Roadmap

This document is your starting point for learning about our plans for upcoming releases of Moodle. See our Releases page for details about current and past releases.

Since Moodle 2.0 we have switched to time-based releases rather than feature-based releases, as part of our new development process. Because of this, the details below are an indication of current priorities only, and are subject to change according to how long things take to develop. If something can not be finished for a release then it will generally just be pushed to the next major release.

The items in the roadmap are part of a long-term development vision for Moodle, which is heavily influenced by requests from our user community.

Version 2.3

Release date: 18th June 2012

Requirements

• Minimum browser: Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 5 (New!)
• Moodle upgrade: Moodle 2.2 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 2.2 as a first step)
• Minimum PHP / DB versions: the same as for Moodle 2.2, except we now recommend at least MySQL 5.1.33 (see MDL-33984)

Major changes

See Moodle 2.3 release notes for full details.

• Usability focus:
  • Files usability 2.3 - a number of interface improvements
  • Paged course formats - tackling the "scroll of death"
• Book module integrated in core
• Assignment - refactor module to remove subtypes, add web services for offline grading
• Improved support for external File content - Improvements to repository links and re-usable content

Version 2.4

Release date: December 2012

Requirements

• Minimum browser: Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 5
• Moodle upgrade: Moodle 2.2 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 2.2 as a first step)
• Minimum PHP / DB versions: Postgres 8.3, MySQL 5.1.33, MSSQL 2005 or Oracle 10.2

Targets

• Performance - big focus on performance issues, including a "Moodle Universal Cache" (MUC) system
• Course formats refactoring - complete rewrite of code to make course formats more flexible and pluggable
• Course/category management - new interface
• Completely new default icon set and graphic design
• Usability: cleaning up of many pages and interfaces
• Repository plugin for direct audio/video recording into Moodle
• Forum - Review Forum NG as a replacement for forum in core
• Wiki - Review OUWiki as a replacement for wiki in core
• Calendar - import iCal streams into the Moodle calendar
• and many of your most-voted fixes from the tracker...

Other major priorities

The following are features that are currently being worked on, but we do not know exactly when they will make it into core.

• Oauth2 - cross-system authentication, for integration with other systems and to replace MNet.
• Collection module - an activity module that could combine Survey, Questionnaire and Feedback
• Restore 1.9 user data - adding the ability to restore user data in 1.9 backups

See also

• Releases - versions of Moodle that have already been released