LimeSurvey roadmap: Difference between revisions
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A bug fix release is released every Monday, for both master and develop branch. | |||
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! Action || Branch || Expected || Actual || Description | ! Action || Branch || Expected || Actual || Description | ||
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| | | Announcement of release schedule || - || Thursday 6. Feb 2020 || - || This release schedule is written and announced | ||
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| Merge window begins || develop || Monday 17. Feb 2020 || - || We accept pull requests of new features into the develop branch; all new features must be tested and stable<br>Alpha builds are available for download | |||
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| Merge window closes || develop || Friday 13. March 2020 || - || Feature freeze, no more features are added to develop branch | |||
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| Release of 4.2 || master || Monday 13. April 2020 || - || develop branch is merged into master and released as 4.2 | |||
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| New release schedule || - || Monday 13. April 2020 || - || A new release schedule is written | |||
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Revision as of 17:27, 6 February 2020
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!
Last update: 2016/09/21
Limesurvey v2.06 - Status: Archived
- 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
- A LTS (Long term support) version will be made available to users that bought a LimeSurvey Premium Package (= 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.
- 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.
- LTS Status at least until December 2020
LimeSurvey 3 LTS - Status: Release (Jan 2020
LimeSurvey 3 will be supported as LTS until the end of 2020.
Limesurvey 4.0.0 - Status: Release
- LimeStore beta
- Possible to install plugins via ZIP-file
- Update checks for plugins available in LimeStore
- New question editor using VueJS
- More...
Planned features
- Convert LimeSurvey to Yii 2
- Refactor answer database to get rid of column limitations
- Adding tours (Cannot be done before GUI changes)
- Further development of question themes
This list is incomplete. See bugs.limesurvey.org for more details.
Current release schedule
This release schedule is written 6. Feb 2020.
A bug fix release is released every Monday, for both master and develop branch.
Action | Branch | Expected | Actual | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Announcement of release schedule | - | Thursday 6. Feb 2020 | - | This release schedule is written and announced |
Merge window begins | develop | Monday 17. Feb 2020 | - | We accept pull requests of new features into the develop branch; all new features must be tested and stable Alpha builds are available for download |
Merge window closes | develop | Friday 13. March 2020 | - | Feature freeze, no more features are added to develop branch |
blubb | ||||
Release of 4.2 | master | Monday 13. April 2020 | - | develop branch is merged into master and released as 4.2 |
New release schedule | - | Monday 13. April 2020 | - | A new release schedule is written |