Question Editor API Release Log

Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.24.3 – 14th September 2017

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Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.23.4 – 14th September 2017

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Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.22.1 – 14th September 2017

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Questions API -v2.97

Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.21.1 – 14th September 2017

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Questions API -v2.96

Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.20.2 – 14th September 2017

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Questions API -v2.94

Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.19.3 – 14th September 2017

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Bug fixes

Update SpokenMath to fix freezing of Question Editor when using math question types.

Archived

v3.33.0 – 23rd August 2017

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Questions API -v2.108

Features

Add new responsive option to automatically switch from a side by side preview to a togglable preview at narrow widths, i.e. from edit_preview to edit mode. See full details for the new ui.layout.responsive_edit_mode option.

Polish

Polish styling of the toolbar functions in the new streamlined math keyboard.

Bug fixes

Fix bug where a hidden distractor rationale entry field could temporarily appear when reordering response options.
Fix positioning of response container in cloze image drag and drop questions.
Fix issue where modifying the Max selection option for token highlight questions could unintentionally clear the tokens in the valid response selected.
When adding or deleting tokens in token highlight questions, preserve the existing valid response selection where possible.

Archived

v3.32.0 – 2nd August 2017

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Questions API -v2.107

Features

Add shuffle options support for match list (association) Questions.
Add support for an instructor stimulus on passages to provide teachers with instructional or contextual information.
New streamlined math keypad with quick toolbar functions for inserting response containers, adding dynamic data and selecting symbol groups.
Reordered global help content so it matches the ordering of elements in the UI.

Bug fixes

Chemistry Questions now support the same draggable keypad types as math Questions, including floating, block, and block on focus.
Fix bug where URLs would automatically revert to hyperlinks after unlinking them via the WYSIHTML toolbar.
Fix bug with hotspot Questions where a delete button could show even if there were no hotspots to delete.
Fix the padding of paragraphs inside table elements inside WYSIHTML.
Rich text fields can now include an image even if its URL does not end in a recognized image extension.

Archived

v3.31.1 – 20th July 2017

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Questions API -v2.106

Bug fixes

Fix various bugs related to creating and loading existing validation value for gridded question type.

Archived

v3.31.0 – 12th July 2017

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Questions API -v2.106

Features

Add shuffle options support to choice matrix Questions.
LaTeX including {{response}} containers can now be pasted directly into the formula template field, allowing LaTeX templates to be pasted between Questions or created on the fly with the formula keypad.
Add ability to define the height of image drag-drop response boxes using pixels or percentages.
The preview for shared passages now shows pagination controls when pagination has been enabled. Users can now click or tap through each page when viewing the shared passage.

Bug fixes

Fix bug where clicking on the "Contains math" checkbox could cause it to disappear, if the math_renderer control was hidden.
Fix bug where custom-styled spans in wysihtml editor were replaced with ,  or  tags for certain specific style names.
Fix issue which caused the style dropdown in the WYSIHTML editor bar to display without a default value.
Fix bug where inserting indents or response containers using the WYSIHTML toolbar buttons didn't work in simple layout mode (ui.layout.mode = "simple").
Fix bug where the close button on image annotation labels was misaligned.
Fix bug where adding very long rich text content to a Question would cause the text to extend beyond the bottom of the editor.
Ensure the content of each page in a paginated shared passage is enclosed in  tags, to ensure consistent compatibility and alignment with Questions API.
 elements are now removed from the content when there is only one paragraph, even after other paragraphs have been added and removed, in order to avoid the extra 1em margin on the bottom of the paragraph.
Fix bug where dialogs could be taller than the visible area of Question Editor, causing the action buttons on the dialog to be unclickable.
Fix bug where navigating between the Question tiles view and the Question edit view could cause the scroll position to jump.

Archived

v3.30.0 – 21st June 2017

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Questions API -v2.105

Features

New optional simple layouts for Question Editor, designed for simpler question types and basic config options.
Shared passages now retain their content when toggling the pagination setting on and off.
Add the ability to support dynamic data in ckeditor rich text editor. When data is passed to the app via the public method setDynamicDataHandlers() a data menu containing this data will appear in the ckeditor toolbar.
Added support for allow_negative_scores setting in Author API to be passed through and used by Question Editor, so the Question Editor preview can now calculate negative scores.

