LimeSurvey roadmap

General

This page lists current LimeSurvey releases, future development, and release goals.

Goals cannot be fulfilled by itself so if you want to give a helping hand or contribute new features yourself please get in touch!

Version Support Time Frames

For several reasons, we dropped the Long-term-support (LTS) definition for selected versions. Instead, each version will have support periods as defined here.

Definition:

• Normal support: Receives security fixes and non-breaking changes & updates at last two years from first release
• Extended support: Receives only security fixes - at least one year on top of normal support. Updates may only be available if ComfortUpdate is used. In some cases, we may extend this period at our discretion if needed.

Versions older than LimeSurvey 3.0

• These versions will not receive new features or updates

LimeSurvey 3.x - First release: Dec 2017

Support time frame:

• Community Edition: Extended support available until end of July 2023
• Cloud: Supported until end of November 2023

LimeSurvey 4.x - First release: Jan 2020

Discontinued. Version 4.x will not receive any updates.

LimeSurvey 5.x - First release: May 2021

Support time frame:

• Community Edition:
  • Normal support until May 2023
  • Extended support until May 2024
• Cloud:
  • Supported until May 2024

LimeSurvey 6.x - First release: Apr 2023

Support time frame:

• Community Edition:
  • Normal support until April 3rd, 2025
  • Extended support until April 3rd, 2026
• Cloud:
  • Supported until April 3rd, 2026

LimeSurvey 7.x - First release: ~ Jan 2026

Support time frame:

• Community Edition:
  • Normal support until ~ Jan 2028
  • Extended support until ~ Jan 2029
• Cloud:
  • Supported until ~ Jan 2029

Release details

LimeSurvey 3.x

Major 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.

LimeSurvey 5.0

• Updated interface
• Possible to install plugins and question themes via ZIP-file
• Update checks for plugins available in LimeStore
• Encrypted fields
• New plugin events : ExpressionManagerStart and SetVariableExpressionEnd allowing to manage expression by plugin.
• Survey Group Permissions
• More...

LimeSurvey 5.1

• Add RPC function to delete a response using its ID (#1928) (arnaudbore)
• Ability to export to SPSS .sav format (#1877) (Adam Zammit)
• Multiple UX fixes

LimeSurvey 5.2

• No new major features, mostly GUI fixes.

LimeSurvey 5.3

• No big new features, mostly internal improvements, e.g. database updates split into multiple classes and more PSR-12 fixes.

LimeSurvey 5.4

• New feature to deal with email notifications that failed to send out

LimeSurvey 5.5

• Enable / disable users and fields to manage users
• Allow for user friendly survey URLS
• Encrypted plugin settings
• Extend form via plugin

LimeSurvey 5.6

• New feature #07641: Options to use Y/N conversion in RemoteControl API export

LimeSurvey 6.0

Breaking changes:

• The event afterSurveyCompleted is now fired in preview mode as well, with responseId = null
• Due to the conversion of LimeSurvey to Bootstrap 5, custom survey themes will have to be revised
• We only provide one admin theme at the moment, the previous variations have been removed

• New feature: Converted the application to the Bootstrap 5 framework
• New feature: Implemented a new administration theme
• New feature: Upgraded Twig from 1.0 to 3.0
• New feature: PHP 8.1 compatibility
• New feature: Add get_available_site_settings RPC method
• New feature: Fire afterSurveyCompleted event in preview mode
• New feature: Allow calling get_uploaded_files() remote control function by response ID
• New feature: Add Quota CRUD RPC methods (#2458)

LimeSurvey 6.1

Released May 22nd 2023.

New features:

• Allow to move question inside group and group order with activated survey

LimeSurvey 6.2

Released 1st of August 2023.

New features:

• New survey theme

LimeSurvey 6.3

Released 16th of October 2023.

New features:

• Google OAuth plugin for emails

LimeSurvey 6.4

Released 18th December 2023.

New features:

• Add column "active" to users, to be able to activate or deactivate users
• Preview survey in modal

LimeSurvey 6.5

Released March 19th, 2024

New features:

• Updated internal REST API with more functions

LimeSurvey 6.6

Released July 29, 2024.

New features:

• Additions for the new (yet unofficial) REST API

LimeSurvey 6.7

Released Nov 18, 2024.

New features:

• New plugin event beforeMovePublicFileUploaded

LimeSurvey 6.8

Released Nov 19, 2024.

New features:

• Plugin event 'beforeSurveyHttpHeaders' allows to modify http headers in surveys

LimeSurvey 6.9

Released Dec 18, 2024.

New features:

• API get_quota_properties also returns completeCount
• Add check for database size before download

LimeSurvey 6.10

Released Jan 6, 2025.

New features:

• Make survey group ID available as output or input for RPC

LimeSurvey 6.11

Released Mar 3, 2025.

New features:

• Support for setting base language on CLI survey import

LimeSurvey 6.12

Released Mar 10, 2025.

New features:

• New translation: Hungarian (Informal)

LimeSurvey 6.13

Released Apr 15, 2025.

New features:

• Set up 2FA with YubiKey (Gabriel Jenik)

LimeSurvey 6.14

Released May 20, 2025.

New features:

• Send an email when plugin was deactivated

LimeSurvey 6.15

Released Jun 23, 2025.

New features:

• Easier response import which handles changed question types better

LimeSurvey 6.16

Released Nov 20, 2025.

New features:

• Added full-screen question script editor
• Introducing new option Random A-Z/Z-A for answer options/subquestion order setting
• Include last modified date in survey list boxes

Current release schedule

A patch (bug fix) release is released every Monday, for all supported versions.

A minor release (new features without breaking backward compatibility) is released every 8 weeks, approximately.

A major release (new features that will break backward compatibility, e.g. dropping support for PHP versions or browsers) will be a major release if it breaks backwards compatibility in some way.

Please also see the manual about the release process.