Chamilo vs LifterLMS
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Chamilo is racing a Symfony/Vue 2.0 rewrite to GA while hardening the legacy 1.11 line.
Chamilo is running two tracks at once. The legacy 1.11.x line keeps shipping security and bugfix maintenance releases (1.11.38, 1.11.40), several addressing critical vulnerabilities. Meanwhile the 2.0 rewrite, a Symfony backend with a Vue frontend, is grinding through release candidates packed with plugin-system revival, LTI interoperability, ONLYOFFICE and H5P integrations, and a sweep of security fixes including removal of an eval()-based RCE.
The center of gravity is the 2.0 RC series marching toward a GA that has already slipped past its milestone date. Each RC both ports legacy tools to Vue and re-enables the plugin ecosystem (CardGame, BBB, BuyCourses, XApi, Tour) on the new architecture, suggesting GA-readiness is gated on plugin parity and migration fidelity rather than new features. The parallel 1.11 security cadence signals Chamilo intends to support the old line through the transition.
Expect continued 2.0 RCs focused on migration and plugin parity before a GA cut, with the 1.11 line receiving security-only releases in the interim. The volume of security fixes inside the RCs points to a hardening push as a GA gate.
LifterLMS is in a steady security-hardening cycle across the 10.0.x line
The entire recent 10.0.1–10.0.10 series is dominated by security fixes: added permission and input-validation checks across checkout, quiz, course-builder, REST API, and form-submission paths, many credited to external researchers. Functional changes are minor bug fixes; v10.0.7 stands out with a real caching improvement, and v10.0.4 added AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md to guide AI coding agents.
Frequent point releases (roughly weekly) that are almost entirely defensive hardening rather than new capability. The consistent stream of researcher-credited fixes suggests an active audit or bug-bounty effort against the 10.x branch.
The security-fix cadence will likely continue near-term as the 10.x codebase is audited; no new user-facing feature direction is visible in these entries.
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