Release Date: April 7, 2026
Polaris Renewals Remaining: MEEP 2025 Voted Feature
Vega Discover now displays the number of renewals remaining for Polaris users in the Account Portal checkouts view by calculating renewalLimit - renewalCount for checked out materials. Text for Checkouts shows: "X Renewals remaining" with X being the remaining renewals count.
Bulk Site Creation Workflow
A Bulk Site creation workflow has been added to the Sites Configuration page for all Vega Discover libraries. If your library is a multi-site or consortia library you can use this workflow to create both kiosks and collection sites. If your library is a single organization you can use this workflow to create kiosk sites.
The workflow offers a download of a CSV form that you can use to input details about the sites you would like to create. The Bulk Site creation workflow is limited to the creation of 500 sites from a single CSV file. Use multiple files for more than 500 collection sites.
Please reference our documentation, that will be available will be available during the day of deployment, for details about how to input data for bulk site creation.
Aranes Language added for Patrons
An Aranes language file was added and made available for the Patron UI in Vega Discover to support our Catalan area customers.
Relevancy Improvement: Summary Data
We reduced the weighting of summary data in our search relevancy reducing boosts of less relevant materials that had multiple mentions of particular terms.
eContent Links show display text instead of full URL when more than one link is present
When digital materials display a Check Availability status because of multiple links being present, Vega will display the LINK TEXT for each link if present instead of the full URL to the material.
BUG FIXES
Account Portal Related Bug Fixes
Patron Accounts can edit and save account profile information
Previously the save button was not always activated when patrons tried to make updates to their patron account information. If some patrons still experience this problem please note that they may have previously configured too many: addresses, email addresses, home phone numbers, or mobile phone numbers. The form now allows: 1 address, 2 email addresses, 2 home phone numbers, and 1 mobile phone number.
Patron Account Edit Loading
The edit account panel was sometimes not loading for patrons. This problem has been fixed.
Patron Home and Preferred Pickup Location in Edit Account Info
The home location and preferred pickup location selectors in the edit patron account interface now correctly display the expected set of locations and not all locations.
Patron Preferred Pickup Area in Edit Account Info
Pickup Areas menu now correctly displays for Polaris libraries that have Pickup Areas configured for patrons to select a preferred pickup area available under the preferred pickup location.
Dates Display in Account Portal
Dates displayed in the Account Portal now correctly follow the Vega Admin localization setting. Additionally for Months we always display the word for the month instead of a number to future clarify due dates displayed.
Ready for Pickup titles pickup date for Ready for Pickup items
The expiration date for items that are in a ready to pickup status is now correctly displayed in the Holds view of the Account Portal.
Bulk Hold Workflow for volumed titles in bookmarks list account portal view
The Bulk Holds workflow now shows the correct volume selection workflow for titles that require a volume selection to complete the hold request.
Custom domains and Default Catalog Setting
Patrons at libraries using custom domains are now able to use the default catalog setting as expected and will be redirected to the correct custom domain URL when logging into Vega Discover.
Translations Apply to Default Filter Selections in Account Portal Content Preferences
Facet related translation strings now apply appropriately to the Account Portal Content Preferences selection display.
Other Vega Discover Bug Fixes
Catalan Language Display
The display of the Catalan language was updated to disinclude the 'ES' designator in both the Vega Discover Staff settings and the Patron views.
PayPal API User Password Special Characters Support
Vega Discover's PayPal integration now supports using PayPal's special characters in passwords when creating/updating the password for the API user that must be created to post transactions to your PayPal merchant account. If you previously used no special characters in your API user password you can now update to follow PayPal's security standards for passwords which are now enforced in the PayPal Manager User Management controls. Users configured with less secure passwords should continue to work as expected until you change your password.
