Hello, everyone -

Today sees the release of VuFind 3.1, which includes several significant new 
features and upgrades. For more details, you can see the press release below.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

- Demian


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VuFind 3.1 Released

Villanova, Pennsylvania - September 26, 2016 - Version 3.1 of the VuFind Open 
Source discovery software has just been released. This minor release adds a 
significant number of new features and enhancements while maintaining 
compatibility with version 3.0, released earlier in the year.

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.

Additionally, several bug fixes, new configuration options and minor 
improvements have been incorporated.

Questions about the new release or VuFind in general can be directed to Demian 
Katz, the lead developer of the project at Villanova University. The software 
and its documentation may be found at http://vufind.org.

Contact:
Demian Katz
[email protected]
Villanova University
Falvey Memorial Library
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085

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