The beta release of Evergreen 3.17 is now available. Evergreen 3.17 is a feature release that includes:
- Improvements to the Holdings Editor, including a new version of “working items” support and restoring the ability to unset fields
- Improvements to the Patron Summary display, including displaying user preferences, number of overdue items across the patron’s family group, and more visibly displaying the privacy waiver status
- Library Groups can now be taken into account when configuring circulation and hold policies
- Circulation and hold policies can now be cloned
- Email receipts can now be sent from the Items Out, Renew Items, and Checkin interfaces
- Patrons can now set a hold expiration date when placing holds through the public catalog
- The ability to populate Item Buckets by importing from CSV files
- New methods for allowing patrons to set fine-grained opt-ins to notifications
- Many grids in the staff interface now have case-insensitive filtering
- Chilifresh is now supported as a cover image provider
- Stackmap integrations can now be more easily enabled in the public catalog
- Support for installation on Debian 13 “Trixie”
- Support for PostgreSQL 18
- Various accessibility improvements
The beta release is available for download. We strongly encourage Evergreen users and developers to thoroughly test the beta release. General release is scheduled for April 29, 2026.