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openSIS

EDTECH
Velocity0.0

Open-source student information system for schools and districts

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A student information system that ships once a year and barely says what changed.

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◆Current state
openSIS Community Edition releases roughly annually, and the notes rarely say more than 'bug fixes and security fixes.' The substantive changes across the window are platform-level: PHP 8 and MySQL 8 compatibility in 9.0, right-to-left support in 8.0, and the multilingual merge that closed out the English-only line at 7.5. The last release was October 2025.
◆Where it's heading
The arc is internationalization followed by platform modernization, both of which now appear complete, followed by two releases reporting nothing but fixes. With no feature content in the most recent entries and nine months since the last tag, the community edition reads as maintained rather than developed — the usual shape when a commercial edition carries the roadmap.
◆Prediction
These entries do not support a confident prediction. If the annual pattern holds, a 9.3 described the same way as 9.2 and 9.1 is the most likely next event, but the window for it has already passed once.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9mo ago

    openSIS Community Edition version 9.2

    A release described entirely as bug and security fixes reported by community members and internal testers, with nothing itemized. The most recent tag in this window and the second in a row with no feature content.

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  2. 2y ago

    openSIS Community Edition version 9.1

    Security fixes from external consultants plus user-reported bugs, again without an itemized list. Arrives a year after 9.0 and adds nothing to the platform's surface.

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  3. 3y ago

    openSIS Community Edition version 9.0

    PHP 8 and MySQL 8 compatibility with a nominal schema change — the release that keeps openSIS installable on a supported stack. This is the modernization half of the product's arc, and the last release in the window with concrete technical content.

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  4. 4y ago

    openSIS Community Edition version 8.0

    Right-to-left language support and an Arabic template, extending the internationalization work begun at 7.6. For a school information system, script direction is the gate on entire regional markets.

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  5. 5y ago

    openSIS Community Edition ver 7.6 - Multilingual

    The first multilingual release, shipping Spanish and French. It delivers on the branch merge announced three weeks earlier and opens the internationalization thread that 8.0 then extended to RTL scripts.

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  6. 5y ago

    openSIS Community Edition Ver 7.5 - Last English only release

    A marker release rather than a change: the last English-only build, announcing that the multilingual branch is merging into master. Useful as a boundary for anyone tracing the product's history, not as an update.

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