Bug fixes

Fixed bug in WYSIHTML which caused a   to be inserted into the field source when adding LaTeX into an empty editor field.
Fix bug where WYSIHTML's remove formatting button did not remove indentation, alignment and feature boxes.
Fixed bug where WYSIHTML options were not displaying properly on the bar when the screen width was very narrow. Now at least one button is always shown.
Fix bug whereby any images which have an alignment in a rich text field do not properly fit into the field when using WYSIHTML editor.
Fix WYSIHTML rich text bug where the text styles dropdown menu could be cutoff on small screen sizes.
Fix race condition causing readyListener to not fire when using specific custom question layout.
Fix ability to destroy or reset Question Editor when using a custom global layout with individual component hooks.
Fix bug where calling destroy() could strip certain class names from the learnosity-question-editor DOM element. The element's class list is now restored to its original DOM state.
Fix bug where  hooks used in a custom global layout would not render the widget source component.
Fix bug where  hooks used in a custom global layout would not render the help component.
Fix bug where destroy() or reset() would not clean up the help component or the widget source component.
Fix bug which was causing feature boxes to be stripped from questions when opened with the WYSIHTMl test editor.
Fix bug where the rich text editor's character palette button could be misaligned, and could unexpectedly insert symbols into another text field.
Fix bug where math editor dialogs could be taller than the visible area of QE, causing the action buttons on the dialog to be unclickable.
Disabled the ability to drag response container positions via their number label in image cloze questions types.

Archived

v3.29.0 – 31st May 2017

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Questions API -v2.104

Features

Custom container styling in WYSIHTML text can now be removed/toggled by reselecting the custom style from the drop down.
The feature box style is now treated as a container style, so using return will expand the feature box instead of exiting it.

Polish

Remove the duplicated delete button and align ignoreText to the left on the formulaV2 layout.
Update the global help to reflect some of the new label changes.

Bug fixes

Fix a bug where math, simple features and other widgets in a rich text could not be deleted using backspace.
Fix a bug where the next button on the WYSIHTML toolbar overlapped the content area on some browsers.
Fix an issue which was causing numbers to be saved as strings in the widget JSON.
Fix bug where destroy() and reset() sometimes didn't work when called within the readyListener callback.
Make newly authored Cloze Dropdown and Cloze Association questions in the Question Editor case sensitive by default.

Archived

v3.25.6 – 31st May 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix bug where destroy() and reset() sometimes didn't work when called within the readyListener callback.

Archived

v3.28.0 – 10th May 2017

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Questions API -v2.103

Features

Simple features inside shared passages will now be created with an ID. This allows these simple features to be used with the workflow builder in Author Site.
Add discrete mathematics symbols to the LaTeX keypad for a wider range of possible equations and formulas.
Add a new option to custom styles which allows the use of a block level element to wrap other block level elements.

Bug fixes

Fix bug which prevented drag/drop reordering from working if the host page manipulated the DOM while QE was initializing (eg. in a single page app).
Fix a bug which was breaking the dragging of responses in the preview panel of classification questions.
Fix a bug which caused a console error when rendering the validation area in rare circumstances.
Fix issue where authors could only partially view the choicematrix grid if there were too many columns.
Fix a bug in the authoring of choicematrix questions which could cause the number of validation values to become out of sync with the number of stem rows.
Fix a bug which was removing 0 as a correct answer in numberline questions.
Fix a console error being thrown when editing a template using WYSIHTML after setting validation on a tokenhighlight question.
Fix a bug in the "Normal" style in WYSIHTML which caused some other styles to remain applied after selecting "Normal".
Fix bug in the WYSIHTML toolbar for cloze question types where the paging buttons could be misaligned at certain screen sizes.
Fix bug where imagetools were not showing in the preview panel.
Fix bug where initializing QE without a JSON configuration object would cause the change type button to throw an error.

Archived

v3.25.5 – 26th April 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix bug where authors could not reorder list Items if setWidget() was called while QE was not in the DOM (as in a single page app, for example).

Archived

v3.27.0 – 19th April 2017

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Questions API -v2.102

Features

Redesign the way hover and active states are displayed on the dropdowns in wysihtml for a better user experience.
Add beta support for the new file upload question type, which allows students to upload any file for manual scoring.
equivSyntax math scoring now supports an ignore text option, for ignoring any LaTeX text during validation.

Polish

Add border to the previous button and fix randomly breaking alignment dropdown on Edge.

Bug fixes

Moved the block quote button to wyhihtml's formatting group.
Fix width of the 'Stimulus list' and 'Possible responses' areas to stop the width being dependant on the content.
Allow custom styles to be added to the WYSIHTML styles dropdown (see the QEv3 Init Options. Show that multiple styles are selected if the text under the cursor is affected by multiple styles.
Remove the duplicated "Minimum Score" input box on number line questions.
Fix the layout and alignment of checkboxes when editing formula and chemistry questions.
Allow authors to add a header column to tables authored with WYSIHTML.
Fix bug where closing the simple feature modal would log an error to the JavaScript console.
Fix bug where modal listener was not being removed after modal was closed and caused consistent console errors.
Ensure the chemistry keyboard is available to authors for all formula and formula template fields on chemistry questions.

Archived

v3.26.0 – 29th March 2017

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Questions API -v2.101

Features

Improve wysihtml's states upon user interaction and add ability to group buttons in the toolbar.
Add all lowercase and uppercase letters to the keypad so the author has the ability to use the whole alphabet in formulas.

Bug fixes

Fix bug where expanding the More options section of the editor could cause the Question Editor to save and/or close the question editor view. This only occurred if QE was embedded inside a <form> element.
Make sure that valid responses auto-populate for cloze math when adding/deleting responses.
Fix bug in shorttext where using apostrophes in the correct response would cause the question to always be scored as incorrect.
Image cloze dropdown questions: improve spacing/crowding of the possible responses area when using a narrow editor width.
Remove the flicker and other layout glitches on validation areas when they re-render when a question attribute is changed by an author. In particular the image displayed in the possible response and validation areas on cloze image question types will not disappear and reappear as the question is edited.
Fix question editor bug where the response containers in image cloze question types were differently sized in the validation editor compared to the live question preview.

Archived

v3.25.4 – 29th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing tags and attributes being wrongly escaped, which was especially affecting IE11 and Edge, where content wasn't rendered properly.

Archived

v3.24.2 – 29th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing tags and attributes being wrongly escaped, which was especially affecting IE11 and Edge, where content wasn't rendered properly.

Archived

v3.23.3 – 29th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing tags and attributes being wrongly escaped, which was especially affecting IE11 and Edge, where content wasn't rendered properly.

Archived

v3.25.3 – 16th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing apostrophes to be incorrectly quoted in the question JSON which had the effect of breaking validation on authored short text questions.
Fix bug where the live question preview did not stay in view while scrolling through the editor options (when using edit_preview global layout)

Archived

v3.24.1 – 16th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing apostrophes to be incorrectly quoted in the question JSON which had the effect of breaking validation on authored short text questions.

Archived

v3.23.2 – 16th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing apostrophes to be incorrectly quoted in the question JSON which had the effect of breaking validation on authored short text questions.

Archived

v3.25.2 – 15th March 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was stopping HTML from being inserted into the x and y axis labels of graphplotting questions.

Archived

v3.25.1 – 14th March 2017

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Bug fixes

When setting a question JSON, score was getting reset to default value, which was causing data to be lost

Archived

v3.25.0 – 8th March 2017

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Features

Allow a user to turn on 'unscored' for a question. Points are set to 0 and disabled if this is set to true.
Add buttons to the WYSIHTML Insert Table Modal for inserting/deleting rows and columns in existing HTML tables.
Improve support for custom question types and custom features. In particular, a custom editor_layout no longer needs to be provided (a sensible default layout will be generated).
Add True/False question template for creating binary MCQ questions (yes/no, agree/disagree, etc).
Add public methods reset() and destroy() to be able to reset and destroy Question Editor API. This allows Question Editor API to be created and destroyed multiple times without refreshing the page.
Add a scrollbar to the WYSIHTML Math Modal so that users can scroll to the okay/cancel buttons even on really small screens.

