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Evergreen 3.6-beta1 available

The Evergreen Community is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release for Evergreen 3.6. This release contains various new features and enhancements, including:

  • A new experimental public catalog skin based on the Bootstrap framework that offers improved responsiveness and accessibility.
  • The default staff interface for catalog searching is now the Angular one. The older AngularJS staff catalog remains available but is now labelled the “traditional” catalog.
  • A new course materials/course reserves module.
  • A new interface for managing “hopeless” holds.
  • Interfaces for sending test emails and SMS messages to patrons.
  • Enhancements for printing and emailing records from the public catalog.
  • The conversion of more staff interfaces to Angular, including acquisitions search and providers, manage authorities, MARC batch edit, and booking capture.
  • New web APIs for supporting patron authentication by EZProxy and PatronAPI.
  • A new Action/Trigger reactor that can make web service requests via GET and POST.
  • A new interface for managing curbside pickup appointments.
  • Support for the v3 Stripe API for credit card payments.
  • Certain types of reports can now calculate subtotals.
  • Support for the open source website analytics tool Matomo.
  • SIP2 patron lookup can now accept the patron username in addition to the barcode.

For more information on these and more, please read the initial draft of the release notes.

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.
  • This release adds two new OpenSRF services, open-ils.curbside and open-ils.courses.
  • The release also adds a new Perl module dependency, Config::General.
  • The beta release should not be used for production.

Since the next Evergreen Bug Squashing Week runs from 21 through 25 September 2020, we highly encourage testing of this beta release as soon as possible.

OpenSRF 3.2.1 released

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenSRF 3.2.1, a message routing network that offers scalability and failover support for individual services and entire servers with minimal development and deployment overhead.

OpenSRF 3.2.1 is a small bugfix release that includes the following changes:

  • A fix to prevent certain requests that return chunked messages from timing out prematurely.
  • A fix void some deprecation warnings when running autoreconf -i.
  • An improvement to the installation instructions for Debian Buster.

To download OpenSRF and view the full release notes, please visit the downloads page.

We would also like to thank the following people who contributed to the release:

  • Galen Charlton
  • Bill Erickson
  • Chris Sharp
  • Jason Stephenson

Evergreen 3.6 Release Update 2

Release 3.6 Progress

There’s been a lot of activity since our last update. A hugely successful Feedback Fest resulted in 28 patch signoffs and 19 patches committed. Since the last update, 70 patches have been committed. Among these patches are new features which will be available in 3.6, and many bug fixes which will also be available in maintenance releases of 3.4 and 3.5.

New Features

Some great new features are well on their way to being included in Release 3.6. Some that have already been committed:

Angular Staff Catalog

The experimental angular catalog becomes the default catalog for the staff client. Thanks to Bill Erickson his work on this. The traditional staff catalog will still be available under a menu option.

Angular Staff Catalog

Stripe

Online payment processing via Stripe has been upgraded to use Stripe Elements (V3). This streamlines PCI compliance for libraries and provides enhanced features such as real time validation of payment information for patrons. This development was done by Equinox, funded by CWMARS.

Stripe Update

Reports

Another enhancement to statistics provides for Subtotals and Grand Totals in reports. A “Calculate grouping subtotals” checkbox has been added to optionally include a subtotal and grand total when running reports that include counts. Thanks to Mike Rylander and Chris Sharp for this contribution.

Subtotals in Reports

In-House Use

Another enhancement to statistics is for counting In-House use. In-House use statistics will now capture the workstation where the use was recorded for enhanced tracking. Thanks to Chris Sharp for this contribution.

Item Status

A handy enhancement is coming to the Item Status screen. It will allow pasting in barcodes separated by commas to retrieve multiple items quickly. Thanks to Josh Stompro for this enhancement.

Enter Multiple Barcodes in Item Status

Developer Note

With the recent updates to Angular and ng-bootstrap, the Tabset directive is no longer supported by the ng-bootstrap project. They instead recommend using the Nav directive. If you have code sitting in a pull request that uses NgbTabset, you can switch it to NgbNav by making the following changes:

  1. In the markup, change ngb-tabset elements to <ul ngbNav #tabsetId="ngbNav" class="nav-tabs" (navChange)="...">
  2. Change ngb-tab elements to
    <li [ngbHavnItem="'tabIdentifier'">
    <a ngvNavLink i18n>Tab Label</a>...
  3. Add a <div [ngbNavOutlet]="tabsetId"></div> after the <ul> list to specify where the new nav should be rendered.
  4. In the TypeScript file, assuming that you’re binding functions to the tab change event, rather than importing NgbTabset and NgbTabChangeEvent, import NgbNav and NgbNavChangeEvent.

See commit af797425 for a full example of this!

Upcoming Events

Bug Squashing Week is September 21 – 25

Every week is a good week for bug squashing, but Bug Squashing Week focuses community attention on open Launchpad bugs. Everyone is encouraged to devote some time to confirming, testing, fixing, tagging, or providing feedback to bugs during that week. Bug Squashing Week info is always available on the Evergreen Wiki. Look for more about Bug Squashing Week on the mailing lists as the week approaches.

We Welcome Your Feedback!

Please reach out via the Evergreen Developer’s list.

The 3.6 Release Team:
Galen Charleton
Jason Boyer
Terran McCanna
Michele Morgan