moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r8

• 2026-07-19 - Bugfix: Prevent a redirect for flavour files when users have not accepted the policy yet, resolves #684


• 2026-07-19 - Glitch: The login link in the navbar was missing a right padding before the off-canvar button, resolves #1193


• 2026-07-18 - Improvement: Lighten the footnote link dividers again, resolves #1375


• 2026-07-18 - Bugfix: Do not throw a TypeError if an info banner start or end date is stored as an empty string, resolves #1370


• 2026-07-17 - Improvement: For course header images, allow the teacher to adopt the existing course image as course header image, resolves #1371


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: Surround the dividers between the static page links in the footnote with equal spacing, resolves #1237


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: In dynamic courses smart menus, fix second line font color on mouse over, resolves #1342


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: The 'completed' and 'failed' completion icons in the course index were shifted to the right, resolves #1340


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: Setting more than one course header override in a course resulted in a debug message, resolves #1363


• 2026-07-13 - Bugfix: Do not break the SCSS compilation if an activity icon purpose is still set to the deprecated 'interface' purpose, resolves #1331.
  Please note: This change will reset any activity icon purpose which is still set to 'interface' to its original purpose.


• 2026-07-10 - Bugfix: Do not purge theme_boost_union_touchiconsios cache before refilling it to avoid race conditions with asynchronous cache purging configurations, resolves #1361

v5.2-r7

• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Show the icon inline with the title in dynamic courses submenus instead of on its own line, regression of #1300, resolves #1347


• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Filter courses correctly in starred courses popover, resolves #1332


• 2026-07-08 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from Moodle core in MDL-55528


• 2026-07-08 - Improvement: Make the Activity & section navigation elements look nicer, resolves #825


• 2026-06-23 - Feature: Allow the admin and the teacher to control the appearance of the sections (section 0 as well as sections ≥ 1) on the course main page, resolves #889

v5.2-r6

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Move the footnote in the side-by-side login arrangement to the right panel, resolves #1279


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.2-r5

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.2-r4

• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to customize the left-hand login instructions on the side-by-side login arrangement. If no authentication instructions are set, then the Moodle core fallback text in the left-hand login instructions is not shown. Resolves #1298


• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Harden the login background image position setting on the side-by-side login arrangement


• 2026-06-07 - Bugfix: On the side-by-side login arrangement, the uploaded background image showed on both sides, resolves #1299

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course s

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r7

• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Show the icon inline with the title in dynamic courses submenus instead of on its own line, regression of #1300, resolves #1347


• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Filter courses correctly in starred courses popover, resolves #1332


• 2026-07-08 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from Moodle core in MDL-55528


• 2026-07-08 - Improvement: Make the Activity & section navigation elements look nicer, resolves #825


• 2026-06-23 - Feature: Allow the admin and the teacher to control the appearance of the sections (section 0 as well as sections ≥ 1) on the course main page, resolves #889

v5.2-r6

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Move the footnote in the side-by-side login arrangement to the right panel, resolves #1279


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.2-r5

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.2-r4

• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to customize the left-hand login instructions on the side-by-side login arrangement. If no authentication instructions are set, then the Moodle core fallback text in the left-hand login instructions is not shown. Resolves #1298


• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Harden the login background image position setting on the side-by-side login arrangement


• 2026-06-07 - Bugfix: On the side-by-side login arrangement, the uploaded background image showed on both sides, resolves #1299

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resol

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r6

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Move the footnote in the side-by-side login arrangement to the right panel, resolves #1279


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.2-r5

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.2-r4

• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to customize the left-hand login instructions on the side-by-side login arrangement. If no authentication instructions are set, then the Moodle core fallback text in the left-hand login instructions is not shown. Resolves #1298


• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Harden the login background image position setting on the side-by-side login arrangement


• 2026-06-07 - Bugfix: On the side-by-side login arrangement, the uploaded background image showed on both sides, resolves #1299

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #111

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r5

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.2-r4

• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to customize the left-hand login instructions on the side-by-side login arrangement. If no authentication instructions are set, then the Moodle core fallback text in the left-hand login instructions is not shown. Resolves #1298


• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Harden the login background image position setting on the side-by-side login arrangement


• 2026-06-07 - Bugfix: On the side-by-side login arrangement, the uploaded background image showed on both sides, resolves #1299

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r4

• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to customize the left-hand login instructions on the side-by-side login arrangement. If no authentication instructions are set, then the Moodle core fallback text in the left-hand login instructions is not shown. Resolves #1298


• 2026-06-07 - Improvement: Harden the login background image position setting on the side-by-side login arrangement


• 2026-06-07 - Bugfix: On the side-by-side login arrangement, the uploaded background image showed on both sides, resolves #1299

