[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.10.0 released

[Galen Charlton]

Thanks to the efforts of many contributors, the Evergreen community is
pleased to announce the release of version 2.10.0 of the Evergreen open
source integrated library system. Please visit the download page to get
it:

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

New features and enhancements of note in Evergreen 2.10.0 include:

* Improved password management and authentication. Evergreen user
passwords are now stored with additional layers of encryption and may
only be accessed directly by the database, not the application layer.
* To improve privacy and security, Evergreen now stores less data about
credit card transactions.
* A new library setting has been added which enables a library to
prevent their patrons from being opted in at other libraries.
* To improve patron privacy, patron checkout history is now stored in
separate, dedicated database table instead of being derived from the
main circulation data.
* Patrons can now delete titles that they do not wish to appear in their
checkout history.
* A new action/trigger event definition (“New User Created Welcome
Notice”) has been added that will allow you to send a notice after a
new patron has been created.
* The web staff client now includes a patron editor/registration form.
* Funds are now marked as paid when the invoice is marked as closed
rather than when the invoice created.
* A new “paid” label appears along the bottom of each line item in
the PO display when every non-canceled copy on the line item has been
invoiced.
* The MARC stream importer is now able to import authority records as
well as bibliographic records.
* When inspecting a queue in MARC Batch Import/Export, there is now a
link to download to MARC file any records in the queue that were not
imported into the catalog.
* Coded value maps have been added for a variety of fixed fields.
* MARC batch import can now assign monograph part labels when adding or
overlaying copies.
* The stock indexing definitions now include a search and facet index on
the form/genre field (tag 655).
* The web staff client now includes preview functionality for
cataloging, including MARC recording editing, authority maintenance, and
volume/copy management.
* HTML reports can now be sorted by clicking on the header for a given
column.
* Evergreen’s unAPI support now includes access to many more record
types.

With the release of 2.10.0, bugfixes for the web staff client will now
be considered for backporting to maintenance releases in the 2.10.x
series, particularly in the areas of circulation and patron management.
Libraries are encouraged to try out the web staff client and file bug
reports for it.

Support for PostgreSQL 9.1 is deprecated as of the release of Evergreen
2.10. Users are recommended to install Evergreen on PostgreSQL 9.2 or
later. In the next major release following 2.10, Evergreen will no
longer officially support PostgreSQL 9.1.

For more information about what’s in the release, check out the
release notes:

https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_10.html

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
direct: +1 770-709-5581
cell:   +1 404-984-4366
skype:  gmcharlt
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