"Moodle 1.6 is now available for download!

This release includes over a year (!) of new features developed by the community of Moodle developers, as well as countless bug fixes and a lot of restructuring under the hood.

For full information see the Moodle 1.6 release notes - some of the major highlights include:

• 100% Unicode support - all 70 existing languages are now compatible and can be mixed wherever you like.
  
• New documentation wiki - a one-stop shop for all documentation, integrated from within each page of Moodle itself.
• Database module - a new activity module for collaborative collection and display of arbitrary data
• Blogs - finally Moodle has blogs for ongoing personal reflections, viewable by course, by group, by individual etc
• New reports - plug-in reports enable you to create and share new report types. New statistics reports are included in Moodle 1.6.
• Questions - quiz question types are now a centralised structure so any module will be able to use them in future.
• LAMS - a new activity module and course format allow LAMS to be easily integrated with Moodle if you need to
• Multiple groups - users can be part of any number of groups in a course
• New Chameleon theme - can be customised in your browser on the fly!
• Granularised backup - allows you to backup only selected activities
• Multi Enrolments - use any number of Moodle's enrolment methods at once, including the new IMS Enterprise methods"

Read more...Moodle 1.6 goes gold!