Required and Supported Software ILIAS 7

1 Required Software Versions

The following software versions are required/supported for ILIAS Release 7.

1.1 PHP

• 7.3 - 7.4: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/2559/files
• The support of PHP 7.2.x should be dropped, reported bugs will not be fixed anymore by the PHP project, security issues will be fixed until fall 2020: https://php.net/supported-versions.php
• The Technical Board intends to re-evaluate the max. supported PHP version in ~August/September in regards to PHP 8. We'd predict a positive impact on the code quality, if ILIAS developers could rely on PHP >= 7.3 features.
• OS Support: http://phpversions.info/operating-systems/
• Links for Developers:
  • PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4 Backward Incompatible Changes:
    • https://php.net/manual/en/migration73.incompatible.php
    • https://php.net/manual/en/migration74.incompatible.php
  • PHP 8.0 Outlook: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3770
• PHP 7.4 should be used for: https://test7.ilias.de/

1.2 PHPUnit

https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/2560/files

• 9.x (Roadmap: https://phpunit.de/supported-versions.html)
• Requires PHP 7.3 / Supports PHP 7.3 - PHP 7.4
• MockBuilder::setMethods() has been deprecated, it will be removed in PHPUnit 10 next year!

1.3 DBMS

• MySQL: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/2527/files
  • MariaDB: 10.1 - 10.3
  • MySQL:  5.7 / 8.0
• Postgres 9.x (experimental)
  • Waiting for feedack

1.4 HTTP Server

• nginx:
  • Supported: 1.12.x  - 1.16.x
  • Recommended: 1.16.x
• Supported (but not recommended) for special scenarios (e.g. Shibboleth): Apache >= 2.4.x

1.5 Java

• Supported: OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11
• Recommended: OpenJDK 11

1.6 NodeJS

https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/2511/files

• Supported: 12 (LTS), maybe 14 and the next LTS version (has to be evaluated when released)
• Recommended: 12 (LTS)

1.7 PDF Generation

• PhantomJS will be removed from the ILIAS 7 code base, existing usages will be migrated to wkhtmltopdf
• wkhtmltopdf
  • Supported and Recommended: 0.12.5

1.8 Other Software

• unzip: 6.0+
• zip: 3.0+
• Imagemagick: TDA
• Ghostscript:
  • Supported/Recommended: 9.51
• MathJax (optional): Supported/Recommended: 2.7

1.9 Browsers

• We'll support/recommend devices with a support of ES6 / CSS3 / HTML5

2 Contact

• Author of the Request: Jansen, Michael [mjansen] on behalf of the ILIAS e.V. and the Technical Board ( tb [at] lists [dot] ilias [dot] de)

3 Funding

Currently no indication that funding will be needed.

• If you are a maintainer and see a need for funding, please adress the Technical Board.
• If you are a user/decision maker and interested in a particular software or software version being supported, please contact the Technical Board as well.

4 Discussion

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 16 MAR 2020 : We highly appreciate this list of suggested software and accept it for ILIAS 7. Test system for ILIAS (test7) will be set up accordingly.