Changelog

All notable changes to the Rocket.Chat local plugin are documented in this file.
Releases use Moodle-style names (e.g. v5.1-r3); see the Git tags for the full history.

v5.1-r3

Requires Moodle 5.1 (2025041400).

Changed

• Security: the local_rocketchat_* web service functions (course/role/event based sync toggles and
  the manual sync trigger) now validate the system context and require the local/rocketchat:manage
  capability. Previously any logged-in user could call them via AJAX.

Fixed

• The scheduled "Sync students" task crashed on every run after the first one (wrong class name), so
  the periodic sync never actually ran.


• A sync with an unreachable Rocket.Chat server is now recorded as a sync error on the course instead
  of crashing the whole sync task.


• Toggling the course, role or event based sync no longer fails on PHP 8 when the helper record is
  created for the first time (accidental variable variables).


• User, channel and subscription sync are now null-safe on failed API responses: transport errors are
  recorded as sync errors ("no response from server") instead of aborting with a crash.


• Enrolment suspensions are propagated again: the user activity update called users.update with an
  invalid user id and never took effect.


• Adding or removing a group member whose channel or user does not exist on Rocket.Chat no longer
  raises a type error during event based sync.


• The link account form no longer accepts credentials unverified when the Rocket.Chat server returns
  no parseable response; it now shows a validation error.


• Three web service functions returned an external_value object instead of the confirmation string,
  failing the return value validation of the web service layer.

Developer

• Extensive PHPUnit coverage for the API client, sync, channels, users, subscriptions, event observers,
  external functions, link account form, navigation hook and privacy provider. All Rocket.Chat traffic is
  simulated through \curl::mock_response(), so the suite runs without a Rocket.Chat instance.


• Test metadata uses PHPUnit attributes (#[CoversClass], #[DataProvider]) instead of the deprecated
  doc-comment annotations (removed in PHPUnit 12).


• CI uploads PHPUnit coverage to Codecov (badge in the README).


• The web service functions are built on the core_external classes instead of the deprecated
  externallib.php includes.

Earlier releases

• v5.1-r1 / v5.1-r2 (2026-01-18) - Moodle 5.1 support; Bootstrap 5 markup and improved settings tables.


• v4.0 - v4.5 (2022-2026) - Moodle 4.x support.


• v3.9 - v3.11 (2021-2022) - initial public releases.