Blacklight

Release 2.4 of Project Blacklight is now available in our new Git flavor!  You can find the new improved flavor of  Blacklight at http://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/tree/v2.4.0

In addition to our move to Git, we have listened to community feedback and have changed the installation process. Instructions for installation are at http://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/blob/v2.4.0/README.rdoc.  In broad terms, Blacklight now uses a template to get required gems at installation time rather than bundling them in with the code.

Besides our debut in Git and the move to a template, here are the changes for release 2.4:

Release Notes – Blacklight Plugin – Version 2.4

Bug

• [CODEBASE-54] – rake gems:install does not work (using template now)
• [CODEBASE-111] – Ae and Oe ligature characters are not normalized correctly
• [CODEBASE-131] – Getting error from rails on startup that VERSION is already defined
• [CODEBASE-134] – Authlogic error
• [CODEBASE-135] – Fall back on net_http when curb gem is not present when using RSolr
• [CODEBASE-138] – A copy of ApplicationController has been removed from the module tree but is still active
• [CODEBASE-160] – why isn’t the email and SMS working on demo.projectblacklight.org
• [CODEBASE-170] – Blacklight logo cannot be over-ridden
• [CODEBASE-178] – 3 specs fail when run with rake solr:spec … no idea why
• [CODEBASE-187] – bookmarking seems to be broken in the latest code

Improvement

• [CODEBASE-87] – Gracefully handle solr errors
• [CODEBASE-172] – demo – solr config – only build spell dictionaries on optimize, not on newSearcher / firstSearcher

New Feature

• [CODEBASE-3] – exporting to Zotero
• [CODEBASE-109] – sort by pub date in demo
• [CODEBASE-182] – Rails “Template” installer instead of ./script/plugin
• [CODEBASE-183] – Add cursor focus to the search box on the home page
• [CODEBASE-190] – Cursor focus in search form on home page

Task

• [CODEBASE-51] – Design a basic advanced search UI – see Stanford SearchWorks
• [CODEBASE-70] – Need a plugin release as well
• [CODEBASE-114] – demo index should have vernacular displayed
• [CODEBASE-146] – Change stylesheet link in the HTML to media=”all”
• [CODEBASE-151] – get some dublin core test data
• [CODEBASE-159] – get test data with call numbers
• [CODEBASE-173] – marc_mapper.rb – no longer in synch with solrmarc; its presence is confusing.
• [CODEBASE-176] – get continuous integration working again
• [CODEBASE-177] – update demo app and readme at projectblacklight.org
• [CODEBASE-186] – Implement Google Analytics on the main blacklightopac.org site