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Release 9

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1 Timeline for ILIAS 9

  • Feature freeze at April 30, 2023
  • Coding completed: all features have been implemented and test cases finished at October 27, 2023
  • Release 9.0 beta1 and release-9 branch were published at October 30, 2023
  • Testing phase started at October 31, 2023
    • Pretests from October 31 until November 10, 2023
    • Community testing starts at November 13, 2023
  • End of testing phase planned for Februar 02, 2024
  • Bugfixing and retests finished until April 26, 2024
  • First stable 9.0 release publishes at April 30, 2024
  • Full maintenance support for version 9: until December 31, 2025
  • Security bug fixes only: until June 30, 2027

Due to the delays in the completion of ILIAS 8, the schedule for ILIAS 9 had to be fundamentally changed. 

2 Important Information

3 List of New and Extended Features

The following features have been implemented for ILIAS 9:

Administration

  1. New administration node ‘Legal Regulations‘

Administrative Notification

  1. Formatting options for notifications
  2. Target Language for Administrative Notifications

Badges

  1. Clean up the Badges area in Achievements

BLOG

  1. Improve Posting View Navigation

Booking Tool

  1. Display of POST Booking Information in the tab Reservations
  2. Import Booking Objects into Booking Tool
  3. Improvement of the booking process in Booking Tools with Fixed Schedules
  4. Messages for Specific Bookings
  5. Send Mails from the Booking Tool to bookers
  6. Week View for Booking Tool

Category & Repository

  1. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  2. Page Editor » Insert Item Group - formerly Insert Resource List
  3. Show applied didactic template for item groups in settings
  4. Transferring Taxonomies in sub-tab Taxonomy of glo, qpl and cat to Listing Panels
  5. Use Flavour for Tile-Image

Chat

  1. Revamp Repository Chat

Competence Management

  1. Display learning materials of the Profil Target Level and all levels below
  2. Edit target levels of competences in profiles
  3. Improvement of deleting competences
  4. Streamline Competence Entries on Competence Records-Tab
  5. Streamline Competence Profiles in Courses and Groups

Content Page

  1. metadata for content pages

Course Management

  1. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  2. Improve Adopt Content (for Courses and Groups)
  3. Show Member View in Toolbar
  4. Use Flavour for Tile-Image

Dashboard

  1. Global Dashboard Settings of Presentation and Sortation for all Dashboard Sections
  2. Global Sorting for Dashboard Sections
  3. KS-ViewControls for Dashboard Sections

Data Collection

  1. Abandon Creation of Async Reference Entry in Data Collection
  2. Abandon ‘View Configuration‘ by UI Workflow in Data Collection
  3. Date entries for formula fields
  4. IRSS: Decouple DataCollection from ilObjFile (and use IRSS)

Database

  1. Database: Management Functions for Referential Integrity in ilDBInterface

Employee Talks

  1. Settings-tab for Talks

Exercise

  1. Add link to submitted portfolio in notification mail
  2. Add Open Submission option in Participant View in list of Submissions and Grades
  3. Assignments with Individual Deadlines
  4. Change Shared status after submitting a portfolio
  5. Comment Service get extented by Feedback Messages for Exercises
  6. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  7. Download only selected submissions
  8. Incremental Indexing of Exercises and Wikis
  9. IRSS: Migrate Exercise to IRSS (Instruction Files)
  10. IRSS: Migrate Exercise to IRSS (Part 1)
  11. Moving Overview of Assignments and Peerfeedback to Panels
  12. Notification mail to submitter of portfolio after allocation of evaluation status
  13. Set grade for multiple assignments
  14. Show Peer Feedback after Feedback Deadline
  15. Submissions and Grades: New filter options “Membership“, “Submitted before“ and “Submitted after“

Export

  1. (Project) Export Revision
  2. Validating Import

File

  1. Custom metadata for file object
  2. File Upload: CC Selection as Modal
  3. File-Object: Show number of downloads
  4. File: direct download can be prevented to open info tab first
  5. Implement General Kiosk Mode for Files
  6. Implement WOPI for File-Editing
  7. Important Information for File Object
  8. Improve File Information on Info Page
  9. New Permission to Edit File using WOPI
  10. Suffix-specific Icons
  11. UI-Refactoring Previews
  12. Use Flavour for Tile-Image
  13. Use IRSS-Draft-Revisions for WOPI Edited Files

Forum

  1. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  2. Determine default view for newly created forums in Administration
  3. Rearrange Actions in Forum Threads and Reduce Print Actions
  4. Revamp Thread-Tab of Forum

Global Screen Service

  1. Improved presentation of ILIAS links in social media

Glossary

  1. Activating Taxonomies in glossaries and question pools
  2. Bulk Creation of Term/Definition Pairs
  3. Move Full Definitions Presentation to UI Framework
  4. New Glossary Presentation for «Flashcards»
  5. Revision of Collection Glossaries
  6. Transferring Taxonomies in sub-tab Taxonomy of glo, qpl and cat to Listing Panels

Group

  1. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  2. Improve Adopt Content (for Courses and Groups)
  3. Show Member View in Toolbar
  4. Use Flavour for Tile-Image

