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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 Important Information

3 Projects

The following large development projects are planned for ILIAS 8 (depending on resources and funding):
  1. Booking Tool Revision
  2. CLI-Setup
  3. Gradebook
  4. Help Projects
  5. Improvements in handling media objects
  6. Improvements of Competence Management for ILIAS 8
  7. Improving perception of ILIAS content from outside
  8. MOOC-like Look
  9. New ILIAS Page Editor
  10. Page Layout Revision - Part III
  11. Project: ILIAS Resource Storage Service (IRSS)
  12. Project: Improvement of portfolio function in ILIAS
  13. Splitting Up Tools
  14. Splitting-up T&A Into New Components
  15. Template for a new Project Page

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. Create empty threads
  2. Repository Chat: Add option to hide automatically created status
  3. 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. Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
  2. Display message when chat user is writing
  3. Improved presentation of competence profiles
  4. Limited View of postings
  5. Metadata Section in Content Snippets
  6. Moving Objects in Media Pools
  7. SCORM Editor: Adding Snippet Content
 
D : The following features are currently in development:
  1. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks
  2. Improve Content-Style-Editor
  3. Integrate On-Screen Notifications into Notification Center
  4. Learning Progress for Forum
  5. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notication Center
 
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. “Hot Spot / Image Map Question” - Restrict Amount Of Clickable Areas
  2. Assign skins to roles
  3. Blog Improvements: Authors, Inputfield, Cleanup
  4. Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
  5. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles
  6. Customizable List/Tile View for Modules/ItemGroup
  7. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  8. Extend Permissions of Competence Management
  9. Improve Statistics
  10. Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
  11. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  12. Lock Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
  13. Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
  14. Mediacast of Type Podcast
  15. Output Formats of Submissions
  16. Page Editor » Page Template Administration
 
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. Ask for user consent before data is transferred to remote ECS platform
  2. Clean /temp folder in data directory via Cron
  3. Competence profiles can be assigned to OrgUnits
  4. Completion Status for Competence Profiles
  5. Create ECS user accounts as non-local users (Shibboleth, LDAP, ...) via ECS
  6. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
  7. Filter for System E-Mails
  8. Improvement of Tag relevance
  9. Introduction of a show more-function for competence entries
  10. Introduction of bar charts
  11. Introduction of booking confirmations
  12. Make « Add to Favourites » an AJAX Call
  13. New Mail Template Context: Mail to Rater
  14. New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback
  15. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  16. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  17. Page Editor » Presentation of Item Groups in Page Editor
  18. Personal Starting Page dependend of local roles
  19. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts
  20. Revision of Access to Timings Settings of Objects
  21. Separation of Self-Evaluation and other Types of Formation
  22. Survey: «Info» tab can be switched off and new tab «Survey»
  23. Tile View: Adjustable number of tiles in a row
  24. 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. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  3. Filter in »My Portfolios«
  4. Ignore Task
  5. IRSS: Decouple DataCollection from ilObjFile (and use IRSS)
  6. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS
  7. Page Editor » Code Editing
  8. Page Editor » Column Layout Part II
  9. Page Editor » Data Table Editing » Part II
  10. Page Editor » Employing Page Templates
  11. Page Editor » Insert Resource List
  12. Page Editor » New, Responsive Page Templates
  13. Page Editor » Page Elements of Portfolios
  14. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II 
  15. Page Editor » Text Editing on small devices
  16. Setup - Introduce Strict Update Paths
  17. Setup - Move DB-Updatesteps to Components
  18. Transfer the mail tree into a Combined Slate

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

Jour Fixe has already accepted to abandon the following features. But code still need to be removed from ILIAS.
  1. Abandon Access Keys
  2. Abandon Captcha for Wiki and Forum
  3. Abandon CTM
  4. Abandon External Webfeeds
  5. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  6. Abandon link checker cron job
  7. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  8. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  9. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  10. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  11. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  12. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
  13. Abandon TinyMCE formattings in Exercise
  14. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  15. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  16. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio

6.2 Removed Features

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 8 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:
  1. Abandon TinyMCE in News
  2. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support

Last edited: 10. May 2021, 11:21, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]