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).
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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
Bug Fix: Holdings Tab display works with latest Structures_Datagrid library
And many more bug fixes…