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[Hide]- 1 Appointments
- 2 Technical Board
- 2.1 Current News
- 2.2 Ongoing Projects
- 3 Miscellaneous
- 3.1 A11y Clinic
- 3.2 Privacy Clinic
- 3.3 Authorities
- 4 Maintained Versions
- 5 ILIAS 11
- 5.1 Timeline for ILIAS 11
- 5.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 11
- 5.3 Development Issues
- 5.4 Pull Requests for ILIAS 11
- 5.5 Dependencies in 11
- 5.6 Deprecated for ILIAS 11
- 5.7 Testing ILIAS 11
- 5.7.1 Test Installation & TestRail
- 5.7.2 Status Community Test
- 5.7.3 Blockers
- 5.7.4 Testers Wanted
- 5.7.5 Please Test Early!
- 5.7.6 Live Testing
- 5.7.7 Please Remember: Set Status "Retest" on TestRail
- 6 Developing ILIAS 12
- 7 New Feature Requests for ILIAS
- 8 Participants
1 Appointments
24 November 2025
13:00 – 15:00
Jour Fixe VC in Big Blue Button
Join the VC if you like to participate at the Jour Fixe. We recommend to use Firefox or Chrome browser with BBB.
Workshops / Working Groups
- 26 NOV 2025, 12:00 - 13:30: Workshop "Read-only LOM view"
- 01 DEC 2025, 14:30 – 16:00: Working Group of 'Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table'
If you want to participate at one of the above mentioned workshops, please register for the related session. This helps to organise the workshop. Thanks!
Jour Fixe
- Monday, 08 December 2025, 13:00 - 17:00 • Dependency Jour Fixe
- Monday, 12 January 2026, 13:00 - 17:00
- Monday, 26 January 2023, 13:00 - 17:00
2 Technical Board
This topic on our agenda should improve the information flow between the Technical Board and the society members and ILIAS users.
2.1 Current News
- Dependency Jour Fixe: The Jour Fixe on 08 December 2025 will be used to review the composer and npm dependencies of ILIAS. For this new files composer_new.json and package_new.json will be added to trunk, see: PR 10508
- Please create pull requests adding the dependencies you will need and take care of to these files until Friday, 05 December 2025, tagging them with "dependencies".
- Please do not modify anything else.
- Please add the usage of this dependency, the reasoning why to use it, and links to the relevant information to the commit message. An example can be found here: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/8559 . We also provide a PR template here.
- Don't forget to also add the dev-dependencies you depend on.
2.2 Ongoing Projects
- Short reminder on resolving security reports: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/docs/development/security.md#process-for-fixing-security-issues
3 Miscellaneous
3.1 A11y Clinic
In the A11y Clinic, you can get advice on accessibility in the context of ILIAS components and get practical advice on how to improve accessibility. Our accessibility expert Giercke-Ungermann, Annett [Annett_Giercke] is offering support with all accessibility-related issues.
From 29 October, the A11y Clinic takes place every Wednesday after the Jour Fixe from 10h00 to 11h00. Please announce the topic you would like to discuss by e-mail: a11y-clinic@ilias.de
3.2 Privacy Clinic
In the Privacy Clinic, you can get advice on how to protect user privacy and effectively navigate the complexities of data protection in the context of ILIAS. Our privacy experts Seidel, Elyesa [seidel], Gribchenko, Kseniia [ksgrie] and a member of the Technical Board are offering support in all privacy related issues.
The Privacy Clinic has consultation hours every Wednesday after the Jour Fixe from 13h30 to 14h00. Please announce the topic you want to discuss by e-mail: privacy@lists.ilias.de
3.3 Authorities
The process for changing authorities is described here.
3.3.1 Authorities to be Handed Over
For the following components there are authorities to be handed over:
- Active Record: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to give up all authorities to take over new responsibilities for other components.
- Background Tasks: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to give up all authorities to take over new responsibilities for other components.
- Bibliographic List Item: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to give up all authorities to take over new responsibilities for other components. Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] keeps his Authority to Sign off on Code Changes.
- Component: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Context: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- CSS: Amstutz, Timon [amstutz] will give up all his authorities for this component by the end of the year. Engländer, Ferdinand [fenglaender] has given up his Authority to Sign off on Code Changes.
- Data: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Database: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to give up all authorities to take over new responsibilities for other components.
- Event Handling: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Individual Assessment: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Initialisation Service: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities who take over responsibility for this component together with Jansen, Michael [mjansen].
- Kiosk Mode: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Learning Sequence: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Maps: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Org Units: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] keeps his Authority to Sign off on Code Changes. We are looking for new authorities.
- Refinery: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities who take over responsibility for this component together with Jansen, Michael [mjansen].
- Setup: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Study Programme: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities.
- Survey: Killing, Alexander [alex] would like to hand over all his authorities for this component to another developer.
- Tagging: Killing, Alexander [alex] would like to hand over all his authorities for this component to another developer.
- UI Service: Klees, Richard [rklees] has given up his authorities for this component. We are looking for new authorities who take over responsibility for this component together with Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer].
- Web Access Checker: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to give up all authorities to take over new responsibilities for other components.
Community members who are willing to take over one of the offered authorities are highly appreciated. In case of interest, please contact the Technical Board.
3.3.2 Requests for Modifying Authorities
Requests to modifiy authorities exist for the following components [1]:
- …
3.3.3 Changed Authorities
Authorities have been changed for the following components:
- CSS / Templates (PR10501):
- Authority to Sign off on Code Changes: Solzbacher, Bettina [BettinaSolzbacher] would like to join this authority.
- Authority to Curate Test Cases: Solzbacher, Bettina [BettinaSolzbacher] would like to join this authority together with Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler]
- WebServices:
- Authority to Sign off on Conceptual Changes: removed Abijuru, Jephte [Jephte] and added Hamouda, Ahmed [ahamouda].
- Authority to Sign off on Code Changes: removed Abijuru, Jephte [Jephte] and added Hamouda, Ahmed [ahamouda] and Karki, Sagun [sagun].
- Authority to Curate Test Cases: removed Abijuru, Jephte [Jephte] and added Karki, Sagun [sagun].
- Authority to (De-)Assign Authorities: removed Abijuru, Jephte [Jephte] and added Scheuer, Timo [timo.scheuer].
4 Maintained Versions
At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 8 (security bug fixes only), version 9 and version 10.
4.1 Roadmap
LAST RELEASES
Lifecycles of maintained versions
- ILIAS 8 : full maintenance ended at 31 DEC 2024, security bug fixes (only) until 31 DEC 2025.
- ILIAS 9 : end of full maintenance at 31 DEC 2025, security bug fixes (only) until 30 JUN 2027.
- ILIAS 10: end of full maintenance at 31 DEC 2026, security bug fixes (only) until 31 DEC 2027.
4.2 Mantis Reports
Needs Jour Fixe Decision
The following Mantis reports have been tagged with 'Needs Jour Fixe Decision' and were therefore be discussed in detail:
- #45670: Online status of cloned learning sequences is ambigous: Simon Lowe notified us about the impact of the bugfix for this issue for existing learning sequences. Issue is only related to learning sequences within a copied container and has been fixed with 9.15.
4.3 Changed Behaviour in Maintained Versions
Below we list all changed behaviour in the full maintained ILIAS versions. This information is managed in a dedicated media pool to which all developers should have access. If not, please contact Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel].
- Test & Assessment: Import of Tests with Results: It is no longer possible to deselect questions during the import.
- Test & Assessment: Filter "Active Users only" / "Inactive Users only" in Manual Scoring is removed.
- Test & Assessment: "Auto-saved" or intermediate answers are not saved anymore as authorised answers when the set test duration limit ends.
- Test & Assessment: Zero will no longer be accepted as value for points in File Upload Questions.