ILIAS Page Editor

  1. Content Snippets in Wiki Pages
  2. Define preview for videos inserted by the ILIAS page editor
  3. Introduce ::before selector for lists
  4. Introduce ::before selector for sections
  5. Page Editor » Accordion Editing
  6. Page Editor » Code Editing
  7. Page Editor » Data Table Editing » Part II
  8. Page Editor » Employing Page Templates
  9. Page Editor » Insert Item Group - formerly Insert Resource List
  10. Page Editor » Interactive Image
  11. Page Editor » New, Responsive Page Templates
  12. Page Editor » Presentation of Item Groups in Page Editor
  13. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II 
  14. Study Programme: Customize Front Page
  15. Study Programme: Page Editor Element for Required Actions

ILIAS Resource Storage Service (IRSS)

  1. IRSS: Container-Storage
  2. IRSS: Decouple DataCollection from ilObjFile (and use IRSS)
  3. IRSS: Draft-Revisions
  4. IRSS: Migrate Exercise to IRSS (Instruction Files)
  5. IRSS: Migrate Profile-Files to IRSS
  6. IRSS: Resource Overview
  7. IRSS: Resource-Collection User-Interface
  8. Use Flavour for Tile-Image
  9. Use IRSS-Draft-Revisions for WOPI Edited Files

Info Page

  1. Important Information for File Object
  2. Improve File Information on Info Page
  3. Test: Use Launcher to Start the ILIAS Test

Item Groups

  1. Page Editor » Presentation of Item Groups in Page Editor
  2. Show applied didactic template for item groups in settings

Language

  1. Changed language entries for ILIAS 9
  2. Multilingualism for Wikis
  3. Target Language for Administrative Notifications

Learning Module ILIAS

  1. Improve Navigation / Mobile View

Learning Sequence

  1. Global Dashboard Settings of Presentation and Sortation for all Dashboard Sections
  2. Implement General Kiosk Mode for Files
  3. Learning Sequence: Improve Handling of Learning Progress Settings of Sub-Objects
  4. Learning Sequence: Improve Usability of Objects without Kiosk-Mode (slightly)
  5. Learning Sequence: Make Completion more Visible

Login, Auth & Registration

  1. Auth: Add cron job to optionally process random based tasks asynchronously
  2. Self-registration: no pre-selection of roles

Mail

  1. Mail: out-of-office agent
  2. Use Mustache in Mail Template Configuration

Media Pool

  1. Content Snippets in Wiki Pages
  2. Media Pool: Simplification of media object creation
  3. Supported Formats for Media Objects

Mediacast

  1. Comments for Mediacast Items
  2. Improve Manage-Tab in Mediacasts
  3. Improve Navigation in Videocast view

Metadata

  1. Custom metadata for file object
  2. Disable Multi language support for Custom Metadata Fields
  3. File Upload: CC Selection as Modal
  4. Fully LOM-conformant Metadata
  5. Improved Creative Commons Support : add CC0-licence
  6. metadata for content pages
  7. Moving Editing of Available Copyrights to Kitchensink
  8. Moving LOM Metadata Editor to Kitchensink

News

  1. Migrate News on Communication » News to Timeline
  2. News Timeline: pdf-Upload

Online Help

  1. ILIAS can handle several help packages

Permanent Links

  1. Revision of Goto Links and Static Links

Poll

  1. Poll Improvements

Portfolio

  1. Add link to submitted portfolio in notification mail
  2. Add Mailto Feature in list of Portfolio of Other Users
  3. Add Open Submission option in Participant View in list of Submissions and Grades
  4. Change Shared status after submitting a portfolio
  5. Confirmation Mail to Sharer after Sharing a Portfolio
  6. Notification mail to submitter of portfolio after allocation of evaluation status
  7. Separation of portfolio creation and creation of a portfolio from a template

Privacy and Data Protection

  1. Declaration of Data Protection
  2. New administration node ‘Legal Regulations‘

RBAC

  1. Show applied didactic template for item groups in settings

Search

  1. Improve Search Index with Tika
  2. Incremental Indexing of Exercises and Wikis
  3. Using Maven to manage dependencies

Study Programme

  1. Configuration of assignment automation: Repeated enrolment only if relevant assignment criteria still exist
  2. Export Assignment Data to Excel
  3. Filter by Deadline
  4. Global Dashboard Settings of Presentation and Sortation for all Dashboard Sections
  5. Separate Training Acknowledgement From General Update Function
  6. Study Programme: Customize Front Page
  7. Study Programme: New Action ’Remove Certificate’ for Members Tab
  8. Study Programme: New Action ’Update Certificate’ for Members Tab
  9. Study Programme: Page Editor Element for Required Actions
  10. Study Programme: Page Editor Element for Status Information
  11. Study Programme: Show UDF in Member List

Taxonomy

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Test & Assessment

  1. Activating Taxonomies in glossaries and question pools
  2. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  3. Improve Presentation of T&A-Results
  4. Move Question Table in Question Pool Test to new UI Data Table
  5. New option for excel export of ILIAS test statistics
  6. Revamping Exam View with List of Questions
  7. Show Only Available Points
  8. Test-archive without PDF
  9. Test: Move General Settings to UI Forms and use IPE
  10. Test: Use Launcher to Start the ILIAS Test
  11. Transferring Taxonomies in sub-tab Taxonomy of glo, qpl and cat to Listing Panels

