Out of the 32 recorded new features and over 130 bug fixes, we would like to highlight some.

Theming

• A new “responsive theme”, designed to work fluidly on many screen sizes; especially mobile devices
• Members of multiple institutions can decide which theme to use
• Basic support for theming logged-out users

Pages and blocks

• Option for images to be resized at upload time
• Ability to add journal entries directly from a page
• Tagged journal entries block can show full entries

Copying and sharing

• Collections can be submitted to groups
• Mobile uploads support multiple devices
• Mobile API support for journal entries and attaching files to journal entries
• Mobile API support for syncing messages, tags, files, and journals

Usability and documentation

• Breadcrumbs in small headers are visible at all times
• New “Unpublish” button for journal entries
• Optional “Clean URLs” for user profiles, portfolio pages, groups and group pages with support for subdomains

Groups

• More sorting options on member’s listing in a group
• Collections are available for groups, institutions and on the site level
• Group information expanded to include number of forums, topics and posts
• Group admins can enable and view participation reports within groups
• Editability of group content can be limited with a start and end time
• Pagination for forum topics

Admin tools

• Statistics for institutions and more statistics at the site level
• Cron error message appears red for visibility
• Option to add institution staff rights during registration approval
• Configurable SafeIframe site list
• Option to allow self registration process for users authenticating via Persona
• Cron can poll an imap inbox for mail bounces
• Option to allow local customisation of “Edit site pages” list
• “User search” in the admin area links to profile pages

See the full list of more than 130 bug fixes here:

https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.6.0

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