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 ====== VuFind® Newsletter: September, 2023 ======
-:!: This document is a draft and still subject to change.
+===== Development Highlights and Project News =====
-===== Highlights / Executive Summary =====
 ==== Development Progress ====
-...
+There was a high volume of development activity in September. While much of the work was focused on finishing up outstanding work on release 9.1, there were also several significant new feature contributions, many related to work presented at the Summit held during WOLFcon. Highlights of completed work include added support for advanced search in [[configuration:blender|blended search]] mode, improvements to OpenURL generation, significant cleanup to existing language files, and many more accessibility improvements and bug fixes. New features now in development (likely to be included in release 10.0 or 10.1) include a new [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3112|"Combined" ILS driver]] for composing functionality from multiple systems, support for [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3094|ILS-driven "bound-with" displays]], an [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3069|"explain" feature]] for debugging query behavior, and a built-in [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3103|mini-CMS for managing announcements and alerts]].
+==== VuFind® Summit 2023 / WOLFcon ====
+All video recordings from the VuFind® Summit 2023 at WOLFcon have been processed and posted. You can watch everything through the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMocoPoiGkwdO3yoRSd_3zUo7-1032U1A|VuFind® Summit 2023 YouTube playlist]].
 ==== Project Management Committee Report ====
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+The Project Management Committee continued to discuss ongoing documentation and fundraising work at their September meeting. They also began discussing a new topic: possible implications of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, an upcoming law which may have prove problematic for open source communities. You can learn more about this through the [[https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act|Eclipse Foundation's Open Letter to the European Commission on the Cyber Resilience Act]] and the [[https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-the-impending-tragedy-of-the-cyber-resilience-act|Apache Foundation's "Save Open Source" article]].
+The PMC also scheduled the 9.1 release and made significant progress on internationalization, described in more detail below.
+==== Release 9.1 ====
+Release 9.1 has been scheduled for October 30, 2023, so much of October's development effort will be focused on finishing touches on the release and fixes to any last-minute bugs and accessibility issues. Work on 10.0 will increase in intensity beginning in November. Community members are encouraged to check out the latest dev branch and try things out if they want to preview most of the changes coming in the new release; bug reports are greatly appreciated at this time.
+==== Internationalization ====
+In preparation for release 9.1, the project is temporarily freezing the merging of any pull requests that add new language strings, as translation is now underway, and it is too late to add new text to the project until after the release.
+Through the efforts of the Project Management Committee, the project is now using [[https://lokalise.com/|Lokalise]] as a translation platform to help streamline the work of volunteer translators.
+While translation is underway, you can follow the work's progress on the [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/projects/5|Translations board in GitHub]]. Note that several languages currently lack translators, as noted in the "No Current Translator" column. If you are interested in helping with any of these languages (or with new languages not currently supported by the project), please reach out to info@vufind.org and we can set you up with a Lokalise account.
 ===== Recently Completed / Resolved Issues =====
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   * Add a composer script to update npm dependencies: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3073|#3073]]
   * Add an icon set for unicode symbols and use it in hierarchical facets: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3078|#3078]]
+  * Add aria-hidden to COinS titles: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3120|#3120]]
   * Add 'combined' indicator to backend result-list: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3079|#3079]]
   * Add endpoint url to error messages logged in OAuth2 token trait: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3105|#3105]]
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   * Add support for advanced search with Blender: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3068|#3068]]
   * Add translations to improve accessibility for account/list checkboxes: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/2982|#2982]]
-  * Adjust whitespace in translation strings: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3104|#3104]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3165|#3106]]
   * Allow users to view their proxy relationships: [[https://openlibraryfoundation.atlassian.net/browse/VUFIND-1598|VUFIND-1598]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3006|#3006]]
   * Alma and FOLIO: Fix grouping holdings by holdings_id: [[https://openlibraryfoundation.atlassian.net/browse/VUFIND-1641|VUFIND-1641]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3101|#3101]] / [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3102|#3102]]
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   * Improve 'Export to' translation string to include token: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3057|#3057]]
   * Improve quote handling to make language .ini files valid: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3089|#3089]]
+  * Improve translations (add new/missing strings, adjust whitespace, fix typos): [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3104|#3104]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3165|#3106]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3111|#3111]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3115|#3115]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3116|#3116]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3117|#3117]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3119|#3119]]
   * Quote numeric language keys for Lokalise compatibility: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3044|#3044]]
   * Refactor reset button code: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3080|#3080]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3085|#3085]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3110|#3110]]
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   * Simplify resultScrollerActive() code: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3075|#3075]]
   * Update tools in preparation for release 9.1: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3092|#3092]], [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufindhttp/pull/25|vufindhttp#25]]
+  * Use null coalescing to simplify combined search templates: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3118|#3118]]
-The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 10.0:
+  * Widen lightbox: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3086|#3086]]
-  * ...
 ===== New Issues =====
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   * Add grid-based stack placement for combined search: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3077|#3077]]
   * Add option to enable facet filters for advanced search facets: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3098|#3098]]
-  * Add some missing Northern Sami translations: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3111|#3111]]
   * Combined ILS Driver: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3112|#3112]]
   * Fix autocomplete opening with autofocus: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3064|#3064]]
   * Fix combined filter dropdown padding and colors: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3113|#3113]]
   * Fix record tab heading level: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3076|#3076]]
+  * Fix search history behavior when login is disabled: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3114|#3114]]
   * FOLIO: Display bound-with titles: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3094|#3094]]
   * Improve icon helper escaping logic: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3084|#3084]]
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   * Search result explanation feature: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3069|#3069]]
   * VuFind® Notifications CMS: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3103|#3103]]
-  * Widen lightbox: [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/3086|#3086]]
 ==== Issue Report / Discussion Only ====