1.8.2 is a minor version release with a few updates.
New Features
- Custom columns now available in the Statement Viewer
- Fully featured query interface for custom reports in the Statement Viewer
- Save and load custom reports
- Save VQL queries or simple JavaScripts and attach them to Access Keys or Upstream LRSs
Improvements
- Improved UX in the command line configuration script
- Start separating the minor version from the build number
- Fix a bug that prevented the query engine from using ElasticSearch in some cases
- Add a POST handler to the VQL query endpoint to match the documentation
- Remove the address fields from Learners
- Refactor some minor GUI
- Make canonical table viewers more prominent
- Remove a few seldom used options
- Add link to help desk system
- Change titles for Agents and Activities under the learner portal to "Learners" and "Content". This should reduce confusion with the canonical tables.
- Improve paging performance for following long series of "more" links in the xAPI.
- Allow custom path input in the Chart Builder tool
- Make the VQL display in the Chart Builder a full VQL query, not just a process fragment
- Add a page to help configure Lite
- Embeddable dashboards can now have an optional password
- New VQL commands: $inlineSubQuery, $source, $expression and $toCanonicalResponse
- Messages displays the status of running background jobs
- Responses widget shows canonical response text
- Allow slightly more flexibility in ElasticSearch version. Should not support 6.4.x or 6.6.x
Breaking Changes
The internal representation in ElasticSearch has been modified to better match the MongoDB documents. Existing LRSs will need to run the "Rebuild Analytics Index" tool.
New Lite (Free) Version
The download for the free Lite version has also been updated. You should be able to simply overwrite the old executable. There are no additional migration steps. As usual, please reach out if you have questions, comments, or experience any issues updating.