- Test & Assessnment: The redirect after finishing the test does only work if the participant does not have access to his test results. The info for this setting stated this, but until this bug fix with 44025, the redirect always "wins." 44025 was fixed with ILIAS 9.8, but many institutions are upgrading now to ILIAS 9. So we decided to document this bug fix nevertheless within Changed behavior.
- Test & Assessment: Redirect: Starting with Version 9.15, we introduce a separate option to redirect to the logout screen, as redirecting to https://instance.url/logout.php does not work anymore since ILIAS 9.13.
- Learning Sequence: With ILIAS 9.15 an ambigousness within the Online Status of Learning Sequences was fixed. Due to the resolvement of this corrupt state certain Learning Sequences that apperently seemed online are correctly portait offline. Affected are all Copies of Learning Sequences there where included in a container copy process and not accessed since then until the release of ILIAS 9.15
- Data Collection:
- The new field type "Copy" was added to the data collection and can now be selected for new fields! A copy field shows a selection of values from another tables entry and copies those to its own value without a reference, making it robust against manipulation and deletion of the origin value.
- Media objects:
- We moved to native video tags which do not officially support srt files for subtitles. The supported standard is WebVTT. ILIAS tries to convert srt to vtt on the fly. You will be not able to upoad srt files anymore, please use vtt files instead, see https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=43935
- Object:
- Titles and Desciptions will always be interpreted as strings. Contained html-tags are encoded and shown in their literal form.
- Test & Assessment:
- Cloze questions do not offer the option to edit gaps in modals anymore. All gaps are available, as previously, underneath the cloze-text input field.
- Redirect: Starting with Version 10.3, we introduce a separate option to redirect to the logout screen, as redirecting to https://instance.url/logout.php does not work anymore since ILIAS 10.1.
4.4 Development Issues of Maintained Versions
The following development issues concern one or more maintained versions. Issues related to trunk are listed further below.
- No issues to discuss today.
4.5 Pull Requests
4.5.1 Pull Requests for Maintained Versions
Pull requests in the ILIAS repository on GitHub that are related to maintained versions of ILIAS.
- none
4.5.2 Looking for Shepherd
The following PRs are adressing components that are currently under no authority. So nobody has the authority to do the related code change and accept the PR. We are looking for shepherds that check and review the PR and merge it.
- PR9181 • Form: make autocomplete work for multi-text inputs (44429):
- PR9331 • [FIX] YUI: remove component and all includes.:
- PR9651 • StaticURL: Add optional query parameters to static URLs:
- PR10153 • 43780: Missing aria-described by with form element "Select files" in new text exercise unit:
- PR10162 • 0044577: Column labeling of the selection fields in the table is missing:
Thanks to all shepherds who already have checked pull requests and merged them (when okay)!
4.6 Continuous Integration
- Unit Tests (trunk):
- As of today, there are (executed with PHP 8.4)
./scripts/PHPUnit/run_tests.sh --random-order-seed 1720173999- 12.937 (±0)
- 32.944 assertions (depends on the order of tests being executed / not stably determinable)
- 0 failures (±0):
- 31 skipped (±0):
- See file below
- 92 PHPUnit deprecations ±0) / 73 tests triggered 143 PHPUnit deprecations + 19 PHPUnit test runner deprecations:
- Example PR to migrate
onConsecutiveCalls: PR9393 https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/9393
- Example PR to migrate
- Code Style:
- 215 violations (±0)
./vendor/composer/vendor/friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer/php-cs-fixer fix --config=./scripts/PHP-CS-Fixer/code-format.php_cs --using-cache=no -vvv --dry-run components/ILIAS/*: - See file below
- 215 violations (±0)
- As of today, there are (executed with PHP 8.4)
ilCtrl"// @todo: removed deprecated ilCtrl methods, this needs inspection by a maintainer."- PR: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/6628 / https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/5100
- 1 finding (±0)
- ScormAicc: 1 (components/ILIAS/ScormAicc/classes/class.ilObjSAHSLearningModuleGUI.php)
5 ILIAS 11
5.1 Timeline for ILIAS 11
- Big Projects Jour Fixe on 25 November 2024 ✓
- Dependency Jour Fixe on 09 December 2024 ✓
- Coding completed: all features implemented and test cases finished until 28 October 2025 ✓
- Release 11.0 beta1 and release-11 branch planned for 29 October 2025 ✓
- Begin of testing scheduled for 03 November 2025 ✓
- Pretest: 03 November - 14 November ✓
- Community Test: 17 November - 06 February 2026 ✓
- Run all test cases at least once until 06 Februar 2026
- First stable 11.0 release planned for 17 March 2026
- Full maintenance support for version 11 until 31December 2027
- Security bug fixes only until 31 December 2028
5.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 11
The required and supported software for ILIAS 11 is as follows:
- PHP:
- ILIAS 11 supports PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
- Support for PHP 8.2 has been dropped.
