International ILIAS Blog

While we are all still hard at work testing ILIAS 10, the developers of ILIAS are already looking to the future and ILIAS 11. That means it is time for the Big Project Jour Fixe, the first milestone in the development of any new ILIAS version. Big Project Jour Fixes serve to plan and coordinate larger development projects that will have a lasting effect on the platform. The focus is not on concrete feature suggestions, but rather more extensive plans that either require a lot of time and resources or a large number of developers.

While the release of ILIAS 5.4 is still fresh, we are already working on the next version of our LMS. ILIAS 6.0 will introduce major improvements, focusing on three main areas:

Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign within the the ILIAS community, it has been possible to raise the funds necessary to already offer PHP7 compatibility in the next ILIAS version, 5.2. This success shows once more that open-source projects really are capable of surmounting extraordinary financial hurdles and thereby guaranteeing the sustainability of their further development. Around €150,000 were able to be collected for this project. We are very pleased with the engagement of the community: PHP7 promises significant improvements in performance combined with lower resource usage. All participants in businesses and higher education facilities were aware of the importance of this update, resulting in the rapid success of the financing goals.