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Koha 3.10.5 released

April 24th, 2013

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.10.5. This is a stable release and contains many bugfixes.

You can download the tarball from http://download.koha-community.org or wait a day or 2 for the packages to become available.

Please read below for the full release notes

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Koha 3.10.4 released

March 22nd, 2013

The Koha release team, in association with the multitude of Koha libraries, librarians, support companies, developers and users, are proud to announce the release of the latest stable release of the 3.10.x branch, 3.10.4.

This maintenance release contains code from 15 people from 12 different organisations, making it once again a great example of international and inter company collaboration.  Making the official and community supported Koha live up to its’ promise of no single vendor lock in.

As always you can download the tarball at download.koha-community.org, or wait for a day or 2 until the packages at debian.koha-community.org are updated.

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Koha 3.10.3 released

February 23rd, 2013

The Koha release team, in association with the many developers and users who have had input, are happy to announce the release of Koha version 3.10.3.

This is the latest stable release, please read below for the release notes, and as always you can download from download.koha-community.org or wait a couple of days for the packages to be updated.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.3
21 Feb 2013
========================================================================

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package 
(ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, 
volunteers, and support companies from around the world.  
The website for the Koha project is 

http://koha-community.org/

Koha 3.10.3 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.03.tar.gz

Installation instructions can be found at:

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation

    OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 3.10.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes in 3.10.3
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	9236	major	deleting an order when receiving redirects to closed basket
	9281	major	Impossible to create an order from a staged file
	9432	major	acqui/addorderiso2409.pl is not Plack-friendly
	9454	major	NewBasket does not use placeholders in sql
	9503	major	Link from histsearch via invoicenumber results in error

Circulation
----------
	9380	critical	branch not recording right on writeoff

MARC Authority data support
----------
	9145	major	Authorities: standard language for UNIMARC

OPAC
----------
	9147	major	OPAC hidden fields are not hidden in ISBD view

System Administration
----------
	8401	critical	Search term deleted from system preference content

Test Suite
----------
	9486	blocker	t/Letters.t loads modules in wrong order

Tools
----------
	9421	major	tools/picture-upload.pl not Plack-compatible

Bugs fixed in 3.10.3
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	9280	normal	Bad price calculation when filling a basket with staged records
	9116	minor	Code cleaning: Remove some useless temp variables
	9226	minor	Wrong branch filter after suggestion creation
	9364	minor	Wrong billing/delivery addresses when creating a basket
	9062	trivial	Tax and discount should be formatted the same
	9268	trivial	Scanning in barcode or ISBN in Acquisitions -> new order submits the form unexpectedly

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	9546	normal	MANIFEST.SKIP breaking regexp when running make manifest tardist
	9552	normal	BIB1 Relation "Greater Than" Attribute Not Mapped Properly in CCL.Properties

Cataloging
----------
	9497	normal	Make it easier to add to the the list of possible encodings for Z39.50 servers and add ISO 8859-1
	9494	minor	Library of Congress Z39.50 target seed data outdated

Circulation
----------
	8079	normal	opac not showing fines - says 'no'

Command-line Utilities
----------
	9104	minor	country in CSV in overdue_notices.pl

Hold requests
----------
	9320	normal	Pending reserves is showing reserves already waiting

Holidays
----------
	9211	normal	days_between wrong behaviour

I18N/L10N
----------
	9493	minor	confirmations for user holds in opac are not translatable

Notices
----------
	9348	minor	Format dates in HOLD notices consistently
	9499	trivial	--itemscontent= option is undocumented in advanced-notice.pl cronjob + default date should be date_due, not issuedate

OPAC
----------
	8108	normal	Remove unused images from the OPAC
	9174	normal	Item type image does not display for biblio-level itemtypes in list display in OPAC
	9276	normal	Display of biblio-level authorized values on OPAC search results broken
	9308	minor	logo-koha.png not transparent in ccsr theme.
	9329	minor	Wrong message for already expired cards

