Release Notes: 4.5.0
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 4.5.0 which can be downloaded from GitHub or run in Docker from the Docker Hub or 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 8.0 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
Notable changes:
- Upgrade to ASP.NET Core version 8.0
Notable changes from the prior release:
- Retain participant challenge filter selections in the session
- Change display of "Program" on the participant side to "Age Group"
- Welcome email capability with sending delay after program signup, maximum number of emails limit
- Fix avatar scrolling bug at mobile responsive level
- Streamlined account creation abilities via authorization codes
- Performer scheduling enhancements including coversheet generation, streaming improvements
- Performer spreadsheet export
- Job system with scheduled tasks for sending emails
- Improve hold slips to include age group and group name, allow generation without marking received
- Fix issues resulting in participants having multiple assigned vendor codes
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.