As of today, Evergreen and OpenSRF are now using Git for version control. The new version control server, kindly provided by the Georgia Public Library Service, is http://git.evergreen-ils.org/. The Subversion repositories for Evergreen and OpenSRF are now read-only and will no longer be updated. So what does using Git mean for the Evergreen project? Git … Continue Reading about Evergreen now Git-ified →
Evergreen 2.0 – Released!
Thursday, January 27, 2011 marked the much anticipated release of Evergreen 2.0, which brings with it an impressive list of new functions and features. The 2.0 feature list can be found here and includes such major functionality as Acquisitions. There were several key library systems that drove development in this major release. This truly was … Continue Reading about Evergreen 2.0 – Released! →
Release 1.6.0.2
The Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Evergreen 1.6.0.2 from http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads (including the Windows staff client). Evergreen 1.6.0.2 is both a bug-fix and minor feature enhancement release: see http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=feature_list_1_6_0 for an overview of the changes since 1.6.0.1. This release continues the momentum of increased community contributions of bug reports, fixes, … Continue Reading about Release 1.6.0.2 →
HOTFIX ALERT
Well, ain’t that always the way. In an attempt to fix one thing, we’ve broken another. In 1.6.0.1 we fixed a bug whereby searches containing a colon, but not one that denotes a search class or modifier (like “keyword:” or “site:”), we being completely ignored. However, that cause complications for some other searches. The main … Continue Reading about HOTFIX ALERT →
Evergreen Documentation Licensing Terms
The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) has voted to accept the following proposals for Evergreen Documentation Licensing. The vote took place December 21, 2009 – January 4, 2010 on the Documentation Interest Group Mailing List. There were 18 yes votes and 0 no votes, for a unanimous decision. Since these licensing terms affect the entire … Continue Reading about Evergreen Documentation Licensing Terms →
Evergreen Release Candidate 1.4 Available
On Friday, October 17, 2008, the Evergreen community released Evergreen 1.4, Release Candidate 1. It is linked on the project website downloads page. As noted elsewhere, in software, a release candidate (or RC) is similar to a political candidate: it should have a strong platform, it should be more “walk” than “talk,” and it’s out … Continue Reading about Evergreen Release Candidate 1.4 Available →