Change Log

This release (the first preview of the new 2.0 architecture) is currently being built. Watch this page for news on the latest features.

• New architecture: see Why VuFind 2.0? for some reasons for the change.
• More feature-rich WorldCat module.

This release (the next maintenance release of the classic VuFind code) is currently being built. Watch this page for news on the latest features.

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• Upgrade to latest versions of Solr (3.5) and SolrMarc (2.3)
• New “book bag” functionality for performing actions (save, email, etc.) on multiple items from result lists (available in Blueprint theme only)
• Improved integration with VuFind Template App for SciVerse
• Optional Solr-driven Reserves search module
• New recommendation modules (Timeline graph, Europeana, Google Maps)
• Improved Syndetics integration
• Blueprint is now the default theme (since it is most feature-rich and uses jQuery, which will be the standard in VuFind 2.0)
• Various bug fixes and minor enhancements

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• New (experimental) jQuery Mobile theme.
• Added infrastructure for holds/recalls and renewals via ILS drivers (currently supported by Voyager, Horizon and Demo drivers).
• Improved advanced search behavior.
• Optional support for MARC 7xx linking fields.
• Optional support for multiple result views (list vs. grid).
• Optional support for multiple result list page sizes.
• Support for indexing full text from URLs in MARC records.
• Improved EZProxy integration.
• Configurable “retain filters” checkbox.
• BibTeX export support.
• More complete translations for most supported languages.
• Fixed Dewey indexing bugs from release 1.1.
• Fixed public list bugs from release 1.1.

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• Full OAI-PMH server support and smarter RSS feeds.
• Smarter handling of stemming in search results ranking.
• Book preview support through Google Books, OpenLibrary and HathiTrust.
• Support for indexing authority data.
• Support for Solr Sharding.
• Alphabetical heading browse functionality.
• Autocomplete system.
• Sitemap generation.
• Search result highlighting.
• Optional embedded OpenURL results using Link Resolver Drivers.
• XSLT Import Tool for XML records, including optional full text indexing with Aperture.
• Theme inheritance now includes Javascript support; note that Javascript files have been reorganized to take advantage of this, which may require adjustments to locally customized templates.
• Support for cover images from Baker & Taylor's Content Café subscription service.
• Upgraded to latest version of SolrMarc MARC import tool (v2.2).
• Improved favorite list management features.
• New optional jQuery/Blueprint theme.
• Bug fixes.

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• Added optional “Next” / “Prev” links to navigate through search results from the Record view (disabled by default – see the new [Record] section of config.ini to enable this option).
• Added NewGenLib ILS driver.
• Added basic OAI-PMH harvester tool.
• More flexible configuration of sort options (you can now specify tie-breakers).
• Bug fixes to address issues discovered during the first month of VuFind 1.0 deployment. See JIRA for details on bugs, including patches for the most critical problems.

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• Upgraded to Solr 1.4.1, the latest bugfix release of the index engine.
• Dewey Decimal support (see Call Numbers page for more details).
• Recommendations module interface to create custom recommendations for individual search types (see Building a Recommendations Module for more details).
• Record Driver mechanism to help with ingesting record formats other than MARC.
• Mobile interface.
• Summon module.
• Expanded support for non-English languages.
• Many bug fixes and new configuration options.

WARNING: If you are upgrading to this release, see the migration notes.

• Upgraded to Solr 1.4, the latest official release of the index engine.
• Dismax search support – the powerful Solr Dismax handler is now used by VuFind, without losing support for advanced features of Lucene like wildcards and Booleans.
• Facets are no longer retrieved via AJAX for faster search result display.
• Revamped (and fully functional) advanced search (thanks to Greg Pendlebury).
• Searches are now fully customizable through configuration files – you don't need to change any code. See Search Customization for details.
• Template inheritance – you can now customize only the templates you need to change for your local setup and inherit the rest from one of the default themes. See Theme Inheritance for more details.
• Updated SolrMarc importer with support for custom BeanShell scripts (for localized import behavior without needing to recompile the whole program) and external translation maps (so you can edit the files without having to open the SolrMarc .jar file).
• Expanded favorites handling – create multiple distinct named lists of favorite records. Keep them private for personal use or make them public to share with others.
• New default theme – a whole new user interface look and feel, without losing the option to retain the original “classic” look.
• Improved Admin interface – view statistics and configuration files from one convenient place.
• Improved authentication code – added Shibboleth support, made LDAP support more flexible, fixed minor problems with other methods.
• Flexible session handling: store session in Memcache, MySQL or the local filesystem.
• New logging mechanism (configurable in config.ini) allows fatal errors to be captured to file, database or email for better discovery of problems.
• Many, many bug fixes and security improvements.

