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A list of the third-party plugins within Mahara.

Composer commands

For available versions, e.g. composer show phpro/grumphp-shim 1.14.* --all

For our composer dependencies: composer show --tree

For checking the dependencies of a library version, e.g. composer show elasticsearch/elasticsearch 7.17.* --tree

Check if there are any outdated libraries (according to the version syntax in composer.json) composer outdated

Checking the .Mahara files

To check the versions in the .Mahara files, a helpful way to update this list is to go:

 find ./htdocs -type f -iname "README.Mahara" -exec grep 'Version' -B1 {} \; -print

... on the current codebase.

Syncing the list in 'Country' dropdowns

To keep in sync is the country names we use for 'Country' dropdowns. To check what the current state of play is

perl -MLocale::Country -le 'print join("\n", sort map { country2code($_) . " => " . country2code($_, LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_3) . ", // " . $_ } all_country_names())'

and check the results against htdocs/lib/country.php and htdocs/lang/en.utf8/mahara.php files

For any confusion you can also check against https://www.iso.org

Third-party libraries (PHP and JS)

Legend

  • Mahara version = the README.Mahara file for the library | SemVer Info - explaining the symbols in the Mahara version column
  • Latest version = the most recent available version
  • Security = is there a new security patch available?
  • Upgrades/updates = what upgrades are available for this plugin?
  • Support = Is there a community supporting this library?
    • Active: There is ongoing work being put into the library
    • Inactive: Maintained but not actively making releases
    • Archived: Not being maintained
    • Deprecated (officially): All maintainers have left, and site may not exist in extreme cases.
  • PHP8 = is the latest version of this plugin compatible with PHP8?
  • README location = where it can be found in Mahara
  • License = software license for the library
  • URL/Notes = extra information, e.g. resources, notes, and news
  • 🚧 Work in progress - data needs to be updated

PHP versions in support https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php - 14 LTS - Ends security support in 30 Apr 2023, go to 16 LTS soon

💡 A new idea is being proposed to better handle customisations on updating third party libraries lives here → https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13780

PHP libraries

Libraries are managed by Composer. See composer.json

🟡 Libraries yet to be moved to Composer: SimpleSAMLPHP

Name Mahara
version
Available
versions (manual)
23.04 Security Update type PHP8 compatibility Support README location
(./htdocs/...)
License URL/Notes
ADODB 5.22.0 5.22.4 TBC TBC Patch Yes 8.1 Active .../lib/adodb/ BSD 3-Clause
LGPL
Official site | GitHub | Twitter
Wish-list: extract $SESSION
CSS Tidy 2.0.1 2.0.3 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13825 No Patch Yes Active .../lib/csstidy/ LGPL GitHub
Elastic Search 7.17.1 v8 - 8.6.1

v7.17.1

https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13796 n/a Minor|Major No Active .../lib/elasticsearch/ Apache v2.0 LGPL v2.1 GitHub | Changelog

PHP 8 milestone 83%

HTML Purifier 4.14.0 4.16.0 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13826 No Minor Yes Active .../lib/htmlpurifier/ LGPL v2.1+ HTML Purifier | GitHub
PHPMailer 6.7.1 6.7.1 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13790 No Minor Yes Active .../lib/phpmailer/ LGPL GitHub

6.7.1 supports PHP 8.2

ReCaptcha 1.2.4 1.2.4 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13832 No None WIP Inactive, 2020 .../lib/recaptcha/ BSD-3 GitHub

This client supports both v2 and v3. PHP 8 support branch

simplesamlphp 1.19.7 final 1.19.7

v2 - RC

TBC No Minor Yes Active ../auth/saml/extlib/modules GPL 2.1 GitHub RC for 2.0.0 has PHP 8. Sounds like it should work on 1.19.1 though.

Javascript and JQuery libraries

🟡 Check that our Node version is still in support https://endoflife.date/nodejs node| https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/ ➡ Update the .nvmrc file with the supported version.

Name Mahara
version
Available
versions (manual)
23.04 Security Update type Support README location
(./htdocs/...)
License URL/Notes
Bootstrap 5.0.1 5.3.X https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13787 No Minor Active .../lib/bootstrap/assets/javascripts/
MIT Releases | GitHub

bootstrap versions

Date time

picker

4.17.47 6.2.10 TBC No Major Active - v6 .../js/bootstrap-datetimepicker/ MIT GitHub | Get Date Picker

Latest release: rewrite (beta)

Chart.js 3.7.1 4.2.1

v3.9.1 final

TBC No Minor|Major Active .../js/chartjs/ MIT Chart JS | GitHub

Migration to v4

Clipboard js 2.0.10 2.0.11 TBC No Patch Active .../js/clipboard/ MIT Clipboard JS | GitHub
version # is tagged
Dragon-drop 3.2.1 3.6.1 TBC No Minor Active

2021

..../js/dragondrop/ MIT GitHub
Datatables 1.11.4 1.13.2 TBC No Minor Active .../js/DataTables/ MIT Data Tables |Download

