ILIAS-eLearning · mjansenDatabay · Mar 10, 2026 · Mar 10, 2026 · Mar 10, 2026 · Mar 10, 2026
diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        php: [8.3, 8.4]
+        php: [8.4, 8.5]
         nodejs: [ 22.x, 24.x ]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code

diff --git a/...hub/workflows/install-check-trunk-8.3.yml → ...hub/workflows/install-check-trunk-8.5.yml b/...hub/workflows/install-check-trunk-8.3.yml → ...hub/workflows/install-check-trunk-8.5.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: install-check-trunk-8.3
+name: install-check-trunk-8.5
 on:
   schedule:
     - cron: "0 12 * * *"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        php: [8.3]
+        php: [8.5]
     env:
       DB_DATABASE: ilias
       DB_USER: root

diff --git a/.github/workflows/legacy-ui.yml b/.github/workflows/legacy-ui.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup PHP
         uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
         with:
-          php-version: 8.3
+          php-version: 8.4
           extensions: dom, curl, libxml, mbstring, zip, gd, json, readline, xsl, xml, mysql
           tools: composer:v2
           coverage: none

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [![checks](https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/actions/workflows/checks.yml/badge.svg?branch=trunk)](https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/actions/workflows/checks.yml)
-[![Supported PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/php-%3E%3D8.3%7C%3C%3D8.4-8892BF.svg)](https://php.net/)
+[![Supported PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/php-%3E%3D8.4%7C%3C%3D8.5-8892BF.svg)](https://php.net/)
 
 # ILIAS
 

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/AdvancedMetaData/tests/record/ilAdvancedMDRecordObjectOrderingsTest.php b/components/ILIAS/AdvancedMetaData/tests/record/ilAdvancedMDRecordObjectOrderingsTest.php
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ public function testConstruct(): void
     public function testGlobalRecordSorting(): void
     {
         $record_id_reflection = new ReflectionMethod(ilAdvancedMDRecord::class, 'setRecordId');
-        $record_id_reflection->setAccessible(true);
 
         $ids = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
         $positions = array_reverse($ids);

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Chatroom/tests/ilObjChatroomAccessTest.php b/components/ILIAS/Chatroom/tests/ilObjChatroomAccessTest.php
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ protected function setUp(): void
 
         $settingsReflection = new ReflectionClass(ilSetting::class);
         $cache = $settingsReflection->getProperty('settings_cache');
-        $cache->setAccessible(true);
         $cache->setValue($settingsReflection, []);
 
         $this->access = new ilObjChatroomAccess();

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/File/classes/Versions/class.ilObjFileVersion.php b/components/ILIAS/File/classes/Versions/class.ilObjFileVersion.php
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ public function getArrayCopy(): array
         $a = [];
         $r = new ReflectionClass($this);
         foreach ($r->getProperties() as $p) {
-            $p->setAccessible(true);
             $a[$p->getName()] = $p->getValue($this);
         }
         return $a;

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/File/tests/ilModulesFileTest.php b/components/ILIAS/File/tests/ilModulesFileTest.php
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ public function testAppendStream(): void
 
         $r = new ReflectionClass(ilObjFile::class);
         $property = $r->getProperty('just_notified');
-        $property->setAccessible(true);
         $property->setValue($file, true);
         $file->setMode(ilObjFile::MODE_FILELIST);
         $this->db_mock

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Mail/tests/ilMailAddressTypesTest.php b/components/ILIAS/Mail/tests/ilMailAddressTypesTest.php
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ private function getWrappedAddressType(ilMailAddressType $type): ilMailAddressTy
         if ($type instanceof ilMailCachedAddressType) {
             $refl = new ReflectionObject($type);
             $inner = $refl->getProperty('inner');
-            $inner->setAccessible(true);
 
             return $inner->getValue($type);
         }

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Refinery/src/KindlyTo/Transformation/DateTimeTransformation.php b/components/ILIAS/Refinery/src/KindlyTo/Transformation/DateTimeTransformation.php
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ class DateTimeTransformation implements Transformation
     use DeriveApplyToFromTransform;
     use DeriveInvokeFromTransform;
 
+    private const string RFC7231 = 'D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T';
+
     /**
      * @inheritDoc
      */
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ public function transform($from): DateTimeImmutable
             DateTimeInterface::COOKIE,
             DateTimeInterface::ISO8601,
             DateTimeInterface::RFC822,
-            DateTimeInterface::RFC7231,
+            self::RFC7231, // DateTimeInterface::RFC7231 format (deprecated constant in PHP 8.5)
             DateTimeInterface::RFC3339_EXTENDED
         ];
 

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Refinery/tests/KindlyTo/Transformation/DateTimeTransformationTest.php b/components/ILIAS/Refinery/tests/KindlyTo/Transformation/DateTimeTransformationTest.php
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 use ILIAS\Refinery\KindlyTo\Transformation\DateTimeTransformation;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\DataProvider;
+use DateTimeZone;
 
 class DateTimeTransformationTest extends TestCase
 {
@@ -45,6 +46,29 @@ public function testDateTimeISOTransformation(mixed $originVal, DateTimeImmutabl
         $this->assertEquals($expectedVal, $transformedValue);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @see https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2450
+     * @see https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/12989
+     */
+    public function testRFC7231ResultsInMisleadingFormattedDateString(): void
+    {
+        $gmt_format = 'D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T'; // former DateTimeInterface::RFC7231
+        $test_gmt_date_time = 'Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:23:05 GMT';
+
+        $exptected = DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(
+            $gmt_format,
+            $test_gmt_date_time
+        );
+
+        $actual = $this->transformation->transform($test_gmt_date_time);
+        $this->assertEquals($exptected, $actual);
+
+        $actual = $actual->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin'));
+        // GMT in the provided format is just a string, it does not effect the presented timezone
+        $this->assertSame('Mon, 06 Jul 2020 14:23:05 GMT', $actual->format($gmt_format));
+        $this->assertEquals($exptected, $actual);
+    }
+
     #[DataProvider('TransformationFailureDataProvider')]
     public function testTransformIsInvalid(string $failingValue): void
     {
@@ -57,20 +81,47 @@ public static function DateTimeTransformationDataProvider(): array
         $now = new DateTimeImmutable();
         return [
             'datetime' => [$now, $now],
-            'iso8601' => ['2020-07-06T12:23:05+0000',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ISO8601, '2020-07-06T12:23:05+0000')],
-            'atom' => ['2020-07-06T12:23:05+00:00',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ATOM, '2020-07-06T12:23:05+00:00')],
-            'rfc3339_ext' => ['2020-07-06T12:23:05.000+00:00',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::RFC3339_EXTENDED, '2020-07-06T12:23:05.000+00:00')],
-            'cookie' => ['Monday, 06-Jul-2020 12:23:05 GMT+0000',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::COOKIE, 'Monday, 06-Jul-2020 12:23:05 GMT+0000')],
-            'rfc822' => ['Mon, 06 Jul 20 12:23:05 +0000',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::RFC822, 'Mon, 06 Jul 20 12:23:05 +0000')],
-            'rfc7231' => ['Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:23:05 GMT',
-                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::RFC7231, 'Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:23:05 GMT')],
-            'unix_timestamp' => [481556262, DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ISO8601, '1985-04-05T13:37:42+0000')],
-            'unix_timestamp_float' => [481556262.4, DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ISO8601, '1985-04-05T13:37:42+0000')]
+            'iso8601' => [
+                '2020-07-06T12:23:05+0000',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ISO8601, '2020-07-06T12:23:05+0000')
+            ],
+            'atom' => [
+                '2020-07-06T12:23:05+00:00',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::ATOM, '2020-07-06T12:23:05+00:00')
+            ],
+            'rfc3339_ext' => [
+                '2020-07-06T12:23:05.000+00:00',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(
+                    DateTimeInterface::RFC3339_EXTENDED,
+                    '2020-07-06T12:23:05.000+00:00'
+                )
+            ],
+            'cookie' => [
+                'Monday, 06-Jul-2020 12:23:05 GMT+0000',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::COOKIE, 'Monday, 06-Jul-2020 12:23:05 GMT+0000')
+            ],
+            'rfc822' => [
+                'Mon, 06 Jul 20 12:23:05 +0000',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTimeInterface::RFC822, 'Mon, 06 Jul 20 12:23:05 +0000')
+            ],
+            'rfc7231' => [
+                'Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:23:05 GMT',
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat('D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', 'Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:23:05 GMT')
+            ],
+            'unix_timestamp' => [
+                481556262,
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(
+                    DateTimeInterface::ISO8601,
+                    '1985-04-05T13:37:42+0000'
+                )
+            ],
+            'unix_timestamp_float' => [
+                481556262.4,
+                DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(
+                    DateTimeInterface::ISO8601,
+                    '1985-04-05T13:37:42+0000'
+                )
+            ]
         ];
     }
 

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Test/tests/ilTestSkillLevelThresholdImportListTest.php b/components/ILIAS/Test/tests/ilTestSkillLevelThresholdImportListTest.php
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ public function testAddOriginalSkillTitle(): void
         $this->testObj->addOriginalSkillTitle($skillBaseId, $skillTrefId, $originalSkillTitle);
 
