Typedef

A Moodle branch number. These are used under-the-hood to represent Moodel branches within the Moodle code. They take the form of a (usuall) two-digit integer number - the human-friendly branch without the period e.g. Moodle 3.5 has a branch number of 35. The exception being Moodle 3.10 which has a branch number of 310.

Example:

35

See:

• BranchString

A Moodle branch string. These are the human-friendly major-version numbers used throught the official Moodle documentation. They take the form of two sets of digits separated by a period, e.g. 3.5 or 3.10.

Example:

'3.5'

Each released moodle build, both the weeklys and the offical updates are assigned a build number which takes the form of a DateNumber.

An 8-digit date representation used within a number of Moodle version identifiers. The first four digits represent the year, the next two the month and the last two the day of the month.

For example, Christmas 2018 has the date number 20181225.

Example:

'20181225'

An integer representing an offical Moodle release within a branch. The initial release of any branch has the release number 0, subsequent offical update releases then count up from there.

A Moodle release string. These are the release strings Moodle's documentation describes as human friendly. They are used in the following contexts:

1. The admin section of web interface
2. The CLI command admin/cli/cfg.php --name=release
3. The variable $release in version.php

In some contexts they're pre-fixed with the word Moodle, in others they're not.

Examples:

• '3.3.6 (Build: 20180517)' - the offical Moodle 3.3.6 release.
• 'Moodle 3.5+ (Build: 20180614)' - a weekly Moodle 3.5.0 release.

Example:

'3.3.6 (Build: 20180517)'

See:

• VersionString

A release suffix is used to indicate the release type in some Moodle version strings. Possible values are:

• 'dev' for development releases.
• '' (an empty string) for official stable releases.
• + for weekly updates to official stable releases.

Moodle releases are categoriesed into one of three types:

1. Development releases, both betas and alphas.
2. Official stable releases.
3. Weekly updates to official stable releases.

These three values are represented as 'development', 'official', and 'weekly'.

A moodle version number. These version numbers are used under-the-hood in the Moodle source code. They consist of the branch's branch date number followed by the release number, optionally followed by a period and an incremental change number.

For example, the Moodle 3.3.6 release has the version number 2017051506.00. The branch date number for Moodle 3.3 is 20170515 (a DateNumber), which is then followed by the two-digit form of the release number, 06, and an incremental change number of 00.

Example:

'2017051506.00'

See:

• DateNumber

A Moodle version string. These are the version numbers used on the Moodle download page and displayed in the footer of the Moodle admin area.

Moodle version strings generally consist of the branch string separated from the release number by a period. The initial release for a given branch is given the release number zero, which may be omitted. Alpha and Beta releases have dev appended, and weekly releases have a plus symbol appended.

For example, all the development releases of the Moodle 3.5 branch have the version string 3.5dev, the initial release is 3.5, the first update release is 3.5.1, and all weekly releases between the release of 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 share 3.5.1+.

Example:

'3.5dev'

'3.5'

'3.5+'

'3.5.1'

'3.5.1+'