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Release 8

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1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

  • Feature freeze at April 30, 2021 (deadline to suggest new features for this version)
  • All features implemented and test cases completed until October 29, 2021
  • Release 8.0 beta1 and release-8 branch planned for November 03, 2021
  • Beginn of testing phase scheduled for November 04, 2021
  • End of testing phase planned for January 31, 2022
  • First stable 8.0 release planned for March 15, 2022
  • Planned maintenance for version 8: until Summer 2024

2 Required Software

Required and Supported Software ILIAS 8 (not existing yet)

3 Projects

The following large development projects will be tackled with ILIAS 7 (partly):
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4 List of New and Extended Features

Below you can see which features have already been scheduled for ILIAS version 8 and how their status is. If you can offer funding for features shown in list G and H, please contact the ILIAS product manager.
A : The following features are implemented and become part of trunk in release 8:
  1. Using CronJobs within PlugIns
 
B : The following features are implemented and approved by the customer. They will be committed to trunk soon.
  1. Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Media Pools
  2. Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
 
C : The following features are implemented and waiting for approval by the customer:
  1. Metadata Section in Content Snippets
  2. Moving Objects in Media Pools
  3. SCORM Editor: Adding Snippet Content
 
D : The following features are currently in development:
  1. Improve Content-Style-Editor
 
E : The following features are already settled for release 8. Funding is available and an appropriate contract with a service provider has been concluded to implement the feature.
  1. Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
  2. Blog Improvements: Authors, Inputfield, Cleanup
  3. Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
  4. Create empty threads
  5. Extend Permissions of Competence Management
  6. Integrate On-Screen Notifications into Notification Center
  7. Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
  8. Mediacast of Type Podcast
  9. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notication Center
 
F : The following features are scheduled for release 8 and have a declared interest in funding by one or more customers. But they only will make it into the trunk if appropriate development resources are ensured, e.g. by contract with a service provider.
  1. Add New Item Group in ILIAS Page Editor
  2. Clean /temp folder in data directory via Cron
  3. Completion Status for Competence Profiles
  4. Customizable List/Tile View for Modules/ItemGroup
  5. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  6. Improved presentation of competence profiles
  7. Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
  8. Introduction of booking confirmations
  9. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: Info-tabs are scrubbed clean, can be switched off and Functionality moves to Learning Progress-tab / Action
  10. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  11. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  12. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  13. Personal Starting Page dependend of local roles
  14. Revision of Access to Timings Settings of Objects
  15. Show Existing Item Groups in ILIAS Page Editor
  16. Tile View: Adjustable number of tiles in a row
  17. Transfer of competences into a reporting panel
 
G : The following features are only partly funded and need additional financial support to be implemented as described:
  1. Drag&Drop Files in Container Objects
 
H : The following features are scheduled for ILIAS 8 but still require funding! Without funding these features cannot be implemented for ILIAS 8 and have to be postponed to a later version. Any funding for one of these features is highly appreciated!
  1. »Set Online« & »Set Offline« for Manage Screen
  2. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks
  3. IRSS: Decouple DataCollection from ilObjFile (and use IRSS)
  4. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS
  5. Page Editor » Code Editing
  6. Page Editor » Employing Page Templates
  7. Page Editor » Insert Resource List
  8. Page Editor » Text Editing on small devices
  9. Usage Intensity of Help

5 Changed Behaviour

This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 8:
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6 Abandoned Features

6.1 Candidates

  1. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support

6.2 Removed Features

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 8 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:
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Last edited: 09. Nov 2020, 12:29, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]


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