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LMS and EdTech platform: LearnDash

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LearnDash is in pure maintenance mode — two fixes and a REST API lockdown, captured five times over.

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◆Current state
The 5.0.x line is fix-only. Version 5.0.5 resolved two group-leader problems: leaders on basic settings could not view or grade their own groups' assignments, and progress exports for multi-group leaders could leak users from outside the exported group. Version 5.0.5.1 followed a month later with tightened security around REST API endpoints. The feed captures each of these releases three to five times, including fragments of the collapsible changelog widget.
◆Where it's heading
Nothing in this window extends the product. The work is permissions correctness and API hardening — the group-leader visibility bug and the export leak are both cases of users seeing data they should not, and the REST endpoint tightening continues in the same direction. Satellite add-on versions in the wider feed follow the same pattern of security review changes and settings relocations.
◆Prediction
The 5.0.x line looks likely to continue with patch releases in the same fix-and-harden mould. These entries give no sign of feature work in progress, so a call on where LearnDash goes next would not be grounded in what is here.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    LearnDash 5.0.5.1 tightens REST API endpoint security

    A security-only patch hardening REST API endpoints, one month after 5.0.5. It continues the theme of restricting what the API and group roles expose rather than adding anything.

  2. 3mo ago

    Duplicate entry for the 5.0.5.1 security patch

    A second capture of the same 5.0.5.1 security patch. No content beyond the canonical entry.

  3. 3mo ago

    Changelog widget fragment listing the 5.0.5 fixes

    A capture of the expandable fixes panel for 5.0.5, with the widget's toggle text scraped into the title. It restates the same two group-leader fixes.

  4. 4mo ago

    LearnDash 5.0.5 fixes group-leader grading and export scope

    Two bug fixes: group leaders on basic settings can now grade their groups' assignments, and progress exports no longer include users outside the exported group. Correctness work with no new functionality.

  5. 4mo ago

    Duplicate entry for the 5.0.5 release

    Another capture of 5.0.5 summarising the same two fixes. Duplicate of the canonical release entry.

  6. 4mo ago

    Third capture of the 5.0.5 release notes

    A third capture of 5.0.5, this one including the release date and widget chrome. Same two fixes again.