Required and Supported Software ILIAS 11

1 Required Software Versions

The following software versions are required/supported for ILIAS Release 11. See also Dependencies in ILIAS 11.

1.1 PHP

• ILIAS 11 will support PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
• The support for PHP 8.2 will be dropped!
• With ILIAS 11 developers can use PHP 8.3 (as the minum PHP version) features: https://www.php.net/releases/8.3/en.php / https://php.watch/versions/8.3 / https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-83
• PHP Roadmap: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

Links for Developers

• PHP 8.4 Backward Incompatible Changes:
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration84.incompatible.php
• Outlook PHP > 8.4
  • What is deprecated in PHP 8.4 (see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration84.deprecated.php) will cause errors in PHP > 8.4!

1.2 PHPUnit

• 11.x (Roadmap: https://phpunit.de/supported-versions.html)

1.3 Composer

• Composer 2

1.4 DBMS

• MariaDB: 10.5 - 10.11
• MySQL:  >8.0.21

1.5 HTTP Server

• nginx: tba ...
• Apache: tba ...

1.6 Java

• tba ...

1.7 npm

• tba ...

1.8 NodeJS

• Supported: 20 (LTS), 21, 22 (LTS), 23
• Recommended: 22 (LTS)

1.9 PDF Generation

• tba ...

1.10 Other Software

• Ghostscript: tba ...
• MathJax (optional): tba ...
• ImageMagick:  tba ...

1.11 Browsers

• We recommend contemporary browsers (supporting ES6, CSS3, HTML5).

2 Contact

• Author of the Request: Jansen, Michael [mjansen] on behalf of the ILIAS e.V. and the Technical Board ( tb [at] lists [dot] ilias [dot] de)

3 Funding

Currently no indication that funding will be needed.

• If you are a maintainer and see a need for funding, please adress the Technical Board.
• If you are a user/decision maker and interested in a particular software or software version being supported, please contact the Technical Board as well.

4 Discussion