Author API Release Log Overview

Below is an overview of notes for each release of Author API.

Versions on this page

Version Release date End of Life
Latest 
2024.1.LTS Recommended 6th March 2024 March 2026
2023.3.LTS  25th October 2023 October 2025
2023.2.LTS  7th June 2023 June 2025
2023.1.LTS  15th February 2023 February 2025
2022.3.LTS  3rd November 2022 December 2024
2022.2.LTS  22nd June 2022 July 2024
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Latest

Our rolling release. This release contains in-development new features released since the most recent Long Term Support.

This should only be used for in-development systems targeting a production release using the next Long Term Support release (see our Learnosity Help article for further details) or for testing upcoming features while in-development.

Bugfixes
Author API v1.100.2, Question Editor API v3.116.1
  • Fixed a bug where the preview for a Random assessment Activity did not render properly when using the initialization option to display the current Item reference.
  • Fixed a bug which caused a race condition when loading the CKEditor text editor.
Polish
Author API v1.100.2
  • Improvement: implemented UI and UX polishes for the "random" assessment Activity creation and editing experience.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.116.0
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to prepare for future features.

2024.1.LTS Recommended

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

This is our recommended version for production releases right now.

Read more about the 2024.1.LTS release.

  • Released: 6th March 2024
  • End of Life: March 2026

Bugfixes
Author API v1.100.2
  • Fixed a bug where the preview for a Random assessment Activity did not render properly when using the initialization option to display the current Item reference.
Polish
Author API v1.100.2
  • Improvement: implemented UI and UX polishes for the "random" assessment Activity creation and editing experience.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.100.1
  • Fixed a bug where a user did not see warning messages when they were about to add Item(s) to a random Activity group that was about to hit its limit.
  • Fixed a bug in all supported viewport sizes where the CSS layout and borders for the random Activity summary were incorrect.
  • Fixed a bug where adding a group after removing all groups via the "select all groups" checkbox rendered the said checkbox as checked.
  • Fixed a bug where adding Items to a new random Activity group rendered all the group's Items as selected.
  • Fixed a bug where the labels for search parameters were incorrect.
Polish
Author API v1.100.1
  • Improvement: implemented UI and UX polishes for the "random" assessment Activity creation and edit experience.
  • Improvement: minimized the number of searches being sent in the Tag search input field of the Item/Activity editor, improving performance on the back end.
Features
Author API v1.100.0, Question Editor API v3.115.0
  • Added new Activity creation and edit capability for "random" assessments.
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.100.0
  • Fixed a bug when special characters like ampersand (&) and semicolon (;) were sent to the /abconnect/standards endpoint, it should not raise any exceptions.
  • Fixed a bug where all Tags were shown if show_tags contained entries with non-existent Tags only.
Features
Question Editor API v3.114.0
  • Added support for the less than or equal to (≦), greater than or equal to (≧), and question mark symbols in the keypad.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.99.3
  • Fixed a bug which made it impossible to record audio in simple Features.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.99.2
  • Fixed a bug in the Academic Benchmark standards modal window where a maximum of 10 entries would be shown on certain pages.
Polish
Author API v1.99.2
  • Improvement: added the year to the subject dropdown in the Academic Benchmark standards modal window. This allows authors to differentiate between subjects with the same name.
Polish
Author API v1.99.1
  • Improvement: internal performance updates for the search filters and toolbar.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.99.0
  • Fixed the error message for a bug which occurs when a Tag cannot be saved to the database.
Polish
Author API v1.99.0
  • Improvement: implemented changes required for an upcoming feature.

2023.3.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about the 2023.3.LTS release.

