[Evergreen-general] Evergreen 3.7-beta available

[Galen Charlton]

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:

   - Support for SAML-based Single Sign On
   - 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
   - The Bootstrap public catalog skin is now the default
   - “Did you mean?” functionality for catalog search focused on making
   suggestions for single search terms
   - Holdings on the public catalog record details page can now be sorted
   by geographic proximity
   - Library Groups, a feature that allows defining groups of
   organizational units outside of the hierarchy that can be used to limit
   catalog search results
   - Expired staff accounts can now be blocked from logging in
   - Publisher data in the public catalog display is now drawn from both
   the 260 and 264 field
   - The staff catalog can now save all search results (up to 1,000) to a
   bucket in a single operation
   - New opt-in settings for overdue and predue email notifications
   - A new setting to allow expired patrons to renew loans
   - Porting of additional interfaces to Angular, including Scan Item as
   Missing Pieces and Shelving Location Groups

Evergreen admins installing the beta or upgrading a test system to the beta
should be aware of the following:

   - The minimum version of PostgreSQL required to run Evergreen 3.6 is
   PostgreSQL 9.6.
   - The minimum version of OpenSRF is 3.2.
   - This release adds anew OpenSRF service, open-ils.geo.
   - The release also adds several new Perl module dependencies,
   Geo::Coder::Google, Geo::Coder::OSM, String::KeyboardDistance, and
   Text::Levenshtein::Damerau::XS.
   - The database update procedure has more steps than usual; please
   consult the upgrade section
   <https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html#_database_upgrade_procedure>
   of the release notes.
   - The beta release should not be used for production.

Additional information, including a full list of new features, can be found
in the release notes
<https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_7.html>.
Regards,

Galen Charlton on behalf of the 3.7 release team: Bill Erickson, Galen
Charlton, Terran McCanna, Michele Morgan, and, Adam Bowling.

-- 
Galen Charlton
Implementation and IT Manager
Equinox Open Library Initiative
phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
email:  gmc at equinoxInitiative.org
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