Release 5.0

On this page you can see which features are part of ILIAS version 5.0 (formerly known as 4.5).
 
Additionally, you find approved guidelines, a list of features with changed behaviour and features that have been abandoned with ILIAS 5.0. All other features that were scheduled for 5.0 but could not be implemented have been moved to the Postponed page.
 
If you want to know who has funded features for ILIAS 5.0, have a look at Who Paid What in ILIAS 5.0.

Timeline for 5.0:

• Feature freeze at March 31, 2014
• First stable 5.0.0 release published at February 06, 2015
• Maintenance for version 5.0 ended in July 2017

List of Features

1. Bibliography: Automatic Link Generation / Connection to Link Resolvers of University Libraries
2. Blog: Improving Overview Page of Postings
3. Blog: Improving Overview Page of Postings (2)
4. Blog: Link to edit mode of a blog on blogpage in portfolio
5. Blog: New Posting Notification With Text
6. Booking Tool: Book only a defined number of objects per user
7. Booking Tool: Enhancement of Post-Booking Information
8. Booking Tool: Recurrent Bookings
9. Comments: Additional Settings for Public Comments
10. Comments: Sorting Comments
11. Course Management: Better Support for mass registration
12. Course Management: Course relevant User data - Edit mode for admins
13. Course Management: Revision of Course Learning Objectives View
14. Data Collection - Additional media types
15. Data Collection - Comments
16. Data Collection - Easy Editing of Multiple Fields
17. Data Collection - Edit button in single view
18. Data Collection: Enhanced Permission Handling For DC Contributors
19. Data Collection: Export and Import of Data Collections
20. Data Collection - Improved navigation through records
21. Data Collection - Default sort field
22. Data Collection: Displaying of comments
23. Data Collection - ILIAS module references with action menu
24. Data Collection - New field type formula
25. Data Collection - New record in referenced table
26. Data Collection - Option: Click to Text or Pictures should forward to the detail page
27. Data Collection - Preview of attachments
28. Data Collection - Single view scrolling function
29. Discussion Forums: Up / Down Voting for Forum Topics
30. ECS: ECS Membership Status
31. ECS: Deactivation of ECS token Mechanism
32. ECS: Configuration of ECS Meta Data
33. Exercise: Administration Setting: Add exercise to Personal Desktop
34. Exercise: File as Peer Feedback
35. Exercise: Include Exercise Deadline in Crs/Grp Calendar
36. Exercise: Personalised Peer Feedback
37. Exercise: Preserve solution teams in exercises with multiple assignments
38. Exercise: Tutor Feedback in Peer Feedback Mode
39. Exercise: Usability improvement in adding members to team solution
40. ILIAS Page Editor: Accordeon behavior
41. ILIAS Page Editor: Mobile Support Style Sheet Editor
42. Learning Module HTML: HTML-LM Improvements
43. Learning Module ILIAS: Progress status for learning modules
44. Learning Module ILIAS: Learning Modules: Learning Progress based on Correct Answers
45. Learning Module ILIAS: Restrict Navigation based on Questions
46. Learning Module SCORM: Improving SCORM reports, incl. SCORM 2004: Reporting for interactions, Tracking data details in SCORM modules, Survey evaluation information from a SCORM 2004 survey
47. Learning Progress: Precondition Failed for test object
48. Learning Progress, Reporting and Statistics / RBAC: Permission Read Learning Progress
49. Mail System: Mail System & Contacts Part of Autocomplete in member search
50. Maps: OpenLayers Maps
51. Metadata: More Types for Advanced Metadata
52. My Workspace: Improvements for Shared With
53. Org Units: Types for Organisational Units
54. Org Units: Custom Metadata for Organisational Units and Types of Organisational Units
55. Performance: Memory Caching Service
56. Plugin Slots: Make plugins can use Skins
57. Plugin Slots: Routing for Plug-Ins
58. Plugins: Claiming of Advanced Metadata
59. Plugins: Claiming of User Defined Fields
60. Poll: Extension of Poll
61. Portfolio / Course Management: Representing Current Courses in e-Portfolios
62. Portfolio / Search: Need for Support & Support Offer Notification
63. Precondition Handling: Extended precondition handling
64. Precondition Handling: Finishing a learning module as precondition
65. Precondition Handling: Precondition Triggers Learning Module and Plugin
66. RBAC: Get Rid of Role Folders
67. Registration: Further improvement of code-based registration incl. unification of registration and reactivation codes
68. Registration-Login-Authentication: Secure Password Storage
69. Repository and Categories: Content Item Sorting by Creation Date
70. Repository and Categories: Sorting of Item Groups
71. Search Engine: Optimisation of Autocomplete User Search
72. Session: Send Mail to Session Participants
73. Session: Limit maximum number of participants
74. Session: Request Participation for Session
75. Survey: Anonymous in Settings Tab of  Surveys
76. Survey: Import of Access Codes for surveys
77. Survey: Important additional informations for survey-evaluation
78. Survey: Print and email own answers
79. Survey: Status of a survey (finished or nor) in participant tab
80. Survey Usability Improvements
81. Tagging: Tag Cloud for Container Objects
82. Taxonomies for Categories
83. Test: Anonymized Manual Scoring
84. Test: Cloze question: limit of possible characters
85. Test: Competence Service for Test
86. Test: Display Questions's Workingtime in Question Tables
87. Test: Enter password again when continuing a test on different computer
88. Test: Fixation of answers given when check is invoked
89. Test: Item preview from question pool plus feedback
90. Test: Manual scoring: save and jump to next student
91. Test: Matching Question
92. Test: Prevent auto complete and spell checking
93. Test: Refactoring of Cloze-Question-Editing UI
94. Test Question Pool: Cloze question: Points on gap combinations
95. Test Question Pool: display Points in print view
96. Test Question Pool: Multiple Choice K/Kprim
97. Test: Refactoring of the Cloze Question type
98. Test Results: Link the question with an anchor
99. Test Results: Show points but do not display passed or not passed
100. Test Results: Show right answers in Show users detailed results (marked passed)
101. Test: Scoring: permit half points for all question types
102. User Administration: Deletion of inactive Users - Mail-Alert
103. User Administration: Display User-ID in User-Administration
104. User Administration: Export of User-IDs in User-Export
105. Usability: Avoiding Double Form Submission
106. User Interface: Design Revision and UI Framework
107. Wiki: Custom Metadata for Wiki
108. Wiki: Extending Linking Options in Wiki
109. Wiki: PDF Export of Wikis
110. Wiki: Start Page Handling
111. Wiki: Statistics with graphics and export for entire wiki and single wikipages
112. Wiki: Template pages in each wiki
113. Wiki: Wiki Page List Page Element

Approved Guidelines

• Guideline for Page Layout of Export Screens
• ListGUI Guideline
• User Name Presentation

Changed Behaviour

This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 5.0:

• To enable the WebAccessChecker for Blogs, Portfolios and Poll please add another rewrite rule to your server configuration (see Data Directory Guideline and #13334):^/ilias/data/.*/sec/.*$

Abandoned Features

• Booking Pool: the "in use" status has been removed.
• Drop IE8 Support
• Abandon Background and Font Color in Blog/Portfolios
• Since we move to SVG with the icons custom icons will be SVG only, too.