VuFind® Newsletter: October, 2023
Development Highlights and Project News
Development Progress
October's focus was on completing all outstanding work on release 9.1, which was successfully completed. Most of the work centered around accessibility, bug fixes, dependency updates, and internationalization, but there were also a few minor improvements made to cover image handling and combined search results.
There was also enough time to begin work on features and improvements targeted for 10.0; these changes were mostly minor but included a significant improvement to searching in “hierarchies and collections” mode, and the introduction of a new “Composed” ILS driver which can be used to merge functionality from separate drivers into a single interface (useful for merging functionality from multiple sources).
Next month, the focus will shift to working through the backlog of pull requests targeted for release 10.0, and beginning work on a 9.1.1 bug fix release to address any problems discovered in 9.1.
Release 9.1
Release 9.1 was released on schedule. See the press release for more details.
Project Management Committee Report
The PMC met to discuss documentation updates, web site improvements and fundraising. Progress continues to be made in all of these areas – older wiki pages continue to be gradually brought up to date, the project description on the website has been updated to be more complete and accurate, and a fundraising banner has been added to the vufind.org header.
The PMC also voted to add Susan Turkel, from Villanova University's Falvey Library, 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).
Recently Completed / Resolved Issues
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1:
Accessibility: refine search facets to ul:
#3108 Accessibility: top recommendations to ul:
#3107 Accessible cart update announcements:
#3129 Add grid-based stack placement for combined search:
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Add support for OCLC numbers to Google cover images and improve medium/large images:
#3161 Add tag search sort test:
#3166-
Alma: Revise comment of translationPrefix setting:
#3141 Amicus driver: Remove unnecessary require statement:
#3147 Bolder text in filter dropdown:
#3138-
Configurable similar items carousel item count:
#3158 Deprecate custom EDS logging:
#3153 Display errors, notices and alerts in debug mode:
#3165 Display jump links above combined search results:
#3083 Display side recommendations with combined search:
#3135 Do not jump to single search result when jumpto is disabled:
#3131 Fix
API specification:
#3144 Fix bug caused by multiple calls to parentTheme view helper:
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#3157 Fix combined filter dropdown padding and colors:
#3113 Fix escaping of backslashes in ExtendedIniNormalizer:
#3170 Fix: give ajax-loaded combined results a domId:
#3125-
Fix hyphen-in-path bug in ImportLokaliseCommand:
#3130 Fix record tab heading level:
#3076-
Fix search history behavior when login is disabled:
#3114 FOLIO: account for spelling change in fulfillmentPreference property:
#3145 FOLIO: do not display credentials in debug messages:
#3164 Handle empty files correctly in ExtendedIniNormalizer:
#3169 Handle lookfor[] array in deferred search object recommendations:
#3159 LibGuides and AZ: Display descriptions:
#3128 LibGuides Profile: Remove whitespace if no photo:
#3143 Logging: Add ReferenceId support for username:
#3156 Only update FOLIO location cache data when appropriate:
#3162 Remove obsolete basemap examples; add more notes:
#3177 Remove unmatched tag from visualization help page:
#3173 Render combination of standard and alternative script fields in RecordDataFormatter:
#3155 SierraRest: Add translation prefix support for ILS messages:
#3140 SierraRest: Fix and improve item/bib handling with transaction history:
#3133 SierraRest: Trim whitespace from call number and volume:
#3124 Syndetics cover images with VuFind fallback:
#3154 Translate sysMessage of renewals:
#3172-
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Update MLA label to 9th edition:
#3121 Upgrade to Solr 9.3.0:
#3132 UrlQueryHelper: Fix passing null to urlencode:
#3136 Use null coalescing to cover for invalid active tab:
#3180
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:
Add setting to allow deep searching within collections:
#3182 Add support for a description column in fines:
#3171 Composed ILS Driver:
#3112 Improve stability of testAddCommentWithCaptcha test:
#3179 Java indexing code: Fix raw type warnings:
#3184 Java indexing code: Remove unused imports:
#3183 Minor facet improvements:
#3168 Remove outdated, unused tag help screen:
#3174
This improvement was made to the project website:
Update project description on web page:
#3137
New Issues
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
Code in Progress
Accessibility: Use $headTitle as <h1> on results:
#3175 Add option to return an HTMLElement from the icon helper:
#3126 Java indexing code: Fix Java 9 deprecation warnings:
#3185 Multi page selection in favorite list:
#3142 Recommend databases based on EDS results:
#3160 Updated jQuery to Javascript for button disable on submit:
#3181
Issue Report / Discussion Only
Configurable brute force password protection:
VUFIND-1643 Empty column with combined search recommendations and zero results:
VUFIND-1648 FOLIO Driver: Add support for Refresh Token Rotation (RTR):
VUFIND-1647-
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Update language translation files for release 10.0:
VUFIND-1649
Active Issues
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:
Add filtering capability to facet list pop-up:
#2991 Add option to enable facet filters for advanced search facets:
#3098 Add support for persistent login:
#3027-