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This is not an April fool : a serious security hole has just been been detected in Claroline 1.7.*, 1.6.* and 1.5.* (previous Claroline versions are not affected by these flaws). We seriously advise all people using Claroline 1.7 to patch their platform as soon as possible.

Download the patches at these addresses :

• Claroline 1.7 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch17401.zip
• Claroline 1.6 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch16301.zip
• Claroline 1.5 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch15401.zip

How to apply the patch

• Uncompress the zip archive file 'claroline.patch1**01.zip'.
• Copy the 'claroline' directory found inside that archive on the 'claroline' directory already available on your web server.

All information about the annual conference of Claroline users (ACCU2006) is now available on the official site:

• Registration
• Accommodation
• Conference schedule.

A call for contributions is also present, if you want to share your experience with other people, don't hesitate to propose it.

Claroline will be presented at the 'Journée du libre' in Amiens (France) on Saturday 25th of March 2006.

This fourth edition of the event is part of the national annual manifestation "Libre en fête", aiming to promote the use of opensource softwares in any educational, non-lucrative or professionnal context.

This year's conference will focus on the following subjects:

• The use of opensource software in the french national education.
• Presentation of several opensource projects, including Claroline.

Arturo Casar Sarasola, from the Universidade de Vigo recently sent us some news about their amazing online campus.

Based in Spain, the university uses Claroline for now 3 years. Their campus is composed of 403 courses for more than 11.000 users with not less than 165.000 connections since October 2005.

• The Claroline campus at Universidade de Vigo
• Their online help tutorial

Eric Uyttebroeck from the "Centre des technologies au service de l'enseignement" (CTE) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) has just published a thorough analysis of Claroline 1.7.

Eric achieved a similar work with Thierry Henau in 2003 for Claroline 1.4. This new 74 pages article is a complete overhaul of the previous one. It assesses Claroline 1.7 features one by one and gives documented and argued comments that may prove useful for the decision maker.

The document is available at this address : http://www.ulb.ac.be/ulb/cte/docs/EvalClaroline17.pdf (in French)

Annual Conference of Claroline Users
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
May 22 and 23, 2006

Conférence Annuelle des Utilisateurs de Claroline
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
22 et 23 mai 2006

Time for the new release of our monthly maintenance program. Aside some minor bug fixes, Claroline 1.7.3 main improvements concern :

• Enhancement of the Claroline interoperability with case insensitive external authentication systems (as LDAP),
• Repair of a security hole in the SSO extensions.

For complete details, see the Claroline 1.7.3 Changelog Page.

Download Claroline 1.7.3.

Claroline will be presented at the ITC conference organized by the Profetic (integration of ICT and new pedagogy in education).

This conference will present a number of activities on various topics linked to sharing, publishing and reusing digital resources. It is addressed to stakeholders in the academic sphere - professors, researchers, academic advisors, students, administrators, media and computer technicians, university direction representatives, etc. - as well as anyone with an interest in the proposed topics.

Claude Galaise and Michel Gendron from the university of Québec at Rimouski will share their pedagogical experiences with Claroline. Do not hesitate to meet them overthere.

The event will take place on March 24, 2006 at Sherbrooke University, with a preconference on March 23.

• Visit the Conference website

Claroline 1.7.2 is a maintenance release fixing the last bugs communicated by the Claroline community.

The main improvements concern the 8 new translations updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Persian, Polish, Romanian (new), Spanish Latin and Traditional Chinese (new).

For more details, see the change log 1.7.2 page on the wiki.

Download Claroline 1.7.2.

Note : We invite any people currently using Claroline 1.7 or 1.7.1 to upgrade their server to this minor release.

Thanks to large contributions from the community, the latest Claroline 1.7.1 release includes much improvements in the interface translation.

Among others recent contributions there are :

• Arabic by Eng.Ali Ismaeel
• Bulgarian by Alex Simidchiev
• Croatian by Karolj Skala and Bozo Jonic - Ruder Boskovic Institute
• Dutch by Svenn d'hert
• French review by Paul Muraille
• Galician by Gerardo Albela González - Bolseiro Servizo de Teledocencia
• Hungarian by Balázs Györök, associate professor at Szent István University (Hungria)
• Indonesian by Ery Atmodjo
• Persian by Elnaz Sarbar (Farsi Web)
• Polish by Jacek Grudzien
• Spanish by Gerardo Albela González - Bolseiro Servizo de Teledocencia
• Spanish Latin by Carlos Brys from Universidad Nacional de Misiones (Argentina)

See more about the Claroline translations :

• Translation progression
• Help to translate Claroline in your own language

Many thanks to the Claroline translators community!