Plom Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.19.6 - 2025-11-20

Fixed

  • Fix a crash when pushing a bundle with collisions.

0.19.5 - 2025-11-20

Changed

  • Compare handwriting now explains why if it shows a non-ID page (for example, if the ID page is itself unknown).

  • Updating the annotations (sending new marking data) from the client will remove any rubric_changed tags, which should improve the process of making major edits to in-use rubrics.

  • Improvements to command-line tools and error handling.

Fixed

  • Packaging of the QuestionClustering app was broken.

  • Fix for filenames containing random characters for individual reassembled/report/solution downloads.

  • Fix for duplicate reassembled filenames for blank papers, ditto reports and solutions.

  • Misc bug fixes, performance improvements and UI tweaks.

0.19.4 - 2025-10-23

Changed

  • UI tweaks during extra page assignment to clarify ambiguity in the “all questions” radio option.

  • Server is more self-contained, by self-hosting more javascript/CSS libraries.

Fixed

  • Scan: fixed a regression where errors while dealing with extra pages were not shown.

  • Error during upload of bundle if pages had been assigned to the DNM group.

  • Crash during prenaming box positioning due to string/float conversions.

  • Reset prenaming box positioning on server reset.

0.19.3 - 2025-10-01

Changed

  • Clients v0.19.0 and v0.19.1 are blocked due to potential bugs when marking more than 999 papers.

  • Clearer workflow for resetting a server.

Fixed

  • In some cases of more than one page per question, “homework mode” pages (Mobile Pages) were not displayed in the correct order, server-side.

  • Improve thumbnail displays in Scan app.

  • Misc bug fixes, and UI tweaks.

0.19.2 - 2025-09-11

Added

  • Papers can be downloaded in their “unmarked” state.

  • Support for fractional rubrics has improved: instructions can set their preferences about fractional rubrics, currently 1/2 and 1/4 points are visible in the UI.

  • The Scan thumbnail app where extra pages are assigned has numerous improvements, including the ability to see the cover sheets of the next and previous papers in the bundle.

Removed

  • Several not-very-maintained manage.py commands in favour of plom-cli, which works remotely over the API.

Changed

  • The spec has changed format: the select key accepts a single integer or a list of integers. Question versions are randomly drawn from this list. If omitted, defaults to all versions.

  • The printed papers now say “Paper 0123” not “Test 0123” on top of the page.

  • marks.csv now respects custom “question labels”.

  • The UI of the server now “vendors” most javascript dependencies on startup, for a more standalone server.

  • Improved importing of Rubrics from spreadsheets.

Fixed

  • Fix table-sorting by clicking on column headers, in several tables.

  • Misc bug fixes and minor improvements.

0.18.3 - 2025-06-14

Changed

  • UI tweaks, text clarifications, and misc code cleanups,

Fixed

  • Single-digit microQR codes could be mistaken for extra page QR codes, sometimes leading crashes.

  • Workaround .csv classlists exported by Microsoft Excel with “Feff” “byte-order-mark”.

  • Fixes related to discarding an entire paper.

  • Fixes to students reports.

0.18.2 - 2025-05-23

Added

  • Rubric templates can be downloaded showing what is needed in csv/json/toml if you want to make rubrics outside of Plom.

  • Improved error handling of unexpected errors during staged bundle push.

Fixed

  • Fixed regression and crash when clients gets info on extra pages.

  • Fixed regression and crash when extra page is set to DNM.

  • Uploading a broken/conflicting classlist no longer adds some of the students.

  • Improvements to setting TaskOrder from a file.

0.18.1 - 2025-05-17

Fixed

  • Regression in production container: default to port 8000 if unspecified.

  • Fixed crash in production server about undefined wsgi module.

0.18.0 - 2025-05-14

Added

  • New support for multi-versioned ID pages, for example if different students should see different cover pages. Currently, this uses the custom QV-map feature.

  • New API to remotely reset tasks, usable via the client as well as plom-cli.

  • Rubrics can be created in the web UI as well as the client.

  • plom-new-server and plom-new-demo command line tools, subject to renaming without notice in the future.

Changed

  • Rubric edits can be indicated as “minor edits”, generally meaning the Annotations using them do not need to be updated.

  • Containerfile.bulk renamed to Containerfile.

  • Django-based server no longer needs to be run in its own source code.

  • Scanners can directly cast error pages into known and extra pages (without going via discard pages).

Removed

  • Some “are you sure?” dialogs were removed from the scanning work flow.

  • Container no long respects the PLOM_DEMO env var.

Fixed

  • Student reports have been re-enabled using more efficient database queries.

  • The API can optionally enforce a “single session” model again, which should fix some confusing behaviour involving multiple simultaneous logins.

0.17.4 - 2025-03-26

Changed

  • More flexible options for plom-push-to-canvas.py contrib script.

Fixed

  • ID reader “find rectangle” code was failing.

  • ID reader “find rectangle” would not work if Idbox was too far down the page.

  • More error checking and unit tests concerning rubric validity.

  • Refuse to build papers with inconsistent versions maps—there must be at most one version per page.

  • Show errors to end users in some cases that previously just said “error”.

  • Minor fixes and performance improvements.

0.17.3 - 2025-02-28

Added

  • Users who have not logged in can now be deleted.

  • Server is less-trusting of the client-supplied annotations, with additional server-side validation of rubric use.

Changed

  • Improvements in the push-to-canvas contrib script.

  • Documentation improvements.

Removed

  • Support code for Plom Client, which is now developed in a separate repo.

Fixed

  • Fix hard-to-debug errors about casing of headers in classlist.

  • Better debugging of custom version maps.

  • Fix versioned scatterplots in reports.

  • Fix errors removing source PDF files.

  • Fix creating multiple users.

  • Better error handling in paper generation background chores; future unexpected errors should be explicitly shown to users.

  • Minor UI fixes and cleanups, such as improved contrast of the sidebar when the OS is in dark mode.

  • Code cleanups and maintenance.

0.17.2 - 2025-02-03

Added

  • Ability to download Annotations .csv for analysis in external tools.

  • Server can transmit a reject-list of known-bad clients.

Fixed

  • Fixes about PedagogyTags in Rubrics.

0.17.1 - 2025-01-29

Added

  • New experimental “bundle separator” sheets for organizing scanning in very large courses.

Changed

  • The experimental plom-cli tool can identify papers.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where users could not be created.

  • Improved overall error handling.

0.17.0 - 2025-01-24

Added

  • Plom server’s web UI now supports dark mode.

  • All the pages of a paper can be discarded, rather than one page at a time.

  • Beta version of command-line tool and API to support “Homework Mode”.

