Release notes

Quest 1.6.1​

February 22, 2024

Bug fixes 🐛

• Awarding XP for completing a mission was throwing an error
• The restore process failed to update internal references
• Stale objectives reevaluation did not occur as intended

Quest 1.6.0​

February 9, 2024

New features ✨

• Streaks! Recruits can now build streaks by completing objectives in a row
• New objective to require the recruit to reach a certain streak
• The mission tracker can be embedded in the content using a shortcode
• The order of the mission types on the mission tracker can be customised
• Insights and recruits pages can be filtered by group
• Achievements can require the recruit to complete multiple objectives
• Added Streak insights to highlight activity and performance
• Missions can be archived to hide them from recruits and reduce server load

Quality of life 💪

• The mission tracker automatically refreshes without requiring a page reload
• Managers can manually increase the streak counter of a recruit
• Many edit actions gracefully refresh the page content instead of reloading it
• The mission tracker can be hidden from the block
• The quest dialogue loading ellipsis can be skipped using the Enter or Space keys
• Improved visual appearance of back navigation buttons on management pages
• Achievement celebrations only occur in their course

Bug fixes 🐛

• Some placeholders could appear in excerpts of quest dialogues
• Challenge deadline calculations now reliably use the server time zone
• Non-repeating challenges can be reset even after they have ended
• Completion challenge objective initialisation refers to the latest instance
• Restoring in an existing course could modify existing missions
• Restoring as merge & delete was not deleting the existing missions
• Restoring user challenges could sometimes break the restore process
• Monthly challenge deadlines could extend beyond the end of the month
• Users' objective counters were not included in backups
• Users' missions iteration number and deadline were not included in backups
• Achievement celebrations can no longer happen when tabbing out of the page
• Completed challenges no longer cause the tracker to render when empty
• Quest discovery shortcode no longer renders when viewed in the mobile app

Technical changes 🛠

• Managers must have permission to access all groups in courses using groups
• Great expansion of our automated tests

Additional notes 👀

• Read our release blog post to learn more.

Quest 1.5.0​

October 3, 2024

New features ✨

• New outcome to recruit a user for an achievement
• New outcome to recruit a user for a challenge
• Objectives can be displayed anywhere in a quest dialogue
• Rewards can be displayed anywhere in a quest dialogue

Quality of life 💪

• New option to delete all the recruits across all missions
• Recruits can have their mission reset to restart from the beginning

Bug fixes 🐛

• Minor fixes and improvements

Technical changes 🛠

• Compatibility with Moodle 4.5

Additional notes 👀

• Read our release blog post to learn more.

Quest 1.4.0​

July 26, 2024

New features ✨

• New objective to require recruits to take quizzes
• Attach a link to an objective to guide recruits
• Increased immersion by improving how dialogues are revealed
• Ability to duplicate a mission and all its settings
• Added overall insights for all missions in a context
• Export overall insights data to CSV
• Export mission recruits data and their metrics to CSV
• Filter recruits by name and other identity fields
• Filter recruit missions by state (ongoing, completed, etc.)
• Remove all recruits from a mission at once

Quality of life 💪

• Design improvements to the table views found in several pages
• New messages in narrator dialogue are denoted from previous messages
• Objectives for a particular activity suggest its URL as associated page
• Improved design consistency of the content displayed in the block
• The missions overview page indicates the number of users recruited for each mission
• Pages displaying a recruit include the user's avatar and identity fields
• Recruits' pages can be seen in a wide view to reveal more columns
• Improved responsive design on recruits' views
• Page-wide actions have been added and moved to a menu
• The user's preferred data export format is remembered
• Revisited the settings interface of the objective to complete profile information
• Removing a recruit from a mission can be done from the recruit's page
• Adding emphasis on destructive actions
• Recruit objectives are now re-evaluated after an objective has been edited

Bug fixes 🐛

• Access platform objective captures visits on the front page
• Complete section objective requires that the course supports sections
• Assigner scheduled task gracefully handles deleted missions
• Outcome to assign a quest gracefully handles deleted quests
• Handle rare case of race condition when incrementing objective
• Other fixes and improvements

Technical changes 🛠

• Raised minimum required version to Moodle 4.1

Additional notes 👀

• Read our release blog post to learn more.

Quest 1.3.4​

May 29, 2024

Bug fixes 🐛

• Achievement unlocked notifications could prevent navigation in rare cases
• Completed date of incomplete achievements manually marked as complete was not displayed

Quest 1.3.3​

April 24, 2024

Bug fixes 🐛

• Quests did not finish when learners manually closed the modal
• Text could go out of bounds for challenges with long objectives or outcomes
• Handle Moodle regression causing "Delete" buttons to disappear from modals (MDL-81339)

Quality of life 💪

• Improved tab order of action buttons in some modals

Technical changes 🛠

• Compatibility with Moodle 4.4

Quest 1.3.2​

Feb 12, 2024

Bug fixes 🐛

• Incomplete list of available roles in course enrolment outcome when used sitewise

Quest 1.3.1​

Feb 9, 2024

Bug fixes 🐛

• Cohorts could not be used to recruit users in sitewide missions
• Handle PHP notice when course enrolment outcome is used sitewise
• Invalid reference to a language string in completion rate objective

Quest 1.3.0​

Jan 6, 2024

New features ✨

• Introduced library to use custom images for quest narrators and achievements
• Added page to browse all users recruited for any mission in the context
• Added recruit page listing all missions a user is recruited for

Quality of life 💪

• Redesigned and improved UX of the page listing all missions
• Top level navigation between missions, recruits and library pages

Quest 1.2.1​

Dec 2, 2023

Technical changes 🛠

• Compatibility with Moodle 4.3
• Compatibility with PHP 8.2
• Removed unused get_config_structure methods from objective type

Quest 1.2.0​

May 29, 2023

New features ✨

• Outcome to award coins in Motrain
• Objective to attain a certain level in Motrain

Quality of life 💪

• Page width defaults to narrower view
• Increase size of achievements on profile page
• Improve responsiveness of charts on insights pages
• Display periodicity of challenge in its modal

Bug fixes 🐛

• Challenge outcomes could be triggered twice
• Access activity objective limited choices to activity with completion

Technical changes 🛠

• Compatibility with Moodle 4.2

Quest 1.1.2​

April 20, 2023

Bug fixes 🐛

• List of recruitment automations was always empty
• Include missing challenge related properties in backups
• Objectives, outcomes and assigners were not updated during restores
• Backing up a course could result in an error
• Other minor fixes and improvements

Quest 1.1.1​

April 13, 2023

Bug fixes 🐛

• Incorrect reference to previously renamed property

Technical changes 🛠

• Fixed incorrect plugin maturity declaration

Quest 1.1.0​

April 13, 2023

New features ✨

• Extended backup support to track deeper parameters

Quality of life 💪

• Recruits page now lists people instead of instances for challenges
• Improved insights given for challenges
• Improved backup/restore of several objectives, outcomes and assigners

Bug fixes 🐛

• Compatibility with PHP 8.1
• Fixed an incompatibility with MySQL
• Other minor fixes and improvements

Quest 1.0.0​

March 7, 2023

• ✨ Initial release!