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Release Notes: 4.2.0

Introduction

The Great Reading Adventure is a robust, open source software designed to manage library reading programs. The GRA is free to use, modify, and share. Check out www.greatreadingadventure.com for an overview of its functionality and capabilities.

Release

These release notes accompany 📚 The Great Reading Adventure version 4.2.0 which can be downloaded from GitHub or run in Docker from the Docker Hub or the GitHub Container Registry.

Upgrading

If you wish to upgrade from a previous release of version 4 see the upgrading section of the manual. There is no upgrade path from versions 2 or 3 to this release due to significant architectural changes.

Documentation

For information on what is required to run the Great Reading Adventure, please refer to the online manual. The software requires a hosting environment including the Microsoft .NET 5.0 framework and Microsoft SQL Server. If you don’t have such an environment, there are plenty of Web hosting services you can use.

Changes in this release

There are a lot of changes in this release, here are some of the more notable ones:

  • Update to the Microsoft .NET 5.0 framework
  • Internationalization of the customer-facing site including Spanish language translations
  • Add method for staff to activate unfired triggers via Mission Control
  • Schedulable carousel of materials or links can now be placed on the dashboard
  • Functionality to allow performers to self-register and staff to select performances for their locations
  • News area (with categories) of Mission Control for providing communications to staff with email subscriptions
  • Proximity search for events (i.e. 'find events near me')
  • Add exit page to provide call-to-action after logout
  • Built-in job system using WebSockets so long-running processes don't time out (e.g. avatar import, reports, sending emails, etc.)
  • Ability to send emails from in the software to people who have signed up for pre- or post-program lists and participants
  • Allow participants to add books to their book list independent of logging activity
  • Add maximum file size, dimensional size, and square dimensional requirement for badge images
  • New streaming event category with ability to allow scheduled viewing of streams
  • Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

For more detailed information about changes in this release please review the change log and related issues on GitHub.

Known issues

For up-to-date information about known issues please refer to the discussions and the GitHub issue list.

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