Changed

  • Plom server now runs on Django 5 and has a minimum Python version of 3.10.

  • Plom server does not accept annotations using old revisions of rubrics.

  • Rubrics can now be edited within the web UI.

Removed

  • Plom Client is now developed separately at https://gitlab.com/plom/plom-client

  • The plom.client code in this repo is deprecated but not yet removed.

Fixed

  • Improved error checked around validity of rubrics.

  • Many minor fixes and database improvements.

0.16.11 - 2024-12-10

Added

  • Server accepts upload of userlist in csv format.

Changed

  • Increase default password reset link expiry to 14 days.

Fixed

  • In some cases, discarding a pushed paper and re-uploading prevented the paper from being identified.

  • Client was not showing tags drawing attention to a particular user.

  • plom-push-to-canvas can handle blank-ID pages more gracefully by warning the user instead of crashing.

  • Fix command-line tools for manipulating staging bundles which were incorrectly complaining about multiple users.

  • Better (but not yet ideal) error handling during scan upload.

  • Reassigning a task to another user removes existing user tags from that task.

  • Misc fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements.

0.16.10 - 2024-11-06

Added

  • Bundle upload displays a progress bar.

Changed

  • Improve error message when running the auto-ID reader without a classlist.

  • Improve UI when looking at out-of-date tasks by disabling irrelevant buttons such as “reset”.

Fixed

  • Clarify on-screen help about collisions during scanning.

  • Use higher resolution for in-client solution images.

  • Improve error handling around annotation images.

  • Upload bundle and some other places have improved UI (for example disabling the form during a long upload).

  • Fixed errors related to users differing only in case.

  • Other tweaks and fixes.

0.16.9 - 2024-10-23

Added

  • Server can now be run using the “Django-Silk” profiler, if enabled in settings.py.

  • Server respects additional environment variables PLOM_HUEY_WORKERS and PLOM_HUEY_PARENT_WORKERS to control how many background workers are used. Current defaults (subject to change) are 4 and 2, and are set in settings.py.

Fixed

  • Many performance improvements to services that were using too manyi or inefficient database queries, based on real-life experiences at scale, and from using the “Django-Silk” profiler.

  • Client: fixed a crash when editing a copy of someone else’s rubric.

0.16.8 - 2024-10-15

Added

  • Respect the WEB_CONCURRENCY environment variable: it chooses how many gunicorn workers we use (but only if it is defined).

  • The PLOM_GUNICORN_TIMEOUT environment variable can be used to set the timeout of gunicorn workers.

Fixed

  • Temporarily increasing gunicorn timeouts, and decreasing default number of workers to 2.

Removed

  • Temporarily remove report building: it will return soon but is too slow in production for now.

0.16.7 - 2024-10-14

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash when reassembling papers when non-unit starting or non-contiguous paper numbers are used.

  • Server now uses 4 workers in production mode by default. This can be tuned live using SIGTTIN and SIGTTOU, search the gunicorn docs for more info.

  • Some paper views showed pages in the order they were scanned rather than their paper order.

0.16.6 - 2024-10-10

Fixed

  • Temporary fix to hopefully reduce timeouts during client image gets in client background downloader threads.

0.16.5 - 2024-10-08

Added

  • Using backend commandline its possible to retroactively add new rows to the paper database, to recover from various mistakes.

Changed

  • Client: the intention is that only lead markers can ID papers but this is, for now, just a warning.

Fixed

  • Server was recording rubric usage incorrectly: info about which tasks used which rubrics is likely incorrect in previous versions, even after server upgrade. Nothing student-visible.

  • Server was rendering some rubric table headers incorrectly.

  • Improved client refresh, especially when other users tag your tasks.

  • Client: don’t crash on URLs with trailing slash.

  • Client: can now ID paper number zero.

  • Misc bug fixes.

  • Documentation updates

0.16.4 - 2024-10-02

Fixed

  • Misc bugs. Mostly minor annoying things. See gitlab milestone.

0.16.3 - 2024-09-24

Added

  • A new page tells markers what to do next when they login the web site.

Changed

  • Collisions in a bundle with papers already pushed are reported in the thumbnail view.

Fixed

  • Certain push failures could leave the bundle locked, preventing any other bundles from being pushed.

  • Fix error reporting when collisions occurring during push.

  • All manager accounts are now members of the scanner group.

  • Fix reassembly when using older versions of the Weasyprint library.

  • Misc fixes and documentations updates.

Removed

  • Temporarily disabled the create rubrics button in the web UI, due to confusion around system rubrics.

0.16.2 - 2024-09-17

Fixed

  • Fixed static collection on hotstart.

0.16.0 - 2024-09-12

Added

  • Instructors can enable 1/2 mark rubrics in the Rubrics screen.

  • Instructors can set a quota, limiting the number of papers that can be marked by certain markers, for use in marker training, quality control, or team-creation of a consistent set of rubrics.

  • Client: tagged tasks have a notification banner highlighting their tags to markers.

Changed

  • Server can now be launched via script in plom_server/Launcher/launch_scripts/launch_plom_server.py

  • Demo is now launched via script in plom_server/Launcher/launch_scripts/launch_plom_demo_server.py

  • Managers can perform scanning actions directly, without a separate scanner account.

Fixed

  • Client: erase the page cache on shutdown.

  • Client: improved box-drag annotation rendering.

  • Misc fixes and documentation updates.

Removed

  • Support for macOS 12. This is because GitLab.com no longer provides runners for macOS 12. Note the EOL for macOS 12 is Nov 2024.

0.15.7 - 2024-08-14

Fixed

  • Fixed crash on Windows pre-compiled binary.

  • Fixed prename box positioning.

0.15.6 - 2024-07-30

Added

  • Client: in experimental mode, add an on-page menu for manipulations such as rotating, reordered and removing.

  • Client can spell check rubrics.

  • Client can query for a list of other papers that used a particular rubric and display those annotations to the user.

  • Tasks can be reassigned between users on the server.

  • Questions can be tagged with, for example, learning objectives.

  • The revision history of rubrics is stored and viewable.

Changed

  • Assessments with an odd number of pages now generate errors, which seems like a major change but has always been our best-practice.

  • Client: improvements to the undo stack.

  • Its easier to wipe the new server back to its initial empty state, at least before scanning begins.

  • Minor tools in annotator are reordered to put tick first and box later.

Fixed

  • Client: line widths scale with annotation scale.

  • Better classlist validation when prenaming.

  • Continued implementation of the new server.

  • Misc fixes and improvements.

  • legacy-server: minor fixes to legacy workflow.

0.15.5 - 2024-06-12

Added

  • Users can change their own passwords.

Changed

  • Plom now allows sharing pages between questions.

  • Client: parameterized rubrics are no longer considered experimental.

Fixed

  • For now, you must manually create system rubrics before marking begins; to enforce this the client will crash if the server has no rubrics.

  • Misc fixes and documentation improvements.

  • Spec verifier now checks that numberOfPages is even.

0.15.4 - 2024-05-21

Added

  • Scanning (on the new server) defaults to automatic image extraction (if its detected safe to do so). Scanners can force “safe mode rendering” for the previous behaviour.

Changed

  • Plom is less aggressive about “font subsetting” when creating PDF files which might make generated PDFs a little bit safer.

Fixed

  • Workaround spurious characters appearing on generated pages when using certain versions of PyMuPDF.

0.15.3 - 2024-05-11

Added

  • Server can now show and in some cases customize the feedback rules that nag clients before they submit annotations.

  • New feedback rule checks that each page is annotated.

Changed

  • Rubrics now keep more careful records about who modified them and when.

Fixed

  • Legacy workflow: plom-scan upload ./foo.pdf will now explicitly fail informing you to keep path info out of bundle names.

  • Processing PDF scans: don’t complain about rounding errors when instead some metadata mixup about width/height has occurred.

  • Client: clicking “sync” to synchronous rubrics from server no longer resets selection.

0.15.2 - 2024-03-11

Added

  • Server - scanner can now bulk-discard unknown pages from a bundle, and bulk change discards back to unknowns.

  • Server: supports tags in more places.

Changed

  • Client respects Question Labels in more places.

  • Server container should automatically hotstart if a database exist. Previously behaviour was to delete and start again.

  • Experimental support for users to modify each others’ rubrics.

  • Server: new settings to control global create/modify rubric permissions.

Fixed

  • Legacy server: fix crash when client asks to view images from paper which exists but has no scans.

  • Server: fix crash when client asks for non-existing Annotation images.

  • Client: popup error message when viewing non-existent images rather than empty blue dialog.

  • Client: fix a crash on sync when rubric’s per-version was changed.

0.15.1 - 2024-02-16

Added

  • Django-based server container starts the canned demo if environment variable PLOM_DEMO is set to 1.

Changed

  • Web UI: displays version number.

  • Web UI: various tweaks and improvements to building blank paper PDFs.

  • plom-manager command is deprecated; use plom-legacy-manager to manage legacy servers.

Fixed

  • Web UI: improved error handling for unexpected errors when using asynchronous HTMX calls.

0.15.0 - 2024-02-13

Added

  • Django-based server is closer to being the default server.

Changed

  • switch client dependency from appdirs to platformdirs.

Fixed

  • -1 as papernum wasn’t worked for input classlists.

0.14.8 - 2024-01-04

Added

  • Identifier: UI includes explanation of why we confirm prenamed papers.

Changed

  • The “new” idBox3.pdf was giving warnings in LaTeX: new idBox4.pdf is now a 1.5 PDF.

  • Client: experimental “view cat pic” feature removed; it was often offline and the content could be construed as endorsed by Plom.

Fixed

  • Client: temporary workaround for Qt bug resulting in overly-long error dialogs on macOS.

  • Previous compiled clients 0.14.x produced imperceptibly corrupted annotated images due to bugs in jpeg libraries, causing rare problems with some PDF viewers on the reassembled files.

  • Client: crash when sorted columns in the rarely-used “filter/arrange” dialog.

  • Dependency and documentation updates.

0.14.7 - 2023-12-03

Added

  • Support for Python 3.12.

Changed

  • Clients: more dialogs have “Don’t ask me again” checkboxes.

  • “Don’t ask me again” settings are stored only in the current session (for now).

  • Don’t show default “1” paper and page when assigning unknown pages.

Fixed

  • Duplicated paper numbers in question-version map input will now be detected.

  • Correctly handle solutions that encode to jpeg.

  • Fix some version clashes between old pyOpenSSL and cryptography by forcing users to update both.

  • Legacy server: increase json upload limit to 5MiB to accept larger question-version maps.

0.14.6 - 2023-11-02

Changed

  • Improved messages for push-to-canvas script.

Fixed

  • Fix crash in Manager viewing annotations in Review tab.

  • Documentation and misc fixes.

0.14.5 - 2023-10-23

Added

  • New “idBox3.pdf” template moves the signature box up to avoid signatures hitting the bounding box (which was leading to additional manual IDing).

  • Page Arrange: new “Invert selection” button is useful to quickly discard all but the highlighted pages.

Changed

  • Do more checks before uploading a custom version map, hopefully avoiding errors that are hard to recover from.

  • Making self-signed certs no longer needs command-line openssl, instead uses the cryptography package.

Fixed

  • Wrong padding on the top paper number box on recent versions of PyMuPDF.

  • Various fixes for Python 3.12 but full support may be waiting on a new release of AIOHttp library.

  • Fix a crash in server manager when unpredicting a row without a prediction.

  • Improved contrast in Identifier client when OS is in dark mode.

  • Push-to-Canvas could fail when assessment shortname contained underscores.

  • Documentation edits and fixes.

0.14.4 - 2023-10-10

Changed

  • Various edits to contrib scripts, especially pulling from Canvas.

Fixed

  • Fix a crash when users sync a changed rubric.

  • Clearer error messages when auto-IDing an a student number has less than 8 digits.

  • Filter leading/trailing whitespace from server address.

  • Fixes in contrib scripts related to just-in-time prenaming and IDing.

  • Typos and clarifications in docs.

0.14.3 - 2023-09-15

Fixed

  • Fix crash on start of the provided macOS client binaries.

  • Manager can login to Client before the server has a spec.

0.14.2 - 2023-09-13

Added

  • Absolute rubrics are no longer considered experimental and can be created in the Add Rubric dialog by default.

Changed

  • The legacy sidToTest API call (rarely used) now reports whether the paper is IDed or prenamed. This is documented in msgr.sid_to_paper_number().

  • Many next-gen server changes.

Fixed

  • Client: crash from invalid version restrictions specified in the Add Rubric dialog.

  • Legacy server was not creating backup files on regrade since sometime in 2022.

  • Fix regrading on next-gen servers.

  • Client: rubric tabs now hide properly when all rubrics inside them are hidden.

0.14.1 - 2023-09-01

Added

  • The next-gen web-based Plom Server is ready for wider testing. Production use should probably remain on the “Legacy Plom Server” for the time being.

  • Plom Client can connect to both the next-gen server and the legacy server.