Packaging
----------
	9592	minor	Package dependency updates for master

Patrons
----------
	9407	minor	patrons search should match substrings

Reports
----------
	9451	normal	borrower_stats.pl gives off warnings and is not Plack-compatible

Searching
----------
	7507	normal	Audience Subtype limit on Advanced Search does not have all Audiences
	9402	trivial	useless letter "v" between 2 <option> tags

Serials
----------
	7608	normal	Manual history is always 'enabled'
	9222	minor	manual history reversed in subscription-detail.pl
	9229	minor	branch code instead of name in subscription-detail.pl

SIP2
----------
	9343	minor	SIP doesn't handle debarred date/status correctly

Staff Client
----------
	9376	minor	Problem with dateexpiry display in moremember.tt
	9382	trivial	Bold necessary permissions for staff client access.
	9398	trivial	[ ? ] Link Lacks Context for All General Users (Accessibility) [Contexual Help]

System Administration
----------
	9201	normal	OAI-PMH mapping value cannot be 0

Templates
----------
	9310	normal	Patron image upload template corrections
	9583	normal	OPAC cart button display problem in Chromium

Tools
----------
	9509	normal	batchMod.pl does not ensure each barcode is unique

translate.koha-community.org
----------
	8942	normal	Translation process breaks javascript in calendar.inc

Enhancements in 3.10.3
======================

Cataloging
----------
	9357	Missing 'c' option in LEADER_18 value builder

Packaging
----------
	9143	Package related updates for master

Templates
----------
	9615	Combine staff home page images into single sprite

New sysprefs in 3.10.3
======================

  * UNIMARCAuthorityField100

System requirements
======================

    Important notes:

    * Perl 5.10 is required
    * Zebra is required

Documentation
======================

As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook.  The
home page for Koha documentation is 

http://koha-community.org/documentation/

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:

http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10.3/en/

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary

Translations
======================

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:

  * English (USA)
  * Arabic (89%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Chinese (China) (93%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  * Danish (79%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (98%)
  * French (Canada) (68%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (97%)
  * Greek (62%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
  * Portuguese (100%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (98%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha

for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate 
list to volunteer:

http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

http://translate.koha-community.org/

Release Team
======================

The release team for Koha 3.10.3 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
  Translation Manager:   D Ruth Bavousett <ruth@bywatersolutions.com>
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>,
  QA Team:               Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
                         Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>,
                         Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>,
			 Elliott Davis <elliott@bywatersolutions.com>
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>,
                         Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch>,
			 Chris Hall <chrish@catalyst.net.nz>,
                         Mirko Tietgen <5p4m@gmx.de>
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
  Packaging Assistant:   Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>

  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea <liz@catalyst.net.nz>
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>

Credits
======================

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.3:
  * KEEP SOLUTIONS
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.3.
  *      1	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *     10	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      2	Colin Campbell
  *      2	Galen Charlton
  *      2	David Cook
  *      4	Chris Cormack
  *      2	Hugh Davenport
  *      6	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Magnus Enger
  *      2	Vitor FERNANDES
  *      1	Corey Fuimaono
  *      5	Kyle M Hall
  *      1	Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      5	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Sophie Meynieux
  *      1	Fred Pierre
  *      1	MJ Ray
  *      3	Liz Rea
  *      5	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Mathieu Saby
  *      3	Adrien Saurat
  *      2	Robin Sheat
  *      1	Mirko Tietgen
  *      1	Ed Veal

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.3
  *       5 ACPL                                                                                          
  *      15 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       2 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       6 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *      10 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       7 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       2 Equinox                                                                                   
  *       1 Libriotech                                                                                 
  *       2 PTFS-Europe                                                                              
  *       2 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 Software.coop                                                                             
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       1 abunchofthings.net
  *       2 davenport.net.nz
  *       2 keep.pt
  *       1 smfpl.org
  *       3 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.3.
  *      56 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       1 Colin Campbell
  *       8 Galen Charlton
  *       1 David Cook
  *      67 Chris Cormack
  *       2 Hugh Davenport
  *       6 Elliott Davis
  *      26 Jonathan Druart
  *       2 Nicole C. Engard
  *      19 Katrin Fischer
  *       7 Kyle M Hall
  *       6 Mason James
  *       5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       9 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Paul Poulain
  *       2 Liz Rea
  *       3 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Fridolyn SOMERS
  *       1 Mathieu Saby
  *       2 Mirko Tietgen
  *       1 Marc Veron
  *       3 mathieu saby

We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to 
koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.