         $reflProp = new ReflectionProperty($this->testObj, 'originalSkillTitles');
-        $reflProp->setAccessible(true);
 
         $this->assertEquals(["$skillBaseId:$skillTrefId" => $originalSkillTitle], $reflProp->getValue($this->testObj));
     }
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ public function testAddOriginalSkillPath(): void
         $this->testObj->addOriginalSkillPath($skillBaseId, $skillTrefId, $originalSkillPath);
 
         $reflProp = new ReflectionProperty($this->testObj, 'originalSkillPaths');
-        $reflProp->setAccessible(true);
 
         $this->assertEquals(["$skillBaseId:$skillTrefId" => $originalSkillPath], $reflProp->getValue($this->testObj));
     }
@@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ public function testAddSkillLevelThreshold(): void
         $this->testObj->addSkillLevelThreshold($testSkillLevelThresholdImport);
 
         $reflProp = new ReflectionProperty($this->testObj, 'importedSkillLevelThresholds');
-        $reflProp->setAccessible(true);
 
         $this->assertEquals([$testSkillLevelThresholdImport], $reflProp->getValue($this->testObj));
     }

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/TestQuestionPool/classes/class.assErrorText.php b/components/ILIAS/TestQuestionPool/classes/class.assErrorText.php
@@ -377,6 +377,10 @@ private function completeParsedErrorTextFromErrorData(): void
     {
         foreach ($this->errordata as $error) {
             $position = $error->getPosition();
+            if ($position === null) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             foreach ($this->getParsedErrorText() as $key => $paragraph) {
                 if (array_key_exists($position, $paragraph)) {
                     $this->parsed_errortext[$key][$position]['text_correct'] =
@@ -905,7 +909,11 @@ private function generateArrayByPositionFromErrorData(): array
     {
         $array_by_position = [];
         foreach ($this->errordata as $error) {
-            $array_by_position[$error->getPosition()] = [
+            $position = $error->getPosition();
+            if ($position === null) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            $array_by_position[$position] = [
                 'length' => $error->getLength(),
                 'points' => $error->getPoints(),
                 'text' => $error->getTextWrong(),

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/TestQuestionPool/tests/assLongMenuTest.php b/components/ILIAS/TestQuestionPool/tests/assLongMenuTest.php
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ protected static function getMethod($name): ReflectionMethod
     {
         $class = new ReflectionClass(assLongMenu::class);
         $method = $class->getMethod($name);
-        $method->setAccessible(true);
         return $method;
     }
 

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Tree/tests/ilRepositoryTreeTest.php b/components/ILIAS/Tree/tests/ilRepositoryTreeTest.php
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ public function testInitLanguage(): void
         $tree = new ilTree(1);
         $tree->initLangCode();
         $tree_reflection = new ReflectionProperty($tree, 'lang_code');
-        $tree_reflection->setAccessible(true);
         $this->assertEquals('en', $tree_reflection->getValue($tree));
 
         // user getCurrentLanguage() from session is empty
@@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ public function testInitLanguage(): void
         $this->setGlobalVariable('ilUser', $user);
         $tree->initLangCode();
         $tree_reflection = new ReflectionProperty($tree, 'lang_code');
-        $tree_reflection->setAccessible(true);
         $this->assertEquals('en', $tree_reflection->getValue($tree));
     }
 

diff --git a/components/ILIAS/setup_/classes/class.ilCommonSetupAgent.php b/components/ILIAS/setup_/classes/class.ilCommonSetupAgent.php
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 class ilCommonSetupAgent implements Setup\Agent
 {
     private const PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT = "128M";
-    private const PHP_MIN_VERSION = "8.3.0";
-    private const PHP_MAX_VERSION = "8.4.999";
+    private const PHP_MIN_VERSION = "8.4.0";
+    private const PHP_MAX_VERSION = "8.5.999";
 
     protected Refinery\Factory $refinery;
     protected Data\Factory $data;

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 		]
 	},
 	"require": {
-		"php": ">=8.3 <8.5",
+		"php": ">=8.4 <8.6",
 		"ext-gd": "*",
 		"ext-dom": "*",
 		"ext-xsl": "*",
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 		"guzzlehttp/psr7": "2.7.0",
 		"ifsnop/mysqldump-php": "2.11",
 		"james-heinrich/getid3": "^1.9.23",
-		"league/commonmark": "2.7.0",
+		"league/commonmark": "^2.8",
 		"league/flysystem": "3.28.0",
 		"monolog/monolog": "^3.9",
 		"mustache/mustache": "^3.0",