Welcome to your monthly LifterLMS News You Can Use, October edition: #009.
Read About Recent Technical Product Updates (We’ve been busy)!
Security Notice
- Fixed a security vulnerability disclosed by the WordPress plugin review team. Please upgrade immediately!
Updates
- Explicitly setting css and js file versions for various static assets.
- Added data sanitization methods in various form handlers.
- Added nonce verification to various form handlers.
Bug fixes
- Fixed some translation strings that had literal variables instead of placeholders.
- Fixed undefined index error encountered when attempting to email a voucher export.
- Fixed undefined index error when PHP file upload errors are encountered during a course import.
- Fixed instances of improper input sanitization and handling.
- Include scripts, styles, and images for reporting charts and datepickers
- User Interaction event and session Tracking
- Added user interaction tracking for the following events:
- User sign in and out.
- Page load and exit (for LMS content)
- Page focus and blur (for LMS content)
- Interaction events are grouped into sessions automatically. A session is “closed” after 30 minutes of inactivity or a log-out event.
- Added “Last Seen” student reporting column which reports the last recorded activity for the student.
Enhancements
- Automatically hydrate when calling LLMSAbstractDatabaseStore::toarray().
- Added CSS to make course and lesson video embeds automatically responsive.
Bug Fixes
- Correctly pass the $remember variable when using llms_set_person_auth_cookie().
- Fixed undefined index error when retrieving an unset value from an unsaved database model.
- Fix issue causing quotes to be encoded in shortcodes used in course and membership restriction message settings fields.
- Fix issue preventing manual updates of order dates (next payment, trial expiration, and access expiration) from being saved properly.
LifterLMS Advanced Videos Version 1.0.0-beta.2
Updates
- Add Wistia Support.
- Optimized embed output checking.
- Automatically add autoplay permissions on iframes for supported providers.
Bug Fixes
- Settings return their proper (opposite) values when modifying an embed URL.
- Resolved an issue with Divi (and possibly other themes) that have custom embed wrappers for Videos.
- Fixed language for Vimeo Playback Control setting.
- Fixed issue causing some settings to not save properly.
- Fixed syntax error when checking for async loading of the Vimeo player SDK.
- Fixed issue causing the Vimeo player SDK to be excluded from release distributions.
- Fixed filter for get_player_theme_color which had the wrong provider.
- Fixed issue causing elapsed time (in hh:mm:ss) to be incorrectly reported on slim controls player.
Bugfixes
- Fixed a compatibility issue with FitVids.js causing excess white space displayed around videos when using the library, WP plugin, or themes that utilize the library.
- Fixed an issue allowing recurring charges to continue processing after the order or customer had been deleted from the site.
- Fixed issue causing Membership Restriction settings from properly saving.
- Fixed issue that allowed instructors to see all quizzes on a site when the instructor had either no courses or only empty courses (courses with no lessons).
- Fixed “Last Seen” column displaying wrong date when the student last login date was saved as timestamp.
- Fixed an issue causing popover notifications to be skipped (never displayed) as a result of redirects.
LifterLMS Advanced Videos Version 1.0.0-beta.3
- Fix video end event for Wistia players.
- Add “autoplay” permission delegation for all players. Fixes Wistia autoplay videos muted when custom controls are not issue.
LifterLMS REST API Version 1.0.0-beta.7
Bug Fixes
- Fixed lesson siblings link that was using the parent course’s id instead of the parent section’s id.
- Fixed lesson parent link href, replacing ‘section’ with ‘sections’.
- Fixed lesson progression callback name when defining the filters to be removed while preparing the item for response.
- Fixed description of the post_id path parameter for student enrollments resources. Thanks @pondermatic.
- Fixed section parent course object retrieval method when building the resource links.
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Other News You Can Use
LifterLMS launches Advanced Videos Add-on!
Hacktoberfest is back!
We just ran the biggest giveaway in LifterLMS history! A special thank you to the following partners for making it possible (contains affiliate links):
- Acuity Scheduling
- Astra
- Beaver Builder
- Elementor
- Emerson Theme
- GamiPress
- Groundhogg
- Neve Theme
- Pagely
- Simply Schedule Appointments
- Ventura Theme
- WP Forms
- WP Fusion
Community Wins!
“LifterLMS is serving our client in Kenya very well — offering workforce development for underserved youth, changing the trajectory of their future and future generations!”
–Twitter, @sgilligan
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