Dan Scott


About Dan Scott

I'm the systems librarian for Laurentian University, with a background in information architecture, database software development, and project planning from spending 8 years with IBM.

Evergreen 2.0, alpha 3 release ready and waiting

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, […]


Security vulnerability in Evergreen 1.6: patch or upgrade advised

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 […]


Evergreen 1.6.0.1 and OpenSRF 1.2.2 released

The Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenSRF 1.2.2 and Evergreen 1.6.0.1 from the Evergreen downloads page (including the Windows staff client and a minimalist virtual image for testing and development). Evergreen 1.6.0.1 is both a bug-fix and translation release: see the release notes for […]