Sakai 25.0 Release Now Available!

Congratulations to our amazing worldwide community!

I’m pleased to announce that Sakai 25.0 is now available!

Many thanks to everyone involved with the release. It wouldn’t happen without all of you.

Our community wiki has both functional [1] and technical [2] release notes.

Download instructions are also available [3].

New in Sakai 25

Sakai 25 features a large number of new features and enhancements, including:

Accessibility improvements
Grading support in Conversations tool
Bulk publish/unpublish for Draft items in Announcements, Assignments, and Tests & Quizzes
Improved Group support in Assignments (including LTI support for group submissions)
SCORM Player tool now part of Core Sakai
Course Cards in Home Dashboard
More granular Site Import options and Template sites available in list of sites for import
Date Manager Import/Export for batch due date updates
LTI setup UI improvements for admin external tool installation and deployment
Integration with Microsoft 365 (including new Microsoft Admin Tool for group and user synchronization, new Meetings tool with Teams integration, and integrations for Collaborative Documents, OneDrive, and Stream)
Rubrics improvements including admin control over public rubrics and group submission rubric grading support
Many enhancements to Tests & Quizzes including the Safe Exam Browser open source lockdown browser integration, question pool export, improved event log UI, markup text editor now accepts HTML formatting, random draw from multiple pools, time limit per question or page, improved navigation when grading, question pool keyword search and sorting by folders or usage statistics
Announcements tool enhancements for highlighting announcements and displaying announcements to selected roles
Support for Tags in Assignments and Messages
Messages tool read receipts for private messages and option to convert message to forum post
Gradebook for Groups (i.e. option to set up multiple gradebooks in a site)
Roster tool “Name that Face” game
Streamlined Profile tool
OOTB CKEditor UI now displays the most popular tools by default
Lessons View Item Based on Grade options
High fidelity site content export/import for IMSCC Sakai course exports
Wiki tool group support
New (Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian) and updated (Spanish, Basque) language translations
User role in site displayed in navigation
New Admin Bulk Membership Tool