In another milestone, minor version of Moodle – the world’s most popular open source LMS is released today. The new version – Moodle 4.0.1 is available to download from Moodle.org.

The new point release contains minor fixes from Moodle 4.0 release. Here are the brief fixes:

• MDL-74461 – Not always possible to easily navigate back to section from an activity page
• MDL-74514 – BigbluebuttonBN is polling the BigblueButton server too often
• MDL-74481 – LTI Advantage: Non-Editing Teacher has role Student
• MDL-74478 – Awarded badge for activity completion, despite not receiving a passing grade
• MDL-74450 – The course secondary navigation should be displayed in the site home settings page
• MDL-74317 – Edit mode cannot be turned on/off when using other capabilities
• MDL-74436 – Fatal error when importing “course” events from ics file
• MDL-74427 – Coding error detected when deleting question category

The next major version 4.1 is scheduled to be released in November 2022. It will have major focus on improving the User Experience for Moodle LMS. There will be many new features like:

• Improving the integration with MoodleNet
• Investigating and commencing the project to improve messaging in Moodle (proposed integration with Matrix messaging)
• MUA projects to improve the Database and Assignment activities
• Continuing the Question bank improvements project.