 3.11.b4 is available!

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110b4/

This is a beta preview of Python 3.11

Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b2 is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release.

We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to test with 3.11 during the beta phase and report issues found to the Python bug tracker as soon as possible. While the release is planned to be feature complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that features may be modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start of the release candidate phase (Monday, 2021-08-02). Our goal is have no ABI changes after beta 4 and as few code changes as possible after 3.11.0rc1, the first release candidate. To achieve that, it will be extremely important to get as much exposure for 3.11 as possible during the beta phase.

Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.

Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10

Among the new major new features and changes so far:

  • PEP 657 – Include Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
  • PEP 654 – Exception Groups and except*
  • PEP 673 – Self Type
  • PEP 646 – Variadic Generics
  • PEP 680 – tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
  • PEP 675 – Arbitrary Literal String Type
  • PEP 655 – Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
  • bpo-46752 – Introduce task groups to asyncio
  • PEP 681 – Data Class Transforms
  • bpo-433030– Atomic grouping ((?>…)) and possessive quantifiers (*+, ++, ?+, {m,n}+) are now supported in regular expressions.
  • The Faster Cpython Project is already yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10. On average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the standard benchmark suite. See Faster CPython for details.

    • (Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Pablo know.)

The next pre-release of Python 3.11 will be 3.11.0b5, currently scheduled for Monday, 2022-07-25.

More resources

And now for something completely different

The Planck temperature is 1.416784×10**32 K. At this temperature, the wavelength of light emitted by thermal radiation reaches the Planck length. There are no known physical models able to describe temperatures greater than the Planck temperature and a quantum theory of gravity would be required to model the extreme energies attained. Hypothetically, a system in thermal equilibrium at the Planck temperature might contain Planck-scale black holes, constantly being formed from thermal radiation and decaying via Hawking evaporation; adding energy to such a system might decrease its temperature by creating larger black holes, whose Hawking temperature is lower.

Rumours say the Planck temperature can be reached in some of the hottest parts of Spain in summer.

We hope you enjoy the new releases!

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.


https://www.python.org/psf/

Your friendly release team,
Ned Deily @nad 
Steve Dower @steve.dower 
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal

Atari open-source Linux DRM graphics driver being worked on in 2022

Posted on by Michael G
In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older… A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90’s. Over the past two years a DRM driver has been in the works for the Atari graphics hardware with its built-in graphics chipset. This is not to be confused with the 2021-launched Atari VCS mini PC / game console, but the Atari Falcon personal computers out of the Atari Corporation from the early 90’s that featured Motorola 68000 series processors and a programmable video controller. It’s not yet in mainline, so it’ll be fun to see if Torvalds is up for including such an old and niche driver once it’s matured. I’ve always wanted an Atari Falcon, but they’re even more expensive than most other classic computers, so that’s most likely never going to happen.

Moodle 4.0.2 and other minor versions released today

Posted on by Michael G
by Adrian Greeve.  

Hello everyone,

Moodle 4.0.2, 3.11.8, and 3.9.15 were released today.

As usual, you can find the releases via our download channels (https://download.moodle.org or Git).

We recommend you upgrade your Moodle sites where possible, to benefit from the bug-fixes and security improvements.

We have been migrating over to a new documentation system and so we will be linking to those from now on.
The release notes for each version can be found on the following pages:

Please see the releases page for more details.

The details of this picture are described in the table below.

The details of the release key are in the table below.
Version Release status Initial release General support ends Security support ends
3.9 (LTS) Current security 15 June 2020 10 May 2021 13 November 2023 (ext 6M) 
3.11 Current stable 17 May 2021 14 Nov 2022 (ext 6M) 13 Nov 2023 (ext 12M)
4.0 Current stable 19 April 2022 8 May 2023 13 November 2023
4.1 (LTS) Future stable 14 November 2022 13 November 2023 10 November 2025

#! code: Drupal 9: Using The Private Temporary Store Service

Posted on by Michael G

The Drupal tempstore.private service is used to allow temporary user data that is available from one web request to the next. It is intended to be used for non-cache data that cannot easily be rebuild. This includes work in progress data that isn’t in the position to be saved permanently.

The temporary store is a key value/store and cam therefore store anything from a single vale to a serialised object.

The tempstore.private service is really a factory (called PrivateTempStoreFactory) that will allow you to create instance of a PrivateTempStore object. It’s this object that van be used to manage the data in the store. If you are familiar with the way that configuration factories work then this will seem familiar.

Using the temporary storage is quite straightforward, the service has a get() method that takes the name of the temporary store you want to use. What you call it is up to you, but it is best to namespace this so that you can easily tell where the temporary store came from. You can also add information like whatsort of temporay store you are using, but don’t add any user identifyable information for the key.

Once the PrivateTempStore object has been created you can then use it to set whatever data you might want to set.

/** @var DrupalCoreTempStorePrivateTempStore $store */
$store = Drupal::service('tempstore.private')->get('mymodule');
$store->set('var_name', $data);

To get the data back again just use the get() method.

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