Get the Source Code

You can access the Sakai source code from our Subversion repository.

Release Site

The Sakai Foundation issues new versions of the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software on a regular basis. To obtain the latest Sakai demo, binary or source release please click on the link below:

http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/

Source Code

The Sakai Community manages its source code utilizing the open-source Subversion (SVN) version control system. Sakai source code is available from our SVN repository located at

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/

The latest release of Sakai is 2.6.1 and can be found at

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.6.1/

or issue the following command Subversion command:

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.6.1/ sakai

The latest development work and least stable code is located in /sakai/trunk; past stable releases can be retrieved from the /sakai/tags folder organized by release version. Maintenance branches may be created in the /sakai/branches folder for additional work on current or previous tagged releases.

Trunk: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/trunk/

Tags: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags

Branches: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/

In addition, Sakai's SVN repository includes a number of projects that are not included in official Sakai releases that can be checked out and installed in the Sakai CLE. Code for these projects (known within the Sakai Community as contributed or "contrib" projects) is located at the following address:

Contrib: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/

Building Sakai From Source

Building and deploying Sakai projects to your web application server requires installation of Apache Maven. Please see the Sakai Installation Guide for step-by-step instructions for building, deploying and configuring Sakai.

Maintenance Branches

The latest bug fixes for a particular release can be found in our maintenance branches. Please note that certain maintenance branch fixes require database schema changes; see the Sakai Confluence Wiki branch summaries for more information.

Sakai 2-5-x

2-5-x branch summary

svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai_2-5-x/

Post-Release Branches

At various times, Sakai project teams make available for the current release new functionality destined for a future release. For more information on these interim releases visit our Release Management space in our Confluence Wiki.