The Evergreen Community is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release for Evergreen 3.8. This release contains various new features and enhancements, including:

• Angular rewrites of several staff interfaces:
  • Acquisitions administration
  • Holdings maintenance and item attributes editor
  • Patron triggered events log
  • Item triggered events log
• A new option to make headings browsing case-insensitive
• A new interface for editing notes that are attached to bibliographic records
• Improvements to the staff interface for browsing bib records that are attached to a heading
• Patron notes, messages, alert messages, and standing penalties have been folded into a consolidated notes interface.
• New settings to control how the item price and acquisition cost are used to determine the item’s value for replacement
• Improvements to the dialogs used to override events in the checkout, items out, and renew items interfaces
• The patron photo URL can now be edited from the patron registration interface
• New settings for hold stalling based on the pickup library
• New settings for tuning the default pickup location that is applied when a hold request is placed by a staff member
• Stripe credit payments in the public catalog now use a newer API recommended by Stripe
• Cover images are now displayed in the My Account items checked out, check out history, holds, and holds history pages
• New reporting views, including item statistics andDewey call number blocks and ranges

Evergreen admins installing the beta or upgrading a test system to the beta should be aware of the following:

• The minimum version of PostgreSQL required to run Evergreen 3.6 is PostgreSQL 9.6.
• The minimum version of OpenSRF is 3.2.
• Debian Bullseye is now supported, while Debian Jessie is no longer supported
• The upgrade does not require a catalog reingest. However, if you are experimenting with the case-insensitive browse feature, reingests will be required for any index that you change.
• The beta release should not be used for production.

Additional information, including a full list of new features, can be found in the release notes.