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r3

• 2026-06-06 - Bugfix: Adopt upstream changes in theme_boost layout files which were missed during the Boost Union 5.2 upgrade. This resulted in the fact that, for example, tertiary menu dropdowns were broken on mod/quiz/report page. Resolves #1295


• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Impro

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r2

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.2-r1

• 2026-05-22 - Status of the Boost Union 5.2 release:
  Please note: The Boost Union 5.2 release is generally working and usable in a way that we did not want to hold the release back any longer. However, there are some things on the side-by-side login page and some other adaptions to Moodle 5.2 in general which remain to be improved / done in the next minor release. Against this background, test the 5.2 release on your particular instance as usual and if you encounter any issues with Boost Union on 5.2, please report them as usual on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Raise the verified version for the built-in SCSS snippets.


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add recommendation for information banners on the side-by-side login page, resolves #1277


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix the info banner position on the new side-by-side login page layout.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Add admin settings to control the dividers between the login providers.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Replace the default texts for the login form intros with dedicated Boost Union strings instead of Moodle core strings


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Make the login form intros smaller and disabled by default from now on, resolves #1249


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Remove the 'Logo (if uploaded), heading otherwise (Unchanged as handled by Moodle core)' option from the 'Login page brand' setting as this behaviour is not present anymore in Moodle core and it does not really make sense to keep it in Boost Union.
  Please note: For upgraded installations which used this option, the login page brand will be set to 'Logo (if uploaded) + heading' during the upgrade. You can change the setting afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Allow the admin to use the legacy login page layouts (from before Moodle 5.2) as well.
  Please note: For upgraded installations, the login page layout is set to legacy during the upgrade to keep the look as consistent as possible to as it was before. If you want to try the new side-by-side layout from Moodle core, you can change the layout afterwards in the Boost Union settings.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to UI design changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Let the admin deactivate the Telemetry Trace ID entry in the footer as well.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to site administration changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due to language pack changes.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Fix Behat tests which broke due that site home and my courses are now disabled as well as forcelogin is enabled on new installs.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to login.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to drawers.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to full_header.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to columns2.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to footer.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to cm.mustache.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to core_renderer.php functions.


• 2026-04-20 - Upgrade: Adopt new login page layout on Moodle 5.2, resolves #1202


• 2026-04-20 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.2.

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dash

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r21

• 2026-07-19 - Bugfix: Prevent a redirect for flavour files when users have not accepted the policy yet, resolves #684


• 2026-07-19 - Glitch: The login link in the navbar was missing a right padding before the off-canvar button, resolves #1193


• 2026-07-18 - Improvement: Lighten the footnote link dividers again, resolves #1375


• 2026-07-18 - Bugfix: Do not throw a TypeError if an info banner start or end date is stored as an empty string, resolves #1370


• 2026-07-17 - Improvement: For course header images, allow the teacher to adopt the existing course image as course header image, resolves #1371


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: Surround the dividers between the static page links in the footnote with equal spacing, resolves #1237


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: In dynamic courses smart menus, fix second line font color on mouse over, resolves #1342


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: The 'completed' and 'failed' completion icons in the course index were shifted to the right, resolves #1340


• 2026-07-14 - Bugfix: Setting more than one course header override in a course resulted in a debug message, resolves #1363


• 2026-07-13 - Bugfix: Do not break the SCSS compilation if an activity icon purpose is still set to the deprecated 'interface' purpose, resolves #1331.
  Please note: This change will reset any activity icon purpose which is still set to 'interface' to its original purpose.


• 2026-07-10 - Bugfix: Do not purge theme_boost_union_touchiconsios cache before refilling it to avoid race conditions with asynchronous cache purging configurations, resolves #1361

v5.1-r20

• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Show the icon inline with the title in dynamic courses submenus instead of on its own line, regression of #1300, resolves #1347


• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Filter courses correctly in starred courses popover, resolves #1332


• 2026-07-08 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from Moodle core in MDL-55528


• 2026-07-08 - Improvement: Make the Activity & section navigation elements look nicer, resolves #825


• 2026-06-23 - Feature: Allow the admin and the teacher to control the appearance of the sections (section 0 as well as sections ≥ 1) on the course main page, resolves #889

v5.1-r19

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.1-r18

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.1-r17

• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from to = when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r20

• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Show the icon inline with the title in dynamic courses submenus instead of on its own line, regression of #1300, resolves #1347


• 2026-07-08 - Bugfix: Filter courses correctly in starred courses popover, resolves #1332


• 2026-07-08 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from Moodle core in MDL-55528


