June was another active month for VuFind development, with a lot of effort focused on ILS functionality, including expanding VuFind's holds capabilities to include editing, adding support for call number prefixes, and enhancing a number of ILS drivers. Other significant changes include a revision of the low-level search service to use the Command Pattern, an update to EBSCO URLs to support HTTPS (reflecting upcoming changes in EBSCO access policies), improvements to some of the project's automated testing processes, and a number of bug fixes.
June also saw the free online WOLFcon event, which included several VuFind-related sessions. If you missed it, you can find video in the WOLFcon 2021 VuFind Playlist.
The next bug fix release, 7.1.1, will be issued on Monday, July 5th. The next major release, 8.0, is expected later in the summer; a more precise date will be determined soon.
The Project Management Committee continues to meet monthly; their next tasks include final planning for the 8.0 release, organizing the 2021 VuFind Summit, and preparing for future training activities.
The following items were completed in the past month:
Add call number prefixes to templates:
#1951 Add support for checking selected holds for different pick up locations:
#1987 Add support for getting JS translations statelessly:
#1981 Add support for hold start date. Validate dates:
#1963-
Add support for updating holds to the KohaRest driver:
#1985 Add the ability to use a custom query for Channels/Home:
#1969 Aleph driver: parsing of duedate in getHolding:
#1989 Aleph driver: return isbn as string instead of single value array:
#1990 Aleph driver: send user's language with REST DLF requests:
#1996 Alma: Fix and improve retrieval of holds, add modify support:
#1991 Avoid error in MultiBackend driver when a hold has no id field:
#1999 Better validation of limit parameter:
#1971 debian: simplify JDK version requirements (depend on virtual package):
VUFIND-1487,
#2003 Disambiguate 'expires' translation:
#1976 Fix ApiTrait jsonPrettyPrint value:
#1995 Fix visual facets to enable faceting:
#1982 FOLIO: show open fines/fees instead of closed:
#1978 Ignore RecordMissing exceptions in Whoops:
#1993 Improve phing build script and related scripts for improved cross-platform support and error handling:
VUFIND-1478 /
#1970 Improved search params/results factories:
#1997 Improvements to AlphabrowseController:
#1972,
#1977 Make EBSCO URLs configurable; fix for HTTPS compatibility:
#1983 Reduce logging severity of RecordMissing to debug:
#1975 Refactor OAuth2 authorization and use it in XCNCIP2 ILS driver:
#1973,
#1980,
#1984 Reset ChoiceAuth state when any exception occurs:
#1992 Set preferred MARC field by configuration as well in getMarcReader():
#2000 SierraRest: Add support for modifying holds:
#1986 Split holds tests into their own class:
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Additionally, #1880 was closed without action because it had become outdated and will not be needed for quite some time. The work can be reproduced when the time comes.