Read All About It: Kolibri v0.14 Has an Important Patch Release Out!

Learning Equality
Learning Equality
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2 min readSep 9, 2020

Extra, extra, read all about it! There’s an important patch release for Kolibri v0.14.

Kolibri logo, with text that reads: Kolibri v0.14.7 is now available.
Kolibri v0.14.7 is now available.

Kolibri v0.14.7 brings some significant updates over v0.14.0.

Changed or fixed:

  • Content imported by administrators is now immediately available for learners to use.
  • Unlisted channels appear in channel import workflows.
  • Bugs during the sign-in process have been addressed.
  • Users’ progress on resources is properly logged.
  • CSV files are seamlessly downloaded on Windows.
  • The filtering of lists of users now returns ranked and with approximate matches.
  • Resetting a facility’s settings respects the preset (e.g. formal, informal, non formal) chosen during setup.
  • We’ve improved performance of coach pages for facilities with large numbers of classrooms and groups.

The complete changelog for this release is available on GitHub.

Download Kolibri v0.14.7

You can download Kolibri v0.14.7 here. For more information about the full Kolibri v.0.14, please read the release blog post here.

Showing our gratitude

We extend our continued gratitude to our global community whose feedback has made the Kolibri v0.14.7 release possible.

We also wish to thank the members of the open-source community worldwide who had previously tested, reported issues, and contributed fixes to the v0.14 codebase. The GitHub contributors who supported us with bug fixes are: Ali Kazmi of San Jose, California, USA; Paul Busse of Belgium; Dylan McCall of Vancouver, Canada; Adam Stasiw; and Leo Lin. Special shoutouts are in order to GitHub contributor Alexandros Metaxas for supporting with — drumroll, please — FOURTEEN fixes on GitHub for a previous 0.14 patch release. How incredible!

If you’re interested in how you can join the fun on GitHub, keep on reading.

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  • See a bug? Don’t hesitate to file an issue on Github or send us feedback via the Community Forum.
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