  • Released: 25th October 2023
  • End of Life: October 2025

Bugfixes
Author API v1.97.3
  • Fixed a bug in the Academic Benchmark standards modal where a maximum of 10 entries would be shown on certain pages.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.113.3
  • Fixed a bug where images would be duplicated when performing sentence tokenization in the token highlight Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where sentence tokenization would not work if a header tag was present in the template HTML.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.113.2
  • Improvement: deprecated the Brightcove option in the video player.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.97.2
  • Fixed the error message for a bug which occurs when a tag cannot be saved to the database.
Features
Author API v1.98.0
  • Added logic required for upcoming feature.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.98.1, v1.97.1
  • Fixed a bug where uploaded images did not scale appropriately.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.113.1
  • Improvement: implemented polishes required for upcoming feature (Question Editor API).
Features
Question Editor API v3.113.0
Bugfixes
Author API v1.97.0, Question Editor API v3.113.0
  • Fixed a bug where hiding a read only tag via the hide_tags init option was making Items marked read-only as editable.
  • Fixed a bug where math content containing fractions could not be indented in rich text editor fields properly.
Polish
Author API v1.97.0, Question Editor API v3.113.0
  • Improvement: updated XSS protection.
  • Improvement: added support for the passing of additional initialization options through to Questions API instances.
Features
Author API v1.96.0, Question Editor API v3.112.0
  • Added a new public method setWidgetMetadata to be able to set metadata on Questions and Features.
  • Added the ability to use captions and transcripts while using the video player with simple Features in Question Editor API.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.96.1, v1.96.0, Question Editor API v3.112.0
  • Fixed a bug where Items did not load correctly with certain configurations of hide_tags and read-only
  • Fixed a bug where an image's width and height were not properly set.
  • Fixed a bug where Learnosity APIs initialized within an Android WebView would fail to authenticate.
  • Added a public method, setMetadata.
  • Fixed a bug where a fatal exception was thrown when an invalid consumer key was provided.
Features
Question Editor API v3.111.0
Features
Author API v1.95.0
  • Added a feature to control requests going to inactive customer accounts.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.95.0, Question Editor API v3.110.1
  • Fixed a bug where a message related to ElasticSearch was shown, even though it was disabled.
  • Fixed a bug where the search state was not being cleared when leaving the Activity Editor Item picker, intro/outro picker and resource Item picker.
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing some accordion elements from announcing when they were expanded or collapsed.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.110.1
Features
Question Editor API v3.110.0
  • Added focus styling to the input, textarea and select fields to improve keyboard accessibility.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.110.0
  • Fixed a bug where tokenization did not work within tables.
  • Fixed a bug where focusing the mcq (multiple choice Question type) reorder handle button via keyboard would shift the position of its icon.
Features
Question Editor API v3.109.0

2023.2.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about the 2023.2.LTS release.

