On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:21 -0400, Rogan Hamby wrote: > Gordana, > > Booking is in 1.6.1 I think if I'm remember the version number correctly > and if that's what you're referring to. That's the next planned release > which is around the corner, perhaps even very soon. Someone who watches > the development list more closely than I do probably knows more though.
Releases of 1.6.1.0 and 1.6.1.1 were uploaded to the downloads area some time ago ( http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-1.6.1.1.tar.gz ) but weren't announced for several reasons: 1) Nobody has yet written the upgrade instructions for it. It should follow the normal configure && make && make install dance, with the application of the 1.6.1.0 upgrade SQL script, but there is also at least one new pre-requisite, the UUID::Tiny Perl module, that I'm aware of. 2) There has been very little testing of these releases. We know that the 1.6.0.4-1.6.1.0 upgrade SQL script bundled in 1.6.1.1 actually introduces a regression in a view and a function, and I suspect from Don McMorris's post on the -DEV list earlier that a fresh install of the 1.6.1.1 schema will result in missing parts of the booking data that should have been populated. 3) I personally haven't been able to figure out how to write about the now-three "current stable" releases (the 1.4.0.7 release, the 1.6.0.6 release, and the 1.6.1.1 release) all at the same time on the same page in a way that makes sense. For the known issues in 2) we could issue additional fixes to apply post-install/post-upgrade, but it would be nicer to just have the fixes in place in the release itself. Creating a release isn't an automatic process, unfortunately; it still requires a tremendous amount of one person's time (Mike Rylander's, currently), so finding the right balance between just getting the code out there in a release (and issuing subsequent "hotfixes") while continuing to work on new features, vs. refining the releases to avoid the need for hotfixes, is still very much a hard balance to find. In any case - if you want to try the 1.6.1.1 release, it is there and feedback would be appreciated.
