v9.8.0

SLiMS 9.8.0 (Bulian D Ace)

• Security: Hardened upload, image scraping, attachment handling, backup download/delete, lookup, visitor counter, and output escaping against SQLi, XSS, SSRF, CSRF, path traversal, and unsafe image metadata.
• Search: Added Fuzzy Search and Sphinx Search engines with settings UI, active-engine integration, fallback handling, and larger index word support.
• Reports: Added PDF export support via mPDF for datagrid reports and title lists.
• Maintenance: Added Image Maintenance Tool for cleanup, rebuild, backup, and synchronization.
• Circulation/Member: Added round-robin item reservation and fixed loan-history renewal/duplicate handling.
• Bibliography/OPAC: Improved custom-field handling, template configurability, external repository uploads, thumbnail generation, and UCS auto-delete behavior.
• Upgrade/Install: Synced installer schema with upgrade flow; optimized index definitions; updated dependencies and Docker environment handling.
• Extensibility: Added hooks for sysconfig, OPAC index, Admin index, and bibliography save data references.