  • Released: 7th June 2023
  • End of Life: June 2025

Bugfixes
Author API v1.94.8
  • Fixed a bug in the Academic Benchmark standards modal where a maximum of 10 entries would be shown on certain pages.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.94.7, Question Editor API v3.108.3
  • Fixed a bug where hiding a read only Tag via the hide_tags initialization option was setting Items marked read-only as editable.
  • Fixed a bug where math content containing fractions could not be indented in Rich Text Editor fields properly.
Polish
Author API v1.94.7
  • Improvement: updated XSS protection.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.94.6, Question Editor API v3.108.2
  • Fixed a bug where Learnosity APIs initialized within an Android WebView would fail to authenticate.
  • Fixed a bug where tokenization in the tokenhighlight did not work within tables.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.94.5
  • Fixed a bug where the search state was not being cleared when leaving the Activity Editor Item picker, intro/outro picker and resource Item picker.
Polish
Author API v1.94.5
  • Improvement: internal update to control requests going to inactive customer accounts.
Polish
Author API v1.94.4
  • Improvement: internal update to asset hosting configuration.
Features
Question Editor API v3.108.1
  • Added focus styling on some buttons to improve keyboard accessibility.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.94.3
  • Fixed a bug in Activity Edit where the time input component's semi-colon vertical alignment was incorrect.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item edit preview of the audio recorder Question type when in the 'button' UI style. Prior to this fix, the recording popup would scroll down and the recording buttons would become hidden upon clicking the record button.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.108.1
  • Improvement: updated the labels of the inputs in the math authoring response area, so that content authors can more easily understand the configurations available to them, just by reading.
  • Improvement: updated the layout style and space of math validation methods, so that it is easier for content authors to make sense of what they are seeing.
Features
Question Editor API v3.107.0
  • Added the tolerance option to the clozeformulaV2 Question type and updated the layout of its Question template.
Polish
Author API v1.94.1
Polish
Author API v1.94.0, Question Editor API v3.106.0
  • Improvement: implemented backend changes required for upcoming feature (Author API).
  • Improvement: performance enhancements to improve initial load times (Author API).
  • Improvement: implemented backend changes required for upcoming feature (Question Editor API).
  • Improvement: performance enhancements to improve initial load times (Question Editor API).
Bugfixes
Author API v1.93.1, Question Editor API v3.105.1
  • Fixed a bug in Activity Editor where the distractor rationale settings were incorrectly used.
  • Fixed a bug where a 404 error was returned for certain Question type thumbnails when using the template_defaults: true & group_defaults: false init options.
  • Fixed a bug where outdated versions of thumbnails were loaded instead of the latest version for certain Question types when using the template_defaults: true & group_defaults: false init options.
Polish
Author API v1.93.1, Question Editor API v3.105.1
  • Improvement: added ARIA attributes to the remove Items button in Activity Editor, improving navigation using screen readers.
  • Improvement: switched to loading Question type thumbnails from Question Editor API itself, rather than loading from assets.learnosity.com.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.93.0, Question Editor API v3.105.0
  • Fixed a bug where focus was removed from the Item preview button in Activity edit, when Enter was pressed.
  • Fixed a bug in the simpleshading Question type where shaded cells persisted in the source even when the cells were removed.
Polish
Author API v1.93.0, Question Editor API v3.105.0
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

2023.1.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about the 2023.1.LTS release.

  • Released: 15th February 2023
  • End of Life: February 2025

Bugfixes
Author API v1.92.7
  • Fixed a bug in the Academic Benchmark standards modal where a maximum of 10 entries would be shown on certain pages.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.104.6
  • Fixed a bug where math content containing fractions could not be indented in Rich Text Editor fields properly.
  • Fixed a bug where tokenization did not work within tables.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.92.6, Question Editor API v3.104.5
  • Fixed a bug where Learnosity APIs initialized within an Android WebView would fail to authenticate.
  • Fixed a bug which caused unnecessary log entries.
Polish
Author API v1.92.6
  • Improvement: updated XSS protection.
Polish
Author API v1.92.5
  • Improvement: internal update to control requests going to inactive customer accounts.
Polish
Author API v1.92.4
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security of the app.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.104.4
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security of the app.
Polish
Author API v1.92.3, Question Editor API v3.104.3
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.92.2
  • Fixed a bug in Activity Editor where the distractor rationale settings were incorrectly used.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.104.2
  • Fixed a bug in the simpleshading Question type where shaded cells persisted in the source even when the cells were removed.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.92.1, Question Editor API v3.104.1
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error in the Item count of the Item List.
  • Fixed a bug where pop-up content data did not show correctly in the display content shown in list views.
  • Fixed a bug, an accessibility issue in Activity edit where a <ul> (unordered list) tag directly contained another <ul> tag, which is invalid HTML.
  • Fixed a bug in Activity edit where ARIA labels for the select Item checkbox and the open & close preview icon button were missing.
  • Fixed a bug in imageclozeassociationV2 Question type, where duplicate valid responses were not properly displayed in Question Editor API.
  • Fixed a bug where the pop-up content and ARIA label features could be applied to existing widgets, which caused undesired effects.
Features
Author API v1.92.0, Question Editor API v3.104.0
  • Added the ability to add pop-up content to specific Rich Text Editor fields.
  • Added some new rich text editor logic for an upcoming feature.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.92.0
  • Fixed a bug in the Activity editor where the select all and select Item checkboxes could not be toggled via the keyboard.
Polish
Author API v1.92.0
  • Improvement: Improved the accessibility of the 'Select All Items' checkbox in the Activity Editor, by adding a label a screenreader can understand.
  • Improvement: Improved the screenreader accessibility of the activity toolbar in the Activity Editor, by adding a clearer role to it.
  • Improvement: removed code related to legacy Item search functionality.
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.103.1
Features
Question Editor API v3.103.0
  • Added and refactored some CKEditor plugin logic for an upcoming feature.

