This month, VuFind®'s Project Management Committee set a release date for VuFind® 8.1: July 18, 2022. Much of this month's development effort went into completing outstanding work to ensure that this release date can be met. Additional time was spent on general code quality improvements, accessibility, and some of the authority-related items discussed at the May Community Call.
The PMC also met with the planners of this year's WOLFcon conference to discuss VuFind® content on the program of that event (which will be in-person in Hamburg, Germany on August 31-September 2, with options for remote participation). The traditional Virtual VuFind® Summit will follow WOLFcon starting on September 7, 2022 and will be free to all participants. For more information on the event, see the Virtual VuFind® Summit 2022 wiki page. If you wish to present at the event, please reply to its Call for Papers.
On the subject of Summits, all video recorded during the 2021 event has been edited and posted and can now be found in the Virtual VuFind® Summit 2021 YouTube Playlist.
As discussed in last month's newsletter, the VuFind® JIRA instance was successfully migrated to the cloud on schedule. Old links will redirect to the new home of the site, so the transition should be seamless.
The following items were completed in the past month:
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: