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To all registered Moodle Administrators,

With the upcoming Moodle 3.7 release we will be making some important changes to the Moodle themes.

What are the changes?

Why are we making these changes?

Up to and including Moodle 3.6, we have supported the Clean and More themes, which are both based on Bootstrap 2. Supporting multiple frameworks and themes increases our development and testing efforts, as all new features require development and testing across the different themes. In turn this means that less time is available to work on new features, bugs, and other user-facing functionality.

In the long term this is not sustainable and also not beneficial. We would rather focus our efforts on improving the core theme and ultimately serving our users better. Hence, we are phasing out support for themes based on Bootstrap 2.

We do not plan to maintain bootstrapbase (and child themes) in the plugin database once they are removed from core as we do not have the resources to maintain this range of themes.

Please see the roadmap page and the forum discussion Moodle Core: plan for themes for a more extensive background to the change.

What should I do next?

If your site uses a custom theme based on bootstrapbase (or any of its child themes), it is highly recommended that you start the process of moving to the default Boost or Classic theme, or build another customised theme based on Bootstrap 4.

To assist you with making a new custom theme or updating your existing theme, please see the Moodle developer Themes documentation page, and specifically:

Important timelines

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to post in the original discussion Moodle Core: plan for themes or start a new discussion in the theme forum.

Moodle HQ

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