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Release 8
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[Hide]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
Calendar
Competence Management
- Completion Status for Competence Profiles
- Extend Permissions of Competence Management
- Improved presentation of competence profiles
- Introduction of a show more-function for competence entries
- Introduction of bar charts
- Link in competence records directs to competence results tab
- Separation of Self-Evaluation and other Types of Formation
- Transfer of competences into a reporting panel
Cron Jobs
Dashboard
Database
ECS Interface
Export
Global Cache
Global Screen Service
ILIAS Page Editor
- Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
- Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries
- Improve Content-Style-Editor
- Inherit Individual Stylesheet from Parent Object
- Page Editor » Page Template Administration
- Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates
- Protected Sections in Wiki Pages
ILIAS Resource Storage Service
Info Page
Language Service
Metadata
Notes and Comments
Notifications
Organisational Units
Personal Profile
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Portfolio
RBAC / Didactic templates
Search
SETUP
SOAP
Staff
Statistics and Learning Progress
User Service
3.3 Modules
Bibliographic List Item
Blog
Category and Repository
Chat
Cloud Object
Content Page
Exercise
File
Forum
- Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
- Activate/Deactivate notifications of deleted, censored and edited postings
- Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page
- Create empty threads
- Learning Progress for Forum
- Limited View of postings
- Using ILIAS Page Editor to provide general information of Forum
Learning Module HTML
Learning Module ILIAS
Learning Module SCORM
LTI
Media Pools & Media Objects
Mediacast
- Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
- Automatically extend the Learning Progress Collection for new Media Objects in Mediacasts
- Bulk-Upload and -Download for Mediacasts
- Improve Mediacast Video Presentation
- Introduction of a Video Podcast-, Image Gallery- and Audio Podcast-type for mediacasts
- Learning Progress for Videos according to viewing progress
- Mediacast of Type Image Gallery
- Mediacast of Type Podcast
News - RSS - Webfeeds
SCORM Online Editor
Survey
Test & Assessment
Weblink
Wiki
4 Changed Behaviour
This section lists changes of existing objects and components due to bug fixes made for ILIAS 8:
- Changed language entries for ILIAS 8
- The survey setting "Seperate E-Mail for Each Finished Survey" will not accept e-mail adresses but account names only.
5 Abandoned Features
The following features are abandoned with ILIAS 8 and have been removed from the ILIAS source code:
- Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods
- Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
- Abandon Access Keys
- Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
- Abandon Cloud Object
- Abandon CTM
- Abandon External Webfeeds
- Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
- Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
- Abandon Link Checker
- Abandon mimetex support
- Abandon Radius Support
- Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
- Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
- Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
- Abandon SCORM Offline Player
- Abandon SCORM Online Editor
- Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
- Abandon Slots-Table
- Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
- Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
- Abandon TinyMCE in News
- Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support
- Remove PDF Generation from Survey
- Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
- 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
Copyright entries are migrated to a format compatible with the KS by the following. Without the migration, existing copyright entries are not shown on info screens, etc. Note that the migration might not be entirely lossless for entries that were edited or created manually, and whose format significantly differs from that of the entries that are supplied with ILIAS. Please carefully check your copyright entries after the migration.
> php setup/cli.php migrate --run md.ilMDCopyrightMigration
Last edited: 23. Apr 2024, 14:31, Killing, Alexander [alex]