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Evergreen 2.12.0 is released

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 2.12.  The release is available on the Evergreen downloads page.

With this release, we strongly encourage the community to start using the new web client on a trial basis in production. All current Evergreen functionality is available in the web client with the exception of serials and offline circulation. The web client is scheduled to be available for full production use with the September 3.0 release.

Other notable new features and enhancements for 2.12 include:

  • Overdrive and OneClickdigital integration. When configured, patrons will be able to see ebook availability in search results and on the record summary page. They will also see ebook checkouts and holds in My Account.
  • Improvements to metarecords that include:
    • improvements to the bibliographic fingerprint to prevent the system from grouping different parts of a work together and to better distinguish between the title and author in the fingerprint;
    • the ability to limit the “Group Formats & Editions” search by format or other limiters;
    • improvements to the retrieval of e-resources in a “Group Formats & Editions” search;
    • and the ability to jump to other formats and editions of a work directly from the record summary page.
  • The removal of advanced search limiters from the basic search box, with a new widget added to the results page where users can see and remove those limiters.
  • A change to topic, geographic and temporal subject browse indexes that will display the entire heading as a unit rather than displaying individual subject terms separately.
  • Support for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, in the public catalog. Arabic has also become a new officially-supported language in Evergreen.
  • A new hold targeting service supporting new targeting options and runtime optimizations to speed up targeting.
  • In the web staff client, the ability to apply merge profiles in the record bucket merge and Z39.50 interfaces.
  • The ability to display copy alerts when recording in-house use.
  • The ability to ignore punctuation, such as hyphens and apostrophes, when performing patron searches.
  • Support for recognition of client time zones,  particularly useful for consortia spanning time zones.

Evergreen 2.12 also requires PostgreSQL 9.3, with a recommendation that sites upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.4. It also requires the 2.5 release of OpenSRF. The full feature set for this release is available in the 2.12 Release Notes.

As with all Evergreen releases, many hands contributed to a successful release process. The release is a result of code, documentation, and translation contributions from 46 people representing 23 organizations in the community, along with financial contributions from nine Evergreen sites that commissioned development. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this release happen.

OpenSRF 2.5.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenSRF 2.5.0, a message routing network that offers scalability and failover support for individual services and entire servers with minimal development and deployment overhead.

New features in OpenSRF 2.5.0 include:

  • Support for message chunking, i.e., breaking up large OpenSRF messages across multiple XMPP envelopes.
  • The ability to detect the time zone of client applications and include it in messages passed to the server.
  • Dispatch mode for method_lookup subrequests.
  • Example configuration files for using NGINX or HAProxy as a reverse proxy for HTTP, HTTPS, and WebSockets traffic. This can be useful for Evergreen systems that wish to use port 443 for both HTTPS and secure WebSockets traffic.

OpenSRF includes various other improvements as detailed in the release notes.

OpenSRF 2.5.0 will be the minimum version of OpenSRF required for the upcoming release of Evergreen 2.12.

To download OpenSRF, please visit the downloads page.

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

  • Ben Shum
  • Bill Erickson
  • Chris Sharp
  • Dan Scott
  • Galen Charlton
  • Jason Etheridge
  • Jason Stephenson
  • Jeff Davis
  • Kathy Lussier
  • Mike Rylander
  • Remington Steed

Evergreen Community Survey

Once again Spring comes around and with it the Evergreen International Conference. With the conference a month away we are preparing to do the second Evergreen Community Annual Report to be distributed at the conference and online.

The Outreach Committee is working to make this happen but one of the most important parts is capturing a picture of the libraries who make up our community and that is where we need your help! As we did last year we have a survey for Evergreen libraries to respond to : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YS5RLRG

Whether you are one location, a large consortium, a corporate library or anything else, if you use Evergreen we want to hear from you. We got great responses last year so I hope everyone who responded does so again. However, there are also parts of the community that I know did not get a chance to respond so don’t assume that someone else from your library will. Make sure your library is represented!

Again: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YS5RLRG

Also, if you don’t already follow the community Evergreen account on twitter please do so, @EvergreenILS and follow the #evgils hash tag. Conference tweets are going out with the #evgils17 hashtag including recognizing our great conference sponsors and exhibitors so let them know you care about their support of the conference.