2022.3.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about the 2022.3.LTS release.

  • Released: 3rd November 2022
  • End of Life: December 2024

Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.102.6
  • Fixed a bug where tokenization did not work within tables.
Polish
Author API v1.91.9
  • Improvement: updated XSS protection.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.8, Question Editor API v3.102.5
  • Fixed a bug where Learnosity APIs initialized within an Android WebView would fail to authenticate.
  • Fixed a bug which caused unnecessary log entries.
Polish
Author API v1.91.7
  • Improvement: internal update to control requests going to inactive customer accounts.
Polish
Author API v1.91.6
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security of the app.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.102.4
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security of the app.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.102.3
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance (Question Editor API).
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.102.2
  • Fixed a bug in the simpleshading Question type where shaded cells persisted in the source even when the cells were removed.
Polish
Author API v1.91.5
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.102.1
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.4
  • Fixed a bug in Author API paginated lists where the focus was returning to the search bar after clicking on the next & previous pagination buttons, or after actioning them via the keyboard. With this change, the focus will remain on the clicked or actioned button at all times, including when the button is in the loading or disabled states. Note that this fix contains a breaking change, where the disabled attribute was replaced by the aria-disabled="true" attribute for the pagination buttons. This change was required to allow the pagination buttons to be focusable while disabled.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.3
  • Fixed a bug where hidden tags were visible in Activity list view.
  • Fixed a bug where parameters specified in the uploader route were not validated.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity editor > Item picker checkboxes didn't function as expected when toggled via the keyboard.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.2, Question Editor API v3.102.0
  • Fixed a bug where hidden ARIA labels were displayed in an Item's display content when editing an Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity edit view state was not being cleared upon returning to the Activity list, when the user had performed a search in Activity list.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented users from changing the case of an Activity's reference.
  • Fixed a bug where the translations for global help were retrieved using the wrong keys.
  • Fixed a bug where MCQ assistive label values would not be removed from the JSON, despite being set to the default values.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible to set an ARIA label for empty text.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.1, Question Editor API v3.101.2
  • Fixed a bug where creating and updating an Item could result in incorrectly-formatted date created and date updated values.
  • Fixed a bug in Question Editor where tabbing through response positions incorrectly set the data to null.
Polish
Author API v1.91.1
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.
Features
Author API v1.91.0
  • Added a new public method backToActivityList() to be able to programatically navigate back to the Activity list view, restoring the state to what it was before navigating away from Activity list.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.91.0
  • Fixed a bug that prevented uploading of video recordings in .MP4 format via the hosted video option in Simple Features.
Polish
Author API v1.91.0, Question Editor API v3.101.1
  • Improvement: removed the content field from the Item search toolbar for Item banks not using Elasticsearch.
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.
  • Improvement: re-ordered the default position of the ARIA label button in the CKEditor toolbar.
  • Improvement: updated styling of the OK button in the math editor dialog to provide better color contrast.
Features
Question Editor API v3.101.0
  • Added the ability to set custom ARIA labels to any text selection inside Rich Text Editor fields for all Question types.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.101.0
Polish
Question Editor API v3.101.0
Features
Question Editor API v3.100.0
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.100.0
  • Fixed a bug where the checkbox's "Check answer button" label, the "Check answer attempts" and the "Penalty point(s)" number input fields were not showing in the "More options" section of the graphing Question types.
  • Fixed a bug where scoring was made impossible if the value of the valid response was an empty array.