Release notes CDN

Dropzone 5.7.6 5.9.3 TBC No Minor Inactive, 2021 .../js/dropzone/ MIT GitHub releases 6.0.0 in beta
Gridstack 4.4.1 v7.2.3,

v6.0.3, v5.1.1

v4.4.1

https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13788/1 No Patch|Minor|Major Active .../js/gridstack/ MIT GitHub | Website
jQuery 3.6.3 3.6.3 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13789/1 No Minor Active .../js/jquery/ MIT Website | GitHub | Blog post
Forum | Twitter
jQuery UI 1.13.1 1.13.2 TBC No Patch Active .../js/jquery/jquery-ui/ MIT jQuery UI Security and compatibility fixes
JS Color 2.4.7 2.5.1 TBC No Minor Active .../js/jscolor/ GPL 3 http://jscolor.com/ - click download for #
Json editor 2.6.1 2.8.0 TBC No Minor Active .../js/jsoneditor/ MIT GitHub |Changelog
Marked 4.0.12 4.2.12 TBC No Minor Active .../js/marked/ MIT GitHub
Moment.js 2.29.1 2.5.2

3.2.1

TBC No Minor|Major Active .../js/momentjs/ MIT Moment JS 🆕 Luxon GitHub

Connected to jquery date-picker

PDFjs 3.3.122 3.3.122 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13792 No Minor|Major Active .../artefact/file/blocktype/pdf/js/pdfjs/ Apache License 2 Getting started | GitHub
Popper 2.10.2 2.11.6 TBC No Minor Active .../js/popper/ MIT https://popper.js.org/
GitHub issue | tooltips
Select2 4.0.13 4.0.13 TBC No None Inactive, 2020 .../js/select2/ MIT Select2 | Releases

RC 4.1

Fontawesome 6.1.1 6.30 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13793/2 No Minor Active .../theme/raw/sass/lib/font-awesome/ SIL OFL 1.1 Font Awesome | GitHub | Upgrade steps | Changelog
TinyMCE 5.10.2 5.10.7 https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13798 No Patch Active .../js/tinymce/ LGPL 2.1 Tiny Cloud | Downloads | Changelog |News

📲 Test on mobile

Video.js 7.17.0 7.21.1

8.0.4

https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13799 No Minor|Major Active .../artefact/file/blocktype/
internalmedia/videojs/
Apache License 2.0 Video JS | GitHub

Forked/stale/deprecated libraries

Name Mahara
version

🚧

Latest
version
🚧
Security

🚧

Update type

🚧

Status

🚧

README location
(./htdocs/...)
License URL/Notes
Dwoo🟡 1.3.7 1.3.7 n/a Replace Deprecated .../lib/dwoo/ LGPL Dead site | GitHub project
Javascript
templates
3.20.0 3.20.0 n/a n/a Archived, 2021 .../js/javascript-templates/ MIT GitHub
jQuery mobile 1.5.0-alpha.1 1.5.0-rc1 n/a n/a Deprecated .../js/jquery/jquery-mobile/ MIT http://jquerymobile.com

https://blog.jquerymobile.com
🚨 Are we still using this?

jQuery UI plugin
touch-punch
0.2.3 0.2.3 n/a n/a Deprecated .../js/jquery/jquery-ui/
jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js
MIT or GPL
Version 2
Touch Punch | GitHub

🚨 Is it merged into jQuery?

jTLine 1.0 1.0 n/a n/a Inactive, 2018 .../js/jTLine/ MIT GitHub | Twitter
Masonry 4.2.2 4.2.2 n/a n/a Inactive, 2018 .../js/masonry/ MIT Masonry |GitHub
TinyMCE
Mathslate
1.1 1.1 n/a n/a Forked, 2015 .../js/tinymce/plugins/mathslate/ GPL 3 Our version is forked.
make it work with Tinymce 5
Oauth PHP 175 175 n/a Replace Archived, 2010 .../webservice/libs/oauth-php/ MIT Code - We should replace with an oauth2 php library checkout what Moodle does (old comment)
zxcvbn 4.4.2 4.4.2 n/a n/a Inactive, 2017 .../js/zxcvbn/ MIT GitHub
Cookie consent 3.1.1 4.0 No OS version not supported .../js/cookieconsent/ MIT Download | GitHub

Open source version is not updated. 🚨

Fonts

Name Mahara
version
Latest
version
Security Update Status README location
(./htdocs/...)
License URL/Notes
Aurulent Sans
(font)
2007.05.04 2007.05.04 n/a n/a n/a .../lib/fonts/ SIL OFL v1.10 Font Squirrel Aurulent Sans
Deja Vu Sans
(font)
2.37 2.37 n/a n/a n/a .../lib/fonts/ DejaVu Fonts Font Squirrel Deja Vu Sans
Open Sans
(font)
1.10 1.10 n/a n/a Unknown .../theme/raw/fonts/ Apache License Google Fonts Open Sans
Roboto Slab
(font)
1.100263 1.100263 n/a n/a Unknown .../theme/raw/fonts/ MIT Google Fonts Roboto
Charis SIL
(fonts)
6.001 6.001 n/a n/a Active .././lib/fonts/ SIL OFL About font | Download

Composer.json dependencies

Resources: https://git.mahara.org | /mahara/mahara/-/blob/ | mahara/external/composer.json

Run composer outdated to check for updates.