[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.8.0 released

[Galen Charlton]

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce the release of version
2.8.0 of the Evergreen open source integrated library system.  It can
be downloaded from

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

New features and enhancements of note in Evergreen 2.8.0 include:

* Acquisitions improvements to help prevent the creation of duplicate
orders and duplicate purchase order names.
* In the select list and PO view interfaces, beside the line item ID,
the number of catalog copies already owned is now displayed.
* A new Apache access handler that allows resources on an Evergreen
webs server, or which are proxied via an Evergreen web server, to be
authenticated using user’s Evergreen credentials.
* Copy locations can now be marked as deleted. This allows information
about disused copy locations to be retained for reporting purposes
without cluttering up location selection drop-downs.
* Support for matching authority records during MARC import. Matches
can be made against MARC tag/subfield entries and against a record’s
normalized heading and thesaurus.
* Patron message center: a new mechanism via which messages can be
sent to patrons for them to read while logged into the public catalog.
* A new option to stop billing activity on zero-balance billed
transaction, which will help reduce the incidence of patron accounts
with negative balances.
* New options to void lost item and long overdue billings if a loan is
marked as claims returned.
* The staff interface for placing holds now offers the ability to
place additional holds on the same title.
* The active date of a copy record is now displayed more clearly.
* A number of enhancements have been made to the public catalog to
better support discoverability by web search engines.
& There is now a direct link to “My Lists” from the “My Account” area
in the top upper-right part of the public catalog.
* There is a new option for TPAC to show more details by default.

For more information about what’s in the release, check out the
release notes, which can be found at

http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_8.html

To add a personal note, many people have contributed to this release,
but I would particularly like to thank release manager Bill Erickson
for his work on this release.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
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