Download & Releases

3.5.6 (stable)

Very important notes for MySQL 4.1.x users:

If you update from ILIAS 3.4.0 or 3.4.1 and already used MySQL 4.1.x: Due to a problem in the UTF-8 handling some extra update steps are necessary. Please <b><u>click on this link and follow the instructions</u></b>.

If you just plan to update from MySQL 4.0.x to MySQL 4.1.x please read our Migrating from MySQL 4.0.x to MySQL 4.1.x instructions.

Release 3.5.6 is a bug fix release and has been published March 16, 2006.

3.5.6 contains no new features compared to former 3.5 releases. For more information about the new features of version 3.5 please read the 3.5.0 release report.

Information about first time installation can be found here. Instructions for updating ILIAS can be found in section 3 of the general installation instructions.


Download 3.5.6
(.tar.gz; 17MB; 2006-03-16)

Known Issues

1. Creating more than one matching pair in matching questions is impossible

When editing a matching question it is impossible to create more than one matching pair. To fix this bug, make a backup copy of the file assessment/classes/class.assMatchingQuestionGUI.php, then copy the attached file class.assMatchingQuestionGUI.php into the assessment/classes/ directory.

Adding more than one matching pair bug fix

Fixed Bugs

  • Fixed Bug 1312: Temporary limitation of user account validity only counts up to 2007 (Alex Killing)

  • Fixed bug: "Header already sent" when calling evaluation of metric questions and the metric question was skipped (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-18)

  • Fixed bug: Sending a survey key caused an error in class.ilMail.php (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-18)

  • Fixed a security problem which led to unauthorized access to the administration tree for standard users when trying to download a non existing exercise and navigating back using the locator (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-24)

  • Added RBAC permission checks for questionpool imports (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-24)

  • Removed direct header redirects in exercise GUI class (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-24)

  • Fixed security hole in Test & Assessment execution: When a test with a maximum number of tries was finished, a user could go back to the test using the browser back button and change his question results (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-01-26)

  • Fixed export problem of user results for surveys. The values were decreased by 1 compared to the values shown in the browser (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-02-06)

  • Fixed wrong property calls in assessment and survey classes. These calls caused errors using the duplicate function (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-02-08)

  • Added a fix for an evaluation problem which occured in some anonymous surveys, where an empty survey code was written to the database and destroyed the statistics output (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-02-15)

  • Fixed bug in assessment tests with results output date. Finishing the test causes an error and stopped the script (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-02-22)

  • Fixed Excel export. Some special character have not been encoded correctly in Latin1 character set (Helmut Schottmüller, 2006-03-15)

  • Fixed Bug #1621: Incompatibility: blank screen when using PEAR::Auth 1.3.0 (Alex Killing)