VuFind Newsletter: November, 2020

This month saw a lot of development activity, including quite a few bug fixes for next month's 7.0.2 bug fix release as well as some new features for next year's 7.1 release. Recent operating system patches on some platforms introduced a significant Java/Solr incompatibility issue, which was resolved with an upgrade to Solr 7.4.0 (see pull request #1792). Discussions on community structure have also proceeded, with a draft governance document underway (to be shared in the near future). Due to holidays and vacations, next month is likely to be a quieter one, but work will proceed as time permits.

The following items were completed in the past month:

• Account for more table of contents subfields: #1770
• Add a MarcReader class for lightweight handling of MARC data: #1776, #1794
• Add config setting to control DOI auto-redirect: #1781
• Add missing use statements to factories: #1790
• Add record driver-related tests: #1777, #1785
• Cache results of class based template resolution: #1747
• Change default content type of ajax responses to application/json: #1780
• Disable deduplication listener when search parameters contains child filter: #1789
• Expand log writer test coverage; fix bug and typo: #1774
• Fix bootstrap3 browse home template: #1796
• Fix cache key in ObalkyKnihService class: #1797
• Fix collapsing of long text in Channels: #1786, #1787
• Fix for several problems found by PHPStan: #1775
• Implement getContainerEndPage() for EDS: #1784
• Index DOIs from 856 fields: #1783
• KohaRest: Add support for mapping different “Lost” statuses: #1771
• KohaRest: Check also for 'errors' element in response: #1798
• KohaRest: Request all results when endpoint uses paging: #1778
• Log writer for Office365 webhooks: #1757
• Move JS translations from layout to separate file: #1691
• Re-set keyboard focus in lightbox after the content has loaded: #1767
• Remove laminas/laminas-dependency-plugin: #1732
• Return to previous page after printing: #1753
• Solr won't start with Java 11.0.9.1: VUFIND-1459
• Translation corrections: #1773
• Upgrade to Solr 7.4.0: #1792
• Use GET instead of POST for limit control: #1727

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

• Fix loading of similar records tab: #1772
• Further improvements to author indexing: #1782
• Improve/update citation generation: #1779, #1788
• Record toolbar permalink: #1795
• Upgrade to Solr 7.7.3: #1793

• Channel pop-up loses record info on repeated clicks: VUFIND-1460
• Improve XML batch-loading support: VUFIND-1458
• Move record driver traits into VuFind\RecordDriver\Feature namespace: VUFIND-1455
• PHP 8 compatibility: VUFIND-1457
• Simplify explicit calls to __invoke(): VUFIND-1456

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

• Add support for record “versions” display: VUFIND-120 / #1581
• Page enhancements: Comparing Languages Against English: VUFIND-1453 / #1755
• ShibbolethWAYF support: #1617