Release notes for WeBWorK 2.7

Release/2.7 was earlier called release 2.5.1.3

Cautions

Warning :

Because new tables and fields have been added for the essayQuestion feature upgrading from ww2.5.1.1 will require:

• Replacing the current database.conf with database.conf.dist (assuming you have made no changes to your local database.conf version)
• Upgrading the tables by visiting the admin page -- which will create also create showPastAnswers table
  • This replaces the showPastAnswers logs and also supports the essayQuestion feature.

Quick install

If you are already using the software from github.com/openwebwork then the upgrade is quite simple:

• Update webwork2

 cd /opt/webwork/webwork2 
 git branch
   * master 
    .... perhaps other branches
 git checkout master     # switch to master branch
 git pull                # pull down software updates

• Move database.conf out of the way

 cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/conf
 mv database.conf  database.conf.save

• Update pg

 cd /opt/webwork/pg
 git branch
 git checkout master
 git pull

• Update library

 cd /opt/webwork/libraries/webwork-open-problem-library
 git pull 

• Run check_modules.pl and update CPAN modules if needed.
• Update library database

 cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/bin
 ./OPL-update           # update the database indexing the OPL

• Restart webserver.
• Go to admin course, click on the "upgrade courses" tab and update the course databases.

• After things checkout you might like to visit webwork2/conf/ and compare localOverrides.conf and localOverrides.conf.dist. There might be some new features that you will want to enable.