  • Plom Client supports http:// URLs, if specified explicitly, e.g., for development. The default remains https://

Changed

  • On the next-gen server, papers can be graded in a random but predetermined order.

  • On the next-gen server, the priority for papers to be graded can be changed.

  • Plom now requires at least Python 3.8.

Fixed

  • Shared “group tabs” can now be re-ordered on a per-user basis.

  • Crash fixes when multiple clients are tagging.

0.13.3 - 2023-04-25

Changed

  • Client: when a rubric group tab is selected, adding a new rubric defaults to that group.

  • Manager: the Dangling Pages tab must be manually refreshed.

Fixed

  • Manager: no longer checks for “Dangling Pages” on start-up b/c this was very slow on large servers.

0.13.2 - 2023-04-03

Changed

  • Client: “sync” button doesn’t pop up a dialog unless there are changes to rubrics.

  • Client: “sync” button shows “diffs” of changes to rubrics.

  • Non-user-facing changes to how images and image metadata is handled.

Fixed

  • Client: “sync” button was not indicating changes made to existing rubrics.

  • Manager: partial fix (no more crash) when trying to create synthetic substitute ID pages.

  • Client: clicking “cancel” in options dialog no longer applies the options anyway.

  • Misc UI fixes.

0.13.1 - 2023-02-24

Changed

  • Cover pages of returned work now include the “long name” of the exam.

Fixed

  • Manager: assigning papers to “reviewer” was broken server-side (older clients should work with 0.13.1 server).

  • Manager: re-assembling papers works again in distributed binaries on Windows and macOS platforms.

  • Rubrics should render correctly in dialogs, even if they contain HTML.

  • Misc UI fixes.

0.13.0 - 2023-02-13

Fixed

  • Ensure Client <= 0.12.2 cannot connect to servers, ensures client bug #2521 (fixed in 0.12.3) cannot mismatch IDs.

  • Misc UI fixes.

0.12.3 - 2023-02-11

Changed

  • Rubrics: suggest new group name from existing, e.g., have (a), (b) then suggest (c).

  • Client: prevent lots of new tabs, which fills the tab bar and could be confusing.

Fixed

  • Identifier client bug #2521: “Accept Prediction” button now saves the correct student ID.

  • Group names must not have spaces, but client no longer crashes if you make one.

  • Remove empty tab on removal of last rubric from group.

  • Only “custom user tabs” can be renamed: fix context menus to reflect this.

  • Misc fixes.

0.12.2 - 2023-02-05

Changed

  • Identifier displays more meaningful certainty values for the Assignment Problem predictions.

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash when explicitly syncing rubrics.

  • “Experimental features” is now persistent during a single session.

0.12.1 - 2023-01-27

Added

  • plom-create command line tool can list and clear paper id prediction tables.

  • Plom-Client has an “experimental” menu item: currently creates a bit of friction before using the new parameterized rubrics and absolute rubrics.

Changed

  • Revamp Chooser dialog, add “about” dialog.

  • Add “about” dialog and version info to Manager tool.

  • Possible (if somewhat ill-advised) to replace the prenaming after papers have been created.

  • Sadly, the “cat break” feature is currently disabled as the external service is not currently reliable.

Fixed

  • Fix rendering of parameterized rubrics.

  • Fix modifying group of initially non-grouped rubrics.

  • Add notice to UI that macOS packaged binaries cannot reassemble, link to issue.

  • Misc fixes.

0.12.0 - 2023-01-21

Added

  • “Tech preview” of a web-interface for configuring a Plom server.

  • Users can create “absolute rubrics” of the form “2 of 3: comment”.

  • The “scope” of rubrics can be adjusted:

    • Rubrics can be version-specific.

    • Rubrics can be parameterized using per-version textual substitutions.

    • Rubrics can be organized into groups such as “(a)” which correspond to shared tabs.

    • Rubrics can be made “exclusive” within a group: at most one rubric can be used from each exclusive group.

  • Manager can “bulk-forgive” missing do-not-mark pages.

  • Support for external databases.

Changed

  • Server stores annotation data in the database instead of in .plom files.

  • Client no longer has a “No Answer” button: instead use the “no answer given” rubric.

  • Support for non-ascii names is much improved.

  • Client: simulated slow network mode for testing/debugging.

  • Manager sorts unknown pages by their position in the bundle.

Fixed

  • Client: fix potential UI crashes when grading is complete.

  • Longer question labels are possible.

  • Long names can fit on the prenamed pages by auto-shrinking font.

  • Output of plom-finish status is easier to understand.

  • Misc fixes.

0.11.1 - 2022-11-14

Added

  • Documentation improvements.

Changed

  • Client “Tips” screen has more information.

  • Command line tools document the available environment variables.

  • plom-scan and plom-hwscan now invisibly watermark PNG/JPEG files, making unique images from identical pages (#1573).

Fixed

  • Fix a client-side crash on unexpected identical images (same hash) within the same paper (#2331 and others).

  • Fix a manager crash when reassembling and current working directory is not writable (#2335).

  • Misc bug fixes and fixes for potential table sorting issues.

0.11.0 - 2022-09-24

Changed

  • classlist upload can be forced, allowing one to overwrite the server’s classlist.

Fixed

  • Various other fixes.

0.10.1 - 2022-09-08

Added

  • manager: faster keyboard navigation of the Unknown Pages dialog.

  • re-enable the “review” feature.

Changed

  • plom-create newspec replaces plom-create new (although both work).

  • plom-create validatespec replaces the previously deprecated plom-create parse.

  • manager: respects question labels in most places.

Fixed

  • Fix macOS and Windows compiled clients crashes due to missing keyboard maps.

  • Fix errors about non-unique rubric keys during server init.

  • Various other fixes around server init.

0.10.0 - 2022-08-22

Added

  • Annotator: help dialog shows diagrams for keyboard shortcuts.

  • Annotator: help dialog shows some “getting started” info for click-drag.

  • Marker: can prefer papers tagged @user.

  • Marker: can start marking at a particular paper number.

Changed

  • Spec format has changed: [[question]] is now preferred to [question.1] (for now both are supported).

  • QR format changed, future proofing for more papers, versions and pages.

  • “Public Code” shortened from 6 digits to 5.

  • Closing Annotator now resets the current tool.

  • Annotator: some shortcut keys are now changeable in the help dialog, but this feature is still “beta”.

Fixed

  • Some slow bottleneck API calls are faster, although more work is needed.

  • Annotator: shortcut keys should display correctly on macOS.

  • Annotator: keybindings are now saved between sessions (except for Custom mappings)

  • Annotator: many small UI fixes.

  • Various documentation fixes.

