[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.9.0 Released

[Jason Stephenson]

Hi, all.

Thanks to the efforts of many contributors, the Evergreen
community is pleased to announce the release of version 2.9.0 of
the Evergreen open source integrated library system. Please visit
http://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ to get it!

This release has many new features and enhancements, including:

* Blanket orders in Acquisitions
* Ability to send alerts to user before their account expires
* More control over when patrons can have negative balances
* Manage Authorities now displays the thesaurus
* Item statistical categories can be set during record import
* More features in the web staff client preview
* Plus, some old, unused code was removed

For more information about what's in this release, check out the
release notes:
http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_9.html.

Cheers,
Jason
-- 
Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
4 High ST, Suite 175
North Andover, MA 01845
Phone: 978-557-5891
Email: jstephenson at mvlc.org