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Last Updated 10/28/2025
November 1, 2025
Current Version: 3.13.5
Target Version: 3.15.5
Over the course of the night of Saturday, November 1st, NC Cardinal will be having our annual Evergreen software upgrade. During this time, our Evergreen catalog will be completely offline.
During this process, any libraries that are open will need to use the Offline mode. Detailed instructions, including a video on Offline Mode, can be found in our Knowledge Books.
During the upgrade, users will still be able to authenticate to electronic resources, because we will be pointing our SIP authentication server at a backup copy of our database, but since our real database will be down, this means self check out machines should not be used during this time.
We will be upgrading from Evergreen version 3.13.5 to version 3.15.5. The full list of changes can be found in the release notes below.
Evergreen Version 3.14 Release Notes
Evergreen Version 3.15 Release Notes
Below you will find a table listing issues that have been reported by various library staff from across the NC Cardinal consortium who have been testing the various features and functions of the upgrade in the Next environment. Included are links to the original Basecamp posts that reported these issues. You can follow these discussions in the Evergreen Upgrade Testing Basecamp group here.
(Note: If you are unable to access these Basecamp links because you are not part of the Evergreen Upgrade Testing Basecamp group, you may submit a request to be added here under the "Mailing List" section.)
If you are interested in testing the upgrade for yourself in the Next environment, click here for instructions on how to access your library's version of the Next database.
| Category | Status | Description | Notes | Basecamp | Bug Report |
| Circs and Holds | Fixed |
Actions dropdown menu does not give any indication as to which action you are selecting; all of the options remain white, with the one you are selecting not being highlighted in any way while your cursor is over it
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| Circs and Holds | Fixed | Same issue as above occurs in other places like Item Status, and also in Dark Mode | Post | ||
| Circs and Holds | Fixed | Patron name remains on tab after account closed | Post | 1773464 | |
| Circs and Holds | Fixed | Order patron alerts from newest to oldest on Checkout/Patron screen | Post | 2047174 | |
| Dark Mode | Fixed | Does not work on non-angular pages | Post | ||
| Dark Mode | Fixed | Contrast is bad in several places in the MARC editor, particularly the Enhanced MARC Editor | Post | 2107141, 2093225, 2097385, 2102730 | |
| Enhanced MARC Editor | Fixed |
"Special Characters" menu - Canadian syllabics U+11AB does not paste characters pictured in boxes; instead paste ᆫ0, ᆫ1, ..., and so on based on the box selected
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| Enhanced MARC Editor | Fixed | "Special Characters" menu - Canadian syllabics U+15Ax through U+15Fx will not copy to the clipboard; same for U+14Ax through U+14Fx | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed |
In the Items Checked Out page in the My Account interface, the title and author are not shown, and the book cover is appearing under "Renewals Left"
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| OPAC | Fixed |
If you hover over a row in the Items Checked Out table, the cell under the Author heading highlights light grey (which does not happen anywhere in the current version); not sure if this is expected new behavior or a result of whatever caused the broken table
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| OPAC | Fixed |
When you open the "My Lists" option, at the top of the page is a box to create a new list, even if you already have existing lists. I would expect any existing lists to be at the top with a button/link "Create New List" that takes me to that box if I need to go there. It's so clunky to have to scroll down to find the existing lists.
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| OPAC | Fixed |
If using highlighting of search terms, in longer titles where the title wraps to a second line (title view), the highlighting obscures other words (and “Disable Highlighting” does NOT turn off the current highlights)
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| OPAC | Fixed | Two-line wrapped titles look like they are overlapping (even without highlighting) | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed | When logged into the OPAC and go to "My Lists," the "Place Hold" button in a list is grey (not just greyed out, but completely grey with no text) | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed | Same issue as above in "View Basket" | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed | Clicking on options under Additional Content in a bib record causes the order of the options to randomly change | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed | Decrease size of font in OPAC of items in search results to remove scrollbar from list of libraries and items | Post | ||
| OPAC | Fixed |
Same with the "Edit List" box at the top of a list, why not just an edit button to reduce the screen clutter and get the patron directly to their lists? Are there settings that could change this, or is this a "wish list" bug?