0.9.4 - 2022-08-04

Fixed

  • Fix various Manager UI paper creation functions when using precompiled binaries.

  • Fix several Manager UI crashes.

0.9.3 - 2022-07-18

Added

  • plom-create can manipulate tags.

  • Can tag while peeking at previously marked papers.

Fixed

  • Fixes on Python 3.7, and improved CI to ensure minimum Python is tested.

  • Fix build of papers with DMN on higher pages such as page 16.

  • Annotator: potentially less flaky PageScene due to many bug fixes.

  • Fix duplicated LaTeX error dialog.

  • LaTeX bounding box size fixes on modern systems.

  • Code and dependency cleanups, removal of deprecated code.

0.9.2 - 2022-06-14

Added

  • Manager UI tool can add spec and build papers, and download the marks.csv.

Fixed

  • Client: creating and modifying tabs is more obvious with context menus and + button.

  • Client Identifier zoom level is against persistent between papers (as in 0.8.x).

  • UI and other fixes.

0.9.0 - 2022-05-25

Added

  • plom-server will autogenerate a manager password if it is started without one.

  • plom-create can manage user accounts of a running server.

  • Manager displays bundle name/page of unknown pages.

  • plom-scan status now displays information about bundles and unknown pages.

  • plom-finish audit produces a JSON file for post-grading checking/followup/etc

  • Annotator now has a crop tool (in menu) that allows user to excluded unwanted parts of page.

  • Annotator now has a “view previous” function that pops up a window that will show previously marked paper(s).

  • Clients can use ctrl-mousewheel to zoom in and out.

  • Manager: can tag questions and remove annotations, in bulk.

  • Demos and testing: randoMarker now also tags random selection of tasks.

Changed

  • Plom now requires Python 3.7.

  • Plom no longer supports older macOS 10.13 as we cannot reliably build binaries on that system.

  • plom-create DB creation now done one test at a time which avoids timeouts and enables future flexibility.

  • Manager: improvements to the prediction-related UI.

  • Classlists that are not from Canvas must now include a paper_number column, which can be left blank.

  • The Plom test-spec no longer uses numberToName, instead use the “paper_number” column in the classlist.

  • Reassembled files are now time-stamped.

  • It is easier to insert extra pages during marking and fewer annotations are wiped (only those in the question directly effected).

  • Manager: improved interface around IDing and predictions.

  • Manager: improved control of the automatic ID reader.

  • Prenamed papers and machine ID reading are in flux: currently both need to be confirmed by a human in the Identifier client. Expect further future changes.

  • Many API changes and tweaks.

Fixed

  • Non-zero initial orientations should now work properly.

  • Custom solutions had the wrong coverpage, showing instead the reassembled coverpage.

  • Rapid use of the Ctrl-R dialog no longer needs to wait on the background downloader.

  • Improved and hopefully less crashing in classlist validation.

  • Timezones are now made explicit.

  • Many UI fixes and tweaks.

  • Ongoing documentation improvements.

  • Many other fixes.

0.8.11 - 2022-04-12

Fixed

  • For now, only manager can change passwords.

  • Slow client during Rearrange Page dialog use immediately on new page should be fixed.

0.8.10 - 2022-03-27

Added

  • plom-create subcommand “status” reports server status.

Changed

  • We cannot no longer reliably build for macOS 10.13, will do so on a “best effort” basis. Users should upgrade to at least macOS 10.14.

Fixed

  • Don’t pop up a spurious warning about duplicated pages when scanned data had duplicates.

  • Shorten overly long page name lists in Rearrange Pages dialog.

  • Build fixes on older macOS releases.

  • Minor bug fixes.

0.8.8 - 2022-03-14

Added

  • Manager shows totals and highlights tabs that need attention.

  • Add word “Test” to paper label: “Test 0123 Q1 p. 4”.

  • Version numbers to Canvas-related scripts.

Fixed

  • Manager tool was broken on Windows.

  • Misc fixes and code cleanups.

0.8.7 - 2022-03-02

Added

  • plom-create get-ver-map command to extract the version map from a running server.

  • Canvas utilities can now take student lists from Sections not just Courses.

Fixed

  • Fixed double-undoing during drag-box creation.

  • Fixes in Canvas utilities.

  • Various other fixes.

0.8.6 - 2022-02-13

Fixed

  • “UnID” feature of manager was broken.

  • Other minor fixes.

0.8.5 - 2022-02-11

Changed

  • Increase read default read timeouts.

  • Clean up demo scripts.

0.8.2 - 2022-02-07

Fixed

  • Fix broken Windows client binary.

  • Fix few contrib scripts.

  • Fixed mockplom LaTeX style (for mocking up Plom’s QR codes) on recent systems (which sadly breaks it on TexLive 2019 and earlier).

  • Misc fixes.

0.8.1 - 2022-02-03

Changed

  • Unknowns can be mapped to multiple HW Pages.

Fixed

  • Fix demos when used with invalid SSL certs.

  • Misc fixes.

0.8.0 - 2022-02-01

Added

  • Manager can “unidentify” papers including prenamed papers.

  • Solutions - can now optionally watermark solutions with the SID.

  • SSL verification enabled by default for releases.

  • Extra pages can optionally map onto more than one question.

  • Client Marker window can request any paper number with a long press on “Get next”.

  • Mild warnings when user gives 0 but there are some ticks on page. Similar mild warnings when user gives full but there are crosses.

  • Manager and plom-finish now has list of “dangling” pages - ones which are attached to not-completely-scanned groups. Manager can remove those pages.

  • GNU/Linux binaries now using AppImage which should be more portable.

  • More checks especially around finishing and uploading.

Changed

  • Command line tool plom-build has been renamed to plom-create and/or python3 -m plom.create.

  • Module plom.produce has been renamed to plom.create.

  • Tags have been overhauled, with bug fixes and improved functionality

  • Annotator can tag papers directly.

  • Server can now optionally start without a spec file.

  • Deprecated “LoosePages” have been removed.

  • Tests have exactly one ID page (before they could have more than one).

  • Spec files have more checks and some keys are now optional.

    • Do not mark pages now specified directly as list “doNotMarkPages = [1,2,3]”

  • Misc plom-manager improvements.

  • API calls have a default 10s timeout (and 2 retries), so semi-inevitable failures fail faster.

  • Top-middle “stamp” on pages now shows the group label (question number, DNM, etc)

    • and extra sheet templates have been updated to match.

  • Work in progress on updating annotation styles.

  • The history of connections between rubrics is tracked in their metadata.

Fixed

  • Potential memory leaks in Annotator, Manager, and dialogs.

