Posts in category Development Update
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google Maps of Evergreen Libraries
Anna Goben at the Lebanon Public Library in Lebanon, Indiana has a page on the library’s Web site with information on the various libraries in Evergreen Indiana. As neat as this page is, see the map over on the right and click on it to see the larger Google map. Wow!
I chatted with her and with her help, I have put together a Google map [...]
Evergreen releases: 2.0 beta 3, 1.6.1...
In a nice change of pace (hah!), the development team has been hard at work over the past week. We have published new releases in three of the current development and maintenance Evergreen branches on the downloads page.
For libraries looking for acquisitions, user-friendly serials, and more, the third beta release of Evergreen 2.0 was publis [...]
Welcome, Dan Wells: Evergreen’s...
I am delighted to announce that, as of today, the Evergreen project has added another core committer. This morning, Dan Wells of the Hekman Library at Calvin College accepted our invitation to join us on the core committer team. Dan presented some of his early work on revamping serials support at the Evergreen International Conference 2010 an [...]
Evergreen 2.0, alpha 4 – “...
The Evergreen development team has put together another 2.0 alpha release in the relentless march towards stability. The release, cleverly named alpha 4, incorporates a much smaller number of bug fixes and performance improvements than alpha 3, suggesting that we are indeed getting close to the level of stability needed for a good beta releas [...]
Evergreen 2.0, alpha 3 release ready ...
Yesterday we (the Evergreen development team) finished wrapping up the Evergreen 2.0 alpha 3 release and made it available for your consumption, inspection, testing, development – what have you.
The released ??files, including the source tarball, staff clients for Windows and Linux, and a virtual image built on Debian Squeeze, are avail [...]
Security vulnerability in Evergreen 1...
On Thursday, June 17th, we realized that the open-ils.pcrud service, which provides permission-protected access to Evergreen data in the 1.6 release series, was subject to a security vulnerability. The vulnerability allows a user to access objects outside of the permissions they have been granted by supplying fleshing arguments to the open-il [...]
PINES the day after Memorial Day, 200...
Some of you may know that Lamar Veatch and I are working on an article on the history of Evergreen so we are busy with that work—and will possibly be posting bits and pieces here. I suspect that we will also assemble web-friendly materials for an online history somewhere but that in time.
Dr. Veatch and I were talking about previous pos [...]