• 2026-07-08 - Improvement: Make the Activity & section navigation elements look nicer, resolves #825


• 2026-06-23 - Feature: Allow the admin and the teacher to control the appearance of the sections (section 0 as well as sections ≥ 1) on the course main page, resolves #889

v5.1-r19

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.1-r18

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.1-r17

• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r19

• 2026-06-13 - Tests: Use Behat slicing to bring Behat runtime down and reduce GHA container outages, resolves #1016


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Bootstrap large and small buttons on the login page, resolves #1321


• 2026-06-10 - Improvement: Support Moodle's color for the secondary outline buttons on the login page, resolves #1319


• 2026-06-10 - Bugfix: Solve a debugging message when expanding a course category (when the Boost Union course/category listing presentation is activated), resolves #1317

v5.1-r18

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.1-r17

• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the s

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r18

• 2026-06-09 - MWP: Avoid the 'class theme_boost_union\local\mwp not found' exception when upgrading the plugin, resolves #1314


• 2026-06-08 - Cleanup: Remove unused strings from the language pack, resolves #1311


• 2026-06-08 - Internal change: Replace $notification->set_show_closebutton(false) with the third parameter of new \core\output\notification(), resolves #1310


• 2026-06-08 - Improvement: Align the flavours, smart menus and snippets table with the recommendations table, resolves #1309


• 2026-06-08 - Glitch: Flavours actions tooltips were wrong, resolves #1307

v5.1-r17

• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI scri

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r17

• 2026-06-06 - Tests: Fix PHPUnit Failure about missing SVGs for newly added FontAwesome mappings, resolves #1301


• 2026-06-04 - Settings: Correct the 'Possible setting overrides' banners regarding the logo and the loginbackground settings


• 2026-06-04 - MWP: Postprocess the default for the loginformposition setting, resolves #1302


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Refine the "Number of words" option to only process the course full name, but neither the course short name nor the custom course fields.


• 2026-06-03 - Improvement: Smart menus: Add more versatile course name presentation options to the dynamic courses, resolves #448


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Improve the outer margins of the left-aligned and right-aligned login forms on smaller and of larger screens


• 2026-06-01 - Improvement: Add a semi-left and semi-right option to the loginformposition setting, resolves #1296


• 2026-05-31 - MWP: Add support for a Moodle Workplace™ extension for Boost Union, resolves #409

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI script to re-populate the list of built-in SCSS snippets, resolves #1019


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix broken PHPUnit tests for SCSS snippets, resolves #1015

v5.0-r6

• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Allow all (solid and brands) FontAwesome icons for smart menu items, resolves #493
  
  Please note: Smart menu item icons are now distinguished if they come from Moodle core or from FontAwesome. Please have a look at the help icon for smart menu item icons if you are interested in the details.


• 2025-07-18 - Impro

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r16

• 2026-05-26 - Bugfix: Additional login background images may be not have been recognized directly after upload, resolved #1290


• 2026-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix the default value of the courseoverviewshowcourseimages setting, resolves #1288


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Use the real page layout names in the 'Additional block regions for xxx layout' setting labels as well.


• 2026-05-25 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the page layouts where the footnote is shown, helps to resolve #1279


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Enhance recommendations to only show in the list if an action is needed, resolves #1285


• 2026-05-24 - Improvement: Transform settings_overview.php into an admin_externalpage, resolves #1281

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI script to re-populate the list of built-in SCSS snippets, resolves #1019


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix broken PHPUnit tests for SCSS snippets, resolves #1015

v5.0-r6

• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Allow all (solid and brands) FontAwesome icons for smart menu items, resolves #493
  
  Please note: Smart menu item icons are now distinguished if they come from Moodle core or from FontAwesome. Please have a look at the help icon for smart menu item icons if you are interested in the details.


• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Improve the smart menu items icon list by replacing the custom icon picker with a Moodle autocomplete widget, by adding the icon names to the list and by sorting the list, helps to resolve #493


• 2025-07-18 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-16 - Tests: Fix / Improve Behat tests which deal with viewport sizes, resolves #1004 and #952.


• 2025-07-08 - Feature: Add a dedicated divider menu item type for smart menus, resolves #453.
  
  Please note: Existing dividers created using heading type with hash signs will be automatically converted to the new divider type during this version update.