Change information is unavailable for this release.

• Fixed importing bugs from 0.8.1 release
• Improved author information indexing
• Revised record format detection in importer
• Added clean Era on import
• Fixed boolean searching
• Fixed Narrow Search Results js error
• Fixed Browse Module - Thanks to Bob Wicksall
• Fixed Syndetics Reviews - Thanks to Joel Norman

WARNING: For this release you must re-index records.

• Search queries - queries have been restructured to be more powerful and higher quality with better relevancy ranking
• Searching - filter out illegal characters
• Searching - user's input is now tokenized and a AND query and OR query are now generated
• Index data - punctuation in Title, Subject, Date, ISBN fields are now cleaned
• Index data - isbn & issn fields are now multivalued
• Index data - added new fields to allow more granular control of searching
• Languages - All 450+ ISO languages are now recognized
• Import - fixed import.sh to work easier
• Record View - revised subject links to be accurate
• Record View - fixed display of tags
• Facets - Fixed narrow by call number
• Author page - author name cleaned up to allow better results from wikipedia
• Synonyms - added some basic synonyms to synonyms.txt file

WARNING: For this release you must re-index records.

• New Import Tool - Developed by Wayne Graham of William and Mary College
• Data directory is no longer used
• Refactored Record Module to use HTML for display instead of XSL
• Place Hold/Recall is now incorporated into the system and available for Voyager Systems. More ILS systems will be intergrated as soon as possible
• Book Covers and Book Reviews can now be supplied by other providers other than Amazon. Syndetics and Google Books are included as well.
• Innovative Driver - Development by Adam Brin.

• Internationalization - VuFind has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portugese and Chinese.
• Zotero - Users of VuFind can now save items to their Zotero plugin.
• User Account - Users of VuFind can now see what items they have checked out, any holds they have places as well as any fines that they have.
• Browse - A new “prototype” browse application has been added to VuFind to allow users to browse through the library resources through an iTunes style interface.
• Narrow Results now include a facet called Subject Area that is based on the Call Number.
• Logged in interface has been redesigned
• AJAX Queries on search results page were consolidated for better performance Patch by Chris Delis.
• Added “more” and “less” functionality to the results facets to allow for more that 5 options to show. Patch by Chris Delis.
• Improved all fields search algorithm.
• Improved “Similiar Items” algorithm.
• Added a “Search Within” feature.
• Added basic Aleph Driver by Christoph Krempe
• Added basic SirsiDynix Sybase Driver by Matt Mackey
• Holdings tab is now the default tab on the Record View page
• Bug Fix: Install script now creates the MySQL database correctly
• Bug Fix: Deleting of favorites now works correctly

• Bug Fix: Narrow Results did not work in Safari and IE7
• Bug Fix: Install script did not install all necessary libraries
• Bug Fix: Advanced search not working correctly
• Bug Fix: Voyager driver now has configurable port number
• Added debug option in configuration

• New Tagging/Favorites System and New MySQL Database Schema
• Redesigned “logged-in” Homepage
• Users can view their checked out items
• Narrow by Callnumber
• New fields in SOLR Schema
• Enhanced import script with new data cleanup mechanisms
• Revised advanced search mechanism
• Enhanced installation script
• Migrated from Tomcat to Jetty for ease of packaging (Thanks to Wayne Graham)
• New control script (vufind.sh) for new Jetty Server (Thanks to Wayne Graham)
• Bug Fix: Login popup window
• Bug Fix: Missing book cover images and Amazon reviews
• Bug Fix: More Like This - strange inclusions
• Bug Fix: Holdings Tab display works with latest Structures_Datagrid library
• And many more bug fixes…

• Spelling Correction
• Tagging and Commenting per Record
• Save Resources
• Database Authentication
• Search History
• Author Pages
• More Like This

• MARCXML Initial Import Script
• Result Facets
• Live Status Information
• LDAP Authentication