We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Ad hoc notifications for Inter Library Loan requests
• Updating long overdue items back to In Stock/Loanable status in Return
• Fix to the display of a borrower’s age, related to leap years
• Fix to correctly handle the 040 tag following an import or edit of a marc record (LDS)

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that to further enhance the security of the Soprano web application, we have made the following changes to the LIVE environment:

• TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have been deprecated.
• TLS 1.2 continues to be supported and is now the only protocol actively used for secure communications.

Please note that while TLS 1.2 was previously supported, we have now formally disabled older protocols in LIVE, to ensure a higher level of security. Your access to Soprano through web browsers remains unchanged, and no action is required on your part.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce there is a new version of the Soprano wrapper available. This new version has been updated with the latest security features for Chromium.

The Soprano wrapper release notice and download can be found here.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Ability to re-link an item record to another bib record

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Copies in transit excluded from branches count in Recent activity and search result cards
• Defaults on the create borrower screen

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Fixes to the shelf mark display in the Resources> Recent Activity and search results cards (LDS 2.9.34)
• Recent activity and search result cards count of branches where copies are available
• Timestamp on supplier reports in ILL records
• Soprano offline Return Items – Item Barcode field is now cleared
• Changes to the VIEW MARC template to incorporate further updates from the Library of Congress

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Session Timeout for Soprano picked up from the Admin console
• Changes to the VIEW MARC template to incorporate further updates from the Library of Congress
• Hover hints now appear on attributes of the Leader and 008 fields

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please visit the Soprano Ideas Forum.

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Manual return date showing the previous year
• Underlying security improvements (no changes in the Soprano interface)

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please visit the Soprano Ideas Forum.

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Changes to the VIEW MARC template to incorporate an initial set of Library of Congress updates
• Hover hints on subfields and indicators on newly added fields

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog or contact our support team directly.  To suggest and discuss additional features please visit the Soprano Ideas Forum.

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Soprano is now available for preview. This release includes:

• Changes to the VIEW MARC template to incorporate an initial set of Library of Congress updates
• Hover hints on subfields and indicators on newly added fields

Changes to the VIEW MARC template to incorporate an initial set of Library of Congress updates

Changes have been made to the Marc21 template used by Soprano in VIEW MARC to update it with an initial set of Library of Congress changes. More updates are to follow.

Hover hints on subfields and indicators on newly added fields

In VIEW MARC when a new field is added, hover hints now appear on each of the subfields. In addition, hover hints appear on the indicators on newly added fields.

To preview this release

You can preview this release by inserting ‘-demo’ into your tenancy URL after the word ‘soprano’: soprano-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. Please remember that it accesses your live data.

Release to the live service

This version of Soprano is expected to be released to the live service on:  Wednesday 11th  October 2023

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please visit the Soprano Ideas Forum