• 2025-07-07 - Bugfix: SCSS Snippets overview page did not show previews of uploaded snippets, resolves #993


• 2025-07-06 - Feature: Add first version of CSS snippets feature, credits go to all members of the MoodleMootDACH 2024 dev camp team no. 22, resolves #988

v5.0-r5

• 2025-07-05 - Chore: Rename the setting 'courselistinghowfields' to 'courselistingshowfields' to f

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r15

• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add detail information about the current recommendation status and possible actions to the recommendation info modal, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Add type class 'usability' and status class 'check' to the recommendations subsystem, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Improvement: Allow recommendation notifications to use arguments, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-21 - Internal change: Transform recommendation interface to a base class, helps to resolve #1277


• 2026-05-19 - Bugfix: The loginselfregistrationshowintrosetting_desc and the loginguestshowintrosetting_desc strings described their default setting in the wrong way, resolves #1276


• 2026-05-19 - Improvement: Add some explanation to the "Welcome back!" login brand option, resolves #1275

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI script to re-populate the list of built-in SCSS snippets, resolves #1019


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix broken PHPUnit tests for SCSS snippets, resolves #1015

v5.0-r6

• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Allow all (solid and brands) FontAwesome icons for smart menu items, resolves #493
  
  Please note: Smart menu item icons are now distinguished if they come from Moodle core or from FontAwesome. Please have a look at the help icon for smart menu item icons if you are interested in the details.


• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Improve the smart menu items icon list by replacing the custom icon picker with a Moodle autocomplete widget, by adding the icon names to the list and by sorting the list, helps to resolve #493


• 2025-07-18 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-16 - Tests: Fix / Improve Behat tests which deal with viewport sizes, resolves #1004 and #952.


• 2025-07-08 - Feature: Add a dedicated divider menu item type for smart menus, resolves #453.
  
  Please note: Existing dividers created using heading type with hash signs will be automatically converted to the new divider type during this version update.


• 2025-07-07 - Bugfix: SCSS Snippets overview page did not show previews of uploaded snippets, resolves #993


• 2025-07-06 - Feature: Add first version of CSS snippets feature, credits go to all members of the MoodleMootDACH 2024 dev camp team no. 22, resolves #988

v5.0-r5

• 2025-07-05 - Chore: Rename the setting 'courselistinghowfields' to 'courselistingshowfields' to fix a typo


• 2025-07-05 - Improvement: Allow the admin to select the custom course fields on the course cards, resolves #846


• 2025-07-04 - Feature: Show course progress as progress bar on the course cards, resolves #844


• 2025-07-03 - Improvement: Show the login link in the navbar as button, resolves #979.


• 2025-06-06 - Feature: Add color picker settings for calendar branding, resolves #434.


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour favicon images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour background images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Improvement: Allow the "guest access" hint for teachers to be shown as well if a guest password is set, resolves #984

v5.0-r4

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r14

• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: Add notifications to each of the global settings which can be overridden by flavours, resolves #1269


• 2026-05-18 - Improvement: The flavours/styles.php file should use a per-flavour fallback stylesheet, resolves #1267


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to further control the logo, heading, and tagline presentation on the login page, resolves #1262


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Allow the admin to set the login page logo max-width and max-height as well as a margin-bottom and the horizontal alignment for the logo, resolves #1260


• 2026-05-12 - Improvement: Add admin settings to set the button colors on the login page, resolves #1225.
  Please note: Boost Union used to present the IDP login button with a secondary color button instead of an outline button as Moodle core does. This behaviour was hardcoded and undocumented. With the introduction of this setting, we set the default back to an outline button. Please set the IDP login button color to the presentation type of your choice during the plugin update.


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: Move theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() and theme_boost_union_is_active_childtheme() from locallib.php to lib.php


• 2026-04-11 - Internal change: In the flavours edit form, use setDefault instead of setSelected.


• 2026-05-11 - Settings: Re-arrange the login page settings as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Boost Union recommendation page for admins and replace some notification boxes in the settings pages with it, resolves #1254


• 2026-05-09 - Feature: Add a Checks API check to add the results of the Boost Union recommendations to the system status.

v5.1-r13

The v5.1-r13 release was withdrawn and untagged directly after release as it was incomplete due to a glitch in our release script.

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI script to re-populate the list of built-in SCSS snippets, resolves #1019


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix broken PHPUnit tests for SCSS snippets, resolves #1015

v5.0-r6

• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Allow all (solid and brands) FontAwesome icons for smart menu items, resolves #493
  
  Please note: Smart menu item icons are now distinguished if they come from Moodle core or from FontAwesome. Please have a look at the help icon for smart menu item icons if you are interested in the details.


• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Improve the smart menu items icon list by replacing the custom icon picker with a Moodle autocomplete widget, by adding the icon names to the list and by sorting the list, helps to resolve #493


• 2025-07-18 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-16 - Tests: Fix / Improve Behat tests which deal with viewport sizes, resolves #1004 and #952.


• 2025-07-08 - Feature: Add a dedicated divider menu item type for smart menus, resolves #453.
  
