Release Note for Cicero Explore 7.9.0

This release note describes updates to the Cicero Explore release with version 7.9.0, 2026-02-24.

The target audience is superusers and system administrators.

New functionality

FBS-30800 Reports for patrons and check-ins

Two new standard reports have been added in Explore:

"Check-in overview" displays check-ins broken down by patron group/checkout branch/material type.

"Patron overview" displays the number of patrons across e.g. age groups, municipalities etc.

FBS-30117 Reports for reservations

A new standard report called Reservation types has been added, providing an overview of the number of reservations and interlibrary loans broken down by material type, patron group and pickup branch, with filtering by reservation type, main classification group and pickup branch.

The following existing reports have been extended with new filters, measures and columns:
- The "Reservation shelf" report has been updated with reservation type, main classification group and reservation status as filters, as well as a new measure for average pickup time in hours.
- The "Retrieval time" and "Delivery time" reports have been extended with the option to filter by creation time within a number of hours.
- "Top 50 reservations" is renamed to "Most reserved materials". The report has been extended with filtering by placement and date, a column for the number of current materials, and the option to select the most reserved materials.

Bug fixes and improvements

Reference

Title

Description

FBS-31967

Cherwell 24043

Internal notes incorrectly mapped to bibliographic records

In the data model there was an error in the connection between bibliographic records and internal notes. This has now been resolved, so that filtering in Explore on these dimensions works correctly.