2022.2.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about the 2022.2.LTS release.

  • Released: 22nd June 2022
  • End of Life: July 2024

Bugfixes
Author API v1.90.8, Question Editor API v3.99.8
  • Fixed a bug where Learnosity APIs initialized within an Android WebView would fail to authenticate.
  • Fixed a bug which caused unnecessary log entries.
Polish
Author API v1.90.7
  • Improvement: internal update to control requests going to inactive customer accounts.
Polish
Author API v1.90.6, Question Editor API v3.99.7
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security of the app.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.99.6
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance (Question Editor API).
Polish
Author API v1.90.5
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.99.5
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.99.4
  • Fixed a bug where the translations for global help were retrieved using the wrong keys.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.90.4, Question Editor API v3.99.3
  • Fixed a bug where creating and updating an Item could result in incorrectly-formatted date created and date updated values.
  • Fixed a bug in the Question Editor, where tabbing through response positions incorrectly set the data to null.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.99.2
  • Fixed a bug where scoring was made impossible if the value of the valid response was an empty array.
Polish
Author API v1.90.3
  • Improvement: removed the content field from the Item search toolbar for Item Banks that aren't using Elasticsearch.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.99.1
  • Fixed a bug where the checkbox's "Check answer button" label, the "Check answer attempts" and the "Penalty point(s)" number input fields were not showing in the "More options" section of the graphing Question types.
Polish
Author API v1.90.2
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Polish
Author API v1.90.1
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Features
Author API v1.90.0, Question Editor API v3.99.0
  • Added masking_button element to be visible in all Learnosity default regions.
  • Added ARIA-labels for the Question type buttons and tooltips for the close button in modal windows.
  • Added support for the binomial coefficient symbol in the keypad.
  • Added tooltips for the buttons which only have an icon.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.90.0, Question Editor API v3.99.0
  • Fixed a bug where colour contrast in the asset uploader's error messages, the Item & Activity status badges as well the Item preview's "Show answers" button were not compliant with WCAG level AA accessibility standards.
  • Fixed a bug where overriding the label bundle of one Author API instance would affect other instances when running multiple instances on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the Edit/Preview button was missing the type="button" attribute.
  • Fixed a bug where it was not possible to set a translation for a space in the select drop down.
  • Fixed a bug where MathJax threw an error if certain elements did not contain child nodes.
Polish
Author API v1.90.0, Question Editor API v3.99.0
  • Improvement: applied rounded corners to Learnosity Design System (LDS) buttons with LDS styles.
  • Improvement: replaced the Item settings data table continue and edit buttons, as well as the action builder add action button, with the Learnosity Design System buttons.
  • Improvement: updated internal template libraries.
  • Improvement: changed the default value of ui.change_button to be false, to discourage changing widgets as it may have unintended side affects.
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.98.1
  • Fixed a bug where the "Sentence", "Paragraph" and "Word" tokenization types did not correctly apply the tokens.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.98.0
  • Fixed a bug where the "Sentence", "Paragraph" and "Word" tokenization types were still being rendered in English in the "Apply tokenization" confirmation dialog, regardless of the i18n label bundle supplied.
  • Fixed a bug in the Drawing question type where a text button was added multiple times.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.97.0
  • Fixed a bug where the Cloze chemistry formula, Cloze math formula, Math [BETA] and fill in the blanks question types were missing their type.
  • Fixed a bug where the Edit/Preview button was missing the type="button" attribute.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.97.0
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.96.1
  • Fixed a bug where the UI Settings label for the audio player feature was not able to be overridden via the initialization options.
Polish
Question Editor API v3.96.1
  • Improvement: updated ARIA-labels of the cursor movement arrows inside the math keypad.
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.96.0
Polish
Question Editor API v3.96.0
  • Improvement: enabled ordering of possible responses via the keyboard.

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