This release adds functionality, performance, and usability improvements, and simplifies installing and configuring, in the following areas:
General search speed
Cloned patron search
OPAC Post-search sorting and filtering
OPAC Advanced search syntax in the simple search interface
OPAC Advanced search form propagation
Hold processing improvements
Z39.50 target server record format configuration
Hold suspension, including manual and automatic activation.
Suspended holds will maintain their slot in the queue, but will not be captured until activated
Includes patron and staff management interfaces.
Hold migration on record merge.
Org unit specific soft and hard hold boundaries.
A hold boundary determines how far from a given org unit (by proximity) the hold processor can search to find a potential copy.
A soft boundary forces the system to set the boundary based on the closest potential copy. This is useful for reducing, but not disallowing transits. If there is a potential copy that's "close by", but it's not available yet, the system will continue to wait for that item to become available (or another potential item to come into range).
A hard boundary forces the system to not search outside of a given range regardless of the existence of a potential copy. Hard boundaries are useful for completely disallowing transits outside of a given range.
Enhanced added content plugin management.
Server-side caching of all added content for speed and reduced dependence on vendor site
Better handling of added content vendor timeouts (error and retry handling)
Amazon is now a proper plugin (images only)
Added support for limiting the number of checkouts by item type (circulation modifier).