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Release 8

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1 Important Information

Full maintenance for ILIAS 8 has ended at 31 December 2024 (see timeline below). Since beginning of 2025, only security related bug fixes will be provided for this ILIAS versions. All other bugs, whether functional or usability-related, will no longer be fixed. In this way, we can concentrate our limited resources on maintaining the latest ILIAS versions and on the further development of ILIAS. Thank you for your understanding

Please note: if you are still running an installation based on ILIAS 8, please update to ILIAS 9 as soon as possible. You will get a better and more advanced software – and full maintenance for your ILIAS version.

2 Timeline for ILIAS 8

  • Feature freeze at 30 APR 2021
  • PHP-8-Reviews completed until 28 APR 2022
  • Coding completed for refactored components: 11 MAY 2022
  • Incorporating results of reviews: 26 MAY 2022 to 13 JUN 2022
  • Final check of components by their maintainers on 14 and 15 JUN 2022
  • Pre-Testing from 16 JUN 2022 until 22 JUL 2022
  • Incorporating of Pre-Test results: 20 JUN 2022 until 28 JUL 2022
  • Release 8.0 beta1 and release-8 branch published at 29 JUL 2022
  • Begin of testing phase started at 01 AUG 2022
  • End of testing phase[1] at 14 DEC 2022
  • First stable 8.0 published at 31 MAR 2023 
  • Full maintenance for version 8: until 31 DEC 2024
  • Security bugfixes only: until 31 DEC 2025

3 List of New and Extended Features

3.1 General Topics

3.2 Core and Services

ADMINISTRATION

  1. Page Editor » Page Template Administration

Calendar

  1. Type ahead for User Notification

Competence Management

  1. (Project) Improvements of Competence Management for ILIAS 8
  2. (Project) Medical Portfolio Improvements for ILIAS 8
  3. Completion Status for Competence Profiles
  4. Extend Permissions of Competence Management
  5. Improved presentation of competence profiles
  6. Introduction of a show more-function for competence entries
  7. Introduction of bar charts
  8. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  9. Separation of Self-Evaluation and other Types of Formation
  10. Transfer of competences into a reporting panel

Cron Jobs

  1. Clean /temp folder in data directory via Cron
  2. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
  3. Using CronJobs within PlugIns

Dashboard

  1. Alphabetical Sorting for Favorites and My Courses & Groups

Database

  1. Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
  2. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search

ECS Interface

  1. Ask for user consent before data is transferred to remote ECS platform
  2. Create ECS user accounts as non-local users (Shibboleth, LDAP, ...) via ECS
  3. Member Assignments for Import Type Campus Management

Export

  1. Output Formats of Submissions

Global Cache

  1. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support

Global Screen Service

  1. Expose LOM keywords in HTML header

ILIAS Page Editor

  1. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  2. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
  3. Improve Content-Style-Editor
  4. Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
  5. Page Editor » Page Template Administration
  6. Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
  7. Protected Sections in Wiki Pages

ILIAS Resource Storage Service

  1. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS

Info Page

  1. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: «Info» tab can be switched off and Functionality moves to«Learning Progress»-tab

Language Service

  1. Change Ambiguous Wording in Study Programme
  2. Changed language entries for ILIAS 8

Mail

  1. Filter for System E-Mails

Metadata

  1. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  2. Expose LOM keywords in HTML header
  3. Metadata Section in Content Snippets

Notes and Comments

  1. Revision of Private Notes Overview
  2. Revision of Public Comments Overview

Notifications

  1. Integrate On-Screen Notifications into Notification Center
  2. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notification Center

Organisational Units

  1. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks

PDF

  1. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  2. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  3. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio

Personal Profile

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Portfolio

  1. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles
  2. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  3. Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates

RBAC / Didactic templates

  1. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles

Search

  1. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search

SETUP

  1. Setup - Introduce Strict Update Paths
  2. Setup - Move DB-Updatesteps to Components

SOAP

  1. Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods

Staff

  1. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks

Statistics and Learning Progress

  1. Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Mediacasts
  2. Improve Statistics
  3. Learning Progress for Forum
  4. Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
  5. Learning Progress Mode «Visited» for HTML-Learning Module
  6. Learning Progress takes Marks from Test
  7. Same Sorting of Objects in LP- and Content-tab

User Service

  1. Create ECS user accounts as non-local users (Shibboleth, LDAP, ...) via ECS
  2. Direct Device Camera Upload of User Picture
  3. Personal Starting Page dependend of local roles

