VuFind® Newsletter: November, 2023
Development Highlights and Project News
Development Progress
In addition to fixing a number of minor bugs discovered in release 9.1, the focus of November development was on beginning to work through the large backlog of new features being developed for release 10.0. In addition to many minor enhancements, code modernizations and accessibility improvements, some fairly significant additions were made: a full translation in Mongolian, simplified configuration of record displays through the new RecordDataFormatter.ini file, smarter EZProxy link integration, and virtual on-screen keyboard support.
Project Management Committee Report
The PMC met as usual and discussed remaining tasks needed to meet all of the group's 2023 annual goals. Most remaining work is in the areas of documentation and marketing, and the group will be focusing on completing wiki and website updates through the end of the year. In January, goals for 2024 will be discussed; if you have specific requests or priorities, please feel free to reach out to any member of the PMC with input.
Recently Completed / Resolved Issues
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1.1:
Add explicit int casts to cover generator layers:
#3213 Add Mongolian translation:
#3223 Blender: Fix advanced search type mapping:
#3186-
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Change the space-like thousand separator to a narrower one:
#3187 Combined: Fix column widths in grid layout:
#3220,
#3232 Fix a checkCapability call to include the patron:
#3195 Fix display of checkbox filters:
#3210 Fix interpolation of css variables in scss mode:
#3218 Improve comments about solrmarc.path setting:
#3217-
Translate searchbox placeholder:
#3198
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:
Accessibility: Use $headTitle as <h1> on results:
#3175 Add an option to always display the “Reset Filters” button:
#3197 Add auth_method parameter to SimulatedSSO:
#3201 Add log writability check to SystemStatus:
#3212 Add option to enable hierarchical facet filters for advanced search facets:
#3098 Add option to return an HTMLElement from the icon helper:
#3126 Add test for bulk deleting from favorite list:
#3202 Adding optional virtual keyboard to searchbox:
#2952,
#3221 Better config validation for XCNCIP2 ILS driver:
#3188,
#3191 Change side recommendation headings to <h2>:
#3209 Change url to an indexed field in Solr:
#3211 Check exit codes for commands in the browse_build function:
#3227 Check querySelector result when updating combined jump links:
#3231 Combined: Fix scope of search cart form:
#3219 Configurable fields for RecordDataFormatter:
#3193,
#3234 Databases: Include search query matches:
#3216 Databases: Use LibGuides alternate names field:
#3229 Eliminate jQuery from ReCaptcha setup on Google script load logic:
#3203 Fix deprecation warnings in tests; make PHPUnit more strict:
#3224 Fix searchbox_controls init function if textInput or resetButton are not defined:
#3225 Java indexing code: Fix Java 9 deprecation warnings:
#3185 Language labels matching MARC standard:
#2933 Make SimulatedSSO module configurable:
#3208 MySQL port configurable in build.xml:
#3236 Narrow the first holdings tab column:
#3096 Optional dataMethod params for RecordDataFormatter:
#3189 ProxyUrl: Determine whether to proxy via web service:
#3199 Recommend databases based on EDS results:
#3160 Removed prioritizeAlt default from SpecBuilder:
#3235 Replace substr with e.g. str_starts_with or str_ends_with where appropriate:
#3196,
vufindcode#14-
Sierra: Add support for statistic group in holds and renewals:
#3190 * Support filters and custom heading on recommendation modules:
#3192 Updated jQuery to Javascript for button disable on submit:
#3181
These pull requests were closed by their creators as “no longer needed:”
Fetch icon: jQuery to Javascript update:
#3205 Fix missing searchClassId in layout:
#3194
New Issues
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
Code in Progress
Add bootstrap5 theme:
#3222 Add ISO 639-3 language code translations:
#3200 Adding hidden sort options:
#3237 Adding the option to make html elements sticky:
#3226 Combined: Fix jump links and grid with zero results:
#3233 Fix hierarchical facet expand/collapse buttons with mobile Safari:
#3228 Increase contrast in form elements:
#3207 Responsive table for search history:
#3204
Issue Report / Discussion Only
Address Java deprecation of finalize() method in UpdateDateTracker.java:
VUFIND-1651
Active Issues
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:
Add new Overdrive features:
#3025-
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Search Result Explanation Feature:
#3069