  Please note: Existing dividers created using heading type with hash signs will be automatically converted to the new divider type during this version update.


• 2025-07-07 - Bugfix: SCSS Snippets overview page did not show previews of uploaded snippets, resolves #993


• 2025-07-06 - Feature: Add first version of CSS snippets feature, credits go to all members of the MoodleMootDACH 2024 dev camp team no. 22, resolves #988

v5.0-r5

• 2025-07-05 - Chore: Rename the setting 'courselistinghowfields' to 'courselistingshowfields' to fix a typo


• 2025-07-05 - Improvement: Allow the admin to select the custom course fields on the course cards, resolves #846


• 2025-07-04 - Feature: Show course progress as progress bar on the course cards, resolves #844


• 2025-07-03 - Improvement: Show the login link in the navbar as button, resolves #979.


• 2025-06-06 - Feature: Add color picker settings for calendar branding, resolves #434.


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour favicon images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour background images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Improvement: Allow the "guest access" hint for teachers to be shown as well if a guest password is set, resolves #984

v5.0-r4

• 2025-06-09 - Upstream change: Remove preemptive regression fix after MDL-85326 was integrated, resolves #928.
  
  Please note: This change raises the required Moodle core version to 5.0.1


• 2025-06-09 - Tests: Fix a failing Behat test on the 'Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation' scenario, resolves #973


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85323 to locallogin.php


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85450 to upcoming-mini.mustache


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85220 to view-chards.mustache


• 2025-06-04 - Bugfix: Enabling the footersuppresslogininfo setting prevented the reset of the failed login attempts counter, resolves #658


• 2025-06-04 - Bugfix: Prevent debug message regarding newly introduced "displayhiddencourses" and "hiddencours

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r12

• 2026-05-05 - Glitch: Make sure that the bottom border under the Reset user tours link in the footer is shown, resolves #1253


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase some smart menu scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Fix a glitch in the mobile scss branding scenario as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Rephrase the calendar branding scenarios as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Internal change: Compose self enrolment instance for the showhintcourseselfenrol setting differently as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Do not use the 'I am on the "Acceptance test site" "Course" page' steps anymore as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I navigate to site home settings' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Use the 'I am on login page' step throughout the whole code base as preparation for Boost Union 5.2


• 2026-05-01 - Improvement: Add setting for background-size to advertisement tiles, resolves #1195


• 2026-05-01 - Tests: Drop 'And Behat debugging is (en|dis)abled' steps, resolves #1242


• 2026-04-30 - Cleanup: Drop overwritten templates/theme_boost/drawer.mustache, resolves #1246

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177

v5.1-r7

• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: SCSS changes in flavours were not reflected in theme designer mode, resolves #625


• 2026-02-28 - Bugfix: Smart Menu sometimes repeated menus, resolves #800


• 2026-02-27 - Tests: theme_boost_union_is_active_theme() triggered "theme already set up" exception during PHPUnit tests, resolves #1165

v5.1-r6

• 2026-02-26 - Bugfix: Smart menu creation was not possible if a custom field which hid itself from the course settings form was present, resolves #1164


• 2026-02-24 - Feature: Add new login layouts and other login settings, resolves #1055


• 2026-02-24 - Improvement: Hide the "Calendar" navigation item for guests as well, resolves #1167


• 2026-02-12 - Improvement: Solve Mustache glitches in the enhanced header templates, resolves #1161


• 2026-02-12 - SCSS snippet: Aligned course section borders, resolves #1132

v5.1-r5

• 2025-02-10 - Bugfix: After introducing the course-specific settings in Boost Union in the latest release, entering course settings was not possible anymore if Boost Union was not the active theme, resolves #1155

v5.1-r4

• 2025-02-07 - Improvement: Allow the admin to restrict the maximum width of the sitename to avoid that the edit button widget breaks with really long site names, resolves #256.


• 2026-02-06 - Improvement: Prevent that the loginbackgroundimagetext setting is shown in the Moodle upgrade wizard after the initial installation, resolves #1151


• 2026-02-06 - Bugfix: The initial Moodle installation failed if Boost Union was set as theme in config.php, resolves #1143.


• 2025-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to doc_link() from MDL-82867


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to colorpicker_rule class from MDL-87870


• 2026-02-06 - Update: Adopt changes to navbar.mustache from MDL-86436


• 2026-01-30 - Admin: Move the category breadcrumb from "Feel" to "Look" near the new course header settings.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Add a setting to control if a particular info banner is shown above of below the page header.


• 2026-01-22 - Improvement: Align minor aspects (course shortname, course fields, course progress) of the look of the course-card and course-list view of the course listings more with the new course headers in Boost Union and less with the My courses page of Moodle core.


