VuFind® Newsletter: June, 2023
Highlights / Executive Summary
New Release
June saw the release of VuFind® 9.0.2, which incorporates all of the minor bug fixes made during May and June.
Development Progress
Additionally, significant amounts of development effort were put into features to be included in VuFind® 9.1, and a separate development branch was established to begin work on larger changes for VuFind® 10.0. Highlights of the month's development include the addition of two new search backends (one for the LibGuides databases A-Z list, another for EBSCO's Publication Finder), code to increase the flexibility of item status messages, accessibility improvements, and a variety of ILS driver and dependency updates.
Development will likely slow down for the next two months as summer vacations reduce the number of available developers, but work will proceed nonetheless.
Project Management Committee Report
At the June Project Management Committee meeting, the group discussed strategies for offering training to the community. They also continued ongoing work on documentation, conference planning and more.
The PMC also voted to add Maccabee Levine, the contributor of the two new search backends added this month, as a project committer. (Also note that if you or a developer you know is interested in gaining committer status, you can talk to an existing committer – including any current PMC member – about receiving a nomination).
VuFind® Summit 2023 / WOLFcon
The call for papers for the 2023 VuFind® Summit has closed, and enough submissions were received to prepare a full program. The talks will be held as part of WOLFcon 2023, for which registration is still open (for both in-person participation and free virtual participation). Please plan to join us one way or another for the event, to be held on August 22-24 (with most VuFind® sessions likely taking place on the 23rd and 24th). A more detailed schedule will be forthcoming.
Recently Completed / Resolved Issues
The following items were completed in the past month and were included in release 9.0.2:
Fix a mistake in doc comment for patron parameter:
#2913-
Fix account notification check to default to enabled:
#2931 Fix incorrect namespace on test:
#2917 Fix return types in Aleph driver:
#2943 Fix styling of badges in user lists:
#2916 Make sure array-style search query params are arrays:
#2932 Refresh account status when a request is placed:
#2926 Replace strtolower with mb_strtolower to avoid encoding issues:
#2946 Revert confusing Demo driver changes:
#2925-
Update SCSS Bootstrap to match Less version:
#2948
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1:
Add config setting for custom Solr highlighting params:
#2927 Add EBSCO Publication Finder data source:
#2944,
#2953 Add LibGuidesAZ backend for Databases A-Z list:
#2860 Add support for “uncertain” item availability status:
#2857 Add third cache server for obalkyknih.cz:
#2956 Alma: make item status mapping to uncertain work with getStatus call:
#2923 Clean up coverage tmp files after coverage reports are done:
#2919 Clean up legacy OCI8 logic:
#2912 Convert translation maps to UTF-8:
#2942 Corrects SCSS compile extend error:
#2922 EDS: Fix copy-and-paste errors in comments:
#2954 Exclude FOLIO reserves that have been suppressed from discovery:
#2935 Fix page param out of range at search results:
#2940,
#2945 Improve delete comment link:
#2930 Improve SCSS-related CI behavior:
#2924 Moving ExplodeSettingTrait to Feature Subdir:
#2951 Proxy laminas-recaptcha instead of extending it:
#2911-
Semantics for saved search table:
#2697 SierraRest: Add more configuration options for hold availability:
#2915,
#2918,
#2921 Update dependencies for PHP 8:
#2883 Update outdated/incorrect EDS.ini language:
#2950 Upgrade to SolrMarc 3.5:
#2920
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:
Eliminate duplicate list object retrieval logic:
#2887 Fix and clean up results scripts:
#2878
New Issues
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
Code in Progress
Adding optional virtual keyboard to searchbox:
#2952 Inheritance of local dirs for configuration files:
#2947 Language labels matching MARC standard:
#2933-
Switch to Splide Carousel Library:
#2934 Turn my account menu into ul, because it is a list:
#2914
Issue Report / Discussion Only
Fix inconsistencies between LESS and SCSS style builds:
VUFIND-1619 Investigate the need for setlocale in Bootstrapper:
VUFIND-1618
Active Issues
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:
Add header and h2 for title and author:
#2852 Add support for loading results with JS:
#2804,
#2929 Change route type for Help/Home from Static to Segment:
#2850-
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