VuFind® Newsletter: August, 2024
Development Highlights and Project News
Development Progress
With OCLC announcing the shutdown of their original WorldCat search API at the end of this year, completing integration with the new WorldCat v2 API became a critical priority and a major focus of development this month. The work is not yet complete, but significant progress has been made, and it is on track to be completed and released in VuFind® 10.1 before OCLC's deadline. You can monitor progress and try the new code at pull request #2612.
In addition to focusing on this new priority, nearly twenty bug fixes were made in preparation for release 10.0.1 (none especially critical, but all contributing to the stability of that upcoming release) and quite a few enhancements were completed for inclusion in 10.1. These include: a new permission provider that can use cookies to control access; improvements to the Explain feature; enhancements to the FOLIO and KohaRest ILS drivers; more flexible CSS configuration in themes; and minor SEO and accessibility adjustments.
Project Management Committee Report
In addition to continuing ongoing documentation maintenance work and planning for upcoming conferences and training, the Project Management Committee spent time this month on discussing and documenting the project's commitment to accessibility. See the new Accessibility page for more details, and watch that spot for further updates and tips in future.
Conference News
Registration is still open for both WOLFcon 2024 (in London, September 24-26, with pre-conference workshops on September 23) and the 2024 VuFind® Summit (in Leipzig and online, September 30-October 1).
We hope to see you at either or both of these events!
Recently Completed / Resolved Issues
The following items were completed in the last month and will be included in release 10.0.1:
Add public method AvailabilityStatusInterface::getPriority:
#3869 Eliminate double-escaping from searchTabs.phtml:
#3879 Fix a couple of Finnish translations:
#3855 Fix bug: allow display of facet value of 0:
#3862 Fix bug: passing isn=0 to cover loader caused error:
#3832 Fix bug: Phing 3 broke PostgreSQL setup:
#3887 Fix color of focused btn-default in sandal themes:
#3873 Fix deferred facets:
#3854 Fix incorrect ID encoding when jumping to records:
#3861 Fix KeepAlive error in trigger-print.js:
#3863 Fix missing UserEntityInterface references in InstallController:
#3889 Fix setting of
HTML contents in JS to run inline scripts properly:
#3872 Fix some deprecation comments:
#3883 Form: translate aria-labels:
#3864 Handle unavailable :tabbable preudo class gracefully in lightbox:
#3874 HoldingsILS tab: use UserEntityInterface appropriately:
#3886 KohaRest: Fix sorting of loans by title:
#3867-
SierraRest: improve extractVolume compatibility:
#3851
The following items were completed in the last month and will be included in release 10.1:
Add InsecureCookie permission provider role class:
#3828 Add margin to searchform:
#3865 Add mechanism to display textual holdings (866 MARC field):
#3840-
Add SpecBuilder→removeLine() method:
#3850-
Allow 404 response from Solr to be retried:
#3866 Disable browser language detection with Mink tests:
#3892 Explain feature: Added raw explanation button:
#3871 Explain feature: show FunctionQuery:
#3870 export-menu.phtml: Add rel=“nofollow” to generated links:
#3852 Extend itemLimit config to KohaRest driver and ini file:
#3839 Fetch Koha shelving locations for every Koha item:
#3435 FOLIO: Add settings to ignore expired courses in course reserves:
#3859 FOLIO: automatically renew expired token as needed:
#3858-
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Improve routing configuration to simplify URLs for help pages:
#2850 Introduce GetServiceTrait:
#3843 Introduce option to display shorter author data on EDS search result page:
#3841 KohaRest: Add option to include suspended holds in hold queue length calculation:
#3856 KohaRest: Display the date and destination of transitting items:
#3312 KohaRest: Fix holdings with older Koha DI plugin versions:
#3890 Label drop-downs for deleting lists/library cards and improve button appearance:
VUFIND-1683 /
#3848 Nullable TermsCommand arguments:
#3891 Phing: add properties to override MARC test data locations:
#3857 schema.org: improve assignment of type “Product”:
#3849
Additionally, some older tickets have been closed either because they were very old support requests with no recent activity (VUFIND-1346) or because the reported issues have been subsequently fixed (VUFIND-1460).
New Issues
The following items were reported / begun in the past month, but are not yet completed:
Code in Progress
Add permalink to search results in embedded mode; adjust thumbnail links:
#3868 Add secure cookie permission provider:
#3882 ExternalVuFind: Cache results:
#3875-
Fix BrowZine grid template images for consistency:
#3878 FOLIO: Limit request pickupLocation options by item location:
#3876 Introduce option to display shorter author data on EDS item detail page:
#3881 Minor OverDrive bug fixes:
#3877 Nullable TermsCommand arguments:
#3885 Possibility to use secret file rather than string password in config files:
#3860 Sort favorites by save date:
#3884 Use local password hash service instead of laminas-crypt:
#3888
Issue Report / Discussion Only
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University of Colorado Accessibility Report:
VUFIND-1704
Active Issues
The following items saw significant progress / activity during the past month:
Add functionality to FOLIO driver to select only allowed pick up locations in the request form for Poppy release:
VUFIND-1698-
Convert from Laminas\Db to Doctrine:
#2233 Display status of item locations by status priority:
#3758