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VuFind® Newsletter: January, 2024

Development Highlights and Project News

Development Progress

The new year got off to a productive start, with many pull requests merged during January in support of releases 9.1.1 and 10.0.

For 9.1.1, nine minor bugs were fixed, and support was added for FOLIO's forthcoming new authentication method, to ensure forward-compatibility.

For 10.0, several new features were added (most notably persistent login support, the optional ability to display Solr relevance ranking explanations in the user interface, and an INN-Reach integration for Sierra users), internationalization was expanded (including translation of language names and support for the Māori language), some dependencies were updated (due largely to raising the project's minimum PHP version to 8.1, now that 8.0 is out of support), and several architectural adjustments, minor accessibility improvements, bug fixes and test enhancements were applied.

A release date for 9.1.1 will likely be announced at the February Community Call. There is still significant work required before 10.0 can be scheduled for release.

Project Management Committee Report

The PMC met to set annual goals for 2024. They are:

Recently Completed / Resolved Issues

The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1.1:

The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:

This pull request was determined not to be necessary after discussion and was closed by its creator:

This ticket has been closed, as it will be resolved by other current work-in-progress and does not require separate action of its own:

This ticket turned out to be a problem external to VuFind®, but a solution has been posted:

New Issues

The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:

Code in Progress

Issue Report / Discussion Only

Active Issues

The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month: