Download & Releases

3.8.2 (stable)

Very important notes for MySQL 4.1.x users:

If you update from ILIAS 3.4.0 or 3.4.1 and already used MySQL 4.1.x: Due to a problem in the UTF-8 handling some extra update steps are necessary. Please click here and follow the instructions.

If you just plan to update from MySQL 4.0.x to MySQL 4.1.x please read our Migrating from MySQL 4.0.x to MySQL 4.1.x instructions.

Release 3.8.2 has been released on August 20, 2007.

Release 3.8.2 is a bugfix release and does not contain major new features compared to release 3.8.0.

Please read the 3.8.0 release report for information about major changes and new features.

Information about first time installation can be found here.

Important note for Updates: Instructions for updating ILIAS can be found in section 3 of the general installation instructions. For major updates (e.g. 3.7.x -> 3.8.x) the safest proceeding is, to upgrade a copy of your productive system first and test whether everything works ok.


Download 3.8.2.tar.gz
(.tar.gz; 46MB; 2007-08-20)

md5: e9dc17bc28a02e607bba480a6a05f7af

Known Issues

1. RSS Patch

Unfortunately one of the performance improvement fixes for 3.8.2 produces an error in the RSS feature.

To fix this, please download the following patch file. It contains a file class.ilNewsItem.php. Please make a backup copy of the existing file Services/News/classes/class.ilNewsItem.php and move the patch .php file to directory Services/News/classes/class.ilNewsItem.php.

- ilias.3.8.2.rss.patch.zip - md5sum: 38584baf051e548b95f08faa9975493b

2. Test results calculation patch

In some cases the test results are not caluclated correctly when test are being used for preconditions in courses. This fix also deals with the wrong calculation of ECTS grades in the test statistics. To fix theses issues, please download the following patch file. It contains the two files class.ilObjTest.php and class.ilObjTestAccess.php. Please make a backup copy of the existing files Modules/Test/classes/class.ilObjTest.php and Modules/Test/classes/class.ilObjTestAccess.php on your installation and replace them with the patch files extracted from the zip archive.

- ilias-3.8.2.testresultcalculation.patch.zip - md5sum: 99f771ae17ed17bd0dc565250067ca67

3. Survey question selection and question block presentation patch

Due to an untested security patch it was impossible to add questions to a survey. Also question blocks have been displayed wrong (only the first question in a block was shown as part of the question block). To fix theses issues, please download the following patch file. It contains the file class.ilObjSurvey.php. Please make a backup copy of the existing file Modules/Survey/classes/class.ilObjSurvey.php on your installation and replace it with the patch file extracted from the zip archive.

- ilias-3.8.2.surveyquestionselection.patch.zip - md5sum: c6f9720fa624b10667c870e6aaa9a801

4. HTML special characters in LaTeX expressions patch

In survey and assessment, the characters \, { and } are converted to the HTML entities & #92;, & #123; and & #125; to prevent problems with the ILIAS template engine. These entities will be created too, if someone enters mathematical formulae without the ILIAS rich text editor which corrupts the formulae after modifing and saving. To prevent the conversion into the HTML entities, please download the following patch file. It contains the file class.ilUtil.php. Please make a backup copy of the existing file Services/Utilities/classes/class.ilUtil.php on your installation and replace it with the patch file extracted from the zip archive.

- ilias-3.8.2.htmlspecialcharactersintexv2.patch.zip - md5sum: bdd3e819573104b809f4c13b697c2b8a

5. Media Pool Patch

Clicking on the previous next links in media pools tables results in an error.

To fix this, please download the following patch file. It contains a file class.ilObjMediaPoolGUI.php. Please make a backup copy of the existing file Modules/MediaPool/classes/class.ilObjMediaPoolGUI.php and move the patch .php file to directory Modules/MediaPool/classes/class.ilObjMediaPoolGUI.php.

- ilias.3.8.2.mpool.patch.zip - md5sum: 6ebf015e214255f1bf7eefabd190b3b8

Fixed Bugs

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2738: Multiple choice with pictures: Given points are not saved when only pictures (without text) are used in the question (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-09)

  • Survey: Fixed Mantis bug #2744: DB Error: Syntax error when creating survey in freshly installed system (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-09)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2731: Corrupted LaTeX output in cloze questions (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-09)

  • Test & Assessment, Survey: Fixed Mantis bug #2736: Multiple choice single answer with pictures does not work. There were problems in Test & Survey with uploading images into unsaved questions. The problem could be prevented to save a question prior to upload an image. With this patch, the autosave is working again. (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-09)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2754: Use question pools with equal maximum points doesn't work for some question pools with equal points (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-10)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2766: Text for maximum working time (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2767: Missing sentence dots in test properties (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2768: Checkbox for "Use previous answers" could not be saved (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2769: Wrong description for test results text (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2770: Wrong text for test results presentation (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Survey: Added a check for an invalid question id in the survey question instanciation (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-14)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2757: Different formatting for some delete confirmations in test & assessment (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-15)

  • Glossary: Fixed Mantis bug #2775: Opening the fullscreen view of media in glossaries causes ILIAS to crash (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-15)

  • Test & Assessment: Fixed Mantis bug #2782: Interface to JavaApplet questions broken (Helmut Schottmüller, 2007-08-17)

  • Personal Desktop: Fixed Bug #2698: Personal Desktop works slowly (due to News Functionality) (Alex Killing)

  • Administration: Fixed Bug #2764: The sort "Access (until)" under Administration > User Accounts is not working (Alex Killing)

  • Google Maps: Fixed Bug #2760: Course and Group Members Map shows location of member who disabled it in Personal Profile (Alex Killing)

  • Media Pools: Fixed Bug #2750: Missing user interface elements in media object creation/editing. (Alex Killing)

  • Media Pools: Fixed Bug #2751: Deletion of media objects fails. (also clipboard functionality) (Alex Killing)

  • Setup: Fixed Bug #2739: Client Name can not be set correctly. (Alex Killing)

  • Web Feeds: Fixed Bug #2688: User Interface Problems. (Alex Killing)

  • Web Feeds: Fixed problem with double presentation of web feed blocks. (Alex Killing)

  • Glossaries: Fixed Bug #2752: Missing definition in presentation. (Alex Killing)