====== VuFind® Newsletter: February, 2022 ======

===== Highlights / Executive Summary =====

While February was a short month, it nonetheless saw a significant amount of work completed on VuFind®, including a new ILS driver (for Lucidea's GeniePlus), a new cover image provider (Bokinfo), some significant bug fixes (most notably a solution to a session-related bug introduced in VuFind 8.0, and to be released in VuFind 8.0.4 in the near future -- see [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1532|VUFIND-1532]]) and various incremental steps toward the eventual VuFind® 9 release (including raising the PHP version requirement to 7.4 and updating a number of dependencies). Work to improve the speed of VuFind®'s integration tests has also meant that some aspects of development can accelerate due to faster completion of continuous integration jobs.

The Project Management Committee began planning for VuFind®-related content in this year's [[https://openlibraryfoundation.org/about/wolfcon/upcoming/|WOLFcon]] conference. The group also continued to discuss funding models and sustainability as VuFind®'s formal membership in the Open Library Foundation nears completion.

===== Recently Completed / Resolved Issues =====

The following items were completed in the past month:

  * Add a simple interval captcha that prevents too frequent actions: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2250|#2250]]
  * Add ability to check ObalkyKnih servers are alive: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2290|#2290]]
  * Add GeniePlus ILS driver: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2303|#2303]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2322|#2322]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2323|#2323]]
  * Add safeguards to language normalization: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2326|#2326]]
  * Add test for email subject: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2302|#2302]]
  * Add ThemeConfig view helper: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2218|#2218]]
  * Adding Bokinfo as a source for coverimages: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2294|#2294]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2298|#2298]]
  * Aleph: Use default values for each Holds config key separately: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2306|#2306]]
  * Correct typos in Armenian translation: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2320|#2320]]
  * Demo driver: make new/recent IDs configurable: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2296|#2296]]
  * EDS backend: support additional "missing record" cases: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2324|#2324]]
  * Fix bugs in updateRecordId() method: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2314|#2314]]
  * Fix construction of query string for EDS Autocomplete requests: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2319|#2319]]
  * Fix problems with loss of session data: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1532|VUFIND-1532]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2310|#2310]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2311|#2311]]
  * Improve cover tests: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2304|#2304]]
  * Improve filter message handling in tag admin: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2263|#2263]]
  * Improve performance of integration tests: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2309|#2309]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2312|#2312]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2317|#2317]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2318|#2318]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2321|#2321]]
  * Include Memcached adapter by default: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2307|#2307]]
  * Override relevance for ID-based searches: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2295|#2295]]
  * Prevent adding facet count if it is undefined: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2316|#2316]]
  * Raise minimum PHP version to 7.4: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2292|#2292]]
  * Refactor constants/Laminas app setup to separate files: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2301|#2301]]
  * Remove chdir from application initialization: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2305|#2305]]
  * Remove obsolete cache settings; make some PHP extensions optional: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2308|#2308]]
  * Replace File_MARC with MarcReader and friends: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2252|#2252]]
  * Solr fallback record loader: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2315|#2315]]
  * Translate form email subject with translate function: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2300|#2300]]
  * Update Laminas dependencies (mostly for PHP 8.1 compatibility): [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2291|#2291]]
  * Upgrade to Laminas\Cache v3: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2299|#2299]]
  * XCNCIP2: Add ability to configure problem information showing to user when request fails: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2289|#2289]]

===== New Issues =====

The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:

==== Code in Progress ====

  * Adding hold history config example to KohaRest.ini: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2293|#2293]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2297|#2297]]
  * Build OpenURL without http_build_query to avoid PHP array syntax in URL: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2313|#2313]]
  * Clean up layout.phtml a bit: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2327|#2327]]
  * Relax MarcReader's format checking: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2328|#2328]]
  * SierraRest: Rework canceling and updating of holds: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2325|#2325]]
  * Update ThemeConfigFactory to use latest laminas-cache settings: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2329|#2329]]

==== Issue Report / Discussion Only ====

  * Configurable sort tie-breaker field: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1529|VUFIND-1529]]
  * Per-instance display of checkbox facets in SideFacets module: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1528|VUFIND-1528]]
  * Setting up Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU): [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1530|VUFIND-1530]]
  * Shibboleth / VuFind: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1531|VUFIND-1531]] (possibly a support request; ticket needs clarification)
  * Wrapped link elements should not have space between the lines: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1533|VUFIND-1533]]

===== Active Issues =====

The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:

  * Make getFacetLabel work for checkbox filters: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2259|#2259]]
  * Replace database abstraction layer with Doctrine: [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1480|VUFIND-1480]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2233|#2233]]
  * Update league/commonmark to 2.0: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2048|#2048]]
  * Use Citation Style Language (CSL): [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-889|VUFIND-889]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1324|#1324]]
  * Utilize icon helper: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1962|#1962]]