VuFind® News

Version 11.0 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release includes several significant new features, many smaller improvements and fixes, and important infrastructural improvements to ensure the long-term compatibility and maintainability of the software.

Some key additions and changes:

• New self-service features for users: online payment of fines, and review and management of comments, ratings and tags.... read more

Version 10.2 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release is designed primarily to help users prepare for upcoming changes in release 11.0, but it also includes several new features, along with expanded translations, updated dependencies, new configuration settings and minor bug fixes.

Some key additions and changes:

• A new menu-based system to make the project's command-line utilities more accessible to less technical users.... read more

Version 10.1 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release includes several new features, along with as expanded translations, accessibility improvements, assorted bug fixes, and several new configuration options.

Some key additions and changes:

• Full integration with OCLC's WorldCat Search v2 API has been added, allowing users to continue including WorldCat content inside VuFind® after the v1 API is shut down at the end of 2024.
• Optional improvements to the faceting UI to allow multiple facet selections without reloading the page.
• A variety of new plugins, including a content block, a related record module, two permission providers and a channel provider.
• ILS data caching to improve performance, plus driver improvements for both FOLIO and Koha.... read more

Version 10.0 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release has a strong focus on modernization and forward compatibility, significantly modernizing the project's user interface and back-end database code. However, it offers more than “under the hood” improvements, as it also adds some significant new features, fixes several bugs, and makes improvements to translations, compatibility and accessibility.... read more

Version 9.1 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release adds some new integrations and features along with fixes to bugs, upgrades to dependencies, and improvements to translations, compatibility and accessibility.

Some key additions:

• Search integrations have been added for EBSCO Publication Finder and the LibGuides A-Z list.

• It is now possible to view proxy users and purge transaction history with supporting ILS drivers.... read more

Version 9.0 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This adds several new features and integrations along with fixes to minor bugs and improvements to translations, compatibility and accessibility.

Some key additions and changes:

• A new “blended search” feature allows search results from multiple sources to be searched and filtered as part of a single result list.

• A cookie consent dialog can now be optionally enabled.... read more

Version 8.1 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This adds several new features and integrations along with fixes to minor bugs and improvements to translations, compatibility and accessibility.

Some key additions and changes:

• It is now possible to configure more complex and sophisticated custom Solr queries for use as checkbox filters in the interface.

• A new Solr fallback record loader makes it easier to maintain backward compatibility if the identifiers in your collection change (due, for example, to a system migration).... read more

Version 8.0 of the VuFind® Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release includes significant new functionality and technical improvements.

Some key additions and changes:

• Significant enhancements to the record indexing process, including a new tool for loading data from CSV files, significant performance and functionality enhancements to XML indexing, and improved handling of creator names in MARC records.... read more

Version 7.1 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release focuses on improving compatibility while also adding several new features and fixes.

Some key additions and changes:

• The new “Record Versions” feature links together records representing different versions of the same work.

• The software has been fully tested for compatibility with the newly-released PHP 8.... read more

Version 7.0 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release brings some aspects of the code more up to date while also adding several new features and fixes.

Some key additions and changes:

• Improved security, including flexible Content Security Policy support, better cookie defaults, and more CAPTCHA options.

• Improved support for managing and embedding static informational content, including Markdown compatibility.... read more

Version 6.1 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release brings some aspects of the code more up to date while also adding several new features and fixes.

Some key additions and changes: A new (optional) “email alerts” feature which allows users to subscribe to searches and receive notifications of new results; Optional support for self-service email changes; Further improvements to the user interface for managing search filters; Configurable record meta tags for improved Google Scholar crawling; Support for two new user interface languages: Croatian and Hindi; Support for session storage in Redis; Optional integration with Unpaywall for full text links; Improved compatibility with PHP 7.3 and 7.4.... read more

Version 6.0 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This major release brings some aspects of the code more up to date while also adding several new features and fixes.

Some key additions and changes: An improved user interface for managing search filters; Support for optional integration with the popular Overdrive eBook service; URL shortening for links sent in emails and text messages; Support for user email address verification; Improved compatibility with MySQL 8.... read more

Version 5.1 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release adds several new features and fixes.

Some key additions: Configurable user account notifications, making activity (such as fines, available holds, overdues, etc.) more readily visible to the user; A richer, fully customizable user feedback system, allowing the creation of custom forms in the VuFind interface for collecting not just feedback, but also purchase suggestions, survey responses, or anything else the administrator configures; Optional dynamic DOI-based link augmentation in search results (currently supporting Third Iron's BrowZine service, but also extensible for other applications); An experimental driver for integration with the FOLIO platform, available for early adopters (but subject to change as the platform evolves); Better code generation tools, increasing the ease of creating new VuFind plug-ins; Full Vietnamese language support in the user interface.... read more

Version 5.0 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This release improves the package's compatibility with recent language and operating system releases and adds several significant new features.

Some key additions: New features to improve compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including optional user-initiated account removal and support for encrypted session data; Significant improvements to the “Channels” interface for serendipitous resource discovery, including a streamlined user interface and several new channel providers (such as “new items” and “trending items”); Compatibility with the Ex Libris Alma Library Services Platform; Improved support for rendering geographic data; PHP 7.2 compatibility; Optional user access to their own account history; Built-in interlibrary loan support for users of the Relais platform; Upgrades to the latest Solr, SolrMarc and Zend Framework component versions.... read more

Version 4.1 of VuFind has just been released. This release builds upon the recent 4.0 release with several significant new features.

Some key additions:

• Enhancements to the permission system to make it easier to configure permission-related behaviors.

• A new “theme mix-in” feature to make sharing third-party extensions to VuFind easier.

• Built in support for Third Iron's BrowZine service, useful for adding a “journal titles” box to Bento-style searching.... read more

Version 4.0 of VuFind has just been released. This major release adds a significant number of new features and enhancements and upgrades several of the components that the software depends upon.

Some key additions and changes:

• A new “channels” interface has been added to encourage users to explore collections in a visual and non-linear way, offering some of the same serendipitous discovery normally associated with shelf browsing.... read more

Today sees a significant new VuFind release, version 3.1.

Some key additions and changes: Improved and expanded support for geographic searching and map display; Richer facet browsing functionality; A new “asset pipeline” to improve page load times by combining files; Major performance and functionality enhancements to the SolrMarc indexing tool; Logger integration with the Slack messaging service.... read more

Today sees the release of two new VuFind versions: 3.0, a major release with significant new features, and 2.5.4, a minor release designed primarily to improve compatibility with the newly-released Ubuntu 16.04.

Some key additions and changes in release 3.0: Improved support for indexing multiple authors (and other types of creators); New filtering options in “combined search” mode to make your “bento box” search even more flexible; A database-driven record cache to improve performance and permanence when working with third-party APIs; Compatibility with PHP 7; Inclusion of Solr 5.5.0, which adds new indexing features and better Windows support; A significantly rewritten front-end theme offering greater stability, improved ease of customization and a more consistent user experience; New recommendation modules to help guide users to better search results.... read more

A minor VuFind release was issued today to ensure that the 2.x line has a fully PHP7-compatible release prior to being succeeded by the first release of the 3.x line next week. This is likely to be the final 2.x release. Stay tuned for more news on 3.x very soon!

VuFind 2.5 was released today.

Some key additions: Improved internationalization features, including support for right-to-left languages and a new Arabic translation; New tools and settings for supporting high availability; An improved interface for tagging records; New “library card” system to allow a single user to access multiple accounts in a consortial environment; Updates to newer versions of key dependencies: Solr 4.10.4, Zend Framework 2.4.6 and Bootstrap 3.3.4.... read more

A maintenance release was pushed out today correcting a handful of bugs. This update is most important if you use internationalization features, since it corrects some problems with translation introduced in release 2.4 as a result of changes in the underlying Zend Framework.

VuFind 2.4 was released today.

Some key additions: A new default theme incorporating responsive design for a more consistent desktop vs. mobile experience; Support for the Piwik open source analytics tool; Integration with new web services including DPLA search results and Facebook authentication; Smarter indexing of call numbers for improved searching, sorting and browsing; Updates to the latest versions of key components, including Zend Framework and SolrMarc, and adjustments to take advantage of new language features found in PHP 5.4.... read more

VuFind 2.3.1 was released today; this is a minor bug fix release which resolves some issues discovered since release 2.3. The largest changes are in the experimental Bootstrap3 theme, which has been significantly adjusted for better standards compliance and to resolve some problems.

Version 2.3 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This new release adds several new features as well as further improving the stability and flexibility of the software.

Some key additions: Support for retrieving results from additional third-party services: EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCO Integration Toolkit, Primo Central and LibGuides; New themes offering updated support for the Bootstrap framework; Support for ReCAPTCHA security on several key forms; Expanded account functionality, including user-initiated password changes and recovery by email; and Expanded book cover display functionality, including the ability to generate dynamic cover images on the fly.... read more

Version 2.2 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This new release adds several new features as well as further improving the stability and flexibility of the software.

Some key additions: new themes using the Bootstrap framework to add responsive design features; expanded faceting functionality, which allows users to filter data in more complex ways; incorporation of schema.org microdata to improve search engine optimization; a tag management module for administrators; and improved authentication options, including CAS support and the ability to allow users to choose from multiple authentication systems.... read more