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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 (DRAFT)

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. 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. 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
  2. Limited View of postings
 
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. Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
  3. Blog Improvements: Authors, Inputfield, Cleanup
  4. Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
  5. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles
  6. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  7. Extend Permissions of Competence Management
  8. Improve Statistics
  9. Integrate On-Screen Notifications into Notification Center
  10. Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
  11. Mediacast of Type Podcast
  12. Page Editor » Page Template Administration
  13. 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. Ask for user consent before data is transferred to remote ECS platform
  2. Assign skins to roles
  3. Clean /temp folder in data directory via Cron
  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. Customizable List/Tile View for Modules/ItemGroup
  8. Improved presentation of competence profiles
  9. Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
  10. Introduction of a show more-function for competence entries
  11. Introduction of bar charts
  12. Introduction of booking confirmations
  13. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  14. Lock Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
  15. Make « Add to Favourites » an AJAX Call
  16. New Mail Template Context: Mail to Rater
  17. New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback
  18. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  19. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  20. Output Formats of Submissions
  21. Page Editor » Presentation and Sorting of Resource Lists and Item Groups
  22. Personal Starting Page dependend of local roles
  23. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts
  24. Revision of Access to Timings Settings of Objects
  25. Separation of Self-Evaluation and other Types of Formation
  26. Tile View: Adjustable number of tiles in a row
  27. 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. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  4. Filter in »My Portfolios«
  5. Ignore Task
  6. IRSS: Decouple DataCollection from ilObjFile (and use IRSS)
  7. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS
  8. Page Editor » Code Editing
  9. Page Editor » Employing Page Templates
  10. Page Editor » Insert Resource List
  11. Page Editor » New, Responsive Page Templates
  12. Page Editor » Page Elements of Portfolios
  13. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II 
  14. Page Editor » Text Editing on small devices

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. Abandon Access Keys
  2. Abandon link checker cron job
  3. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  4. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  5. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  6. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
  7. 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: 20. Apr 2021, 14:36, Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]


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