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 ====== VuFind Newsletter: August, 2021 ======
-:!: This document is a draft, and still subject to change.
 ===== Highlights / Executive Summary =====
+With a September 20, 2021 release date announced for VuFind 8.0, August's main focus has been finishing up all outstanding work pending for the release. This includes upgrades to Solr and SolrMarc (as well as many lesser dependencies), improvements to PHP 8 compatibility, support for 4-byte UTF-8 encoding in MySQL/MariaDB databases, and better handling of punctuation in author names during MARC indexing. Progress has been made on updating translations for the release, and the ongoing work of fixing bugs, improving accessibility, clarifying architecture and expanding ILS functionality has continued.
+The [[community:conferences:summit_2021:cfp|call for papers]] for the [[community:conferences:summit_2021|2021 Virtual VuFind Summit]] (being held online and free of cost from November 15-17) is now open. Please consider [[community:conferences:summit_2021:cfp|submitting a proposal]] and participating in the event.
 ===== Recently Completed / Resolved Issues =====
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