Evergreen Development Update
2017 Evergreen International Conference
8 April 2017
Last year
- 5 October 2016: Evergreen 2.11.0
- 21 March 2017: OpenSRF 2.5.0
- 22 March 2017: Evergreen 2.12.0
New Patch Authors
- Eva Cerniňáková
- Rogan Hamby
- Billy Horn
- Kyle Huckins
- Linda Jansova
- Jim Keenan
- Codey Kolasinski
- Jakub Kotrla
- Jeanette Lundgren
- Nawras Othman
- Jillianne Presley
- Michelle Purcell
- Jonathan Schatz
- Clare Sobotka
Evergreen 2.11
- Email checkout receipts (web staff and self checkout)
- Popularity boost for ranking search results
- Improvements to public catalog My Account displays
- Per-OU Limits on Allowed Payment Amounts
- Canceled transit enhancements
- Authority import and propagation editor/edit date enhancements
- Expansion of the Spanish localization
Evergreen 2.12
Text
- Web client ready for Trial Production Use
- ebook API service - Overdrive and OneClickdigital
- Metarecord improvements:
- Improved 'Group Formats & Editions' Search
- Links to Other Formats and Editions on record page
- Better matching for records that form a metarecord group
- Metarecord search-by-default option
- Faster holds targeting
- Punctuation insensitive patron search
- New subject indexes - Display entire heading as a unit
- Support for Arabic and right-to-left language support
Evergreen 3.0
Image: Ducky on the Ledge by Joshua Smith on Flickr, CC-BY-SA
3.0 Schedule
- May and August: Review and Feature Fests
- 1 September 2017: feature freeze
- 6 September 2017: beta release
- 3 October 2017: General release
3.0 Priorities
- Full support for production use of the web staff client
- Deprecation of the XUL staff client
- And it is slated to be removed in the Fall 2018 release
- Did we mention that the XUL staff client will be deprecated?
- Including deprecating translations
3.0 Features
- Eliminate staged search
- Faster, more precise results
- Authority infrastructure improvements
- Better browse list
- Unified Angular serials interface
3.0 Features
- Batch patron editing
- Billing infrastructure updates
- Bill referral (e.g., to campus bursar)
- Closed dates editor and due date display improvements for multi-timezone users
- Copy alert persistence and suppression matrix
3.0 Features
- Copy tags / digital bookplates
- Family pickup of hold requests
- Persistent due date input (e.g., for bookmobiles)
- Search patrons by birth date
- Search for patron from place holds interface
- Cancel transits rather than delete them
3.0 Features
- Improved My Account screens
- jQuery support for the public catalog
- Native book carousel widget
- OverDrive/OneClickdigital ebook transactions in OPAC
- Making My Account faster
- Separate the my account pages into a separate webapp
- Remove Dojo from public catalog
3.0 Features
- Developer documentation project
- Replace the Ruby EDI translator
- Further work on the ar-JO localization
Check the road map!
Many hands make light work
Hack-a-way 2016
2-4 November 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Photo credit: Anna Goben
Hack-a-way 2017
Going back to Indiana for 2017!
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