[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [RM 2.7] Evergreen 2.7.0 released!

[Ben Shum]

Evergreen 2.7.0 has been released!  Small delay in announcing, but here we go...

Cheers and many thanks to everyone who helped to make Evergreen 2.7.0
a reality, our first official release of the 2.7 series!  After six
months of hard work with development, bug reports, testing, and
documentation efforts, the 2.7.0 files are available on the Evergreen
website’s downloads page:  http://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads

So what's new in Evergreen 2.7?  You can see the full release notes
here: http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_7.html.
To briefly summarize though, there were contributions made for both
code and documentation by numerous individuals.  A special welcome and
acknowledgement to all our first-time contributors, thanks for your
contributions to Evergreen!

Some caveats now... currently Evergreen 2.7.0 requires the use of the
latest OpenSRF 2.4 series, which is still in its alpha release (beta
coming soon).  As folks help to test the OpenSRF release, this will no
doubt help to make Evergreen 2.7 series better.  Also, for
localization/i18n efforts, there was some last minute bug finding and
we plan to release updated translation files in the next maintenance
release 2.7.1 for the 2.7 series.

Evergreen 2.7.0 includes a preview of the new web-based staff client
code.  The instructions for setting this up are being finalized by the
community and should be expected for release during the next
maintenance version 2.7.1 later in October.

See here for some direct links to the various files so far:
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-2.7.0.tar.gz
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-2.7.0.tar.gz.md5
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-client-2.7.0_i686.tar.bz2
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-client-2.7.0_i686.tar.bz2.md5
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-client-2.7.0_x86_64.tar.bz2
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-client-2.7.0_x86_64.tar.bz2.md5
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-setup-2.7.0.exe
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-setup-2.7.0.exe.md5
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/ChangeLog-2.6-2.7.0

Once again, a huge thanks to everyone in the community who has
participated this cycle to contribute new code, test and sign-off on
features, and work on new documentation and other ongoing development
efforts.

Cheers,

-- Ben

PS:  Another email will be out soon asking for volunteers to lead as
release manager for 2.next (aka, 2.8?)

-- 
Benjamin Shum
Evergreen Systems Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
24 Wooster Ave.
Waterbury, CT 06708
203-577-4070, ext. 113