1. VuFind Summit 2017 Demian Katz VuFind Developer

2. What’s New? VuFind 4.0 and 4.1 Updating dependencies: New features:
Solr 6.4.2
Many Zend Framework Components
New features:
Sandal theme
Channels interface
Formal VuFind APIs
Support for i18n-aware static pages
BrowZine support

3. What’s New? VuFind 4.0 and 4.1 Major improvements Whoops error handler
Improved configurable permission handling
Theme mix-ins / theme compiler
Expanded ILS support (SierraRest, etc.)

4. What’s Next? Focus on next-generation ILS support
Continuing updates to dependencies
Continuing project restructuring
Continue discussing an institutional home

5. Next-Generation ILS Support
Alma
A proof-of concept exists; should be refined for 5.0 release (see PR #955)
FOLIO
Villanova has received a grant to develop a FOLIO driver; expect a prototype by June ‘18.
OCLC WMS
There is work in PR #218 that needs some attention.

6. Dependency Updates Zend Framework 3 Solr 7
VuFind is now using some ZF3 components, but others still need to be upgraded
Some significant backward compatibility breaks
Some components are beginning to require PHP 7.1
Solr 7
Introduces a whole new v2 API

7. Project Restructuring
Redesign Where Appropriate
Refine/replace ugly configuration files?
Simplify/tidy ILS driver interface?
Revisit options/params/results?
Refine record driver hierarchy?
Reorganize language files?
Utilize new permission system more widely?
Refactor to make controllers thinner?

8. Project Restructuring
Code Quality
Should we set goals for improved test coverage?
Should we set goals for reduction of PHPMD warnings?
Can we improve our measurement of Javascript quality?
Should we begin measuring Java indexer code quality?

9. Institutional Home
Villanova continues to discuss a possible home for the VuFind project…
…no formal announcements yet, though!
Please let us know…
What you want from such a home
What you might be willing to give

10. Questions, Comments, Discussion
More details:
Contact Demian later:
demian.katz on Skype