Evergreen 3.5 Release Notes

Evergreen administrators should update existing apache configuration files so that the Angular index.html file is never cached by the client. This can be done by changing the Angular setup section of the apache configuration that starts with:

or similar in the apache configuration. Add the following after the FallbackResource directive:

Finally, ensure that the mod_headers apache module is enabled by running the following commands on all apache servers as the root user:

The most recent release of JQuery requires valid closing tags for X/HTML elements. These were repaired within affected OPAC/Staff Client TT2 templates, but care should be taken in Action/Trigger templates to make sure closing tags are present where appropriate. The stock template for PO HTML was affected. See LP#1873286 for details.

Two new global flag settings have been added to control if/when billings and payments are aged. Both settings are disabled by default.

PostgreSQL 10 is now available for installation with Evergreen. Please see the installation documentation for details.

Evergreen now includes a new type of Action Trigger hook: stgu.created. This hook will trigger upon the patron registration submission form. In addition to the new hook, an example Action Trigger definition is provided (disabled by default) entitled "Patron Registered for a card stgu.created". With clever timing and delay settings, a library can receive a single notification containing all of the pending patron registrations for a given time interval. No special server-side considerations required unless you introduce a new granularity. There is, however, a new clause introduced to the "action_trigger_filters.json.example" file.

If you wish to use this new hook, be sure to include this clause in your local "action_trigger_filters.json" file:

The SendEmail reactor for Action/Trigger has been updated to use the Email::MIME Perl module for proper encoding of the email message header fields. You should notice no functional difference in the sending of emails.

The full MARC editor is now implemented in Angular. This change impacts both the experimental Angular catalog and the MARC edit option within MARC Batch Import/Export (Vandelay) Queue manager.

The record view screen in the Experimental Catalog now has a Patron View tab. This tab displays a view of the record in the OPAC, as a patron would see it.

The Patron View tab replaces the previous View in Catalog button.

This is a new entry under Administration → Server Administration → Best-Hold Selection Sort Order in the staff client. It prioritizes holds such that a given item, based on its owning library, will prefer patrons with a matching home library, no matter the pickup library.

The Angular staff catalog now supports patron searching directly from the holds placement interace.

The Print List button is no longer displayed on the main page of the self check interface. This addresses an issue where users were observed to either hit the Print List button and walk away or hit it and the Logout button, causing duplicate receipts to be printed. The Print List button continues to be displayed on the Items Out, Holds, and Fines Details pages of the self check interface.

The public catalog and staff client now have the ability to update existing holds if a patron or a staff member changes certain notification preferences or contact information. Evergreen will detect these changes and prompt the staff user or patron user and ask if they want to update existing holds with the new contact information and/or notification preferences.

Adds a new "Catalog Preferences" interface, accessible directly from the catalog. The UI houses the search preferences (default search lib, preferred library, default search tab) and a new staff-specific hits-per-page setting. Other preferences may be added later.

Adds support for selecting a default search tab using the existing eg.search.adv_pane setting.

Adds a new stock print option in the Hatch printer configuration interface called Hatch File Writer (translatable). When selected, any print content that is delivered to this printer is translated into text where necessary and written to a file in the Hatch profile directory.

The name of the file written is based on the print context: "receipt.<context>.txt". For example, receipt.label.txt.

Search text highlighting is now supported on the search results and record details pages in the Angular staff catalog for searches that support highlighting.

There is now a library setting called opac.patron.custom_css. This can be populated with CSS that will load in the OPAC after the stylesheets and allow for custom CSS without editing server side templates. The permission UPDATE_ORG_UNIT_SETTING.opac.patron.custom_css manages access to it.

Evergreen now has a new oils_sip.xml login attribute called patron_status_always_permit_loans that specifies whether the charge privileges denied, renewal privilges denied, and card reported lost flags in the patron status block should be coerced to permissive values regardless of the actual state of the patron record. Turning this on works around an issue where a 2019-12 change by the Hoopla SIP2 client takes those flag fields into account, but some libraries may not wish those to block a patron’s access to online resources that use SIP2 to authenticate. This setting can also be set as an implementation_config option; note that if it is set to true or false as a login attribute, the login attribute will override whatever is set in the implementation_config.