[Apologies in advance for duplicate receipts.] Dear AT users and other interested folks, The AT Project Team is very pleased to announce the public release of version 1.5.9 of the Archivists' ToolkitTM (AT), an open source collection management / metadata authority application funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This release is a maintenance release which primarily fixes several bugs discovered in AT version 1.5 distributed last November. New features added to AT 1.5.9 include: * Improved usability * Improved style sheets for PDF and HTML rendering of EAD * New process for cancelling from a record * Improved record locking * Constraining order of names and subjects in EAD export to that in AT record * Ability for users to setup and use multiple database profiles within the AT AT 1.5.9 can be downloaded from: http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/downloads/download1.5.9.shtml. Source code and java docs are available on the AT website at: http://archiviststoolkit.org/forDevelopers/index.shtml. The sandbox for version 1.5.9 is available at: http://archiviststoolkit.org/support/sandbox1.5.9.html or you can go directly to the 1.5.9 sandbox using the connections settings below: Connection URL: jdbc:mysql://dev.archiviststoolkit.org:3306/AT_SANDBOX1_5_9 User Name: atuser Password: cr4ckA1t Since the AT 1.5 release last November, the AT project team, with the assistance of many AT users, has identified and fixed several bugs. A complete list of the bugs fixed and improvements made is contained in the Release Notes available in the AT application folder for version 1.5.9. All bug descriptions and actions for the duration of the AT project and for all released versions can be viewed at: https://jira.nyu.edu:8443/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa. AT users can report new bugs and request improvements to the application via the same tool or, preferably, by using the bug reporting function within the AT application. Thank you for your continuing interest and support. Brian Hoffman Arwen Hutt Rachel Onuf Annie Ross Sibyl Schaefer Nathan Stevens Jason Varghese Brad Westbrook