Great Reading Adventure v4.3.17
Release Notes: 4.3.17
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 4.3.17 which can be downloaded from GitHub or run in Docker from the Docker Hub or the GitHub Packages.
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 Microsoft .NET 6.0 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
Here are some notable changes:
- Update framework to ASP.NET 6.0
- Fully-integrate email templating and sending
- Add challenge sorting options (most recent, most popular) and category colors
- Add challenge groups
- Show reasons in Mission Control why user history items cannot be deleted
- Add ability to set a program-wide alert on the dashboard page
- Site setting to show secret code on streaming event pages
- Allow administrative toggle of avatar sharing, mail
- Additional vendor code reports and packing slip functionality
- Fix social card cache expirations
- Improve front-end packaging for stylesheets and scripts
For more detailed information about changes in this release please review the change log.
Known issues
For up-to-date information about known issues please refer to the discussions and the GitHub issue list.