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| Record Buckets | Fixed | No way to scope "Visible to me" buckets to owning library, user, etc. | Post | ||
| Record Buckets | Fixed |
When you click the "New Bucket" button, you are unable to click the other tabs ("Existing bucket" and "Shared bucket," respectively) in the "Add New Bucket" popup window
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| Record Buckets | Fixed | "Visible to me (...)" options appears to randomly activate, being clickable some times and not others | Post | ||
| Record Buckets | Fixed | Granting a user edit permission does not also grant view permission | Post | ||
| User Buckets | Fixed | All hold groups are visible in the "Add To Bucket" dropdown menu on the Patron Search Results, not just those created by the logged in staff member (this may be related to a larger issue with hold groups being visible to everyone, though) | Post | ||
| Circs and Holds | Will Not Change | Revert Holdings Editor appearance/design to way it was in previous version | This was a deliberate change by Evergreen. | Post | |
| Circs and Holds | Will Not Change | Change colors in Holdings View back to previous version's | This was a deliberate change by Evergreen. | Post | |
| Enhanced MARC Editor | Will Not Change | Make "Special Characters" button available in Flat Text Editor, as well, not just the Enhanced MARC Editor | Post | ||
| OPAC | Will Not Change |
When logging in and navigating by keyboard, Tab goes from the library card number field to the '?' above the PIN field rather than directly to the PIN field.
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This was a deliberate change by Evergreen.
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| OPAC | Will Not Change | "Login to Evergreen" popup window appears over a blank white screen and "Stay logged in?" now says "Remember language setting (en_us)" | This was a deliberate change by Evergreen. | Post | |
| Record Buckets | Will Not Change |
If you grab the frame adjuster triangle thing at the bottom right, it won't let you pull down, but you can pull to the left and lose access to the actions menu that way. There's no scroll bar either.
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This was a deliberate change by Evergreen.
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| Dark Mode | Wait for Community Fix | Holdings View and anything that gets highlighted, if you have "highlight search terms" turned on, has poor contrast | Post | 2121912 | |
| Enhanced MARC Editor | Wait for Community Fix | Fixed fields - No dropdown menus for Desc, ELvl, Biog, GPub, and TMat | Post | 2125794 | |
| Record Buckets | Wait for Community Fix |
When searching for a record bucket, if you select a bucket and go to the Action menu, the Action menu popup is hidden and a scroll bar shows up on the right hand side. Preferred behavior would be for the full Action menu popup to show and not be contained within that window/field
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| Circs and Holds | TBD | Change colors in patron account screen back to previous version's | Post | ||
| Dark Mode | Poor contrast in Enhanced MARC Editor when using it while merging records in a Record Bucket and when creating a new record from scratch. | Post | |||
| MARC Batch Import/Export | In the Inspect Queue tab of the MARC Batch Import/Export interface, you can click on the column headers as if to sort them, but they do not actually sort the columns. | Post | 1927256 | ||
| OPAC | Clicking on options under Additional Content in a bib record says "No Content Available" | Post | |||
| OPAC | Printing a basket or list is still printing bib level info only, no item level info = call number so you can find the item on the shelf. | Wishlist item | Post | ||
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Also, you can text the call number to yourself from the title screen item list, but you can't do that from the results screen item list. Maybe more "wish list" bug stuff?
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| Record Buckets | In progress | Able to see other record buckets that were not created by the logged in staff member | Post | 2098407 | |
| Record Buckets | In progress | Record bucket menu takes noticeably longer to load | Post | 2098043 | |
| Record Buckets | Return order of options listed in Actions dropdown menu to the order of the previous version | Post | 2125801 |