  • JPEG support is no longer restricted to sizes in multiples of 16, better rotation support.

  • Improved disc-space usage due to JPEG use in more places.

  • Removing or adding pages is more selective about which annotations are invalidated.

  • A large number of modal dialog fixes.

  • Other misc changes.

0.7.12 - 2022-01-30

Fixed

  • Minor fixes.

0.7.11 - 2021-12-22

Changed

  • Client warns if its version is older than the server.

Fixed

  • Classlist import was broken when using multiple name fields.

  • MacOS continuous integration fixed.

  • Fix a crash in autoIDing related to unhandled errors.

0.7.9 - 2021-12-06

Added

  • Manager can “unidentify” papers including prenamed papers.

  • Horizontal position of the prenamed box can be tweaked from command line.

Fixed

  • Client: save user tabs on manual sync and on annotator close.

  • Workarounds for high memory use during reassembly and solution assembly.

  • Correctly stop background uploader thread on Marker close.

  • Client: refreshing solution view updates image from server.

0.7.7 - 2021-11-15

Changed

  • Client: fit-to-width and fit-to-height pan to the top and left respectively.

Fixed

  • Tweaks and fixes about reassembly and solution assembly.

  • Client: better dark theme support, other tweaks.

  • Other minor fixes, including potential crashes caught by pylint.

0.7.5 - 2021-11-07

Fixed

  • Upload queue length was misreported, potentially losing the last upload on rapid quit.

  • Cleanup of client shutdown, hopefully fewer crashes in corner cases.

  • Some database cleanup when pages are added to already annotated papers.

  • Other minor fixes about admissible usernames and passwords.

0.7.4 - 2021-10-28

Added

  • The question-version map can be passed into plom-build instead of building a random map.

Changed

  • Image download and reassembly is now interleaved instead of pre-downloading all images.

  • Can reassemble just one paper or just one solution.

Fixed

  • Ensure the margin box surrounding the page cannot be deleted.

0.7.3 - 2021-10-23

Changed

  • Marker -> View is now allowed to view any question, any paper.

Fixed

  • Clients can tag unannotated questions.

  • Various fixes to auto reading of student IDs.

  • Various fixes in generating and posting solutions.

0.7.2 - 2021-10-13

Added

  • Solutions can be attached to each question/version.

    • client can view solution for the current question/version.

    • solutions for individual students can be returned along with marked test via webpage

Changed

  • plom-scan and plom-hwscan can now list bundles.

  • Added a –no-scan option to plom-demo and plom-hwdemo so that fake-data created but not processed or uploaded.

  • More import and module improvements: one can now do python -m plom.client and python -m plom.server, and similarly for most other modules.

Fixed

  • Various CI cleanups that should help external contributors.

  • Fixed a crash in the page re-arranger dialog.

  • Various other fixes.

0.7.1 - 2021-09-23

Added

  • Client binaries for macOS are now distributed as standard .app bundles (still unsigned unfortunately).

  • plom-build make can now tweak the vertical position of the pre-printed name/ids.

  • plom-build make can build single papers.

  • The server manager UI is now accessible from PlomClient: just login with the manager account.

Changed

  • Classlists can contain additional columns.

  • Classlist-related API updates.

  • Ongoing improvements to scripting Plom via import and module improvements.

Fixed

  • Papers can be re-printed (without repopulating the database).

  • Misc fixes.

0.7.0 - 2021-09-04

Added

  • plom-server launch foo starts a plom server in the directory foo.

  • plom-server has new command line args to control logging.

  • New PlomServer, PlomDemoServer, and PlomLiteDemoServer objects for interactively running servers, or otherwise running a server in a background process.

  • plom-hwscan can now specify precise per-page mappings from the bundle to questions on the server.

  • plom-hwscan can override the bundle name.

  • LaTeX errors are now displayed to markers.

  • plom-build rubrics now supports csv in addition to json and toml.

Changed

  • plom-server launch --mastertoken aabbccdd... replaces the old way (without the keyword argument).

  • QR creation now uses segno instead of pyqrcode.

  • plom-hwscan is more flexible about filenames: you do not need to put PDF files in a special directory.

  • The plomgrading/server container (Docker image) is now based on Ubuntu 20.04.

Fixed

  • plom-finish reassemble not longer needs direct file access to the server (except when using the --ided-only option).

  • Low-level API changes and improvements.

  • Many bug fixes.

0.6.5 - 2021-07-19

Changed

  • The jpegtran-cffi package which is used for lossless jpeg rotations is not longer a hard dependency. Jpeg is still only used rarely and improvements to the client means its not a serious problem if a few pages are rotated.

Fixed

  • Client: better handling of rare upload failures: warning dialog pops up if the queue is growing, and a single timeout will no longer block the entire queue.

  • Misc bug fixes and doc updates.

0.6.4 - 2021-06-23

Added

  • Experimental support for writing graded papers and final marks to Canvas.

Changed

  • The userListRaw.csv file is no longer inside the serverConfiguration directory.

  • Server saves its log to a file automatically (as well as echoing to stdout).

Fixed

  • Misc bug fixes.

0.6.3 - 2021-05-28

Fixed

  • Minor bug fix to stop user being able to create 0-point relative rubrics. Related server-side rubric checking.

  • Fix Flatpak and source packaging to include icons and cursors.

  • Misc bug fixes.

0.6.2 - 2021-05-16

Changed

  • Packaging fixes including a revamp of .../share/plom.

Fixed

  • Workaround for blurry results from very tall scans.

  • Misc bug and documentation fixes.

0.6.1 - 2021-04-16

Changed

  • Client now has two tabs for + and - deltas, which improves their shortcut key access.

  • Minor tweaks and bug fixes.

0.6.0 - 2021-04-14

Added

  • Questions can be given custom labels in the spec file. These will generally be used instead of “Q1”, “Q2”, etc.

  • plom-demo now has --port option.

  • New plom-build rubric subcommand can upload/download rubric lists from the server.

Changed

  • The left-hand-on-mouse option has been removed from annotator/marker - replaced with general key-binding options.

  • Significant changes to rubrics: now shared between users and can be grouped into “tabs” within the user interface.

  • Client: “Deltas” are now a special kind of rubric with their own tab.

  • New client default keybindings involve a “spatial navigation” metaphor: left-right between tabs, up-down between rubrics.

  • Rubrics are not longer saved on disc on client systems.

  • Client: click-and-drag associates a rubric with a box on the page: no need for shift-modifier key as before.

  • Client: The escape-key will now cancel an annotation mid-draw (box, ellipse, line, arrows, rubric)

  • Client: There is no longer an explicit choice of “marking up/down mode” - it is determined by the rubrics used.