3.3 Modules

Bibliographic List Item

  1. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS

Blog

  1. Blog Improvements: Authors, Inputfield, Cleanup
  2. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  3. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts

Category and Repository

  1. Customizable List/Tile View for Modules/ItemGroup
  2. Multilingual Title for Item Groups
  3. Tile View: Adjustable number of tiles in a row

Chat

  1. Display message when chat user is writing
  2. Repository Chat: Add option to hide automatically created status
  3. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notification Center

Cloud Object

  1. Abandon Cloud Object

Content Page

  1. Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page

Exercise

  1. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  2. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»

File

  1. Drag&Drop Files in Container Objects

Forum

  1. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  2. Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
  3. Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page
  4. Create empty threads
  5. Learning Progress for Forum
  6. Limited View of postings
  7. Using ILIAS Page Editor to provide general information of Forum

Learning Module HTML

  1. Learning Progress Mode «Visited» for HTML-Learning Module

Learning Module ILIAS

  1. Abandon Link Checker
  2. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  3. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: «Info» tab can be switched off and Functionality moves to«Learning Progress»-tab
  4. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts

Learning Module SCORM

  1. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  2. Abandon SCORM Offline Player

LTI

  1. LTI Consumer with support for LTI 1.3
  2. LTI Provider with support for LTI 1.3
  3. LTI Wiki

Media Pools & Media Objects

  1. Moving Objects in Media Pools

Mediacast

  1. (Project) Improvements in handling media objects for ILIAS 7 & 8
  2. Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
  3. Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Mediacasts
  4. Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
  5. Improve Mediacast Video Presentation
  6. Introduction of a Video Podcast-, Image Gallery- and Audio Podcast-type for mediacasts
  7. Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
  8. Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
  9. Mediacast of Type Podcast

News - RSS - Webfeeds

  1. Abandon External Webfeeds
  2. Abandon TinyMCE in News

SCORM Online Editor

  1. Abandon SCORM Online Editor

Survey

  1. (Project) Medical Portfolio Improvements for ILIAS 8
  2. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  3. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  4. New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback
  5. Remove PDF Generation from Survey

Test & Assessment

  1. Abandon CTM
  2. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  3. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  4. Abandon Working Time in Test Questions and ILIAS Tests
  5. Overhaul of Test Question Editing Tabs
  6. Revision of Settings in ILIAS Test
  7. Test: Remove Option to select Use of Questions Pools and change Selection of Test Questions

Weblink

  1. Abandon Link Checker

Wiki

  1. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  2. LTI Wiki
  3. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  4. Protected Sections in Wiki Pages
  5. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki

4 Changed Behaviour

This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 8:

5 Abandoned Features  

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 8 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:

  1. Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods
  2. Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
  3. Abandon Access Keys
  4. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  5. Abandon Cloud Object
  6. Abandon CTM
  7. Abandon External Webfeeds
  8. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  9. Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
  10. Abandon Link Checker
  11. Abandon mimetex support
  12. Abandon Radius Support
  13. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  14. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  15. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  16. Abandon SCORM Offline Player
  17. Abandon SCORM Online Editor
  18. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  19. Abandon Slots-Table
  20. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  21. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
  22. Abandon TinyMCE in News
  23. Abandon Working Time in Test Questions and ILIAS Tests
  24. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support
  25. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  26. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  27. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio

5.1 Migrations

Data of External Webfeeds is removed by the following migration:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run externalfeed.ilExternalFeedRemoveMigration

Files of Bibliografic Listb Item to Resource Storage Service

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run bibliographic.ilBibliographicStorageMigration

Migration to convert tables from MyISAM to Innodb service

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run database.ilMysqlMyIsamToInnoDbMigration

The following Migration should have been executed in ILIAS 7, but are still available:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run resourcestorage.ilStorageHandlerV1Migration

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run ilFileObjectMigrationAgent.ilFileObjectToStorageMigration

Copyright entries are migrated to a format compatible with the KS by the following. Without the migration, existing copyright entries are not shown on info screens, etc. Note that the migration might not be entirely lossless for entries that were edited or created manually, and whose format significantly differs from that of the entries that are supplied with ILIAS. Please carefully check your copyright entries after the migration.

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run md.ilMDCopyrightMigration

[1] All test cases have been run once. Only retests done afterwards.

Last edited: 27. Jan 2025, 11:28, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]