Usability

  1. Move Full Definitions Presentation to UI Framework

User Interface

  1. Centralizing online/offline status - step 3
  2. Improve Display of Tiles
  3. Moving LOM Metadata Editor to Kitchensink

Wiki

  1. Content Snippets in Wiki Pages
  2. Incremental Indexing of Exercises and Wikis
  3. Multilingualism for Wikis

xAPI

  1. Deletion concepts for xAPI data

4 Changed Behaviour

This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 9:

  • JavaScript Dependencies:
    • The JavaScript dependencies are not part of the ILIAS source code repository anymore. When setting up an ILIAS installation, the dependencies have to be installed by using NPM.
      • npm clean-install --omit=dev --ignore-scripts
  • Chat Server:
    • When updating to ILIAS 9 the chat server of older ILIAS versions cannot be used anymore. Furthermore the chat client of older ILIAS versions (ILIAS 8.x or previous versions) will not be able to communicate with an ILIAS 9 chat server.
    • Similar to the JavaScript dependencies of ILIAS, the dependencies of the chat server have been remove as well and must be additionally installed if an institution wants to use the ILIAS chat server.
  • Cron:
    • With ILIAS 9 a password is not required/must not be passed anymore when executing the main PHP-CLI script (cron.php). Please read: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/Services/Cron/README.md#cron-job-execution
    • Interface Changes
      • The PHP return type of `ilCronJob::getDefaultScheduleType` changed from `int` to `CronJobScheduleType`. Therefore plugins providing cron jobs have to change the return type providing a compatible version for ILIAS 9 as well.
  • Info Page:
    • The description of an object is only presented below the title on top, not as part of the info section again, see https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=39079
  • Page Editor:

5 Abandoned Features

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 9 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:

  1. Abandon Content for Recapitulation - Type text
  2. Abandon Copying from Create Dialogue
  3. Abandon Creation of Async Reference Entry in Data Collection
  4. Abandon Custom LOM Quick Edit for SCORM Modules
  5. Abandon ECTS Grades in ILIAS Test
  6. Abandon Emoticons in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat
  7. Abandon Generate PDF by User in ILIAS Test
  8. Abandon Item Analysis Export for Pure Single Choice Tests
  9. Abandon Line Break Setting in Users Mail Setting
  10. Abandon Milestones from Calendar
  11. Abandon Multiple Definitions per Term in Glossary
  12. Abandon Page View in Survey
  13. Abandon PDFService
  14. Abandon Phrases in Survey
  15. Abandon Private Rooms (Separees)
  16. Abandon Question Materials
  17. Abandon RTL-Support
  18. Abandon Setting Scored Answers on single pages
  19. Abandon SOAP::distributeMails
  20. Abandon Sorting of Instruction Files
  21. Abandon Special Character Selector
  22. Abandon Taxonomy Filter as Navigation Tree
  23. Abandon Test Setting Digitally Sign Test Submissions and Plugin Slot to sign Tests
  24. Abandon the booking of different time slots within one reservation process
  25. Abandon Undocumented Plugin Slot in Survey
  26. Abandon Virtual Modes of Glossaries
  27. Abandon Workflow Engine
  28. Abandon Working Time in Test Questions and ILIAS Tests
  29. Abandon «Alphabetical Navigation in User Administration»
  30. Abandon »New« Status in Forums
  31. Abandon »Sticky Threads Sorting« in Forum
  32. Abandon ‘View Configuration‘ by UI Workflow in Data Collection
  33. Remove Settings-Templates for Tests
  34. Remove Setting «Limit Number of Concurrent Participants»
  35. Removing Legacy-UI » Toolbar » ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Submit‘
  36. Removing Legacy-UI » Toolbar » ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Submit‘ (in ILIAS 9)
  37. Test: Remove Setting Result Filter

6 Migrations

Migration of glossary definitions after abolition of multiple definitions

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run glossary.ilGlossaryDefinitionMigration

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run glossary.ilGlossaryCollectionMigration

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

Migrations of certain LOM entries to assure full conformance with the LOM standard

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

Migration of Exercise Instruction Files:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run exercise.ilExerciseInstructionFilesMigration

Migration of Exercise Sample Solutions:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run exercise.ilExerciseSampleSolutionMigration

Migration of Exercise Tutor Feedback Files:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run exercise.ilExerciseTutorFeedbackFileMigration

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run exercise.ilExerciseTutorTeamFeedbackFileMigration

Migration of Profile Pictures:

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run user.ilUserProfilePictureMigration

Migration of Forum Attachements (Posting and Drafts):

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run forum.ilForumPostingFilesMigration

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run forum.ilForumDraftsFilesMigration

Decouple DataCollection from FileObject and use IRSS Resources directly

> php setup/cli.php migrate --run datacollection.ilDataCollectionStorageMigration

Last edited: 11. Oct 2024, 19:34, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]