VuFind® Newsletter: February, 2024
Development Highlights and Project News
Release 9.1.1
VuFind® 9.1.1 was released on February 12. In addition to a number of significant bug fixes, it also adds Mongolian language support and some important forward-compatibility updates needed to support authentication in future FOLIO versions.
Development Progress
In addition to the work needed to complete release 9.1.1 (and the addition of more bug fixes that may be incorporated in a future 9.1.2 release), development efforts in February made significant progress on the eventual 10.0 release.
The month's work had a strong focus on tooling, with the PHPUnit test framework upgraded to version 10, many tests updated and improved, and the speed of style analysis and correction improved with the help of caching. This work helps to make the project more developer-friendly and to prevent future errors.
There was also time to complete work on a couple of significant new features: the addition of an AccountMenu.yaml configuration file for customization of the user account menu, and the introduction of a filter textbox control in facet list pop-ups (helpful for narrowing down very long facet lists).
Project Management Committee Report
During the February meeting, the Project Management Committee began developing a plan for keeping documentation up to date on an ongoing basis. They also continued work on planning VuFind® activities for WOLFcon and the German VuFind® Summit this fall. Progress was also made on experimenting with artificial intelligence and planning development of an article about the project's governance experiences.
Recently Completed / Resolved Issues
The following items were completed in the past month and are included in release 9.1.1:
Adjust PHPUnit .gitignore for forward compatibility:
#3365 Fix a for attribute of a label in MultiILS login form:
#3373 Fix showMessage deniedControllerBehavior setting:
#3389 Improve security of UpgradeController and related functionality:
#3387 Make cover proxy legal content types configurable:
#3379,
#3388 Restrict hostnames for cover proxy:
#3385
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1.2 (if an additional 9.1.x release is deemed necessary; otherwise, they will roll to 10.0):
Convert all text to B&W in print view:
#3428 Fix stray closing spans in checkout history:
#3405 Show if record in list in EDS core:
#3448
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:
Add browscap cache to ignore list in admin
API:
#3430 Add “composer fix” to run php-cs-fixer and phpcbf:
#3426 Add persistent login token to cookie consent:
#3438 Allow DynamicRoleProviderFactory to be used for subclasses:
#3441 Autocomplete: Fix Showing After Unfocus:
#3413 Clarify PermissionManager method signatures:
#3437 Defer file cache creation until actually needed:
#3400 Defer login token update to end of request and tweaks emails:
#3444-
Disable module config cache in CLI mode:
#3401 Fix account icon in navbar when notifications are not running:
#3376 Fix Blender default_filters examples:
#3436 Fix extra elements being added to pagination etc. when paging results:
#3408 Fix first/last navigation:
#3404 Fix holdings paginator check:
#3418 Fix invalid key handling in secure session delegator:
#3446 Fix parameter type annotation in GetFieldValueFixTrait:
#3394 Fix persistent login with email authentication and other tweaks:
#3432 Fix potential trimming of null values in authentication handlers:
#3398 Fix record links in hierarchy tree on collection page:
#3366 Fix sorting of favorites:
#3427 FOLIO: smarter handling of request types in placeHold:
#3355 ImageLink: urlencode ⇒ rawurlencode:
#3429 Improve logger initialization process:
#3434 Improve YAML merging by refactoring logic from ThemeInfo:
#3417,
#3431 Koha: Check and display a status if item will be automatically renewed:
#3324 KohaRest: Add and fix renewal block reason translations:
#3375 KohaRest: Handle an Item::Recalled availability status:
#3367 Make account menu configurable:
#3415 Mink tests: remove AutoRetryTrait:
#3378 Moved conditional rendering for breadcrumbs:
#3342 Permission plugin improvements:
#3443-
Refactor setInnerHtml and add functions for setting element content:
#3442,
#3447 Sierra: Fix hard-coded
API version strings:
#3425 Sort and deduplicate facet values on EDS advanced search:
#3397 Test improvements:
#3372,
#3374,
#3380,
#3382,
#3383,
#3384,
#3386,
#3399,
#3406,
#3409,
#3414,
#3439,
#3449-
Turn on cache for PHP_CodeSniffer:
#3420 Tweak hierarchy tree tab a bit:
#3364 Tweak saved login handling:
#3371 Update development tools; apply minor return type annotation fix:
#3403 Update node version in GitHub actions; v16 is deprecated:
#3396 Updated loadHTML from jQuery to native Javascript:
#3294 Upgrade to PHPUnit 10:
#3314 Upgrade vanilla-cookieconsent to version 3.0.0:
#3402 Use a callback in ILSAuthenticator to get Auth Manager:
#3390 Use Browscap-PHP for browser capabilities:
#3377-
Use regex route for content pages:
#3411 Use SSL to download Solr:
#3440 Use StorageInterface instead of AbstractAdapter for cache hints:
#3369 Validate Recommend handler parameters and always pass a string to setConfig:
#3424
These items were determined not to be necessary or workable and were closed without merging:
Display all collection items on all archive levels in collection list tab:
#3330 MinkTestCase: move screenshot handling to onNotSuccessfulTest():
#3370
New Issues
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
Code in Progress
Add support for Primo citations search:
#3393 Fetch Koha shelving locations for every Koha item:
#3435 Fix: don't override toggleAttrs in menu-button:
#3381 ParamBag: Avoid duplicate parameters after merge:
#3368 Refactor the setting of collectionID:
#3445 Show a Recalled message for recalled items, and show recalls alongside holds:
#3410,
#3421,
#3422
Issue Report / Discussion Only
Change alignment of content of cookie banner:
VUFIND-1663 Improve consistency of numbering in result lists in Search and Account areas:
VUFIND-1664
Active Issues
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:
Add filtering capability to facet list pop-up:
#2991-
Convert DOM events to stored functions:
#3361-
Investigate possibility to deprecate the Context view helper:
VUFIND-1396 Multi page selection in favorite list:
#3142 Switch to Splide Carousel Library:
#2934