1.7 SP2

(March 2011)

All modules

Support for AES 256-bit strong encryption when saving user passwords.

Cataloging

An issue that caused field 995 to be incorrectly removed when the last holding of a particular organization was purged (and there were still holdings from other organizations) has been resolved.

Circulation

1. Support for SMTP authentication has been implemented. It is now possible to send email notifications through an SMTP server using authentication (username/password).

2. Circulation supports a user-configurable prompt for patrons that are up to 60 days before card expiration.

3. Self Check mode has been enhanced to block patrons with greater than a user-defined value of accrued fines and/or number of overdue items.

4. Circulation supports E-book loans. E-book loans expire after the loan period without overdue status or fine creation.

Group Editor

Group Editor has a new E-book designation for groups. Loan transactions on items in a group that is flagged as an E-book group will expire after the loan period.

Server

A new version of the M3 Server is available. This is a modernized version of the server, and has a new, more flexible interface that works on Windows 2008. The server performance scales with the number of processing cores. We have tested on a dual-socket quad Xeon environment, and established a four-fold increase in performance when compared with the prior version of the server on the same hardware.