With a September 20, 2021 release date announced for VuFind 8.0, August's main focus has been finishing up all outstanding work pending for the release. This includes upgrades to Solr and SolrMarc (as well as many lesser dependencies), improvements to PHP 8 compatibility, support for 4-byte UTF-8 encoding in MySQL/MariaDB databases, and better handling of punctuation in author names during MARC indexing. Progress has been made on updating translations for the release, and the ongoing work of fixing bugs, improving accessibility, clarifying architecture and expanding ILS functionality has continued.
The call for papers for the 2021 Virtual VuFind Summit (being held online and free of cost from November 15-17) is now open. Please consider submitting a proposal and participating in the event.
The following items were completed in the past month:
Accessibility: improved login forms:
#2039 Add a constraint to record tab route parameter:
#2067 Add ability to filte/reorder limiters on EDS advanced search form:
#2044 Add link on publisher into detail record:
#2040 Add support for help text on the hold update form:
#2074 Add use command into generated SQL in installer:
#2041-
Aleph driver: record ID can contain bibliographic base even if only one base is configured:
#2027 Aleph driver: support for administration identifier (adm_id) in getMyHolds:
#2033 Allow translated template rendering via view helper:
#1874 Alma: Return call number as a string:
#2058 Always unset updateDetails unless the value is usable (bug fix for holds editing):
#2077 Bump pear/archive_tar from 1.4.13 to 1.4.14:
#2046 Demo: Refactor out the getCancelHoldDetails method:
#2075 Do not include redundant traits:
#2055 EDS: Use div containers instead of spans to give each link its own line:
#2065 Enable split-on-whitespace in Solr:
#1937 Fix bug: Delete from list drop-down cut off in display in bootprint3 theme:
VUFIND-1492 /
#2068 Fix handling of an empty hold updateFields setting:
#2069 Fix HierarchicalFacetListener comparison:
#2073 Fix name handling in AuthorInfo recommendation:
#2062 Fix Shibboleth Factory:
#2064 Focus to element after closing modal:
#2032 Improve sanitization of facetexclude parameter:
#2043 Improve Solr error listener:
#2066 Improved accessibility for results / favorites lists:
#1931 KohaRest: Fix handling of frozenThrough/startDate hold parameter:
#2071 Make abstract search command truly abstract; improve tests:
#2080 Make CacheTrait generally available, use in HoldsController:
#2079 Make QRCode loader validate params and handle errors better:
#2063-
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Overdrive: use class constants instead of strings:
#2052 PAIA: improved name parsing:
#2078 Reduce use of hard-coded class strings:
#2053 Set default record page title:
#2070 Show profile menu (incl. toggler) for editing favorite lists in account:
#2042 Small fixes for updateHolds changes:
#2038-
Update cancelHolds method comments:
#2076 Update dependencies for VuFind 8.0 release:
#2047 Update SASS and tools for scssphp 1.6.0:
#2056 Upgrade to laminas-cache 2.13.0:
#2054 Upgrade to php-cs-fixer 3:
#2050 Upgrade to phpstan 0.12.94 (and fix new issues):
#2049 Use correct escaping methods in attributes etc.:
#2057,
#2061
Additionally, #2026 (corrects use of limitations in DAIA driver) was closed because it has been superseded by #2060.