[OPEN-ILS-DEV] This week in development

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

Evergreen 2.2.0 is released!  This is the long-awaited, first stable 
release of the 2.2 series with the new Template Toolkit-based OPAC and 
all the other new features.

2.1.2 RC2 and 2.0.12 were also released.

All of this week's releases contained security fixes, so sites should 
upgrade to the latest release in their series with due haste, or see 
here for instructions on applying the security fixes without going 
through the whole upgrade process: http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=776


Dan Scott has been selected as a Fedora Linux packager.  He'll be adding 
and updating several of the standard Perl modules that Evergreen relies 
on to Fedora.  This means that sites using Fedora Linux should see the 
Evergreen installation process get easier.  The same improvements should 
eventually reach Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well.


Sites that have recently brought the Template Toolkit OPAC online are 
bringing attention to bugs that affect them, and the developer community 
is responding to the call to work out solutions.  This is how things get 
better and better!

Some developers have also been working on new SIP-based features for 
Evergreen, specifically detailed display of user fines and credit card 
payments via devices that support that.

Work has also gone into improvements in:
     - hold targeting
     - MARC Record Batch Import/Export ("Vandelay" to the developers)
     - command line tools for updating authority records
     - more!

Apologies to anyone whose contributions I have neglected to mention.  I 
don't exactly intend these emails to be comprehensive of all development 
contributions for the past week, but I just want to give a broad 
audience an idea of what the developer community is focusing on.

Thanks!

-- 
Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
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