- With ILIAS 11 developers can use PHP 8.3 (as the minimum 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:
- 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!
- ILIAS 11 supports PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
- PHPUnit: 11.x
- Composer: Composer 2
- DBMS:
- MariaDB: 10.5 – 10.11
- MySQL: > 8.0.21
- HTTP:
- nginx: 1.28
- Apache: 2.4.x
- JAVA:
- Supported: JDK 11, JDK 17, JDK 21
- Recommended: JDK 21
- NodeJS:
- Supported: 24
- Recommended: 24
- Other Software:
- Ghostscript: > 9.55.x
- ImageMagick (optional): > 6.9.x
5.3 Development Issues
- none
5.4 Pull Requests for ILIAS 11
The following pull requests in the ILIAS repository on GitHub are related to the current development activities in trunk.
- PR9999 • [FIX] UI: consider existing values inside
Field\Node\NodeRetrieval::getNodes(): Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer] notified us about interface changes related to this bug fix for the TreeSelect to improve the usability. We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept this PR for 11 and trunk.
5.5 Dependencies in 11
The policy of dependency handling has been changed with ILIAS 10. Please have a look at this README to know how we handle dependencies like third-party libraries and frameworks in ILIAS from now on.
The following pull requests have been set on the agenda to be discussed:
- none
5.6 Deprecated for ILIAS 11
The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 11:
ILIAS/components/ILIAS/CSVILIAS/components/ILIAS/UIComponentilProgressBar
Changes were decided upon at the last JourFixe meeting. For Details see: PR #9997.
5.7 Testing ILIAS 11
5.7.1 Test Installation & TestRail
The installation test11.ilias.de is available. Automatic updates have been activated.
A new version of TestRail is available. Mail notifications is working again, too.
5.7.2 Status Community Test
- Test cases: +172 compared to test10
- Productivity Pretest (KW 45+46): 6,5%
- Productivity week 1 (KW 47): 8,25%
5.7.3 Blockers
- Objects cannot be deleted: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46031
- Certificates cannot be downloaded: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46176
- Staff: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46098
- Filesystem/class.ilUploadFiles.php
- blocks SCORM: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46056
- blocks xAPI/cmi5: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46074
- Booking Pool: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46076
- Test&Assessment
- Test cannot be exited properly: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46077
- Questions cannot be added from pool/other test: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46090
- LTI: Probably fixed, will be retested this week - https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=45978
5.7.4 Testers Wanted
- cmi5/xAPI: Expert tester needed
- Learning Progress
- Study Programme
- T&A Durchführung Key Feature
- T&A Qualitätssicherung Statistiken
- probably other test runs opening up!
5.7.5 Please Test Early!
- New testers are still being onboarded – thanks for your support and contributions!
- Tests are being reassigned once other testers report free capacity.
5.7.6 Live Testing
Live Testing calls will begin this week! Join us in our Test-BBB: https://docu.ilias.de/go/xmvc/10919
- Tomorrow: Tuesday, November 25, 11:00 - 12:00
- Wednesday, December 03, 13:00 - 14:00
5.7.7 Please Remember: Set Status "Retest" on TestRail
Any bugs pushed from TestRail include a link to the respective test case.
After a fix, please set status "Retest" on TestRail!
6 Developing ILIAS 12
6.1 Timeline for ILIAS 12
- Big Projects Jour Fixe on 24 November 2025 ✓
- Dependency Jour Fixe on 08 December 2025
- Coding completed: all features implemented and test cases finished until 28 October 2026
- Release 12.0 beta1 and release_12 branch planned for 02 November 2026
- Beginn of testing phase scheduled for 04 November 2026
- End of testing phase planned for 26 February 2027
- First stable 12.0 release planned for 26 March 2027
- Full maintenance support for version 12: until 31 December 2028
- Security bug fixes only: until 31 December 2029
6.2 Projects for ILIAS 12
The following ‘Big Projects for ILIAS 12’ have been announced in the related data collection and will be presented today:
6.2.1 Improve Mobile Support for ILIAS
- Related page in Feature Wiki: (Project) improve mobile Support for ILIAS
- Presented by: Stake, Sebastian [sstake]
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We highly appreciate this suggestion and see the improvement of mobile support as a valuable project. Several improvements and feature request are also related to the project to remove legacy UI.
6.2.2 Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table
- Related page in Feature Wiki: (Project) Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table
- Presented by: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We still see this project as a very important project in ILIAS with a huge impact on usability, accessibility, mobile use and the attraction of ILIAS. We hope to get rid of the listed UI components with ILIAS 12 but need big support from the community to manage this project.
6.2.3 Improvements for OER in ILIAS 12
- Related page in Feature Wiki: (Project) Improvements for OER in ILIAS 12
- Presented by: Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We highly appreciate the follow-up of the ongoing improvements for using OER in ILIAS.
6.2.4 Static Routing
- Related page in Feature Wiki: (Project) Static Routing
- Presented by: Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer]
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We highly appreciate this suggestion to improve the URL handling and to get rid of the awkward ilControl based routing. But we see the need for a sound and sustainable funding for this project as it requires a lot of workload to implement the new routing component in all existing components of ILIAS this project (also in relation and combination to other suggested and running projects). Killing, Alexander [alex] urges that, before making a final decision on any major projects, we first make a rough estimate of the approximate costs involved and whether this work can be handled by the community in view of other projects. Roeser, Nico [nicoroeser]: Existing permalink should be supported also after a component has changed to the new component to avoid errors when using URLs in print documents or other documents that are using the permalink.
6.2.5 Model Context Protocol Support
- Related page in Feature Wiki: (Project) Model Context Protocol Support
- Presented by: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: With this proposal, Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] would like to provide some initial food for thought on whether we should pursue such a generic approach to integrating AI into ILIAS or rather focus on individual implementations for integrating AI. Fabian invites all interested parties to participate in the discussion and explain their point of view. He is planning a workshop beginning of next year to discuss this suggestion.
As already mentioned in his post above, Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard] sees a very high implementation effort required to safely implement MCP in ILIAS and fears that we will not be able to manage this with our currently available resources. Fabian believes that the security measures for ILIAS in the context of introducing MCP are not as extensive as feared. See also here.
6.3 Pull Requests for Current Development / Trunk
The following pull requests in the ILIAS repository on GitHub are related to the current development activities in trunk.
- none
Postponed to Next Jour Fixe
- none
6.4 Deprecated for ILIAS 12
The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 12:
ILIAS/components/ILIAS/UIComponentilConfirmationGUI & ilConfirmationTableGUIilCheckboxListOverlayGUIilExplorerilSyntaxHighlighterilTextHighlighterGUIilToolbarGUIilTabsGUIilNestedList
ILIAS/components/ILIAS/Table
7 New Feature Requests for ILIAS
We do no longer schedule features for a selected ILIAS version but for trunk in general. Features that are accepted for trunk can be implemented for one of the upcoming ILIAS versions depending on the resources of the involved developers and the funding partners.
No feature suggestions to discuss today.
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