• 2026-01-22 - Feature: Enhance the adaptability of the course header including the possibility for teachers to configure it per course, resolves #138.
  
  Please note: If you have uploaded an image in the "Fallback course header image" filearea before, this image will be migrated to the new "Global course header image" filearea during this update.


• 2026-02-03 - Bugfix: Site support form success message was shown below blocks or advert tiles on frontpage, resolves #488


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add dark variant setting for the slider, resolves #914


• 2026-02-01 - Feature: Add individual carousel item interval setting for each slide, resolves #915


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Replace smartmenu_item_edit_form.js with Moodle core solution for hiding headers, resolves #1028


• 2026-02-01 - Bug: Changing the activity icon purpose of LTI activities did not have an effect in the activity chooser, resolves #690


• 2026-02-01 - Improvement: Get rid of ESLint warning in drawers.mustache, resolves #1107

v5.1-r3

• 2026-01-31 - Feature: Allow the admin to upload a course overview fallback image to be used on the myoverview page instead of the geometric pattern, resolves #171


• 2026-01-31 - Admin: courselistingprogressstyle was not hidden again if courselistingpresentation was disabled after courselistinghowprogress was enabled, resolves #1135


• 2026-01-28 - Bugfix: The installation of Boost Union crashed on latest moodle main after MOD_PURPOSE_INTERFACE was removed in Moodle 5.2dev, resolves #1126.


• 2026-01-27 - Tests: The "Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation to navigate between the individual Boost Union admin pages" scenario failed on 5.0 and 5.1, resolves #1123

v5.1-r2

• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: On brand-new Moodle installations, Boost Union tried to access the mdl_files table before it was created, resolves #1058


• 2026-01-21 - Bugfix: Moodle core unittest was failing due to a missing fallback svg icon, resolves #1113


• 2025-11-19 - Improvement: Improve the check for date-based smart menus from < to <= when checking for the starting date.


• 2025-11-19 - Internal changes: Align internal filearea names for slide and tile backgrounds, helps to resolve #839
  
  Please note: While an upgrade script should migrate existing files, please double-check if existing slides and advertisement tiles are still presented correctly on the frontpage.


• 2025-11-19 - Tests: Further Behat runtime optimisations, helps to resolve #839

v5.1-r1

• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to 'Add a block' area CSS selectors from MDL-85281


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Fix Behat test which tests the activity icon branding feature after the activity chooser restructurings on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Verify the built-in SCSS snippets on 5.1.


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Remove the timelinetintenabled and upcomingeventstintenabled settings from Boost Union as the timeline block and the upcoming events blocks have colored icons from Moodle 5.1 on


• 2025-10-26 - Upgrade: Adopt changes to settings.php from MDL-80556


• 2025-10-26 - Prepare compatibility for Moodle 5.1.

v5.0-r13

• 2025-11-19 - Backport: Replace Boost Union's hook manipulation with a more downstream solution to suppress hook output, resolves #1101.


• 2025-11-19 - Bugfix: additionalhtmlfooter is now rendered even if the footer is hidden entirely, resolves #1042


• 2025-11-15 - Improvement: Add config.php parameter to support GitHub Enterprise servers for external SCSS, resolves #1041.


• 2025-11-12 - Improvement: Lighten the hook manipulation on 5.0, resolves #1098.


• 2025-11-11 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85418 to submenu.js, resolves #1095.

v5.0-r12

• 2025-11-07 - Improvement: Improve wrapping of the outside-left and outside-right regions, resolves #255.


• 2025-11-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85774 into loginform.mustache, resolves #1093


• 2025-11-04 - Improvement: Add vertical offset to the outside-left and outside-right block regions, resolves #254.


• 2025-11-04 - Bugfix: When upgrading a Boost Union installation from the ancient pre-smart-menu-era to a recent version, Boost Union tried to access a table which does not exist yet, resolves #1085


• 2025-11-03 - Glitch: upgrade.php did not match install.xml regarding the theme_boost_union_snippets table, resolves #1062


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Use human-understandable values in the background position settings, resolves #1086


• 2025-11-03 - Improvement: Make the outside-left and outside-right block regions fully responsive, finally moving them out of their experimental state, resolves #266.


• 2025-10-23 - Feature: Add a type for smart menu item to use mailto links, resolves #702

v5.0-r11

• 2025-10-22 - Bugfix: Solve possible performance issues due to hook override cache being invalidated by CLI scripts, resolves #1076


• 2025-10-21 - Tests: Some Behat tests for smart menus failed on 5.0, resolves #1074


• 2025-10-15 - Make codechecker happy again


• 2025-10-15 - Tests: Switch Github actions workflows to reusable workflows by Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.


