This document is a draft and still subject to change.

The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.0:

• Add ability to pass params into forms: #2674
• Add cover provider for Koha local images: #2444
• Add critical Upgrade step for blowfish deprecation: VUFIND-1563 / #2640
• Add Demo DoiLinker plug-in: #2694
• Add output formatting for arrays on staffviewarray: #2704
• Add retry support to Redis session handler: #2706
• Add storeOffsetsWithPositions to Solr text fields using termVectors: #2695
• Add support for username with Redis sessions: #2691
• Add Vim swap files to .gitignore: #2705
• Always return true from Redis session handler's destroy method: #2700
• Available ISSNs not included in OpenURL for record whose format is “Serial”: VUFIND-1597 / #2713
• Fix labeling of blended results and the Blender test: #2710
• Fix validate ids logic (in AbstractRequestBase/HoldsController): #2696
• FOLIO: more flexible hold exclusion configuration: #2683
• Hierarchy Controller: return JSON when getTreeJson produces an error: #2690
• Improve/expand data attributes for analytics: #2686, #2693
• Improve styles for links containing icons (and related issues): VUFIND-1533 / #2400
• Keep current search id in the url: #2701, #2715, #2717
• Make search history labeling more consistent: VUFIND-1535 / #2698
• Make Solr cores independently configurable: #2711
• Normalize whitespace in templates: #2709
• Overdrive cleanup and improved testability: #2707
• Remove Sierra ILS driver: #2721
• Set a more reasonable default sort for course reserves: #2712
• SierraRest: Add option to display orders and fix display of itemless holdings: #2716
• SierraRest: Add support for checking canFreeze: #2692
• SierraRest: Use RetryTrait to retry requests that receive an empty reply: #2718
• ThemeInfo: Fix getMergedConfig: #2543
• Update Phpstan to version 1.9.17: #2703

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

• Component: confirmation menu: #2723
• Finalize dependencies for 9.0 release: VUFIND-1595 / #2719
• Improve/simplify staff view code/styles: #2714
• Remove unused folder_id field from search table: #2699
• Replace Slick Carousel with accessible-slick: #2702
• Semantics for saved search table: #2697
• Upgrade to PHPUnit 9.6 and fix deprecations: #2720
• Use better factory/remove constructor for SolrAuthor results: #2722

• Prepare for PHPUnit 10: VUFIND-1596
• Provide a direct link to an ILS login form when using ChoiceAuth plus Shibboleth: VUFIND-1594

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

• AJAX status standardization/modernization: #2447
• Announce number of search results in title: #2688
• Convert from Laminas\Db to Doctrine: VUFIND-1480 / #2233
• Corrects non-validating cart dropdown menus: #2669
• FOLIO: support proxy user requests: #2685
• VuFindHarvest: added parameter 'harvestTestData': vufindharvest#13