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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Check if there are any outdated libraries (according to the version syntax in composer.json) composer outdated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
  • Update type = what upgrades are available for this plugin, i.e. major, minor, patch, or security?
  • Support = Is there a community supporting this library? When was the last release year if not in active support
    • 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.
  • License = software license for the library
  • Notes = extra information, e.g. resources, notes, and new
  • Composer = check if the library is managed by Composer
  • NPM = check if the library is managed by NPM

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

πŸ’‘ A new idea is being proposed to better handle customisations on updating third party libraries lives here β†’ https://reviews.mahara.org/c/mahara/+/13780

PHP libraries (excluding external)

https://eusonlito.github.io/php-changes-cheatsheet/deprecated.html

Libraries are managed by Composer. See composer.json

Run composer show to get a quick summary of library versions managed by Composer.

Run composer outdated to get a list of outdated libraries.

🟑 Libraries yet to be moved to Composer: SimpleSAMLPHP - currently lives in htdocs/auth/saml/extlib and the version is managed in Makefile by curl.

Name Mahara
version
Update type Support License URL/Notes Composer
ADODB 5.22.6 Up to date Active BSD 3-Clause
LGPL
Official site | GitHub | Twitter
Wish-list: extract $SESSION
βœ…
CSS Tidy 2.1.0 Up to date Active LGPL GitHub βœ…
Elasticsearch PHP 7.17.2 Major, 8.10.0 Active Apache v2.0 LGPL v2.1 GitHub | Changelog

Move to OpenSearch

βœ…
HTML Purifier 4.16.0 Up to date 2022 LGPL v2.1+ HTML Purifier | GitHub βœ…
PHPMailer 6.8.1 Up to date Active LGPL GitHub βœ…
ReCaptcha 1.2.4 Minor, 1.3.0 Active BSD-3 GitHub βœ…
simplesamlphp 2.0.4 Minor, 2.0.6 Active GPL 2.1 GitHub

Optional library - called in Makefile

❌

JavaScript and jQuery libraries

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

Run npm list to get a quick list of the versions and libraries managed by NPM

Goal: to move libraries to be managed by NPM

NPM-managed JS libraries

Name Mahara
version
Update type Support License Notes
yargs 5.0.2 Minor, 5.3.2 Active MIT
Chart.js 3.9.1 Major, 4.4.0 Active MIT Migration to v4
Clipboard js 2.0.11 Up to date Active MIT version # is tagged
Dragon-drop 3.6.1 Up to date 2020 MIT
Dropzone 5.9.3 Patch, 5.9.3 2021 MIT
jQuery 3.7.1 Up to date Active MIT Forum
jQuery UI 1.13.2 Up to date Active MIT
JS Color 2.5.1 Up to date Inactive,2022 GPL 3
Marked 4.3.0 Minor, 4.3.0

Major 9.1.0

Active MIT
Moment.js 2.29.4 Up to date Active MIT Moment JS πŸ†• Luxon GitHub
Popper 2.11.8 Up to date Active MIT GitHub issue | tooltips

Floating UI

Fontawesome 6.4.2 Up to date Active SIL OFL 1.1 Upgrade steps | Changelog
TinyMCE 5.10.7 Major, 6.7.0 Active LGPL 2.1 Downloads | Changelog

πŸ“² Test mobile

Video.js 7.21.5 Major, 8.5.2 Active Apache License 2.0 Video JS

Manually managed JS libraries

Name Mahara
version
Update type Support Location
(./htdocs/...)
License Notes NPM
Date time

picker

4.17.47 Major 6.17.16 Active - v6 .../js/bootstrap-datetimepicker/ MIT Changelog

Latest release: rewrite (beta)

❌
Datatables 1.11.4 Minor Active .../js/DataTables/ MIT Download

Release notes CDN

❌ Need to use web builder
Gridstack 4.4.1 Major Active .../js/gridstack/ MIT [Demos](https://gridstackjs.com/demo/)


https://github.com/gridstack/gridstack.js/tree/master/doc

🚧
Json editor 2.6.1 Minor Active .../js/jsoneditor/ MIT Changelog 🚧
PDFjs 3.10.111 Minor 🚧 Active .../artefact/file/blocktype/pdf/js/pdfjs/ Apache License 2 Getting started

The Firefox dist version different to NPM package

❌

Forked/stale/deprecated libraries

Name Mahara
version
Latest
version
Support Location
(./htdocs/...)
License URL Next action
Dwoo 1.3.7 1.3.7 Archived, 2020 .../lib/dwoo/ LGPL Dead site?

GitHub

Javascript
templates
3.20.0 3.20.0 Archived, 2021 .../js/javascript-templates/ MIT GitHub
jQuery mobile 1.5.0-alpha.1 1.5.0-rc1 Deprecated .../js/jquery/jquery-mobile/ MIT Website
🚨 "transition(ed) ... under the jQuery project umbrella, jQuery UI"
Remove and test
jQuery UI plugin
touch-punch
0.2.3 0.2.3 Deprecated .../js/jquery/jquery-ui/
jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js
MIT or GPL
Version 2
GitHub

🚨 external to JQuery UI

Use a fork?
jTLine 1.0 1.0 Inactive, 2018 .../js/jTLine/ MIT GitHub

Twitter

Ref

Masonry 4.2.2 4.2.2 Inactive, 2018 .../js/masonry/ MIT Masonry

GitHub

TinyMCE
Mathslate
1.1 1.1 Forked, 2015 .../js/tinymce/plugins/mathslate/ GPL 3 Our version is forked.
to work with Tinymce 5
Oauth PHP 175 175 Archived, 2010 .../webservice/libs/oauth-php/ MIT Code Replace with an oauth2 php library see what Moodle does (old comment)
zxcvbn 4.4.2 4.4.2 Inactive, 2017 .../js/zxcvbn/ MIT GitHub
Cookie consent 3.1.1 4.0 No open source updates .../js/cookieconsent/ MIT Download GitHub

Open source version is not updated. 🚨

Select2 4.0.13 4.0.13 Inactive, 2020 .../js/select2/ MIT Select2 | Releases

RC 4.1

Fonts

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