• 2025-10-20 - Tests: Add tests for Boost Union features which might but must not affect other active themes, resolves #761


• 2025-10-16 - Feature: Add Bootstrap alert to Boost Union settings if Boost Union (or Boost Union Child) is not the active theme, resolves #773.


• 2025-10-15 - Improvement: On course cards, display the course fields as Bootstrap badges, resolves #1070

v5.0-r10

• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81702 to remove site home link from drawers, resolves #1065


• 2025-10-07 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-81455 to fix the welcome message heading on the dashboard, resolves #1066

v5.0-r9

• 2025-10-06 - Bugfix: Block titles were missing after changes in Moodle core in MDL-86541, resolves #1061.


• 2025-08-01 - Bugfix: Smart menu: menu bar was displayed although there were no items to display, resolves #849.

v5.0-r8

• 2025-07-31 - Bugfix: Uninitialized $overflow might have caused the smart menu item icon picker to fail, resolves #1035


• 2025-07-28 - Bugfix: Reposition Boost Union footer buttons correctly if sticky footer is shown, resolves #1033


• 2025-07-28 - Improvement: Query SCSS snippets table during theme refresh only if the table exists, resolves #1024


• 2025-07-25 - Improvement: Introduce SCSS variable for smart menu menubar and bottom bar height, resolves #1023

v5.0-r7

• 2025-07-22 - SCSS Snippet: Tertiary navigation button, resolves #1017


• 2025-07-22 - Improvement: Add CLI script to re-populate the list of built-in SCSS snippets, resolves #1019


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-22 - Tests: Fix broken PHPUnit tests for SCSS snippets, resolves #1015

v5.0-r6

• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Allow all (solid and brands) FontAwesome icons for smart menu items, resolves #493
  
  Please note: Smart menu item icons are now distinguished if they come from Moodle core or from FontAwesome. Please have a look at the help icon for smart menu item icons if you are interested in the details.


• 2025-07-18 - Improvement: Improve the smart menu items icon list by replacing the custom icon picker with a Moodle autocomplete widget, by adding the icon names to the list and by sorting the list, helps to resolve #493


• 2025-07-18 - Tests: Fix failing Behat test with the tertiary navigation, resolves #1009


• 2025-07-16 - Tests: Fix / Improve Behat tests which deal with viewport sizes, resolves #1004 and #952.


• 2025-07-08 - Feature: Add a dedicated divider menu item type for smart menus, resolves #453.
  
  Please note: Existing dividers created using heading type with hash signs will be automatically converted to the new divider type during this version update.


• 2025-07-07 - Bugfix: SCSS Snippets overview page did not show previews of uploaded snippets, resolves #993


• 2025-07-06 - Feature: Add first version of CSS snippets feature, credits go to all members of the MoodleMootDACH 2024 dev camp team no. 22, resolves #988

v5.0-r5

• 2025-07-05 - Chore: Rename the setting 'courselistinghowfields' to 'courselistingshowfields' to fix a typo


• 2025-07-05 - Improvement: Allow the admin to select the custom course fields on the course cards, resolves #846


• 2025-07-04 - Feature: Show course progress as progress bar on the course cards, resolves #844


• 2025-07-03 - Improvement: Show the login link in the navbar as button, resolves #979.


• 2025-06-06 - Feature: Add color picker settings for calendar branding, resolves #434.


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour favicon images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Regression: Flavour background images were not working, resolves #942


• 2025-06-30 - Improvement: Allow the "guest access" hint for teachers to be shown as well if a guest password is set, resolves #984

v5.0-r4

• 2025-06-09 - Upstream change: Remove preemptive regression fix after MDL-85326 was integrated, resolves #928.
  
  Please note: This change raises the required Moodle core version to 5.0.1


• 2025-06-09 - Tests: Fix a failing Behat test on the 'Allow admins to use the tertiary navigation' scenario, resolves #973


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85323 to locallogin.php


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85450 to upcoming-mini.mustache


• 2025-06-06 - Upstream change: Adopt changes from MDL-85220 to view-chards.mustache


• 2025-06-04 - Bugfix: Enabling the footersuppresslogininfo setting prevented the reset of the failed login attempts counter, resolves #658


• 2025-06-04 - Bugfix: Prevent debug message regarding newly introduced "displayhiddencourses" and "hiddencoursesort" option in dynamic courses items, resolves #970

v5.0-r3

• 2025-05-30 - Improvement: Smart menus now display hidden courses to users with the appropriate capability, resolves #407.
  
