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Moodle Dev

EDTECH
Velocity0.0

LMS and EdTech platform: Moodle Dev

Moodle is modernising its frontend stack while hardening the base institutions audit.

lmsopen-sourcefrontend-modernisationpluginssecurityaccessibility
Current state
This product's dated feed carries only version-index stubs, so the substance arrives undated, in a release-notes page split by section. Password hashing moves to SHA-512 and database connections gain SSL support for Postgres and MySQL. The Boost theme is refactored onto Bootstrap 5, and TinyMCE 6 arrives with a Premium plugins integration and code highlighting. The Matrix integration extends through a Communication API with initial group support and mobile coverage, course hierarchy gains subsections reachable from the add-activity button, and plugins can declare which stable Moodle versions they support.
Where it's heading
Two agendas run together. One is overdue modernisation of the frontend and editor stack — Bootstrap 5 and TinyMCE 6 each ripple into every custom theme and plugin built on them. The other is pulling built-in subsystems behind pluggable interfaces, visible in a Communication API wrapping Matrix rather than a chat feature shipped directly. The security and accessibility sections read as institutional procurement requirements being met rather than roadmap choices.
Prediction
The plugin-compatibility declarations and the Communication API suggest more subsystems will move behind provider interfaces; the frontend refactor implies a stretch of plugin breakage while maintainers catch up to Bootstrap 5.

Recent moves

  1. 4mo ago

    Moodle 3.11

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  2. 4mo ago

    Moodle 2.1

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  3. 4mo ago

    Moodle 2.0

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  4. 4mo ago

    Moodle 1.9

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  5. 4mo ago

    Moodle 1.8

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  6. 4mo ago

    Moodle 1.6

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