[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.12 is released

[Kathy Lussier]

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 
2.12.  The release is available on the Evergreen downloads page at 
https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/.

With this release, we strongly encourage the community to start using 
the new web client on a trial basis in production. All current Evergreen 
functionality is available in the web client with the exception of 
serials and offline circulation. The web client is scheduled to be 
available for full production use with the September 3.0 release.

Other notable new features and enhancements for 2.12 include:

  * Overdrive and OneClickdigital integration. When configured, patrons
    will be able to see ebook availability in search results and on the
    record summary page. They will also see ebook checkouts and holds in
    My Account.
  * Improvements to metarecords that include:
      o improvements to the bibliographic fingerprint to prevent the
        system from grouping different parts of a work together and to
        better distinguish between the title and author in the fingerprint;
      o the ability to limit the “Group Formats & Editions” search by
        format or other limiters;
      o improvements to the retrieval of e-resources in a “Group Formats
        & Editions” search;
      o and the ability to jump to other formats and editions of a work
        directly from the record summary page.
  * The removal of advanced search limiters from the basic search box,
    with a new widget added to the results page where users can see and
    easily remove those limiters.
  * A change to topic, geographic and temporal subject browse indexes
    that will display the entire heading as a unit rather than
    displaying individual subject terms separately.
  * Support for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, in the public
    catalog. Arabic has also become a new officially-supported language
    in Evergreen.
  * A new hold targeting service supporting new targeting options and
    runtime optimizations to speed up targeting.
  * In the web staff client, the ability to apply merge profiles in the
    record bucket merge and Z39.50 interfaces.
  * The ability to display copy alerts when recording in-house use.
  * The ability to ignore punctuation, such as hyphens and apostrophes,
    when performing patron searches.
  * Support for recognition of client time zones,  particularly useful
    for consortia spanning time zones.

Evergreen 2.12 also requires PostgreSQL 9.3, with a recommendation that 
sites upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.4. It also requires the 2.5 release of 
OpenSRF. The full feature set for this release is available in the 2.12 
Release Notes at 
https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_12.html.

As with all Evergreen releases, many hands contributed to a successful 
release process. The release is a result of code, documentation, and 
translation contributions from 46 people representing 23 organizations 
in the community, along with financial contributions from nine Evergreen 
sites that commissioned development. Many thanks to everyone who helped 
make this release happen!


-- 
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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