Ally 1.35.4 | Release to production 21 October 2019

Updated Features

Ally for Websites crawler

The Ally for Websites crawler now incorporates the `Disallow` statements in a website’s `robots.txt` file. This helps prevent the crawler from getting stuck in infinite crawling loops on specific types of content such as search pages, calendar applications, and so on.

Ally 1.35.4 bug fixes and improvements

  • Automatically retry the generation of an alternative format that failed to generate previously when the same alternative format is requested again.
  • Implemented several improvements to help speed up the rendering of document previews for PDF documents, Word documents and PowerPoint documents in the instructor feedback.
  • Improved the handling of Moodle API errors.