Firefox 10, BibTemplate, and the cata...
We discovered today that Firefox 10 (coming to desktops near you over the past few days) reacts strongly to some things that it always used to accept without complaint – which can end up in a degraded or completely broken catalogue, depending on how you’ve customized it with BibTemplate.
Long story short, we’ve been able to [...]
Evergreen community on SOPA and PIPA
The Evergreen community participates along with hundreds of other websites in raising awareness about two pieces of U.S. legislation, SOPA and PIPA, by posting the following banner on the official website.
Please be aware that many websites have decided to “go dark” today to raise awareness about two pieces of U.S. legislation, S [...]
End Of Life Announcement – Ever...
The development team has announced an End of Life for the 1.6 release series of Evergreen. The series is no longer maintained and will not receive any updates effective 2011-11-04.
It is advised that installations running a 1.6 version of Evergreen upgrade to the 2.0 or 2.1 series. To get the latest release and view upgrade instructions pleas [...]
Evergreen Releases: 2.1.1 and 2.2-alp...
Evergreen 2.1.1 and 2.2-alpha1 were released on November 17, 2011.
Evergreen 2.1.1 represents the first major bug fix release of the 2.1 series. You can view the full changelog here.
Evergreen 2.2-alpha1 is the first cut of the next 2.2 series. Come be among the first to help test new features and functionality. This release includes many [...]
Evergreen security releases: 2.0.10 a...
UPDATE: 2011-10-06
Unfortunately, we discovered a problem with the brute force fix that could lead to incorrect authentication failures. The problem was most evident in multi-brick environments, but could occur in any environment with more than one open-ils.auth child processing authentication requests. Consequently, we have released updated [...]
Evergreen at 5
Happy Birthday, Evergreen!
Tuesday, September 6, was the beginning of Evergreen’s sixth year. (Evergreen’s anniversary is calculated as the day after the U.S. Labor Day in early September. The PINES library consortium was the first implementation of Evergreen and it went live on that day in 2006.) What follows are summary tables o [...]
Evergreen Releases: 2.0.9
Evergreen 2.0.9 was released on August 24, 2011. It includes various bug fixes, please see the full list of changes here. In addition this release provides PostgreSQL 9.0 as a target in the 2.0 Makefile.install for Debian / Ubuntu, and Fedora 15 for folks starting to adopt PostgreSQL 9.0 in Evergreen 2.0 as a stepping stone towards Evergreen [...]
Evergreen Releases: 2.0.8 and 2.1-RC2
Evergreen 2.0.8 was released on August 9, 2011. Another major bug fix release, you can see the full changes here.
Also, Evergreen 2.1 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) was released on August 13, 2011. Help us test out what will become the next major release of Evergreen! Please report any new bugs to Launchpad. There is a full list of changes bet [...]
State of Evergreen, June 30, 2011R...
This post is an update of Evergreen at 4 to include data on Evergreen libraries through the second quarter of 2011. The first two quarters of the calendar year have been busy ones in the Evergreen community as these summary data show. We are within sight of our 1,000th Evergreen library.
The convention I have used for these tables is to use & [...]
Evergreen Releases: 2.0.7 and 2.1-RC1
Evergreen 2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) was released on June 18, 2011. Come test out what will become the next major release of Evergreen! Please report any new bugs to Launchpad.
Evergreen 2.0.7 was released on June 28, 2011. This release sees 24 Launchpad bug fixes attached to it and many other improvements. See full changelog here.
Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom ...
Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.
Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are [...]
PINES and KCLS the day after Memorial...
This is the fifth summary report of important circulation statistics for the day after Memorial Day for PINES and the first for the King County Library System (KCLS).
Most PINES numbers had shown a steady increase for this busy day in the PINES libraries but this year all numbers are down a bit from last year although they are still impressiv [...]
Evergreen now Git-ified
As of today, Evergreen and OpenSRF are now using Git for version control. The new version control server, kindly provided by the Georgia Public Library Service, is http://git.evergreen-ils.org/. The Subversion repositories for Evergreen and OpenSRF are now read-only and will no longer be updated.
So what does using Git mean for the Evergree [...]
On the march to the 1,000th Evergreen...
In my talk at the Evergreen conference, I reported counts of the number of Evergreen libraries by various categories. At the time, I estimated that in early May, there would be 415 library systems and 858 library outlets using Evergreen. I missed some and (my current estimate of) the actual numbers is 425 systems and 873 library outlets– [...]
Security Notice: Evergreen 2.0 Serial...
Evergreen Users,
In the course of adding various improvements to the Serials module, it was found that permissions had not been correctly applied to the “Serial Control View” interface. This affects Evergreen versions 2.0.0 thru 2.0.6. If you are using the Serials module in Evergreen 2.0, it is strongly suggested that you follow t [...]
Evergreen releases: 2.0.6 and 2.1-Bet...
On May 5, 2011, the Evergreen development community released Evergreen 2.0.6, the latest stable release of the 2.0 Series. Also released was the first beta of Evergreen 2.1; a reminder that the PostgreSQL 9.0 is required for the 2.1 Series of Evergreen. Please report any bugs to Launchpad.
ChangeLogs can be found on the downloads page, whic [...]
Google Summer of Code 2011 – Ev...
Earlier this year we discussed whether Evergreen should apply to be an organization in the Google Summer of Code. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects, and as such it is a popular program for both open source projects and for studen [...]
Evergreen 2.0.2 – Making 2.0 Be...
The Evergreen development community released version 2.0.2 on February 21st, less than a month from 2.0′s official launch. This marks the second post-release to Evergreen 2.0, showing just how busy the community has been to improve functionality for its users.
Version 2.0.1′s change log
Version 2.0.2′s change log
Evergreen 2.0 – Released!
Thursday, January 27, 2011 marked the much anticipated release of Evergreen 2.0, which brings with it an impressive list of new functions and features. The 2.0 feature list can be found here and includes such major functionality as Acquisitions. There were several key library systems that drove development in this major release. This truly [...]
1.6.1.6, 2.0 RC2, and developer team ...
The developer team has been holding weekly meetings, primarily to help coordinate our 2.0 release efforts, for the past few months. The minutes from yesterday’s developer team meeting are available from the list of developer meetings. Our next meeting is January 11, 2011.
Last night, Mike Rylander created two new releases of note:
1.6 [...]