  Please note: With this change, existing dynamic courses smart menu items will start to show hidden courses as this is what most users expect. If you do not want to show hidden courses, please change the newly introduced 'Show hidden courses' setting in your existing menu items after the theme update.


• 2025-05-30 - Improvement: Transform the plain paragraphs on some settings pages into Bootstrap alerts for a nicer look.


• 2025-05-27 - Bugfix: The page scrolled to the top when a dynamic courses submenu got clicked, resolves #962.

v5.0-r2

• 2025-05-26 - Bugfix: Language selector menu for visitors did not respect navbar color, resolves #966.


• 2025-05-26 - Bugfix: Main navigation more menu did not respect navbar color, resolves #967


• 2025-05-26 - Improvement: Enhance course related hint for guest access for teachers by a possibility to build own guest access link, resolves #960.


• 2025-05-25 - Bugfix: Fix a faulty HTML structure in the slider feature, resolves #965.


• 2025-05-23 - Feature: Add course related hint for guest access for teachers as well, resolves #960.


• 2025-05-23 - Improvement: Re-sort the settings for the course related hints.

v5.0-r1

• 2025-04-10 - Upgrade: Replace Bootstrap class custom-select with form-select


• 2025-05-17 - Upgrade: Failing smart menu Behat tests on Moodle 5.0, resolves #929.


• 2025-05-17 - Upgrade: Adopt changes from /lib/amd/src/usermenu.js to /theme/boost_union/amd/src/submenu.js, resolves #913.


• 2025-04-10 - Upgrade: Fix the inline-block presentation of the date settings in the infobanner settings.


• 2025-0

moodle-theme_boost_union

Changes

v5.1-r11

• 2026-04-26 - Feature: Allow not only internal WAYF services based on the Shibboleth config, but also based on JavaScript code, resolves #1230


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Tweak the edit button colors so that it better fits onto tinted navbars.


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add dedicated color picker for setting the navbar color, resolves #1224


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Filter additionalhtmlfooter as does Moodle core from Moodle 5.2 on (MDL-88210 / MDL-85498), resolves #847


• 2026-04-08 - Bugfix: The login page label settings lacked a hide_if, resolves #1229


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to split multiple IDP login buttons into individual tabs / accordeon elements / vertical sections, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Feature: Setting to show Shibboleth internal WAYF (IdP list) on the main login page instead of the default Shibboleth button, resolves #1130


• 2026-04-08 - Improvement: Add admin setting to tint grey colors, resolves #1220

v5.1-r10

• 2026-04-07 - Tests: Add a test to view a user tour


• 2026-04-03 - Improvement: Add CLI script to validate the SCSS compilation and to see SCSS compilation errors, resolves #1217


• 2026-03-31 - Improvement: Allow the footnote text to be set in flavours as well, resolves #1216


• 2026-03-31 - Internal change: Prefix all custom Boost Union SCSS variables which are set by Boost Union settings with 'bu-' for the sake of consistency


• 2026-03-30 - Feature: Add admin settings to tint links and buttons separate from the primary brand color, resolves #709


• 2026-03-30 - Improvement: SmartMenus: Improve mailto menu items with predefined email content, resolves #1122


• 2026-03-28 - Tests: Fix a broken test related to breadcrumbs, resolves #1207

v5.1-r9

• 2026-03-24 - Improvement: Remove the 25 images limit for login background images, resolves #815


• 2026-03-18 - Bugfix: Add an option to harden non-editable block regions by introducing a custom block manager, resolves #472


• 2026-03-18 - Feature: Smart menus: Add dynamic course setting to filter starred courses, resolves #446


• 2026-03-16 - Improvement: Add placeholders to static menu items' title and URLs, resolves #423


• 2026-03-09 - Bugfix: after_form_* hooks should require the library as well, resolves #1191

v5.1-r8

• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Add additional block regions on the 'mycourses' page layout to show sticky blocks at least, resolves #1141


• 2026-03-08 - Improvement: Improve horizontal width and vertical alignment of the login page tabs layout with JS, resolves #1187


• 2026-03-06 - Improvement: Add dedicated Boost Union login page instructions, resolves #1170
  
  Please note: If you have used the auth_instructions setting in Moodle core before, you must copy that content to the new login page instructions as Boost Union does not display auth_instructions anymore.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Page footer got distorted on small screens with the new login layout options, resolves #1175


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Filter login tab descriptions, resolves #1179


• 2026-03-05 - Documentation: Add a note to README that the behaviour of logos and favicons deviates from Boost Union's main principle to not change anything at all after being activated.


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Fix edge cases of the new login form layouts on smaller screens, resolves #1169


• 2026-03-05 - Bugfix: Require FooterPopover only if footer button present, resolves #1177