Evergreen release 3.14.0 focuses on accessibility, security, infrastructure
The Evergreen community and release team are pleased to announce the latest major release of the Evergreen Integrated Library System. This release includes a total of twenty-two new features as well as 57 bugfixes and documentation updates. Fifty-two individuals representing thirteen organizations and three countries contributed to this release.
Major features in Evergreen 3.14.0 include:
- A full accessibility overhaul of the public catalog (OPAC), greatly improving navigation, usability, and mobile responsiveness benefitting users of all abilities;
- Upgrades to the native self-checkout interface;
- Multi factor authentication for staff accounts, allowing configurable secondary factors including TOTP/HOTP, WebAuthn, and native SMS code challenge;
- A complete rewrite of staff record buckets, with extensive usability and workflow improvements for catalogers; and
- Upgrades to take advantage of the latest Ubuntu operating system and PostgreSQL database that underpin Evergreen's software.
The release team members for 3.14 are Ruth Davis (Evergreen Community Development Initiative), Blake Graham-Henderson (MOBIUS), Jason Stephenson (C/W MARS), Josh Stompro (Lake Agassiz Regional Library), and Jessica Woolford (Bibliomation).
Community is everywhere in Evergreen - the facilities and WiFi of the Salem Massachusetts Public Library (an Evergreen library and part of the NOBLE consortium) helped make this release possible.
"The participation of so many in the Evergreen community of users has been invaluable in the evolution of the ILS into a full-featured, adaptable, and scalable management software solution for libraries of all types and sizes," says release team member Ruth Davis.
Release team member Jason Stephenson agrees, adding, "It was a real community effort." Jason particularly thanks release team member Blake Graham-Henderson for stepping in to help with translations & tarballs.
This latest release is available from the Evergreen downloads page at https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/, and full release notes are available at https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_3_14.html
About Evergreen
Evergreen is the leading open source ILS for consortia. Evergreen delivers local flexibility and policy granularity, as well as third-party interoperability via its truly open APIs. Evergreen is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later, and is available to all for download at no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/.
About the Evergreen Community
The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies, and other organizations that support and use the Evergreen ILS. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000 libraries around the world use Evergreen.