[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.10.0 released

[Jane Sandberg]

Congrats to Galen and everybody involved in this effort!
On Mar 17, 2016 4:01 PM, "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> 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
> --
> 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
> web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/
> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> http://evergreen-ils.org
>
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