It seems like it has been a LONG TIME coming, but the Evergreen 3.15 and Monthly Maintenance Release Teams are pleased to announce the availability of three new versions of the Evergreen open-source ILS (library management software). Evergreen 3.15 is the first major feature release of 2025 and includes support for PostgreSQL 17; a rework of item alerts, notes, tags, and templates in the holdings editor; OPAC link click tracking; a new, OpenAPI-compliant RESTful API suite; and much more. In addition to the new features, Evergreen 3.15.0 includes over 80 patches to fix bugs, address accessibility options, and more.

Along with Evergreen 3.15, we are pleased to announce the maintenance releases of Evergreen 3.14.5 and 3.13.10. Evergreen 3.14.5 includes patches that address 45 reported bugs, and Evergreen 3.13.10 includes patches for 28 reported bugs.

There are so many people to thank for these releases. At an awards show, I’d be kicked off the stage for running so far over the time allotted. So, I’m going to say thank you to the release teams (of course), with a special shout-out to Galen Charlton for his mentorship, teaching, and building related to the 3.15-beta and 3.15-rc versions. Thank you also to Terran McCanna (again, but never enough times) for wrangling the 3.15 Feedback Fest that also saw work done on 3.14 and 3.13. And thank you to EVERYONE who contributed in any way to these releases. It is never an exaggeration to say that the Evergreen ILS is a community-driven and community-developed library software solution.

The 3.15 release team is comprised of Release Manager Andrea Buntz Neiman (Equinox), Galen Charlton (Equinox), Martha Driscoll (NOBLE), Blake Graham Henderson (MOBIUS), Jason Etheridge (Equinox), Llewellyn Marshall (NC Cardinal), Gina Monti (Bibliomation), and Ruth Frasur Davis (ECDI).

The April 2025 monthly maintenance release team (3.14.5 and 3.13.10) is comprised of Release Manager Ruth Frasur Davis (ECDI), Andrea Buntz Neiman (Equinox), Gina Monti (Bibliomation), Michele Morgan (NOBLE), and Blake Graham Henderson (MOBIUS).

All release notes, upgrade instructions, git repositories, and downloads are linked on the Evergreen Downloads page.

On behalf of the Evergreen 3.15 Release Team, I am pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate for version 3.15.

We would like to extend a huge thank you to Terran McCanna for wrangling the 3.15 Feedback Fest and everyone who participated in any way with an additional shoutout to Jason Boyer and Blake Graham Henderson for hosting test servers. Also thank you to Jane Sandberg for hosting the collaborative code review and all who participated in that weekly workgroup. Around 30 big and small fixes made their way into 3.15-rc through this amazing collaborative effort. And, we would like to express our gratitude to Galen Charlton for not only building both the beta and rc releases, but doing so live and being available for questions about the process.

The release candidate is the next to last step prior to the final build and release of the major feature release of Evergreen ILS, 3.15.0. It is an opportunity for end users at all levels to evaluate if this version is ready to go or has any show-stopping issues that must be fixed prior to the final release.

The links at https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ have been updated. Please be sure to check out the release notes which have changed from the beta version as well as the git shortlog for a list of changes.