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Release 8

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1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

  • Feature freeze at 30 APR 2021
  • PHP-8-Reviews completed until 28 APR 2022
  • Coding completed for refactored components: 11 MAY 2022
  • Incorporating results of reviews: 26 MAY 2022 to 13 JUN 2022
  • Final check of components by their maintainers on 14 and 15 JUN 2022
  • Pre-Testing from 16 JUN 2022 until 22 JUL 2022
  • Incorporating of Pre-Test results: 20 JUN 2022 until 28 JUL 2022
  • Release 8.0 beta1 and release-8 branch published at 29 JUL 2022
  • Begin of testing phase started at 01 AUG 2022
  • End of testing phase[1] at 14 DEC 2022
  • First stable 8.0 published at 31 MAR 2023 
  • Full maintenance for version 8: until 31 DEC 2024
  • Security bugfixes only: until 31 DEC 2025

2 Important Information

3 List of New and Extended Features

3.1 General Topics

3.2 Core and Services

ADMINISTRATION
  1. Page Editor » Page Template Administration
Calendar
  1. Type ahead for User Notification
Competence Management
  1. Completion Status for Competence Profiles
  2. Extend Permissions of Competence Management
  3. Improved presentation of competence profiles
  4. Introduction of a show more-function for competence entries
  5. Introduction of bar charts
  6. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  7. Separation of Self-Evaluation and other Types of Formation
  8. Transfer of competences into a reporting panel
Cron Jobs
  1. Clean /temp folder in data directory via Cron
  2. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
  3. Using CronJobs within PlugIns
Dashboard
  1. Alphabetical Sorting for Favorites and My Courses & Groups
Database
  1. Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
  2. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
ECS Interface
  1. Ask for user consent before data is transferred to remote ECS platform
  2. Create ECS user accounts as non-local users (Shibboleth, LDAP, ...) via ECS
  3. Member Assignments for Import Type Campus Management
Export
  1. Output Formats of Submissions
Global Cache
  1. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support
Global Screen Service
  1. Expose LOM keywords in HTML header
ILIAS Page Editor
  1. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  2. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
  3. Improve Content-Style-Editor
  4. Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
  5. Page Editor » Page Template Administration
  6. Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
  7. Protected Sections in Wiki Pages
ILIAS Resource Storage Service
  1. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS
Info Page
  1. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: «Info» tab can be switched off and Functionality moves to«Learning Progress»-tab
Language Service
  1. Change Ambiguous Wording in Study Programme
  2. Changed language entries for ILIAS 8
Mail
  1. Filter for System E-Mails
Metadata
  1. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  2. Expose LOM keywords in HTML header
  3. Metadata Section in Content Snippets
Notes and Comments
  1. Revision of Private Notes Overview
  2. Revision of Public Comments Overview
Notifications
  1. Integrate On-Screen Notifications into Notification Center
  2. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notification Center
Organisational Units
  1. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks
PDF
  1. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  2. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  3. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio
Personal Profile
  1. Direct Device Camera Upload of User Picture
Portfolio
  1. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles
  2. Embed Metadata in Portfolios
  3. Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
RBAC / Didactic templates
  1. Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles
Search
  1. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
SETUP
  1. Setup - Introduce Strict Update Paths
  2. Setup - Move DB-Updatesteps to Components
SOAP
  1. Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods
Staff
  1. Administrating and Minuting Employee Talks
Statistics and Learning Progress
  1. Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Mediacasts
  2. Improve Statistics
  3. Learning Progress for Forum
  4. Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
  5. Learning Progress Mode «Visited» for HTML-Learning Module
User Service
  1. Create ECS user accounts as non-local users (Shibboleth, LDAP, ...) via ECS
  2. Direct Device Camera Upload of User Picture
  3. Personal Starting Page dependend of local roles

3.3 Modules

Bibliographic List Item
  1. IRSS: Migrate Bibliografic-Files to IRSS
Blog
  1. Blog Improvements: Authors, Inputfield, Cleanup
  2. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  3. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts
Category and Repository
  1. Customizable List/Tile View for Modules/ItemGroup
  2. Multilingual Title for Item Groups
  3. Tile View: Adjustable number of tiles in a row
Chat
  1. Display message when chat user is writing
  2. Repository Chat: Add option to hide automatically created status
  3. Separate On-Screen Chat and Notification Center
Cloud Object
  1. Abandon Cloud Object
Content Page
  1. Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page
Exercise
  1. Open Blog Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  2. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  3. Output Formats of Submissions
File
  1. Drag&Drop Files in Container Objects
Forum
  1. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  2. Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
  3. Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page
  4. Create empty threads
  5. Learning Progress for Forum
  6. Limited View of postings
  7. Using ILIAS Page Editor to provide general information of Forum
Learning Module HTML
  1. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: «Info» tab can be switched off and Functionality moves to«Learning Progress»-tab
  2. Learning Progress Mode «Visited» for HTML-Learning Module
Learning Module ILIAS
  1. Abandon Link Checker
  2. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  3. Learning Module ILIAS and HTML: «Info» tab can be switched off and Functionality moves to«Learning Progress»-tab
  4. Reading Time for Learning Modules and Blogposts
Learning Module SCORM
  1. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  2. Abandon SCORM Offline Player
LTI
  1. LTI Consumer with support for LTI 1.3
  2. LTI Provider with support for LTI 1.3
  3. LTI Wiki
Media Pools & Media Objects
  1. Moving Objects in Media Pools
Mediacast
  1. Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
  2. Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Mediacasts
  3. Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
  4. Improve Mediacast Video Presentation
  5. Introduction of a Video Podcast-, Image Gallery- and Audio Podcast-type for mediacasts
  6. Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
  7. Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
  8. Mediacast of Type Podcast
News - RSS - Webfeeds
  1. Abandon TinyMCE in News
SCORM Online Editor
  1. Abandon SCORM Online Editor
Survey
  1. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  2. Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
  3. New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback
  4. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
Test & Assessment
  1. Abandon CTM
  2. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  3. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  4. Overhaul of Test Question Editing Tabs
Weblink
  1. Abandon Link Checker
Wiki
  1. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  2. LTI Wiki
  3. Open Wiki Submissions from «Submission and Grades»
  4. Protected Sections in Wiki Pages
  5. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki

4 Changed Behaviour

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

5 Abandoned Features  

The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 8 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:
  1. Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods
  2. Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
  3. Abandon Access Keys
  4. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  5. Abandon Cloud Object
  6. Abandon CTM
  7. Abandon External Webfeeds
  8. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  9. Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
  10. Abandon Link Checker
  11. Abandon mimetex support
  12. Abandon Radius Support
  13. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  14. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  15. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  16. Abandon SCORM Offline Player
  17. Abandon SCORM Online Editor
  18. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  19. Abandon Slots-Table
  20. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  21. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
  22. Abandon TinyMCE in News
  23. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support
  24. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  25. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  26. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio

5.1 Migrations

Data of External Webfeeds is removed by the following migration:
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run externalfeed.ilExternalFeedRemoveMigration
Files of Bibliografic Listb Item to Resource Storage Service
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run bibliographic.ilBibliographicStorageMigration
Migration to convert tables from MyISAM to Innodb service
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run database.ilMysqlMyIsamToInnoDbMigration
The following Migration should have been executed in ILIAS 7, but are still available:
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run resourcestorage.ilStorageHandlerV1Migration
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run ilFileObjectMigrationAgent.ilFileObjectToStorageMigration
[1] All test cases have been run once. Only retests done afterwards.

Last edited: 05. May 2023, 09:10, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]