November was a very productive month for the VuFind project, seeing work completed on all of the remaining outstanding features slated for release 6.1 as well as the incorporation of several unanticipated but useful fixes and enhancements. Demian will now switch gears to obtaining translations to ensure that everything is ready for an early 2020 release; after that, work on 7.0 can begin in earnest.
The most significant completed feature is the “Selective Dissemination of Information” feature, which can be turned on to allow users to subscribe to searches in order to receive email alerts of new results. Also of note is the improvement of the new filter user interface introduced in 6.0 – it now behaves consistently throughout VuFind, instead of having different behavior inside and outside of search results pages. Also noteworthy are ongoing improvements to Alma integration, a new language translation (Hindi), and integration with the Unpaywall API. See below for all the details!
Also note that the video recorded during last month's Community Call has been posted at the new Videos page; this will continue to expand with each passing month!
The following items were completed in the past month:
This ticket was closed as “won't fix” due to long inactivity, the existence of other solutions, and apparent lack of interest:
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month; some activity was due to Demian reviewing old inactive JIRA tickets in an attempt to clean things up: