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<p>The Evergreen Community is pleased to announce the availability of
the beta release for Evergreen 3.7. This release contains various new
features and enhancements, including:</p>
<ul><li>Support for SAML-based Single Sign On</li><li>Hold Groups, a feature that allows staff to add multiple users to a
named hold group bucket and place title-level holds for a record for
that entire set of users</li><li>The Bootstrap public catalog skin is now the default</li><li>“Did you mean?” functionality for catalog search focused on making suggestions for single search terms</li><li>Holdings on the public catalog record details page can now be sorted by geographic proximity</li><li>Library Groups, a feature that allows defining groups of
organizational units outside of the hierarchy that can be used to limit
catalog search results</li><li>Expired staff accounts can now be blocked from logging in</li><li>Publisher data in the public catalog display is now drawn from both the 260 and 264 field</li><li>The staff catalog can now save all search results (up to 1,000) to a bucket in a single operation</li><li>New opt-in settings for overdue and predue email notifications</li><li>A new setting to allow expired patrons to renew loans</li><li>Porting of additional interfaces to Angular, including Scan Item as Missing Pieces and Shelving Location Groups</li></ul>
<p>Evergreen admins installing the beta or upgrading a test system to the beta should be aware of the following:</p>
<ul><li>The minimum version of PostgreSQL required to run Evergreen 3.6 is PostgreSQL 9.6.</li><li>The minimum version of OpenSRF is 3.2.</li><li>This release adds anew OpenSRF service, <code>open-ils.geo</code>.</li><li>The release also adds several new Perl module dependencies, <code>Geo::Coder::Google</code>, <code>Geo::Coder::OSM</code>, <code>String::KeyboardDistance</code>, and <code>Text::Levenshtein::Damerau::XS</code>.</li><li>The database update procedure has more steps than usual; please consult the <a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html#_database_upgrade_procedure">upgrade section</a> of the release notes.</li><li>The beta release should not be used for production.</li></ul>
<p>Additional information, including a full list of new features, can be found in the <a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html">release notes</a>.</p><div>
Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Galen Charlton on behalf of the 3.7 release team: Bill Erickson, Galen Charlton, Terran McCanna, Michele Morgan, and, Adam Bowling.
</div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Galen Charlton<br>Implementation and IT Manager<br>Equinox Open Library Initiative<br>phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)<br>email: gmc@equinoxInitiative.org<br>web: <a href="https://equinoxInitiative.org" target="_blank">https://equinoxInitiative.org</a><br>direct: +1 770-709-5581<br>cell: +1 404-984-4366</div></div></div></div></div>