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community:newsletter:2023-01

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VuFind® Newsletter: January, 2023

:!: This document is a draft and still subject to change.

Highlights / Executive Summary

Recently Completed / Resolved Issues

The following items were completed in the past month:

  • Add “my account” sidebar to “edit list item”: #2678
  • Add results metadata as data attributes: #2667
  • Add semantics to fines table for screen readers: #2676
  • Avoid calling EDS API until necessary: #2643
  • Configurable sort tie-breaker: VUFIND-1529 / #2660
  • Fix channel encoding/error handling: #2687
  • Fix consistency of list menu highlighting/breadcrumbs: #2679
  • Fix for query string character prefix: #2670, #2672
  • Fix PHP 8.1 compatibility of hierarchy tree formatter: #2673
  • FOLIO: Add patron comment support for requests: #2682
  • FOLIO: Enhance getMyHolds to provide more properties: #2662
  • Hide “searches” in history that are made for the print view: #2671
  • Improve behavior/documentation of getSubfieldOrDefault: #2668
  • KohaRest: Add an option to allow canceling of holds in transit: #2680
  • KohaRest: Remove bad query param: #2681
  • Minor documentation updates: #2653
  • Separate core fields into their own templates: #2665
  • SierraRest: Add dueStatus field to transactions: #2677
  • Translation improvements: #2684
  • Update vufind-org/vufinddate to 1.2.0: #2675
  • VuFindDate: Fix handling Datetime error for PHP 8.2+: #6

Additionally, an old JIRA ticket (VUFIND-1227) was identified which had been fixed back in release 7.0 but left open. It has been appropriately resolved now.

New Issues

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

Code in Progress

  • Add ability to pass params into forms: #2674
  • Add data-attribute title to facet-groups: #2686
  • Announce number of search results in title: #2688
  • Corrects non-validating cart dropdown menus: #2669
  • FOLIO: more flexible hold exclusion configuration: #2683
  • FOLIO: support proxy user requests: #2685
  • VuFindHarvest: added parameter 'harvestTestData': vufindharvest#13

Issue Report / Discussion Only

  • Clarify labeling of list menu: VUFIND-1592
  • Ensure JSON encoding of strings embedded in HTML is properly escaped: VUFIND-1593

Active Issues

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

  • Convert from Laminas\Db to Doctrine: VUFIND-1480 / #2233
  • Investigate possibility to deprecate the Context view helper: VUFIND-1396
  • Progressive Themes: SCSS and CSS and dark themes: VUFIND-1590
community/newsletter/2023-01.1675114615.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/01/30 21:36 by demiankatz