While February was a short month, it nonetheless saw a significant amount of work completed on VuFind, including a new ILS driver (for Lucidea's GeniePlus), a new cover image provider (Bokinfo), some significant bug fixes (most notably a solution to a session-related bug introduced in VuFind 8.0, and to be released in VuFind 8.0.4 in the near future – see VUFIND-1532) and various incremental steps toward the eventual VuFind 9 release (including raising the PHP version requirement to 7.4 and updating a number of dependencies). Work to improve the speed of VuFind's integration tests has also meant that some aspects of development can accelerate due to faster completion of continuous integration jobs.

The following items were completed in the past month:

• Add a simple interval captcha that prevents too frequent actions: #2250
• Add ability to check ObalkyKnih servers are alive: #2290
• Add GeniePlus ILS driver: #2303, #2322, #2323
• Add safeguards to language normalization: #2326
• Add test for email subject: #2302
• Add ThemeConfig view helper: #2218
• Adding Bokinfo as a source for coverimages: #2294, #2298
• Aleph: Use default values for each Holds config key separately: #2306
• Correct typos in Armenian translation: #2320
• Demo driver: make new/recent IDs configurable: #2296
• EDS backend: support additional “missing record” cases: #2324
• Fix bugs in updateRecordId() method: #2314
• Fix construction of query string for EDS Autocomplete requests: #2319
• Fix problems with loss of session data: VUFIND-1532 / #2310 / #2311
• Improve cover tests: #2304
• Improve filter message handling in tag admin: #2263
• Improve performance of integration tests: #2309, #2312, #2317, #2318, #2321
• Include Memcached adapter by default: #2307
• Override relevance for ID-based searches: #2295
• Prevent adding facet count if it is undefined: #2316
• Raise minimum PHP version to 7.4: #2292
• Refactor constants/Laminas app setup to separate files: #2301
• Remove chdir from application initialization: #2305
• Remove obsolete cache settings; make some PHP extensions optional: #2308
• Replace File_MARC with MarcReader and friends: #2252
• Solr fallback record loader: #2315
• Translate form email subject with translate function: #2300
• Update Laminas dependencies (mostly for PHP 8.1 compatibility): #2291
• Upgrade to Laminas\Cache v3: #2299
• XCNCIP2: Add ability to configure problem information showing to user when request fails: #2289

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

• Adding hold history config example to KohaRest.ini: #2293, #2297
• Build OpenURL without http_build_query to avoid PHP array syntax in URL: #2313
• Clean up layout.phtml a bit: #2327
• Relax MarcReader's format checking: #2328
• SierraRest: Rework canceling and updating of holds: #2325
• Update ThemeConfigFactory to use latest laminas-cache settings: #2329

• Configurable sort tie-breaker field: VUFIND-1529
• Per-instance display of checkbox facets in SideFacets module: VUFIND-1528
• Setting up Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU): VUFIND-1530
• Shibboleth / VuFind: VUFIND-1531 (possibly a support request; ticket needs clarification)
• Wrapped link elements should not have space between the lines: VUFIND-1533

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

• Make getFacetLabel work for checkbox filters: #2259
• Replace database abstraction layer with Doctrine: VUFIND-1480 / #2233
• Update league/commonmark to 2.0: #2048
• Use Citation Style Language (CSL): VUFIND-889 / #1324
• Utilize icon helper: #1962