Polish

Update various UI labels and terminology across question types for better consistency and clarity.
Chemistry type questions now renders LaTeX content without italics.
Make the WYSIHTML Math Modal formula keyboard visible by default. It no longer needs to receive focus to become visible.
Hotspot question authoring: improve color picker with auto-focus and keyboard interactions (escape for cancel/close, return for confirm). Also handle missing or duplicated '#' characters when inputting hex color codes.

Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was stripping HTML elements surrounding math content pasted directly into the WYSIHTML Source Modal.
Fix a bug which was preventing content from being inserted via the WYSIHTML source modal when the contents of the editor were blank.
Fix a bug which caused ampersands in LaTeX content to become escaped within the question's JSON source.
Fix a bug which was causing previously authored LaTeX to be incorrectly treated as MathML in the WYSIHTML Math Modal.
Reduce amount of times the validation preview area refreshes for minor performance improvements.

Archived

v3.24.0 – 15th February 2017

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Features

Allow creation of an editor layout for custom questions and custom features. Find out more in the guide.

Bug fixes

Fix bug whereby checkValidation() public method returned an incorrect value when the widget is first loaded and before modification.
Fix bug where is_math was not set when using the WYSIHTML source input with LaTeX or MathML.
Fix bug with preview panel position when QE is rendered in a modal. Preview panel will now remain properly positioned as you scroll the edit area (in edit_preview global layout).
Fix bug which was breaking the validation of Number Line and Number Line Plot questions for questions authored in QEv2 with fractions in their validation and then opened in QEv3.
Fix bug which caused the JAWS screen reader to ignore SpokenMath generated aria-labels.
Fix bug in the WYSIHTML math editor which was preventing raw LaTex entered into into the "Source" field from being inserted back into the question.
Fix bug that would throw a console error when deleting a group of possible responses in the classification question type.

Archived

v3.23.1 – 15th February 2017

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Bug fixes

Fix bug whereby checkValidation() public method returned an incorrect value when the widget is first loaded and before modification.

Archived

v3.23.0 – 24th January 2017

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Features

Support grouping of possible responses for clozeassociation question.
Enable the formula keypad in the Formula Template field for formulaV2 and chemistryformula questions.
Enable the formula keypad in the Template field for clozeformula, imageclozeformula, clozechemistry and imageclozechemistry questions.
Add Browser Spellcheck option for formulaessay and chemistryessay questions to switch on/off spell check.
Add "Minimum score if attempted" (min_score_if_attempted) option to all questions to support, e.g., participation points.
Add fields for aria labels and image alt text to hotspot question.

Bug fixes

Fix bug where the less than and greater than characters (<, >) were not escaped in the alt text for images. Using them in alt text would break the question html and cause it to display improperly.
Fix bug where Undo/Redo was sometimes enabled or disabled at the wrong time for hotspot, chemistryessay, and actions related to formula keypad.
Fix bug where Undo sometimes didn't work while editing certain combinations of validation options, alternative answers or possible responses.
Fix bug in tokenhighlight question where auto-generating tokens based on sentences would cause punctuation marks to be omitted from the generated tokens.
Fix bug in simplechart question where author was unable to use the Add Point button in the validation area.
Fix bug where matrix is shown having "amp;" strings when viewed in the LaTeX editor if the matrix had multiple rows and columns.
Fix bug where initializing a second instance of QuestionEditorApp would cause the first instance to disappear from the DOM.

Archived

v3.22.0 – 9th January 2017

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Questions API -v2.97

Features

Add longtextV2 question type
Add ability to hide toolbar elements: template name, live score, show answers button and undo/redo
Add ability to undo/redo
Support vertical_top for all imagecloze question types
Add reordering to additional question types

Bug fixes

Fixed adding widgets to table in WYSIHTML
Fixed IE11/Edge when it is possible to leave required number input types empty
Fixed reordering causing page scroll on iPad
Fixed aria label in WYSIHTML Math editor does not add to question data
Fixed required number inputs to always have value, in UI and in JSON

