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!

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
• 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