Revision control notes
======================

The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development 
version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of 

    git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.10.x.

The last Koha release was 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 2012.

Bugs and feature requests
======================

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at

http://bugs.koha-community.org/

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini

Koha 3.10.2 released

January 22nd, 2013

The Koha release team is proud to announce the latest maintenance release of the 3.10.x Koha series.

As always you can download the release at download.koha-community.org or wait for a few days for the debian packages to be updated.

Please read more for the full release notes

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Koha 3.10.1

December 22nd, 2012

The Koha release team is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.10.1 this is the latest stable release and contains bugfixes.

You can obtain this release from http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.01.tar.gz or in the debian packages when they are available.
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Koha 3.10.0 released

November 23rd, 2012

You can get a PDF nicely formatted of this post at Koha 3.10 enhancements

A version translated to french is also available

The Koha team is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.10.0.

Koha 3.10.0 is a major release, that comes with many new features.

It includes 160 enhancement and 455 bugfixes.

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Koha Release Manager newsletter #11 and #12 2012-10

November 5th, 2012

Welcome to this monthly RM newsletter.

Hey, it’s the beginning of november, and I published no RM newsletter at the beginning of october !!! So, for the price of one newsletter, you’ll get a double one !

Koha and Plack

The most important thing for the next release is probably the support for Plack on the staff interface. It was OK for the OPAC in Koha 3.8, in 3.10, I think it’s stable enough for staff interface as well. I wanted to investigate the user benefit for Plack, and have written a long email on BibLibre blog. You should read it !

Release process

String Freeze

As announced, we entered “string freeze” 2 weeks ago. It mean that no new features will be added into Koha 3.10, because nothing changing a string will be added. So, practically, no enhancement will be added.
Since the string freeze I’ve pushed many patches fixing bugs, some critical, many that are not.

Branching 3.10

At the end of last week, Jared (the 3.12 Release Manager) and me (the 3.10 Release Manager) agreed to “branch” Koha 3.10 on Koha git repository.
What does it mean ? git is the tool we use for tracking and managing changes in Koha source code. Each version of Koha is managed with a “branch” in git. There is a “master” branch, that is used for the future version of Koha, and a 3.8.x, 3.6.x, … branch that is used for the released versions.

When a change is made on the “master” branch, if it’s a bugfix, it’s also applied to each “maintainance” branch.

We’ve branched 3.10.x means there is now a 3.10.x branch, that is used for Koha 3.10. Jared started “playing” with “master”, I don’t push onto master anymore, just on 3.10.x It requires a good coordination between Jared and me, because I’m interested in seeing bugfixes pushed on master as quickly as possible. Once it’s done, I “merge” them onto 3.10.x branch, and they’ll be available for 3.10.0
The positive benefit of this is that Jared can already start pushing things that will be for 3.12 only. He also can start learning how to push, so, when 3.12 cycl start, he will be ready !

Important patches pushed in september and october

I’ve pushed 492 patches in two months. Some add important features in Koha and deserve a hilight:

Bug 7412: pre-filling items in cataloguing

Koha can now remember what was in the previous item filled, to be able to create multiple items quickly. By default, all subfields are prefilled when the PrefillItem syspref is on, unless you specify which fields you want to prefill in the SubfieldsToUseWhenPrefill syspref (With a value of “f u v”, only the $f, $u and $v will be prefilled, for example)

Bug 7621: Match age restriction of title with borrower’s age without using categories

Public libraries and school libraries often have to deal with a lot of age restrictions, e.g. with FSK (see www.fsk.de) or PEGI (Pan European Game Information, see www.pegi.info) and/or with regional rules regarding movies (virtually every canton in Switzerland has it’s own rules).