Archived

v3.16.2 – 11th Jan 2017

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Questions API -v2.90

Bug fixes

Fix IE11/Edge when it is possible to leave required number input types empty
Fix required number inputs to always have value, in UI and in JSON

Archived

v3.21.0 – 8th Dec 2016

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Questions API -v2.96

Features

SpokenMath now supports matrices, sums and set comprehension
Custom editor layouts can now be applied based on template reference (instead of template name)
Images uploaded through the Image Annotation Upload question type can now be given an alttext field

Bug fixes

Raw LaTex is no longer placed in the aria label field if invalid LaTex is supplied
Template titles now display properly (with an ellipsis) for small viewports
Fixed a number of exceptions which were being thrown to the console
Fixed the authoring of custom keyboard layouts for formula inputs

Archived

v3.20.1 – 8th Dec 2016

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Questions API -v2.94

Bug fixes

Fixed the authoring of custom keyboard layouts for formula inputs

Archived

v3.19.2 – 8th Dec 2016

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Bug fixes

Fixed the authoring of custom keyboard layouts for formula inputs

Archived

v3.20.0 – 17th Nov 2016

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Questions API -v2.94

Features

Add alt_response layout to Simple Shading
Add shuffle options for Order List
WYSIHTML Toolbar changes:

Add support for dynamic content
Add ability to customise toolbar and choose which buttons are displayed. See the detailed knowledge base article.
Add previous, next buttons to allow user to switch between control groups
Add pre-set styles for "Feature box", "Highlightable", "Scrollable" and "Formatted" text. Find them inside the heading styles dropdown.
Add ability to add and remove hyperlinks to text
Add increase, decrease indent commands
Add strikethrough inline style
Add blockquote support

Polish

WYSIHTML Toolbar changes:

Removed data-feature-type attribute from generated markup
Update toolbar UI

Bug fixes

Fixed issue where image section could not be hidden in Image Cloze Text
Fixed issue where CKEditor was stripping out empty HTML elements and also simple features as a consequence
Fixed issue where array elements could not be reordered when using custom layouts
WYSIHTML Toolbar changes:

Fixed issue where inline MathML content appeared as raw HTML tags when the question was rendered, and the inserted math content became uneditable.
Fixed issue where image edit modal did not appear for uploaded inline images
Fixed issue where clear formatting action did not remove strikethrough inline style
Fixed issue where double enter in blockquote did not exit current blockquote in IE

Archived

v3.19.1 – 9th Nov 2016

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Bug fixes

Reordering array elements was not working when using custom layouts.
Fixed issue where ckeditor was stripping out empty HTML elements and also simple features as a consequence.

Archived

v3.19.0 – 27th Oct 2016

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Features

Added the ability to hide certain sections of layouts.
Added the ability to hide the delete button on certain array inputs.
Added support for aria-label in image cloze association questions.
Added support for aria-label in Imageclozedropdown possible responses.
Added new methods .addArrayItem and .remove to returned object of public method attribute

Polish

Removed data-feature-type attribute from wysihtml generated markup.

Bug fixes

Prevented wysihtml from formatting block tags.
Prevented wysihtml from stripping styled p tags,
Fixed issue where global help descriptions not being displayed for every path.
Fixed issue where editor was converting types of boolean and integer strings.
Fixed loading issue with the token highlight modal.
Stoped the MathJax markup from getting saved to the question json.
Resolved issue where "Help" and "Source" were only clickable for a single QE instance.
Fixed bug which causes group possible responses to remove validation data.

Archived

v3.18.4 – 19th Oct 2016

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Bug fixes

Fix issue with token highlight dialog when clearing/changing tokenisation

Archived

v3.18.3 – 12th Oct 2016

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Bug fixes

Stop the MathJax markup getting saved to the question json
Fix extra console errors on Edge
Fix the "undefined" formula issue in IE

Archived

v3.18.2 – 7th Oct 2016

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Bug fixes

Fix a bug which was causing an editor field's data to be lost when containing a MathML element with a display="block" attribute

Archived

v3.18.1 – 6th Oct 2016

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Bug fixes

Prevent validation data from being wiped when resuming editing on classification, imageclozeassociation and association question types

Archived

v3.18.0 – 6th Oct 2016

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