  • Changed order of commands to start server: plom-server init now should be run before plom-build parse.

0.5.21 - 2021-03-18

Changed

  • Server has more flexibility in creating demo/auto users with --auto and new --auto-named.

Fixed

  • Misc fixes.

0.5.19 - 2021-03-09

Changed

  • Client rubrics list can no longer use drag-n-drop to reorder: this feature will return in 0.6.0, but for now its too buggy.

Fixed

  • Misc bug fixes and UI tweaks.

  • LaTeX appears smoother on non-white backgrounds.

  • Important dependency bumps including a aiohttp security fix.

0.5.18 - 2021-03-02

Added

  • Client shows path information in the Options dialog.

  • Server: one can defer choosing number of papers until the classlist is uploaded by using “-1” for numberToName and/or numberToPrint.

Changed

  • Client background/uploader can operate in parallel.

  • Client no longer looks for config file in the current folder. The Options dialog shows config and log locations.

0.5.17 - 2021-02-10

Added

  • plom-hwscan -q all will upload a paper to all questions, a common operation for self-scanned work.

Fixed

  • Fix a crash with rearranger dialog revisiting a view with re-orientated pages.

  • Rearranger dialog can load previously re-oriented pages.

  • Misc fixes.

0.5.16 - 2021-01-29

Changed

  • Rotations in the adjust-pages dialog are now done in metadata.

Fixed

  • Client: fixed regression loading the default comment file.

  • Improve testing of minimum versions of dependencies.

0.5.15 - 2021-01-25

Added

  • Annotation colour defaults to red but can be changed in the Annotator menu.

Changed

  • Untested scikit-learn used by default for digit recognition. Tensorflow code still present and could return as default, after someone tests both on real data.

  • Client: Ctrl-return forces LaTeX rendering of text annotations.

  • Client: saves config file and comments in a central location.

Fixed

  • Flatpak client can save config and comment files.

  • Fixed paper generation by working around a bug present in certain versions of pymupdf library.

0.5.13 - 2021-01-06

Fixed

  • Patched a memory leak when using the “adjust pages” dialog.

  • Small fixes for various crashes.

0.5.11 - 2020-12-16

Added

  • plom-hwscan can now upload pages to multiple questions, for use with self-scanned work.

Changed

  • plom-build make now outputs a csv file showing the test numbers, question/page versions and student-info if named paper.

  • plom-build make --without-qr builds pdf files without QR codes stamped on them.

  • plom-build make --no-pdf builds everything but the PDF files are 0-length files.

Fixed

  • Adjust-Pages: fix deduping when shared page not included in current question.

  • Fixed some times in manager tool.

0.5.10 - 2020-12-06

Fixed

  • Various fixes and minor refactoring.

0.5.9 - 2020-11-27

Changed

  • Adjust Pages dialog labels pages that are shared between questions.

  • Minor UI tweaks.

Fixed

  • Fixed a platform-specific crash on start-up due to invalid chars in log filename.

0.5.8 - 2020-11-25

Added

  • Annotator: shift-drag with comment tool draws a highlighting box which is then connected to the rubric element.

  • Annotator: page now has a margin to allow more space for annotations. The additional space is cropped on submission.

  • Finishing tools: support salted hashes for return codes on the command line.

Changed

  • Accept QR-coded pages that are landscape.

  • Returned PDF files are often much smaller b/c reassembly now tries both png and jpeg.

  • Server: more logging during authentication, including client version.

  • Adjust Pages: dialog allows multiple selections for add/remove.

  • Adjust Pages: you can have no pages transiently while re-arranging.

  • Adjust Pages: icons resize automatically on dialog resize.

  • Adjust Pages: middle bar can be dragged to resize top or bottom list.

  • Client generates log files by default (disable under More Options).

Fixed

  • Misc fixes and refactoring of the pagescene code.

  • API: refactoring for simpler image download code.

  • Adjust Pages: re-entering dialog shows the current state instead of the original state.

0.5.7 - 2020-11-07

Fixed

  • Fix stale-pages from previous papers appearing in the Adjust Pages dialog.

0.5.6 - 2020-11-06

Added

  • Preliminary support for changing the overall scale of annotations; adjust using the menu/shortcut keys.

Changed

  • “Rearrange Pages” is now called “Adjust Pages” with a more prominent button.

Fixed

  • “Adjust Pages” dialog now opens faster, in some cases much faster.

  • Other misc fixes and minor UI tweaks.

0.5.5 - 2020-10-23

Changed

  • Fix crash when drag-and-drop comments.

0.5.3 - 2020-10-22

Added

  • Scan now has command line arguments to enable/disable bitmap (jpeg) extraction.

  • Server now logs failed token authentication events.

Changed

  • Opening the “Rearrange Pages” dialog displays a wait cursor as it may take some time.

  • New command line arguments for plom-finish for digital return.

  • Canvas-related return code handing reduced from 12 digits to 9 by default.

  • Scan white balancing disabled by default (now matches hwscan behaviour).

  • Scan bitmap extraction disabled by default (again to match hwscan).

  • The database now creates Annotation entries upon client submission rather than task assignment.

Fixed

  • Fixed drag-and-drop reordering of the rubric/comment list.

  • Fixed a bug where reannotating a reannotated paper from previous session doubled the underlying pages.

  • Various bug fixes.

0.5.2 - 2020-10-06

Added

  • A collection of utility scripts now ships in share/plom/contrib.

Changed

  • Command-line utilities can load credentials from environment variables.

Fixed

  • There are now constraints on the returned image resolution preventing huge return images in some cases.

  • Fixed crashes related to deleting comments.

  • Various bug fixes.

0.5.1 - 2020-09-25

Added

  • Annotator: Ctrl-r shortcut key for Rearrange Pages tool.

Changed

  • plom-hwscan has command line arguments for gamma shift, off by default as it sometimes worsens already poor scans with large shadows.

  • plom-hwscan does not extract jpeg’s by default (it may in the future).

  • plom-hwscan has new command line arguments for jpeg extraction.

Fixed

  • Workaround for bug in PyMuPDF 1.17.6.

  • Various packaging improvements and fixes.

  • “Rearrange Pages” dialog resizing improved.

0.5.0 - 2020-08-26

Added

  • Client now has a menu button for less-commonly used commands.

  • Client can now insert small images, see “insert image” in menu.

  • Client has experimental “Rearrange pages” dialog to fine-tune page selection and layout.

  • We again offer prebuilt client binaries for some OSes.

  • Server has new experimental “Homework mode” to deal with student-scanned images.

  • Server can use Scikit-learn (instead of the default TensorFlow) for reading student numbers.