The functionality submitted with Bug 7621 provides an easy way to match age restriction on biblio records (e.g. on field 521a for MARC21) against the patron’s age.

Bug 5911: Transport Cost Matrix

Create transport_cost table, added UseTransportCostMatrix syspref.
transport_cost table contains branch to branch transfer costs. These are used for filling inter-branch hold transfers.

Bug 7986: Export issues for patron

In the circulation page, you can now export (as csv or iso2709) a list of items which are currently checked out by a borrower.

Bug 8757: longer descriptions for authorised values

Authorised values descriptions are now 200 chars long (instead of 80 before)

Bug 8597: Add mobile functionality to ccsr theme

The CCSR theme for the OPAC have been added to Koha.
This patch also adds some systempreferences:

  • OpacMainUserBlockMobile – alternate content for the MainUserBlock for mobile
  • OPACMobileUserCSS – custom CSS for mobile views only
  • OpacShowFiltersPulldownMobile – whether or not to show the index dropdown on the mobile view
  • OpacShowLibrariesPulldownMobile – whether or not to show the library dropdown on the mobile view

This patch adds mobile specific display for the OPAC. If you use this theme, your OPAC displayed on a mobile phone will be specific. Many things are automatically hidden, to be more readable on a small screen.

Bug 8211: Add exploded search options

When working with hierarchical subject headings, it is sometimes helpful to do a search for all records with a specific subject, plus broader/narrower/related subjects. This patch adds support for these “exploded” subject searches to Koha.

Bug 7993: Save reports with Group/Subgroup hierarchy

This should make saved reports more manageable by adding new fields to saved reports.
Group/Subgroup hierarchy is stored in authorised_values, categories REPORT_GROUP and REPORT_SUBGROUP, connected by REPORT_SUBGROUP.lib_opac -> REPORT_GROUP.authorised_value

Bug 7751: Decrease loans for items in demand for holds

This patch let the library choose to reduce the loan period given to items on renewal when they are in high demand for holds.
If the system preference decreaseLoanHighHolds is set, the check-out duration is lowered to decreaseLoanHighHoldsDuration if there is more than decreaseLoanHighHoldsValue holds placed on a given item.

Bug 5339: Invoices management improvement

This patch adds new features to acquisition module:

  • invoices.pl: allow to search in invoices on several criteria
  • invoice.pl: permit to view and modify invoice details. Invoices contains:
    • shipment date
    • billing date
    • shipment cost and budget used for shipment cost

Bug 7401: Shelving Location facet

This patch enables the shelving location facet as an alternative to the branches fact in two situations:

  • when SingleBranchMode is enabled
  • when there is only one branch in the branches table

Bug 2060: Update command line MARC import scripts

Tools to import iso2709 files has been improved and can now import an authority file.

Bug 5335: More granular VAT

The available VATs is now a syspref containing a list of possible values (0.055|0.196 in france for example).
Each supplier will have a default vat value, but for each order line the librarian is now able to choose the VAT to apply.

Bug 7913: Receiving serials in a loop

Librarians can now generate the number of issues entered from a message box and apply ‘arrived’ status to all of them in one click.

Bug 8674: Adds script batchdeletebiblios

This (command-line) script deletes biblios which biblionumbers are in a file passed in parameter.
If one biblio has items, it is not deleted.

Internal and plumbing

Many patches have been pushed to quiet warnings, fix perlcritic errors, add documentation, fix translatability, improve Koha test suite, fix security vulnerabilities,…

QA tools

A few months ago, Mason James started to work on a Perl tools to check patches submitted to Koha against our coding guidelines. This tool has been improved by Jonathan Druart, and is now used by the QA team to detect QA errors that can be detected automatically. For example, with this tool we can detect that a patch introduces something that make XML or Perl code invalid, or a template not translatable anymore.

The tools is now available on git on our git server