Asides can be exported with the rest of courseware through the Export function within CMS

common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/xml_module.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 from lxml import etree
 
+from xblock.core import XML_NAMESPACES
 from xblock.fields import Dict, Scope, ScopeIds
 from xblock.runtime import KvsFieldData
 from xmodule.x_module import XModuleDescriptor, DEPRECATION_VSCOMPAT_EVENT
@@ -428,6 +429,12 @@ class XmlParserMixin(object):
         """
         # Get the definition
         xml_object = self.definition_to_xml(self.runtime.export_fs)
+        for aside in self.runtime.get_asides(self):
+            if aside.needs_serialization():
+                aside_node = etree.Element("unknown_root", nsmap=XML_NAMESPACES)
+                aside.add_xml_to_node(aside_node)
+                xml_object.append(aside_node)
+
         self.clean_metadata_from_xml(xml_object)
 
         # Set the tag on both nodes so we get the file path right.

requirements/edx/github.txt

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ git+https://github.com/edx/rfc6266.git@v0.0.5-edx#egg=rfc6266==0.0.5-edx
 git+https://github.com/edx/lettuce.git@0.2.20.002#egg=lettuce==0.2.20.002
 
 # Our libraries:
-git+https://github.com/edx/XBlock.git@xblock-0.4.7#egg=XBlock==0.4.7
+git+https://github.com/edx/XBlock.git@xblock-0.4.8#egg=XBlock==0.4.8
 -e git+https://github.com/edx/codejail.git@6b17c33a89bef0ac510926b1d7fea2748b73aadd#egg=codejail
 -e git+https://github.com/edx/js-test-tool.git@v0.1.6#egg=js_test_tool
 -e git+https://github.com/edx/event-tracking.git@0.2.1#egg=event-tracking==0.2.1