[Evergreen-general] Evergreen 3.8-beta available

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the beta release for Evergreen
3.7. This release contains various new features and enhancements, including:
* Angular rewrites of several staff interfaces:

Acquisitions administration
Holdings maintenance and item attributes editor
Patron triggered events log
Item triggered events log

* A new option to make headings browsing case-insensitive
* A new interface for editing notes that are attached to bibliographic
records
* Improvements to the staff interface for browsing bib records that are
attached to a heading
* Patron notes, messages, alert messages, and standing penalties have been
folded into a consolidated notes interface.
* New settings to control how the item price and acquisition cost are used
to determine the item’s value for replacement
* Improvements to the dialogs used to override events in the checkout,
items out, and renew items interfaces
* The patron photo URL can now be edited from the patron registration
interface
* New settings for hold stalling based on the pickup library
* New settings for tuning the default pickup location that is applied when
a hold request is placed by a staff member
* Stripe credit payments in the public catalog now use a newer API
recommended by Stripe
* Cover images are now displayed in the My Account items checked out, check
out history, holds, and holds history pages
* New reporting views, including item statistics andDewey call number
blocks and ranges

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.
* Debian Bullseye is now supported, while Debian Jessie is no longer
supported
* The upgrade does not require a catalog reingest. However, if you are
experimenting with the case-insensitive browse feature, reingests will be
required for any index that you change.
* The beta release should not be used for production.

The beta can be downloaded from:

https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/

Full release notes are available at

https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_8.html

Sent on behalf of the 3.8 release team:

Jason Boyer
Galen Charlton
Jason Etheridge
Michele Morgan

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Galen Charlton
Implementation and IT Manager
Equinox Open Library Initiative
gmc at equinoxOLI.org
https://www.equinoxOLI.org
phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
direct: 770-709-5581
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