LimeSurvey is moving forward as an international brand and thus we now offer our website in Spanish language. There are approximately 480 million native Spanish speakers in this world and up to 570 million Spanish speakers in total. The sheer numbers demonstrate how powerful and important the Spanish language is for everyone on this planet. In acknowledgement of this, we hope you enjoy browsing through LimeSurvey en español. If you have any remarks or suggestions, feel free to contact us.

Exciting announcement! We proudly announce that LimeSurvey 3.0 Beta has been released successfully. We would like to already thank everybody that has and will contribute to this new LimeSurvey version, be it voluntary coders, partners or testers. LimeSurvey 3.0 is being developed based on three main goals: Faster operation Easier usability Increased application flexibility These goals equally apply to basic LimeSurvey users with no or little programming knowledge as well as advanced LimeSurvey users with strong coding skills. What has changed for LimeSurvey users? Thanks to our dedicated partner in development Denis (Chenu), LimeSurvey templates are now semantic with regard to HTML markup. Furthermore, LimeSurvey now meets web accessibility conditions, meaning it is now compliant with a11y standards concerning Screen Reader accessibility for blind and visually impaired people. Markus, our greatly appreciated in-house front-end developer, took responsibility of all interface-related tasks, such as the general redesign of the LimeSurvey admin panel which is currently still in process. With the help of one of our highly esteemed contributors Tammo (ter Hark) who provided a mock-up, the left side bar within the admin interface was reconstructed. Previously, the settings, i.e. general survey settings as well as question-specific settings, were organised on the respective survey level in the right accordion sections. These accordions have now been removed and settings move into the left bar settings to enable faster access, avoid confusion and keep the interface nice and lean. Left Bar Settings Up until LimeSurvey 3, editing answer options and subquestions required a separate button within the question setup. An additional improvement to reduce user-sided effort and complexity is a merge process that places question, subquestion and answer option together without the need to click extra buttons (this adjustment is currently in the development stage). In the works is also a so-called 'setting by user' which allows several administrators within one LimeSurvey account to customise the admin interface individually according to personal preferences. This increases the micro-level user flexibility and convenience when working with LimeSurvey on a shared account. Within the context of question group randomisation, it wasn't possible so far from a technical standpoint for participants to save and exist a survey somewhere along the way and then return to it later. One of LimeSurvey's core developers Olle managed to rework this limitation which now allows respondents to leave and take an incompleted survey up again later on when question group randomisation exists. Requested by many people, LimeSurvey is introducing a new template engine which enables template customisations by users with advanced programming knowledge with a template editor, but also by users without coding skills with the help of an options page for easy use. Basic design customisations such as changing logos, colours or adding animations now deliver a much greater deal of flexibility and personal styling for users. Template Overview Template Options Page The code for the rendering process of the front-end has been refactorised by Louis who is one of our in-house developers as well. This way, a continuous performance improvement is achieved on a weekly basis by changing content dynamically without needing to reload an entire page. It is made possible by deploying Ajax and will result in a faster handling of the LimeSurvey application. What has changed for LimeSurvey developers? As mentioned in the previous section, LimeSurvey is introducing a new template engine. Said Twig-based engine, including the powerful template editor, makes the use of replacement keywords obsolete. It is possible to use HTML for the template configuration which enables assessments, to load and save screens, survey lists, error pages and so on. Template Editor Olle has started implementing unit testing in order to reduce the number of bugs released with this Beta. Tonis (Ormisson) contributed by rewriting the documentation of method and helping clean the code. This is a powerful opportunity for basic as well as advanced LimeSurvey users and opens up entirely new possibilities of styling survey designs. Get involved! Test the new LimeSurvey 3.0 beta version by downloading it here. Let us know about any issues you may come across and report to our Bug Tracker.  

As announced in your previous blog post the 2.06LTS (Long Term Support) version is now available!Please note that this version is available on ComfortUpdate and release package download only to our Premium Package subscribers.This LTS version is only meant for existing users of LimeSurvey 2.06 - if you are a new user please download and use the latest Version 2.50 instead.

Finally with this 2.50 release we are receiving a good and wanted amount of bug reports and are releasing a new 2.50+ build version almost daily, with latest translations and latest fixes.These daily releases are there to show that we take your reports very seriously and we want you to get issues fixed as soon as possible. We are also very thankful for everyone that contributes to the translations as many texts have changed inside LimeSurvey. To be fully responsive (we are relying on the Bootstrap framework) the new version 2.50 does not have backward-compatible templates, anymore. Also to deal with contemporary characters like emojis the requirements for the MySQL version were raised to 5.5.2 (this should not be a problem with any decent hoster) We are asking existing 2.0x users to hold their horses for a very short while longer regarding updating to the latest version as we are still clearing update paths.You will know when it is cleared, because at that point we will start offering the version 2.50 on ComfortUpdate (as we did with previous versions) and on LimeService. LimeSurvey 2.06 LTS being available soon We are aware that there are many professional users who have a big amount of running surveys and it will take them some time and preparation to move to LimeSurvey 2.50. For these users we will be offering a LTS (Long Term support) version that we will provide for at least 6 months. This version will mainly include security fixes and (if anything like this should come up) high-impact bug fixes.This version will only be made available as download package or by ComfortUpdate to users who bought a Premium/ComfortUpdate package starting in March. Further roadmap After 2.5 development and issue fixing has calmed down we will merge 2.5 and 3.0 to extend on making LimeSurvey even more modular for the future.LimeSurvey 3.0 is currently scheduled for Q4 2016.

Many of you already downloaded this release, tested it and gave us feedback such as bug reports or new feature requests; we thank all those users for their very useful contribution to the LimeSurvey development. To make easier for people to test LimeSurvey 2.5 Release Candidates, we made it available via ComfortUpdate. If your LimeSurvey installation is up to date (and it should because of the security issue found last month), you will now have an update notice about it, and you'll can use ComfortUpdate to test it. If you're not interested, just remove the notice by clicking on its close button.  LS2.5 RC update notification As said in the notification, you don't need a ComfortUpdate key to update. If you already have a ComfortUpdate key its update count will not be decreased by this update. This is because LimeSurvey 2.5 is still unstable. By the way LimeSurvey 2.5 is using most of the code of 2.06, so it is yet very reliable, and you should be able to use it for your every day work! Most people who did the move told us that the new interface is very intuitive and easy to use. LimeSurvey 2.5 RC Home Page In the coming weeks, we'll published a new 2.5 Release Candidate, probably the last one. It will use icons font instead of pictures, and will provide an easy way to customize the admin interface with a theme engine based on Sass. It will also provide a new template engine for the survey, based on Bootstrap, using the no-more-tables technique for array question types. So the survey templates will be responsive and will work fine on most smartphones. The more users will update to the release candidate and provide us feedbacks about it, the faster we'll publish the LimeSurvey 2.5 as a stable release.  So you should test LimeSurvey 2.5, to report bugs, to request new features, to complain about it, to ask for changes, to troll us, to thanks us or to say how wonderful it is ;-) You are the LimeSurvey users, we're doing those changes for you, so just don't hesitate.