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Evergreen 2.4 Beta1

The first (and likely only, barring major bugs) beta release of Evergreen 2.4 is now available for download and testing.  This marks the official feature-freeze point for the 2.4 series of Evergreen.  Notable features include:

  • Significant TPAC enhancements
  • Streamlined and enhanced Acquisitions functionality
  • Expanded options for the configuration of Holds and Circulations

The full set of upcoming features are listed in the release notes, and the complete list  of source code changes since the release of 2.3 is available in the git change log.

The OpenSRF 2.2.0 or later is recommended for use with Evergreen 2.4.  OpenSRF 2.2 is in alpha now, with release expected at approximately the same time as Evergreen 2.4.0.  All testers of the Evergreen 2.4 beta are encouraged to test with OpenSRF 2.2.0, as there are significant performance enhancements and bug fixes associated with Evergreen’s new features.

Thanks to all who helped make this release possible.

OpenSRF 2.2.0-alpha released

OpenSRF 2.2.0-alpha is now available for download and testing.  This is a relatively small enhancement and bugfix release, and includes the following major changes:

  1. Support for Apache 2.4, Debian Wheezy, and Fedora 18.
  2. Elimination of CPU spikes caused by use of the MultiSession module.  This is particularly relevant for Evergreen as TPac uses MultiSession when fetching bib records for display in search results.
  3. Support for graceful reload of Perl services via SIGHUP, which allows the log level to be changed on the fly.  This can also be used to politely clean up after memory leaks.

For a complete list of the changes, please consult the release notes and change log.

Links to the installation tarball, release notes, and installation instructions can be found on the OpenSRF downloads page.

We are considering having 2.2.0 be the recommended OpenSRF version for Evergreen 2.4.  Consequently, testers of the Evergreen 2.4 beta are encouraged to test the OpenSRF alpha as well.  In addition, because of the changes to MultiSession, we are particularly interested in test results from a variety of platforms, particularly ones that use virtualization.

2.4-alpha1 is cut!

Many teeth were gnashed and garments rent, but (as of last Friday) there is now available, for your downloading pleasure, the first alpha release of Evergreen 2.4.  The web site will be updated shortly, and when it is you will see a new column for 2.4 on the downloads page at http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php.

In the mean time the important files can be had from the following locations:

 

Thanks to everyone who has worked on this release.  There is a lot of great stuff in here.

Thanks also go specifically to Ben Shum, who put together an alpha version of the 2.4 release notes.  I’m not incorporating it into the alpha branch, since features are still being added until beta, but if you want to see what is in the alpha1 cut (and has had at least some simple release notes treatment) you can find that at: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/RELEASE_NOTES_2_4.txt;hb=9abccb6caaff8d7f93b1f55b7732669bb6aaefd2