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12 January 2026

13:00 – 15:30

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1 Appointments

Workshops / Working Groups

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, 26 January 2026, 13:00 - 17:00
  • Monday, 09 February 2026, 13:00 - 17:00
  • Monday, 23 February 2026, 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

  • We are currently planning the end of life (EOL) of the release_9 branch. The proposed date is January 20, 2026. We kindly ask all component authorities to raise any objections to this proposal. Once finalized, the release_9 branch will be set to protected on GitHub, and only security fixes will be accepted thereafter.

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
  • Reminder-Bot for PR/Issues is under review.
  • We are currently formulating the final feedback on the six Big Projects presented in November (2025).
  • We will soon start discussions on the required and supported versions for ILIAS 12. Once decisions regarding PHP and NPM have been made, we will take care of finding someone to consolidate the dependencies approved on December 8, 2025 (as well as those from subsequent meetings) into updated composer.json and package.json files.
  • We are still in ongoing discussions with applicants and potential candidates regarding ILIAS components with vacant authorities. The next meeting is scheduled for January 13, 2026.

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.

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 Status Privacy Files

In 2024, as part of the ILIAS.nrw subproject Information & Support, we commissioned several external providers to create PRIVACY.md files. As a result, overall coverage increased from around 25% to 54%.
An additional 14% of components are currently in progress, including Test and TestQuestionPool.
About 32% of components still lack a PRIVACY.md. For these remaining components, we are currently evaluating an AI-based approach that generates privacy texts based on code analysis.

An overview of the current status of all PRIVACY.md files can be found here: https://docu.ilias.de/go/dcl/16900

3.4 Authorities

The process for changing authorities is described here.

3.4.1 Authorities to be Handed Over

For the following components there are authorities to be handed over: 

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.

3.4.2 Requests for Modifying Authorities

Requests to modifiy authorities exist for the following components [1]: 

3.4.3 Changed Authorities

Authorities have been changed for the following components: 

 

4 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining the following stable versions of ILIAS:

  • ILIAS 9 : full maintenance has ended on 31 DEC 2025. Security bug fixes only will be provided until 30 JUN 2027.
  • ILIAS 10: full maintenance until 31 DEC 2026.Security bug fixes only will be provided until 31 DEC 2027.

4.1 Roadmap

LAST RELEASES

  • ILIAS 10.4 published on 16 December 2025
  • ILIAS 9.16 published on 16 December 2025
  • ILIAS 8.26 published on on 16 December 2025

8.26 was the last release of ILIAS 8. We will no longer publish security bug fixes for 8. End of lifetime has been reached.

NEXT RELEASES

  • ILIAS 10.5 planned for 20 January 2026
  • ILIAS 9.17 planned for 20 January 2026

9.17 is the last release of ILIAS 9 with all bugfixes. ILIAS 9.18 and higher will contain only security bug fixes.

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:

  • none

4.3 Mantis Statistic

Current information from Mantis:

                        * … Issues with status 'open' and 'fix.acc.prio.' are recorded.

To place the current data for each JourFixe in the context of a specific course of development, you can see the trend over the last months here.

4.4 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].

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  • 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.
    • Create Export File with HTML Code: The JourFixe on 09 FEB 2026 decided to remove the setting "Export Essay Question with HTML code" from the Test & Assessment administration. Code was removed on 09 FEB 2026 from the release_10, release_11, and trunk branches. (ILIAS Version 10.6)
  • Mediacast:
  • Page Editor:
    • The owl carousel library has not been proposed for ILIAS 10 and thus is not part of it anymore (it was part of the legacy accordion UI element). The page component now implements a simple transisition between carousel pages.
  • Page Editor:
    • The legacy UI element advanced select input gui has been removed from the code. The editor now uses a standard select input in forms for these cases. These do not show advanced style visuals.

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4.5 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.

4.6 Pull Requests

4.6.1 Pull Requests for Maintained Versions

Pull requests in the ILIAS repository on GitHub that are related to maintained versions of ILIAS.

  • none

4.6.2 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.

  1. NEW: PR8482 • ORGU / MD: 42725, delete OrgUnit type assignments if ...:
  2. NEW: PR8538 • OrgU: #42977, move calls from global to object-specific settings:
  3. NEW: PR10402 • StudyProgramme: Fix Display of UDFs:
  4. NEW: PR10468 • Enhance formSelect with aria-label for accessibility:
  5. NEW: PR10469 • Fix/44424 search part of add lable course member and edit:
  6. NEW: PR10711 • Style: Fix permission checks in Adminstration > Layout:

Thanks to all shepherds who already have checked pull requests and merged them (when okay)!

4.7 Continuous Integration

  • Unit Tests (trunk):
    • As of today, there are (executed with PHP 8.4) ./scripts/PHPUnit/run_tests.sh --random-order-seed 1720173999
      • 12.932 (±0)
      • 32.983 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
    • Code Style:
      • 205 violations (-2 ./vendor/composer/vendor/friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer/php-cs-fixer fix --config=./scripts/PHP-CS-Fixer/code-form
        at.php_cs --using-cache=no -vvv --dry-run components/ILIAS/* :
      • See file below
  • ilCtrl "// @todo: removed deprecated ilCtrl methods, this needs inspection by a maintainer."

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:

  1. PHP:
  2. PHPUnit: 11.x
  3. Composer: Composer >= 2.9.0
  4. DBMS:
    • MariaDB: 10.5 – 10.11
    • MySQL:  > 8.0.21
  5. HTTP:
    • nginx: 1.28
    • Apache: 2.4.x
  6. JAVA:
    • Supported: JDK 11, JDK 17, JDK 21
    • Recommended:  JDK 21
  7. NodeJS:
    • Supported: 24
    • Recommended: 24
  8. Other Software:
    • Ghostscript: > 9.55.x
    • ImageMagick (optional): > 6.9.x 

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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.

  • none

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:

5.6 Deprecated for ILIAS 11

The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 11:

  • ILIAS/components/ILIAS/CSV
  • ILIAS/components/ILIAS/UIComponent
    • ilProgressBar

Changes were decided upon at the last JourFixe meeting. For Details see: PR #9997.

5.7 Testing ILIAS 11

5.7.1 Status Community Test

  • Productivity Pretest (KW 45+46): 6,5%
  • Productivity week 1 (KW 47): 8,25%
  • Productivity week 2 (KW 48): 10,83%
  • Productivity week 3 (KW 49): 6,56%
  • Productivity week 4 (KW 50): 6,75%
  • Productivity week 5 (KW 51): 7,98%
  • Productivity week 6 (KW 52): 1,23%
  • Productivity week 7 (KW 1): 0,66%
  • Productivity week 8 (KW 2): 7,42%

5.7.2 Blockers

  • Certificate: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46176
    • Certificates cannot be downloaded 
    • Workaround for PHP 8.3 – Waiting for maintainer
  • Filesystem/class.ilUploadFiles.php
    • blocks SCORM: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46056
      • PR waiting for review
    • blocks xAPI/cmi5: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46074
      • Same PR could hopefully help
  • Booking Pool: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46076
    • Settings not accessible
    • Caused by UI Issue #46503
    • Waiting for general fix of that issue.
  • Category and Repository: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46273
    • Copying among containers / Adopt content 
    • Waiting for feedback from fwolf and/or Web Services authority (SOAP)
  • ILIAS Page Editor: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46377
    • Internal links
    • Needs feedback from authority
  • ¥ UI Components / KS: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46524
    • Filter issue
    • Needs feedback from authority
  • ILIAS Page Editor: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46539
    • Dependency GeSHi missing
    • Needs decision on how to proceed: Fork, switch to alternative, abandon?
  • ¥ UI Components / KS: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46596
    • Issue with tag input
    • PR is created
  • Test & Assessment: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46737
    • Taxonomies and random tests
  • ¥ Database: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=46748
    • Session statistic not working

5.7.3 Testers Wanted and Reassignments

List of all testers of ILIAS 11

  • cmi5/xAPI: Expert tester needed
  • Components are still being reassigned to speed up testing.
  • Testers with open capacities can aleays get more tests!