Changed

  • Command line utilities can report their version.

  • Example demo data uses handwritten digits instead of fonts.

  • Annotator remains open between papers.

  • Totaller client was removed.

  • ID-subclient - student name + id is entered in single field which auto-completes on both.

  • Client sidebar can be set to the left or right (independent of mouse handedness).

  • Grades output filename is now “marks.csv”.

  • Changes to various command-line tools to streamline uploading and other operations.

  • Scanning is now based more strongly on concept of “bundles” of papers.

  • Most tools now interact with the server via the API instead of using the file system.

  • Server docker image uses pinned dependency information for reproducibility.

  • Server, Manager and Client handling of “unknown” pages has improved.

  • Client has visual feedback for ctrl-, shift- tool alternatives via mouse cursor.

  • Various client UI tweaks.

  • Various improvements to the manager UI tool.

Fixed

  • Fix left-hand mouse mode.

  • Annotation font sizes no longer directly depend on UI font size (but some issues still remain).

  • Pan mode no longer incorrectly moves objections.

  • Many other bug fixes.

0.4.2 - 2020-04-21

Added

  • User-management can be performed by the manager client.

Changed

  • Greater fidelity to the original scan because JPEG files are (carefully) extracted and used directly.

  • JPEG transformations are done without lossy re-encoding, when possible.

  • PNG files should be a little smaller with fewer interpolation artifacts in the reass

  • User credentials now handled by database rather than separate authentication object.

  • Client can no longer revert; this feature may return later if needed.

Fixed

  • Various bug fixes.

0.4.1 - 2020-04-13

Added

  • Re-enabled the automatic IDing of papers using machine learning.

  • Python package has improved dependency information.

  • plom-demo checks if server is running and warns if directory isn’t empty.

  • Appdata metadata added for Plom Client.

Changed

  • Manager UI tool has better reporting of what users are doing.

  • Manager and command line tools report papers that are marked “out”; this may be useful in case of client crashes, to identify (and reset) papers marking out for grading/IDing.

  • Update for new plomgrading.org domain name.

  • Remove testing tool dependencies on xvfb.

Fixed

  • Fixed toml dependency in Dockerfile.

  • Various misc fixes.

0.4.0 - 2020-04-04

Added

  • Plom is now a python package.

  • Annotator has a “no answer given” button which places crossed lines on page, leaves a comment, sets mark to 0.

  • Client can log to a file (set under “More options”).

  • Client has expert option to disable background upload/download.

  • Client can generate a log file for debugging.

  • Server management UI.

  • Command-line scripts for creating tests, managing server, scanning, and finishing.

  • Simple toy test+server for demonstrating Plom.

  • Test-specification now has “do-not-mark” pages for formula-sheets and instruction pages.

Changed

  • Server: improved database.

  • Server: new upload procedure/tools.

  • Reassembly tasks are now faster.

  • Client: if there are annotations, confirm before closing/cancelling.

Fixed

  • Server: manager-related database locks fixed.

  • In some regrade cases, delta-comments did not apply correctly.

  • Client: fix ctrl-= zoom toggle.

  • Various bug fixes.

0.3.0 - 2020-02-10

Added

  • saved comments are filtered per question and per test.

  • Marker has a “view” button to look at any test number.

Changed

  • The manual-identifier now has a “discard” option for unneeded page images, such as blank extra pages.

  • More robust networking by moving to https (rather than raw sockets). This is handled by the “requests” library on the client side and the “aiohttp” library on the server side.

  • Client: config and saved comments now more human-readable in toml files.

  • Client: can download test/server info before logging in.

  • Client is more pessimistic about errors and will crash instead of trying to continue in most cases.

  • Client checks for double-logins and can force logout a previous session.

  • Client: you must make at least one annotation on the page.

Fixed

  • Many fixes, especially related to client crashes due to networking.

0.2.2 - 2019-11-29

Added

  • Can now build papers with student Names/IDs pre-written on page 1.

  • Client now has a “view” button to quickly view other questions.

Changed

  • Warning given for non-Latin names in classlist (may cause problems in PDFs).

Fixed

  • Annotator mark up/down and handedness preferences now saved between sessions.

0.2.1 - 2019-11-11

Added

  • preliminary support for a canned user list.

  • autogenerate password suggestions for new users.

  • 05 script now warns about potential extra pages.

  • Annotator - spacebar pans through paper (down and right), shift-space pans back (up and left). Ctrl+space, Ctrl-shift-space does similarly but more slowly.

  • Annotator - zoom-mode click-drag creates a (temp) rectangle to zoom into.

Changed

  • make 04 script less verbose.

  • Increase timeout on server ping test.

  • Annotator has more keybindings for grades of 0-10 (see “key help”).

  • resizing annotator persists between papers.

  • zooming annotator persists between papers.

  • docs: changes for uploading to the new Canvas gradebook.

  • Annotator - can no longer click in region around score-box. This prevents accidentally pasting objects behind the scorebox.

Fixed

  • fixed race conditions when/uploading and downloading.

  • certain file transfers are more robust at reporting errors.

  • userManager was failing to start.

  • return to greeter dialog on e.g., wrong server or pagegroup/version out of range.

  • mark_reverter less fragile if files do not exist.

  • if you skip identifying a test, the client will defer it until the end.

  • identifying has various other UI fixes.

0.2.0 - 2019-10-11

Added

Client

  • delete tool: right-mouse button drag sweeps out a rectangle and deletes its contents.

  • improve zoom (“ctrl-=” cycles through zoom modes).

  • shift-click and control-click should now emulate right-click and middle-click.

  • middle-button in line/pen tools creates line/path with arrow-heads at both ends.

  • annotations are now saved in “.plom” files, supports continuing previously marked papers.

  • marker now uploads/downloads papers in the background.

Server

  • Handle upload/download of .plom files.

  • New 12_archive script makes a minimal zip file for archiving.

  • Support for Docker.

  • New templates for making your own tests.

Changed

Client

  • client not backward compatible with v0.1.0 servers.

  • mark-total mode is removed.

  • comment-delta is now its own grouped object, with many changes to encourage comment-reuse.

  • comment-add and edit is now via a pop-up window.

  • user can now make 0-point comments (for which the zero is pasted).

  • user can also make no-point comments which are pasted as just text.

  • general GUI improvements.

Server

  • Server not backward compatible with v0.1.0 clients.

  • More general support for student names.

  • Returned PDF files have better sizes for printing hardcopies.

Fixed

  • Many many bugfixes.

0.1.0 - 2019-06-26

This is the first release of Plom, Paperless Open Marking.