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Release 9

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1 Timeline for ILIAS 9

  • Feature freeze at April 30, 2023
  • Coding completed: all features implemented and test cases finished until October 27, 2023
  • Release 9.0 beta1 and release-9 branch planned for October 30, 2023
  • Beginn of testing phase scheduled for October 31, 2023
  • End of testing phase planned for Februar 02, 2024
  • First stable 9.0 release planned for March 15, 2024
  • Full maintenance support for version 9: until December 31, 2025
  • Security bug fixes only: until December 31, 2026
Due to the delays in the completion of ILIAS 8, the schedule for ILIAS 9 had to be fundamentally changed. 

2 Important Information

Required and Supported Software ILIAS 9

3 Projects

The following large development projects are planned for ILIAS 9 (depending on resources and funding):
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4 List of New and Extended Features

Below you can see which features have already been scheduled for ILIAS version 9 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 9:
  1. Custom metadata for file object
  2. File-Object: Show number of downloads
  3. File: direct download can be prevented to open info tab first
  4. Import Booking Objects into Booking Tool
  5. Improved presentation of ILIAS links in social media
  6. IRSS: Resource Overview
  7. Mail: out-of-office agent
  8. Messages for Specific Bookings
  9. metadata for content pages
  10. New Glossary Presentation for «Flashcards»
  11. Suffix-specific Icons
  12. UI-Refactoring Previews
  13. Week View for Booking Tool
 
B : The following features are implemented and approved by the customer. They will be committed to trunk soon.
  1. Poll Improvements
 
C : The following features are implemented and waiting for approval by the customer:
  1. Abandon the booking of different time slots within one reservation process
  2. Determine default view for newly created forums in Administration
  3. Edit target levels of competences in profiles
  4. Improvement of the booking process in Booking Tools with Fixed Schedules
  5. Migrate News on Communication » News to Timeline
  6. New option for excel export of ILIAS test statistics
  7. Page Editor » Accordion Editing
  8. Page Editor » Data Table Editing » Part II
  9. Page Editor » Insert Resource List
  10. Page Editor » Presentation of Item Groups in Page Editor
  11. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II 
  12. Rearrange Actions in Forum Threads and Reduce Print Actions
  13. Streamline Competence Entries on Competence Records-Tab
  14. Streamline Competence Profiles in Courses and Groups
 
D : The following features are currently in development:
  1. Clean up the Badges area in Achievements
  2. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size
  3. Database: Management Functions for Referential Integrity in ilDBInterface
  4. File Upload: CC Selection as Modal
  5. Formatting options for notifications
  6. Moving LOM Metadata Editor to Kitchensink
  7. Revamp Repository Chat
  8. User Search in Staff Tab of Organisational Units
 
E : The following features are already settled for release 9. Funding is available and an appropriate contract with a service provider has been concluded to implement the feature.
  1. Download only selected submissions
  2. ILIAS can handle several help packages
  3. Learning Sequence: Improve Handling of Learning Progress Settings of Sub-Objects
  4. Learning Sequence: Make Completion more Visible
  5. Page Editor » Code Editing
  6. Revamping Exam View with List of Questions
  7. Show Only Available Points
  8. Show Peer Feedback after Feedback Deadline
  9. Study Programme: Customize Front Page
  10. Study Programme: Page Editor Element for Status Information
  11. Submissions and Grades: New filter options “Membership“, “Submitted before“ and “Submitted after“
  12. Use Mustache in Mail Template Configuration
 
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. »Set Online« & »Set Offline« for Manage Screen
  2. Add link to submitted portfolio in notification mail
  3. Add Mailto Feature in list of Portfolio of Other Users
  4. Add Open Submission option in Participant View in list of Submissions and Grades
  5. Additional Columns in «Submissions and Grades»
  6. Change Shared status after submitting a portfolio
  7. Changing operator of taxonomies from OR to AND
  8. Clickable Links in Personal Profile
  9. Confirmation Mail to Sharer after Sharing a Portfolio
  10. Improve Adopt Content (for Courses and Groups)
  11. Improved Creative Commons Support : add CC0-licence
  12. Multilingualism for Wikis
  13. Notification mail to submitter of portfolio after allocation of evaluation status
  14. Page Editor » Interactive Image
  15. Revision of Collection Glossaries
  16. Separation of portfolio creation and creation of a portfolio from a template
 
G : The following features are only partly funded and need additional financial support to be implemented as described:
  1. Centralizing online/offline status - step 3
  2. Declaration of Data Protection
  3. Implement WOPI for File-Editing
  4. Improve Presentation of T&A-Results
  5. Learning Sequence: Improve Usability of Objects without Kiosk-Mode (slightly)
 
H : The following features are scheduled for ILIAS 9 but still require funding! Without funding these features cannot be implemented for ILIAS 9 and have to be postponed to a later version. Any funding for one of these features is highly appreciated!
  1. Assign Users From a Text File
  2. Bulk Creation of Term/Definition Pairs
  3. Change Setting to show users their results in ILIAS Test
  4. Display learning materials of the Profil Target Level and all levels below
  5. Fully LOM-conformant Metadata
  6. Global Dashboard Settings of Presentation and Sortation for all Dashboard Sections
  7. Global Sorting for Dashboard Sections
  8. Handling of preconditions in standard listing panels
  9. Improve Manage-Tab in Mediacasts
  10. Improve Search Index with Tika
  11. Improvement of deleting competences
  12. KS-ViewControls for Dashboard Sections
  13. Move Full Definitions Presentation to UI Framework
  14. News Timeline: pdf-Upload
  15. Page Editor » Column Layout Part II
  16. Revision of Access to Timings Settings of Objects
  17. Show Member View in Toolbar
  18. Streamline date filter of competences to courses and groups
  19. Switching between content styles
  20. Using Maven to manage dependencies

5 Changed Behaviour

This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 9:
  • When updating to ILIAS 9 the chat server of older ILIAS versions cannot be used anymore. Furthermore the chat client of older ILIAS versions (ILIAS 8.x or previous versions) will not be able to communicate with an ILIAS 9 chat server.

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 Copying from Create Dialogue
  2. Abandon Custom LOM Quick Edit for SCORM Modules
  3. Abandon ECTS Grades in ILIAS Test
  4. Abandon Emoticons in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat
  5. Abandon Generate PDF by User in ILIAS Test
  6. Abandon Global Switch for Page Editor
  7. Abandon Item Analysis Export for Pure Single Choice Tests
  8. Abandon Milestones from Calendar
  9. Abandon Page View in Survey
  10. Abandon Phrases in Survey
  11. Abandon Question Materials
  12. Abandon RTL-Support
  13. Abandon Special Character Selector
  14. Abandon Test Setting Digitally Sign Test Submissions and Plugin Slot to sign Tests
  15. Abandon Virtual Modes of Glossaries
  16. Remove Setting «Limit Number of Concurrent Participants»
  17. Remove Settings-Templates for Tests
  18. Study Programme: Abandon Dynamic Tree in Manage View

6.2 Removed Features

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 9 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:
  1. Abandon »New« Status in Forums
  2. Abandon Line Break Setting in Users Mail Setting
  3. Abandon Multiple Definitions per Term in Glossary
  4. Abandon Private Rooms (Separees)
  5. Abandon SOAP::distributeMails

7 Migrations

Migration of glossary definitions after abolition of multiple definitions
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run glossary.ilGlossaryDefinitionMigration

Zuletzt geändert: 16. Feb 2023, 09:21, Jansen, Michael [mjansen]