5.7.4 Live Testing

Live Testing calls are happening weekly! Upcoming meetings are posted to the Community Test group.

Join us in our Test-BBB to ask questions or simply to join our friendly testing group: https://docu.ilias.de/go/xmvc/10919

  • Wednesday, January 14, 11:00 - 12:00 
  • Thursday, January 22, 11:30 - 12:30
  • Wednesday, January 28, 12:00 - 13:00
  • Tuesday, February 3, 11:00 - 12:00

5.7.5 Current information from Mantis:

                        * … Issues with status 'open' and 'fix.acc.prio.' are recorded.

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 Dependencies in 12

Process for the Jour Fixe on dependencies:

  • Please provide a separate PR for each dependency to be added until 9 days before the Jour Fixe. A template for the text of the PR is available as Github-Template. Please make sure you fill in all required information. You need to make the PRs against `composer_new.json` and `package_new.json` not against the production files.
  • Please do not forget to add the Tag "dependencies" to your PRs.
  • Please have a look at the proposed dependencies before the Jour Fixe. We will only look at those dependencies more closely about which questions are asked.
  • Be sure to be aware of significant changes in the maintenance of the dependencies you propose.
  • It is possible to propose dependencies later on, but in order to keep the trunk of ILIAS as functional as possible, we kindly ask you to go through all the dependencies you proposed for ILIAS 11.
  • The dependencies will be merged by the Technical Board.

The following pull requests have been set on the agenda to be discussed:

  1. PR10858 • NPM: Add tiny as dependency for ILIAS 12
    • Dependency already used
    • Status of maintenance: Well maintained, commercial background, still widely used and integrated.
    • Used by: components/ILIAS/COPage
    • Decision: Dependency is accepted for ILIAS 12.
  2. PR10859 • Composer: Add getid3 as dependency for ILIAS 12
    • Dependency already used
    • Status of maintenance: The lib is on github since > 10 years, always got maintenance (last changes last month), has around 50 contributors, James Heinrich is still the main contributor
    • Used by: components/ILIAS/MediaObjects
    • Decision: Dependency is accepted for ILIAS 12.

We urge all developers to announce the dependencies of their components for ILIAS 12 by PR by the next Jour Fixe on 12 January 2026 so that these can be decided upon in a timely manner. Thank you!

6.3 Deprecated for ILIAS 12

The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 12:

  • ILIAS/components/ILIAS/UIComponent
    • ilConfirmationGUI & ilConfirmationTableGUI
    • ilCheckboxListOverlayGUI
    • ilExplorer
    • ilSyntaxHighlighter
    • ilTextHighlighterGUI
    • ilToolbarGUI
    • ilTabsGUI
    • ilNestedList
  • ILIAS/components/ILIAS/Table

6.4 Project 'Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table'

Next project meeting is on Monday, 19 January 2026, 14:30 – 16:00.

Project Funding :

  • new contributions: 
    • Universität Stuttgart
    • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
    • Hochschule Bremen
    • Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
    • Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / UniBw H
    • Universität Marburg
  • Thanks to all of them !
  • Nevertheless, we still need significantly more resources than in recent months.

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.

  1. IRSS: User Content Isolation: We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for trunk. Please note: there won't be a configuration in the ILIAS GUI but in the Setup, only. Adding the information how to configure this feature could become part of the installation guideline.

  2. Exercise: Auto-Save for Text Assignments: We highly appreciate the current suggestion and accept the feature for trunk. To prevent future accessibility problems, we need extending the KS Message Box to notify the screenreader that the actual input is stored every 30 sec. This notification should only made once at the beginning.

