LimeSurvey roadmap

General

This page lists current Limesurvey releases, future development, and release goals. We will try to update this regularly with more details as they become available, but please help us (yes, we are talking about you!).

Goals cannot be fulfill by itself so if you want to give a helping hand or contribute new features yourself please get in touch!

Version status

Any version older than LimeSurvey 3.0 - Status: Archived

• These versions will not receive new features or updates

Limesurvey 3.x - Status: Released (Feb 2018)

Major changes:

• Using Twig as template engine.
• Possible for templates (now called themes) to inherit options and files from each other.
• Question templates (still work-in-progress).
• New side-menu and enhanced admin interface.

Support time frame:

• Community Edition: Long Term Support (LTS) available at least until December 2021
• Cloud / SaaS / Professional: Long Term Support (LTS) available at least until December 2022

Limesurvey 5.x - Status: Unstable - Stable Release: Jan 2021

• Updated interface
• Possible to install plugins via ZIP-file
• Update checks for plugins available in LimeStore
• Encrypted fields
• More...

Current release schedule

A bug fix release is released every Monday, for both master and develop branch.

A new feature release is released every 8 weeks, approximately.

A new feature release will be a major release if it breaks backwards compatibility in some way.

Please also see the manual about the release process.