Evergreen Downloads

The latest current stable release of Evergreen is 1.2.4.0 (11-06-2008).

The information on this page will get you started if you're planning to install Evergreen for use in your library, install an Evergreen staff client, or just want to explore Evergreen's latest features.

Just want a quick look at Evergreen's catalog? See our demonstration and development servers, or visit this list of live Evergreen libraries.
Download the Evergreen staff client to upgrade your current client in a production environment or to evaluate Evergreen.
Download and install an Evergreen server virtual image for a quick tour under the hood.
Download and install the Evergreen server to evaluate or to use in a production environment.

After exploring these options, if you still have questions, why not share them with the Evergreen community on the Evergreen discussion lists?

The Evergreen Staff Client

You can download this client for use in a production environment, or to evaluate Evergreen's staff functions (cataloging, circulation, and reports) against the Evergreen demo server, development server, or a locally installed code or virutual environment.

Note: the staff client version must match the server version -- 1.4 with 1.4, 1.2.4 with 1.2.4, etc.

Most recent current, stable Evergreen staff client (Release 1.2.4.0) for Windows -- use this with the demo server, demo.gapines.org, as well as with local installations of 1.2.4
Previous Evergreen staff client (Release 1.2.3.1) for Windows (note to PINES and Evergreen Indiana libraries: this is your supported release)
Evergreen staff client for Evergreen 1.4, release candidate 2 -- use this with the development server, dev.gapines.org, as well as with local installations of 1.4rc2
Instructions for installing the Evergreen client on Macs
Build a Linux staff client for Evergreen from source (a packaged release for Linux is not available)
See the Code Museum for earlier versions of our staff client.

Test and Training Accounts

To make it easier to evaluate Evergreen, we've built the following list of test accounts for use when you are pointing the staff client against the demo server. The passwords are all demo123:

patron
cataloger
circdesk
localadmin
selfcheck

For PINES training accounts, see this list of test users for the demo server. There are two sample users for each account type -- and caution, their passwords CAN be changed.

Evergreen Server Virtual Images

These virtual images provide a closer look at Evergreen without the overhead of installing a local Evergreen server. (A nontechnical member of the Evergreen community had this running in 20 minutes.) The tradeoff is that performance of a virtual image won't come close to how Evergreen performs in a true production environment.

We welcome contributions of other virtual images.

Evergreen 1.4 RC2 on Ubuntu server 8.04 (Hardy Heron) comes with no preloaded data. Thanks to Dan Scott (Laurentian University) for this VirtualBox image.

Evergreen 1.2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) comes with no preloaded data. Thanks to Dan Scott (Laurentian University) for this VMWare image.

This VMWare image of Evergreen 1.2.2.3 on Debian comes preloaded with 13,000 Gutenberg records.

This VMWare image of Evergreen 1.2.1.4 on Ubuntu 7.10 was contributed by the Hekman Library, Calvin College.

Evergreen and OpenSRF Source Code

Evergreen and OpenSRF work hand in hand. OpenSRF handles the details of implementing a stateful, decentralized service architecture, while the Evergreen code supplies the interface and business logic.

OpenSRF

OpenSRF -- Open Scalable Request Framework (OpenSRF, pronounced "open surf') -- is a framework that allows the development of software without requiring a detailed knowledge of Evergreen's structure.

OpenSRF 1.0.1 is here! If you are currently testing Evergreen version 1.4.0.0-rc1, 1.4.0.0-rc2 or the development trunk, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this new release. Minor bug fixes from 1.0.0 and 1.0.1-rc1 have been incorporated, and we also welcome the return of Scott McKellar, who refused to miss a chance to get some code into this release.
OpenSRF Release 0.9 is the previous release, and is required for Evergreen versions before 1.4.

Evergreen Source Code

You are strongly encouraged to use the latest current stable release for evaluating Evergreen.

Evergreen server installation instructions are available on the Evergreen wiki.
Release Candidate 2 (11-19-2008): Evergreen version 1.4. This release is suitable for testing new installations of Evergreen and trying out the new features available in version 1.4. A staff client packaged for Windows is available here. Upgrade instructions from the 1.2 series are available and will continue to evolve throughout the Release Candidate process. This may be the last RC barring major issues other than installation, translation and upgrade cleanup. We invite and encourage you to download and install this version for testing purposes but recommend that you wait until the final 1.4.0.0 release for production use. This version of Evergreen requires version 1.0 or greater of OpenSRF, linked above. Please check back here for more 1.4 updates!
Current Stable Release (11-06-2008): Evergreen version 1.2.4.0. See this 1.2.4 feature summary for new features and bug fixes.
For upgrading Evergreen, see Upgrading from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
Also see the Subversion change log for 1.2.4.0
A complete list of previous Evergreen releases is available from the Code Museum.

Holdings Import Sample Package

A sample import package for Evergreen 1.4 with a set of 500 records is available for demonstrating how to import bibliographic records and holdings. See the README for instructions. (An older version of the package is available for Evergreen 1.2.)

Source Code Repository

A Trac instance sits atop the Subversion repositories for Evergreen and OpenSRF. You can find both repositories at svn.open-ils.org.

Trac sends code commits to two public Evergreen mailing lists:

For Evergreen commits, subscribe to open-ils-commits
For OpenSRF commits, subscribe to opensrf-commits