Dodona 6.8 released

[jorg-vr]

We're thrilled to announce the release of Dodona 6.8! This update focuses on questions and annotations.

🤖 Machine annotations just got better!

We've enhanced our machine annotations to support multiple lines or parts of a single line (#4568). In addition, we now show a squiggly line on the exact location of the annotation. With this added level of detail, you'll be able to troubleshoot and resolve issues with more precision.

💬 You can now answer questions!

Our questions feature just got a major revamp! I sounds silly, but before Dodona 6.8, if students asked a question, teachers couldn't actually answer it. They had to make a new comment on the same line. No more! Answers are now properly threaded under the question (#4404).

✏️ Ask questions about a specific part of your code!

And that's not all! We've also added the ability to ask questions or leave remarks based on a selection (#4596). This means you can now highlight specific sections of your code when adding an annotation, making them more contextual.

🚀 User Experience and Performance Improvements

We're all about making Dodona faster and more user-friendly. To this end, we've improved the UX for restoring boilerplate (#4549) and reworked the question overview page (#4566). Plus, we've improved the performance of running submissions (#4583).

🛠️ Bug Fixes

We've fixed several bugs including broken links from the feedback tab to the code-tab, and ensured that completed activities, series, or courses won't be suggested on your homepage. On top of that, MathJax has been updated to avoid breaking annotations even if it fails.

From this point forward, we'll handle released a little differently. We'll release new features when they are ready and create an overview once a month.

Onwards and upwards, happy coding! 🚀

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What's Changed

🚀 New Features

• Allow responding to annotations in a thread by @jorg-vr in Allow responding to annotations in a thread #4404
• Render machine annotations for multiple lines or columns by @jorg-vr in Render machine annotations for multiple lines or columns #4568
• Allow creation of user annotations based on a selection by @jorg-vr in Allow creation of user annotations based on a selection #4596

✨ Changes

• Improve the UX for restoring boilerplate by @jorg-vr in Improve the UX for restoring boilerplate #4549
• Rework the question overview page by @jorg-vr in Rework the question overview page #4566
• Add additional timings to submission runner by @niknetniko in Add additional timings to submission runner #4580
• Use JSON_scheme to validate schema by @niknetniko in Use json_schemer to validate schema #4583
• Process rows and columns for Python judge annotations by @jorg-vr in Process rows and columns for python judge annotations #4586
• Only validate judge output when errors are encountered by @jorg-vr in Only validate judge output when errors are encountered #4639
• Smoothly transition to larger create annotation button by @jorg-vr in Smoothly transition to larger create annotation button #4642

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use create_or_find_by to reduce activity status deadlocks by @jorg-vr in Use create_or_find_by to reduce activity status deadlocks #4547
• Fix broken links from feedback tab to code-tab by @jorg-vr in Fix broken links from feedback tab to code-tab #4550
• Don't suggest completed activities, series or courses on homepage by @jorg-vr in Don't suggest completed activities, sereis or courses on homepage #4613
• Don't count unreviewed submissions for released evaluations by @jorg-vr in Don't count unreviewed submissions for released evaluations #4614
• Allow connection to MathJax in CSP by @jorg-vr in Allow connection to mathjax in CSP #4627
• Allow MathJax to fail without breaking annotations by @jorg-vr in Allow mathjax to fail without breaking annotations #4628

🧰 Maintenance

• Refactor JavaScript statesystem by @jorg-vr in Refactor javascript statesystem #4530
• Fix mestra deploy by @jorg-vr in Fix mestra deploy #4567
• pythia_submissions.js: remove jquery and convert to typescript by @freyavs in pythia_submissions.js: remove jquery and convert to typescript #4463
• Delete issues to project workflow by @bmesuere in Delete issues to project workflow #4600

Full Changelog: 6.7.4...6.8.0

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This discussion was created from the release 6.8.0.