Primo 2025 Release Notes
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Announcements
Merged August and November Releases
Given the minimal content scheduled for this release, we've streamlined this year's release schedule by combining it with our November release, eliminating unnecessary testing cycles with little added value for institutions.
November Sneak Preview
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DEI Term Tool Enhancements - CERV Enhancement #9021
Announcements
Primo and RedHat/RH7 Support
Previously, we announced the end of RedHat 7 support in Primo Classic, and we would no longer support it in the February 2025 release of Primo Classic. This deadline has been extended through the February release, but the May 2025 release of Primo Classic will fail without an upgrade to RedHat 8.
May Sneak Preview
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New secondary resource type for In Press/Online First articles
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Book review identification improvements
Features
Patron Default Sort
February 2025 PRM-47947
Previously, the default sort for advanced and simple searches was Relevance. With this enhancement, users' default sort is based on their last selected sort type. For signed-in users, this setting is retained between sessions.
This functionality is not applicable to other types of searches (such as Browse Search and Journal Search).
Additional Enhancements
- May 2025 PRM-48016
New Secondary Resource Type from CDI – The following changes were made to support different resource types based on their type (regular/warning) and appearance order from CDI:Code Table New Code/Description Facet Resource Type (Primo Home > Advanced Configuration > All Code Tables)
default.facets.facet.facet_rtype.online_first / ONLINE FIRST ARTICLE
Display Constants (Primo Home > Advanced Configuration > All Code Tables)
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default.attribute.online_first / Online First Article
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default.attribute.online_first_tooltip / An "Online first" article is a very recent publication that has been accepted by the publisher but is not yet assigned to a specific journal issue. It typically does not have volume, issue, or page numbers and is available only at the primary publisher website, not yet in aggregator databases
This functionality will not be available until the June release of CDI. On-premises sites that cannot install the package by June can add the necessary labels manually.
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- February 2025 PRM-47967
New Linking Template for Naxos – The following linking template has been added to the Templates mapping table (Primo Home > General > Mapping Tables) for Naxos World collections:Code Template Code Description naxos_world http://INSTITUTIONID.naxosmusiclibrary.com/world/catalogue/item.asp?cid={{control/sourcerecordid}} Authentication linking template for Naxos World collections in CDI
Resolved Issues
- May 2025 PRM-47902 SF: 06963419, 07032404, 07107515, 07134938, 07259580, 07486117, 07728444, 07761277, 07767020, 07798952, 07883356, 07910560, 07917435
IsCDI parameter needed adjustment for Classic Primo. This has been fixed. - May 2025 URM-47895 SF: 07251196
The Bulk Export form stayed open after the selected search results on the results page were deselected. This has been fixed. - May 2025 URM-237464 SF: 07892642, 07801713, 07214773, 06946925, 06301389, 05311029, 05300363
Chapters of this Book from permalink: Back to results error. This has been fixed. - May 2025 URM-235607 SF: 07152168, 07781806
The Copy citation button was unable to copy without style in Safari. This has been fixed. - May 2025 URM-234669 SF: 06906273, 07164524, 07168135, 07807655
Incorrect beacons were sent for the Resource Type Filter Bar if fewer than seven resource types were defined. This has been fixed.
- February 2025 PRM-47810 SF: 07138016
On the Interlibrary Loan Request form, focus was not provided when on the Article, Book/Chapter and Journal radio buttons. This has been fixed. - February 2025 PRM-47896 SF: 07256467, 07729677
Bulk Exports failed for blended scopes when no CDI results were excluded by facets. This has been fixed. - February 2025 URM-207228 SF: 06830187, 06977178
In some cases, there were missing fields on the My Library Card > Loans tab. This has been fixed. - February 2025 URM-218923 SF: 05311505, 05312059, 05332003, 05476098
When performing an Export to Excel action, HTML tags were exported into the Excel file. This has been fixed by removing the HTML tags.
CDI-Related Updates
This section lists the fixes and enhancements associated with CDI by their release date to ensure that Primo/VE customers are aware of the availability of these updates during and between releases of Primo/VE. When available, CDI updates are released on the first Wednesday of the month.
Unless otherwise specified, these updates apply to both Primo and Primo VE environments.
2025 Updates
April 2, 2025
- Improved identification of book reviews for CDI records, previously classified as articles. This fix includes the following:
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Additional criteria were added to identify book reviews based on information in the title or abstract field. Some examples of such criteria are:
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CDI resource type is article, and the Title contains the phrase book review.
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CDI resource type is article, and the Title contains an ISBN followed by at least one digit.
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CDI resource type is article, and the abstract starts with the phrase Book reviewed in this article.
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For merged records, the rule for selecting the resource type for logical records was changed for cases where participants from different providers had different resource types. Previously, the resource type found in most of the participants determined the resource type. This is no longer the case for book reviews by giving preference to the resource type instead of simply identifying it as an article.
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March 5, 2025
- CDI-30397 SF: 07831344
The genre mapping for the score resource type was changed from unknown to document to prevent problems with OpenURL linking. - CDI-30075 SF: 05333261
Book editor data was incorrectly formatted in citations. Book editors are now listed in a dedicated field to ensure that editor names are correctly presented in citations. - New date formats (including MM and DD) are now supported with the cdate range filter.
- New logic was added to ensure that a single secondary resource type, either "retraction note" or "retracted publication," is selected when both types are present.
- CDI-28678 SF: 07155386
Internal CDI fields that Primo does not reference were removed from the PNX. - CDI-28472 SF: 06929716
In some cases, CDI records with the resource type Book Review also returned the secondary attribute Review Article. This has been fixed so that records of type Review Article are not returned as the secondary attribute for Book Review. - CDI-25467 SF: 07221960, 07101700, 06924867, 06608446, 06590326, 06579412
Some Reference type records from Gale were incorrectly merged with similar Gale Reference titles causing linking and availability issues. This has been fixed. - CDI-21744 SF: 05324244, 07056359
In some cases, the << sign was removed from records with it in documentTitle. This has been fixed.
February 5, 2025
- CDI-29556 SF: 06247514, 06256831, 06845693
Hyphenated terms (e.g., cell-dependent) and terms ending in an apostrophe (e.g., employees) were not highlighted correctly. This has been fixed. - CDI-29868 SF: 05301799, 07261804, 07498035
In some cases, editor names were duplicated on Primo search results. This has been fixed by selecting a single instance of each editor name from the participant records within the library’s activations. - CDI-28303 SF: 07077133, 07133180, 07692626, 07705917, 07804237
When using normalized CDI Subject headings, multiple subject facet values could not be applied sequentially. This has been fixed. - CDI-29763 SF: 07716814
The CDI Activation Analysis Tool was updated to use jQuery version 3.7.1.