The Evergreen Community is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release for Evergreen 3.7. This release contains various new features and enhancements, including:
- Support for SAML-based Single Sign On - Hold Groups, a feature that allows staff to add multiple users to a named hold group bucket and place title-level holds for a record for that entire set of users - The Bootstrap public catalog skin is now the default - “Did you mean?” functionality for catalog search focused on making suggestions for single search terms - Holdings on the public catalog record details page can now be sorted by geographic proximity - Library Groups, a feature that allows defining groups of organizational units outside of the hierarchy that can be used to limit catalog search results - Expired staff accounts can now be blocked from logging in - Publisher data in the public catalog display is now drawn from both the 260 and 264 field - The staff catalog can now save all search results (up to 1,000) to a bucket in a single operation - New opt-in settings for overdue and predue email notifications - A new setting to allow expired patrons to renew loans - Porting of additional interfaces to Angular, including Scan Item as Missing Pieces and Shelving Location Groups 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 anew OpenSRF service, open-ils.geo. - The release also adds several new Perl module dependencies, Geo::Coder::Google, Geo::Coder::OSM, String::KeyboardDistance, and Text::Levenshtein::Damerau::XS. - The database update procedure has more steps than usual; please consult the upgrade section <https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html#_database_upgrade_procedure> of the release notes. - 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 <https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html>. Regards, Galen Charlton on behalf of the 3.7 release team: Bill Erickson, Galen Charlton, Terran McCanna, Michele Morgan, and, Adam Bowling. -- Galen Charlton Implementation and IT Manager Equinox Open Library Initiative phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) email: [email protected] web: https://equinoxInitiative.org direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366
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