  3. Adopt Settings From Other SCORM Modules: We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for trunk with the following changes:

    • The decision is only related to the first mockup in chap 3.2 (selection of SCORM module from whom the settings shall be copied). The suggestion to compare settings should become a separate feature request.
    • Please use the new KS Tree Select as UI element to select the other SCORM module.

  4. SOAP: Enable options Notification, Tutorial Support and Access Refused in assignCourseMember Service: Suggestion is highly appreciated and accepted for trunk.

  5. Changed Permanent Links for Registration and Password/Username Assistance: We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept it for trunk.

  6. [[]]:

    • Suggestion presented by
    • Length of slot: 15'

  7. [[]]:

    • Suggestion presented by
    • Length of slot: 15'

8 Participants

Participant

Joined VC

Alers, Marcel [marcel.alers]

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Becker, Matthias [matthias.becker]

Becker, Maximilian [mbecker]

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Bendig, Tatjana [TatjanaCB]

Bechtold, Patrick [pbe]

Beym, Marvin [mBeym]

Bidzan, Aaron [abidzan]

x

Brauns, Johanna [jbrauns]

Buch, Christof

Clausen, Keven [keven.clausen]

Copado, Jesús [jcop]

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Dahme, Daniel [qualitus.dahme]

Detemple, Konstanze [kdetemple]

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Dobosz, Nicole [nicoledobosz]

x

Dyhr, Sven [sdyhr]

x

Eichenauer, Lukas [leichenauer]

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Falkenstein, Rob [rob]

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Fischer, Yvonne [yvonne.fischer]

Fries, Tomke [TFries]

Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer]

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Giebeler, Ina [igiebel1]

Glaubitz, Marko [mglaubitz]

Giercke-Ungermann, Annett [Annett_Giercke]

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Gribchenko, Kseniia [ksgrie]

Großkopf, Katrin [katrin.grosskopf]

Grotz, Kendra [kgrotz]

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Gruber, Ann-Christin [acgruber]

Hackfort, Marvin [m.hackfort]

Hamouda, Ahmed [ahamouda]

Hartwig, Alex [hartwig@qualitus.de]

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Helfer, Fabian [fhelfer]

x

Heim, Johannes [jheim]

Hergerdt, Marcel [mhergerdt]

Jäggi, Damian [fajaeggi]

Jackisch, Ingo [jackisch]

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Jansen, Kelly [kjansen]

Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

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Joußen, Thomas [tjoussen]

Karki, Sagun [sagun]

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Kaufmann, Olivia [o.kaufmann]

Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard]

Killing, Alexander [alex]

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Knof, Christian [cknof]

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Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]

Kozianka, Carsten [ckozianka]

Kruse, Fabian [Fabian]

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Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

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Lorenz, Katharina [klorenz]

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[alitvin]

Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe]

x

Ludolf, Christoph [cludolf]

Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]

Mix, Eva [emix]

x

Neumann, Fred [fneumann]

Nishino, Kenji [kentoni]

x

Potter, Chris [ChrisPotter]

x

Rabah, Rachid [rabah]

Raimann, Marcel

Riebe, Katharina [kriebe]

x

Rimle, Jonas [jonasrimle]

Roeser, Nico [nicoroeser]

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Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]

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Santiago, Sergio [sergiosantiago02]

Scharmer, Lukas [lscharmer]

Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]

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Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

Seibt, Alina [alina.seibt]

Seidel, Elyesa [seidel]

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Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler]

Solzbacher, Bettina [BettinaSolzbacher]

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Stake, Sebastian [sstake]

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Strassner, Denis [dstrassner]

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Szmais, Ingmar [iszmais]

Thoms, Torsten

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

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Vollbach, Guido [gvollbach]

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Wandelmaier, Franziska [iv5526]

Wiegleb, Felix Jonas [jwiegleb]

Wischniak, Stanislav [wischniak]

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Wolf, Fabian [fwolf]

Zenzen, Enrico

Zehnder, Lukas [lzehnder]

Zych, Matheus [mzych]

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[1] Announcing these changes is only necessary when the Authority to (De-)Assign Authorities is changed.

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