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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 4.x

Discontinued.

Limesurvey 5.0 - Release: April 2021

Updated interface
Possible to install plugins and question themes via ZIP-file
Update checks for plugins available in LimeStore
Encrypted fields
New plugin events : ExpressionManagerStart and SetVariableExpressionEnd allowing to manage expression by plugin.
Survey Group Permissions
More...

LimeSurvey 5.1 - Release August 2021

Add RPC function to delete a response using its ID (#1928) (arnaudbore)
Ability to export to SPSS .sav format (#1877) (Adam Zammit)
Multiple UX fixes

LimeSurvey 5.2 - Release Nov 2021

Done. No new major features, mostly GUI fixes.

LimeSurvey 5.3 - Release Jan 2022

Released. No big new features, mostly internal improvements, e.g. database updates split into multiple classes and more PSR-12 fixes.

LimeSurvey 5.4 - Release August 2022

New feature to deal with email notifications that failed to send out

LimeSurvey 5.5 - Release late 2022

TODO

LimeSurvey 6.0 - TBA

Breaking changes:

The event afterSurveyCompleted is now fired in preview mode as well, with responseId = null
Due to the conversion of LimeSurvey to Bootstrap 5, custom survey themes will have to be revised

Current release schedule

A patch (bug fix) release is released every Monday, for both master and LTS.

A minor release (new features without breaking BC) is released every 8 weeks, approximately.

A major release (new features that will break BC, e.g. dropping support for PHP versions or browsers) will be a major release if it breaks backwards compatibility in some way.

Please also see the manual about the release process.

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 =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 [https://manual.limesurvey.org/How_to_join_the_LimeSurvey_project_team give a helping hand] or [https://manual.limesurvey.org/How_to_contribute_new_features contribute new features] yourself please get in touch!
-Last update: 2016/09/21
+= Version status =
+==Any version older than LimeSurvey 3.0 - Status: Archived ==
+* These versions will not receive new features or updates
-=Limesurvey v2.06 - Status: Archived =
+== Limesurvey 3.x - Status: Released (Feb 2018)==
-* LimeSurvey v2.06 will not receive new features or updates - instead see 2.06 LTS version
-=Limesurvey v2.06 LTS (Feb/March 2016) - Status: Archived  =
+Major changes:
-* A LTS (Long term support) version will be made available to users that bought a LimeSurvey Premium Package (= [https://www.limesurvey.org/services Comfort Update]) - this LTS version includes mainly security fixes.
-* This long term support version is scheduled to be maintained until at least 12/2016.
-=Limesurvey v2.50 (Feb 2016) - Status: Archived =
-*Completely new administration interface
-*Fully responsive survey templates
-= Limesurvey 3.0.0 - Status: Released (Feb 2018)=
-Biggest changes:
 * Using Twig as template engine.
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 * Question templates (still work-in-progress).
 * New side-menu and enhanced admin interface.
-* LTS Status at least until December 2020
-= LimeSurvey 3 LTS - Status: Release (Jan 2020) =
+Support time frame:
-LimeSurvey 3 will be supported as LTS until the end of 2020.
+* 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 4.0.0 - Status: Release (Jan 2020)=
+== LimeSurvey 4.x ==
-* LimeStore beta
+Discontinued.
-* Possible to install plugins via ZIP-file
+== Limesurvey 5.0 - Release: April 2021==
+* Updated interface
+* Possible to install plugins and question themes via ZIP-file
 * Update checks for plugins available in LimeStore
-* New question editor using VueJS
+* Encrypted fields
+* New plugin events : [[ExpressionManagerStart]] and [[SetVariableExpressionEnd]] allowing to manage expression by plugin.
+* [[Survey Group Permissions]]
 * More...
-= Planned features =
+== LimeSurvey 5.1 - Release August 2021 ==
+* Add RPC function to delete a response using its ID (#1928) (arnaudbore)
+* Ability to export to SPSS .sav format (#1877) (Adam Zammit)
+* Multiple UX fixes
+== LimeSurvey 5.2 - Release Nov 2021 ==
+Done. No new major features, mostly GUI fixes.
+== LimeSurvey 5.3 - Release Jan 2022 ==
-* Convert LimeSurvey to Yii 2
+Released. No big new features, mostly internal improvements, e.g. database updates split into multiple classes and more PSR-12 fixes.
-* Refactor answer database to get rid of column limitations
-* Further development of question themes
-This list is incomplete. See bugs.limesurvey.org for more details.
+== LimeSurvey 5.4 - Release August 2022 ==
-= Current release schedule =
+* New feature to deal with email notifications that failed to send out
-This release schedule is written 5. May 2020, for release 4.3.0.
+== LimeSurvey 5.5 - Release late 2022 ==
-A bug fix release is released every Monday, for both master and develop branch.
+TODO
+== LimeSurvey 6.0 - TBA ==
+Breaking changes:
+* The event afterSurveyCompleted is now fired in preview mode as well, with responseId = null
+* Due to the conversion of LimeSurvey to Bootstrap 5, custom survey themes will have to be revised
+== Current release schedule ==
+A patch (bug fix) release is released every Monday, for both master and LTS.
+A minor release (new features without breaking BC) is released every 8 weeks, approximately.
+A major release (new features that will break BC, e.g. dropping support for PHP versions or browsers) will be a major release if it breaks backwards compatibility in some way.
 Please also see the manual about the [[How_to_contribute_new_features#Release_process|release process]].
-{| class="wikitable"
-! Action || Branch || Expected || Actual || Description
-|-
-| Announcement of release schedule || - || Tuesday 5. May 2020 || - || This release schedule is written and announced
-|-
-| Merge window begins || develop || Tuesday 5. May 2020 || - || We accept pull requests of new features into the develop branch.<br>All new features must be have a discussing Mantis report and automatic acceptance tests.
-|-
-| Merge window closes || develop || Monday 1. June 2020 || - || Feature freeze, no more features are added to develop branch
-|-
-| Release of 4.3.0 || master || Monday 15. June 2020 || - || develop branch is merged into master and released as 4.3.0<br>If release team deem the develop branch is not stable enough, more weeks will be added to the debug period
-|-
-| New release schedule || - || Monday 15. June 2020 || - || A new release schedule is written
-|}

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