Hello all, It is my pleasure to announce general availability of the first stable release for Evergreen 3.3. The download for Evergreen 3.3.0 is available here:
https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ As we close out this development period, I think the overall theme of this release can be summarized as infrastructural improvements and modernization. Chief among these would be the significant shift to new versions of Angular/Bootstrap as spearheaded by Bill Erickson. There are a handful of production ready interfaces now using the new system (MARC Import/Export and some Administration interfaces) and an ever more feature-rich "staff" catalog which can be optionally enabled by Evergreen administrators. The staff catalog is still considered experimental for this release, but is already highly functional, and may one day serve as a prototype for bringing similar technology to the public OPAC. A somewhat less glamorous but equally important effort is making sure Evergreen continues to work smoothly with major parts of our technology stack. As lead by Jason Stephenson and Ben Shum, Evergreen can now claim official support for the newest Ubuntu LTS (18.04) as well as significantly more modern versions of PostgreSQL (9.6 and 10). Ubuntu is a popular choice in the Evergreen community for a server operating system, and PostgreSQL plays the critical role of backend database for Evergreen, so these improvements are necessary and much appreciated. For an overview of these changes and more, including acknowledgements of all the contributors beyond the select few named above, please see the official release notes: https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_3.html And while release notes are great for a high-level overview, if you really want to see what goes on, I've always felt the bug tracker provides the best window into the Evergreen workshop. A total of 82 improvements were committed to Evergreen during the 3.3 release cycle, and you can see the nitty-gritty details here: https://launchpad.net/evergreen/3.3/3.3-beta1 and here: https://launchpad.net/evergreen/3.3/3.3.0 Finally, as always, thank you to everyone who proposed, funded, coded, tested, and revised all of the various bug-fix and feature improvements for Evergreen during this cycle. If any contributor was left out of the release notes linked above, please let me know, and I will address the problem with appropriate haste :) Sincerely, Dan
