(Copied from MDL-70293)

RSS URL

1. http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml

Blogs

1. Login as admin
2. Press Preferences from your user menu
3. Press Blogs > Register an external blog
4. Paste the RSS URL into the RSS feed URL field and press Save changes
5. Navigate to <WWWROOT>/blog
6. Confirm you see blog posts from the RSS URL
7. Navigate back to the previous page
8. Confirm you can edit and delete the blog feed

Third-party libraries

1. Login as admin.
2. Navigate to Site Administration > Development > Third-party libraries.
3. Verify that the version of SimplePie is 1.8.1

RSS Block

1. Ensure the option Remote RSS feeds is enabled in Site Administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks
2. Create a new course
3. Turn editing on in the new course
4. Add the Remote RSS feeds block in your right-hand drawer (Boost theme)
5. Configure the new block
6. Press Add/edit feeds
7. Press Add a new feed
8. Paste in the RSS URL to the Feed URL field and press Add a new feed
9. Go back to the block configuration page and select the new feed
10. Go back to the course page
11. Confirm you can see items in the RSS feeds block
12. Configure the block
13. Press Add/edit feeds
14. Confirm you can edit and delete the RSS feed

Scheduled task

1. Run

   php admin/cli/scheduled_task.php --execute='\block_rss_client\task\refreshfeeds'

2. Ensure that there is no error message and the feed is refreshed

Code verified against automated checks.

Checked MDL-84156 using repository: https://github.com/ziegenberg/moodle

• main (0 errors / 0 warnings) [branch: MDL-84156_upgrade-Simplepie-to-1-8-1 | CI Job]

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