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Evergreen 3.0 development update #17: aloft

Mallard (Male), Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Ladner, British Columbia. CC-BY-SA image by Alan D. Wilson from Wikimedia Commons.

Since the previous update in this series noting steps along the path to 3.0, a lot has happened. Evergreen 3.0.0 was released on 3 October and 3.0.1 was released on 19 October. Many libraries are now laying plans for their upgrades to 3.0.

On the one hand, a major release is an important event; on the other hand, life (and Evergreen development) carries on, step by step, patch by patch, bug report by bug report, thought by thought. Tomorrow the Evergreen community will select the release manager for 3.1, the spring 2018 release, which will be the best Evergreen release yet.

But for this final update post for the 3.0 series, I would like to express a personal note: gratitude. Gratitude for those who directed their time, their money, their consideration, their passion towards improving Evergreen; for those who use Evergreen every day; for those who work to maintain our community.

Thank you for helping to launch 3.0 aloft.

Duck trivia

The fastest duck ever recorded was a merganser observed flying in excess of 100 mph.

Evergreen 2.12.7 and 3.0.1 released

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce two maintenance releases of Evergreen: 2.12.7 and 3.0.1.

Evergreen 3.0.1 has the following changes improving on Evergreen 3.0.0:

  • Fixes a bug in the web staff client that prevented initials from being stored with copy notes.
  • Adds billing types that may have been missed by systems that were running Evergreen prior to the 1.4 release.
  • Fixes a web staff client bug with the CSV export option available from the Import Queue in the MARC Batch Import/Export interface.
  • Adds the missing copy alert field in the web client’s volume/copy editor.
  • Fixes a bug where the setting to require date of birth in patron registration was not being honored in the web staff client.
  • Fixes a bug in the web staff client patron registration form where the password wasn’t generating from the last four digits of the patron’s phone number.
  • Fixes an issue in the web staff client where the complete barcode did not display in some interfaces when partial barcodes were scanned.
  • Fixes an HTML error in the new copy tags that display on the record summary page.
  • Fixes a web staff client bug where recording a large number of in-house uses at one time doesn’t display a confirmation dialog once it hits the correct threshold.
  • Adds a Print Full Grid action in the web staff client holds pull list to allow staff to print the entire pull list as it displays on the screen. This change also changes the Export CSV action to an Export Full CSV option.
  • Fixes an issue with the Patron Messages interface that prevented it from saving column configuration changes in the web staff client.
  • Fixes a bug in the web staff client where a billing prompt did not correctly display after marking an item damaged in those systems that have enabled the setting to bill for damaged items.
  • Adds an option to the specific due date feature that allows saving that due date until logout. This allows all circulations from a given workstation to be due on the same date.

Evergreen 2.12.7 has the following changes improving on 2.12.6:

  • Fixes a bug in the web staff client that prevented initials from being stored with copy notes.
  • Adds billing types that may have been missed by systems that were running Evergreen prior to the 1.4 release.
  • Fixes a web staff client bug with the CSV export option available from the Import Queue in the MARC Batch Import/Export interface.
  • Adds the missing copy alert field in the web client’s volume/copy editor.
  • Fixes a bug where the setting to require date of birth in patron registration was not being honored in the web staff client.
  • Fixes a bug in the web staff client patron registration form where the password wasn’t generating from the last four digits of the patron’s phone number.
  • Fixes an issue in the web staff client where the complete barcode did not display in some interfaces when partial barcodes were scanned.

Please visit the downloads page to view the release notes and retrieve the server software and staff clients.

On the Road to 3.0: Digital Bookplates

In our next installment of the On the Road to 3.0 video series, we take a look at a new feature that allows libraries to apply digital bookplates to their donated materials.

Many thanks to everyone who has subscribed to the new Evergreen YouTube channel! You can now find the channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/EvergreenLibrarySystem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhEmmvudNoE