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Koha 3.12.0 released

Jared Camins-Esakov — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:38:45 +0000

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.12.0, the latest stable release of the Koha open source integrated library system. 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.

Koha 3.12.0 is a major release, with numerous new features, enhancements, and bugfixes. Koha 3.12.0 is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Since the release of Koha 3.10.0, the development team has added 1470 patches to Koha, comprising some 21 new features, 160 enhancements, and 440 bugfixes. The result, I am sure you will agree, is the best version of Koha yet.

Koha can be downloaded from http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.00.tar.gz or—on apt-based Linux distributions—using .deb files from Koha’s apt repository at http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/. For installation documentation, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or the INSTALL files in the tarball.

Illustrated Koha 3.12 release notes outlining some of the highlights of 3.12.0 are available, as are full release notes, which you can find below the fold.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.0
18 May 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 3.12.0 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.00.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 3.12.0 is a major release with many new features compared to Koha 3.10.

It includes 21 features, 160 enhancements and 436 bugfixes.

New features in 3.12.0
======================

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	7167	Updatedatabase improvements
	7387	Add Template::Toolkit plugin to allow caching of includes

Authentication
----------
	7973	Allow for new type of LDAP authentication
	9587	Allow login via mozilla persona - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

Cataloging
----------
	7674	Separate tabs for my holdings and others holdings
	7919	Display of values depending on the connexion library (authorised values, patron categories, extended attributes)

Circulation
----------
	4906	Allow fine calculation to exclude grace period
	7189	Preference to control if returning lost items gives refund
	8220	Allow koc uploads to go to process queue instead of being applied directly.
	8365	Renewal duration in issuingules
	9151	Renewal notice according to patron alert preferences

Hold requests
----------
	9206	Only allow place holds in records that the patron don't have in his possession

OPAC
----------
	7740	Highlight items in own library in search results/detail page in OPAC
	8377	Show HTML5 video/ audio for media files in OPAC and staff client
	8733	Adding critic reviews to book pages
	8917	Track clicks to links external to Koha

Patrons
----------
	7067	Allow patron self registration via the opac

Serials
----------
	5343	Subscription cost (Link serial and acqui modules)
	8782	Add a feature to close a subscription

Templates
----------
	9420	Work on Bootstrap for Koha

Tools
----------
	7804	Add Koha Plugin System

Enhancements in 3.12.0
======================

About
----------
	8641	Add information warning about log-in as root user to About->System information

Acquisitions
----------
	8117	Divide budget periods into two tabs
	8240	There is dead code in orderreceive.tt
	8795	Just add the login branch In orderreveive.tt
	8913	Improve acquisitions navigation
	9030	There is no constraint on aqorders_items
	9130	Remove old javascript from Parcel

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	8089	Use Koha::Cache everywhere
	8164	Replace IFNULL() with COALESCE() in all database calls

Authentication
----------
	9704	Add persona login to the CCSR theme

Cataloging
----------
	3549	Framework sorting in addbook
	6945	Add a link to show a MARC preview in the normal view
	8347	Koha forces UNIMARC 100 field code language to 'fre'
	9025	Add new icons for item types
	9034	Add sorting and filtering on items table (catalogue/detail.pl)
	9154	On item edit page, highlight row of item being edited
	9162	Add a system preference to set which notes fields appears on title notes/description separator
	9356	Show Dissertation note (MARC21 502) in XSLT
	9357	Missing 'c' option in LEADER_18 value builder
	9363	Show Patent control information and report number (MARC21, XSLT, detail pages)

Circulation
----------
	7243	Do not take rentals as fines
	8758	Code seems useless in circ/returns.pl
	9014	Add time due to slips
	9263	Trim barcodes in offline circulation
	9283	Change structure of export checkouts form
	9332	Display call number in "Holds waiting" notice (checkout page)
	9367	Code optimization: CheckReserves is too often called
	9423	Add notforloan value to issue confirmation or blocking message
	9604	Filter overdues with homebranch and holdingbranch

Command-line Utilities
----------
	5608	Tool to move MARC21 series info to 490 tag
	5635	Bulkmarcimport new parameters & features
	8519	Make koha-index-daemon run on startup
	9012	Allow bulkmarcimport to specify a framework code when importing MARC
	9045	Adding some parameters to export_borrowers.pl

I18N/L10N
----------
	2832	Make alphabet localizable
	5709	Adding the ability to translate HTML5 placeholder text in an input field
	9610	Spanish translation of MARC21 default bibliographic framework

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	9191	Updatedatabase.pl must have ability to run updates only up to a particular revision

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
----------
	9101	Add REPORT_GROUP to authorised values sample data

Lists
----------
	8032	Sort lists by call number
	9167	The sort field copyrightdate is not standardized
	9458	Add sorting to lists

Notices
----------
	6835	Ability to specify types of email address in overdue_notices.pl

OPAC
----------
	5079	Make display of shelving location and call number in XSLT results controlled by sysprefs
	5888	Opac-detail subject/author links improvements
	7620	OPACNoResult, add search string to available parameters
	8712	We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug
	9068	Babelthèque: New podcasts area
	9257	Add "groups" to normal search pulldown
	10100	OPAC News dates need an CSS handle (class)

Packaging
----------
	8878	Koha-shell: a command to make using koha commands easier
	9143	Package related updates for master
	9250	Provide commands to allow handling of SIP servers in the packages
	9880	Package updates to make master build

Patrons
----------
	7969	Select all / unselect all on fines page
	9076	Add ability to delete borrowers by expiration date and category code to cleanborrowers.pl
	9718	Add POD and comments for Check_Userid and Generate_Userid subs
	9751	Patron flags red in moremember.pl like in circulation.pl

Reports
----------
	7678	Statistics wizard: patrons
	7896	Acquisition statistics wizard: add filters and cell values
	9117	Reports hierarchies management improvements
	9417	Allow number of results per page to be selectable for guided reports

Searching
----------
	9134	There is no previous link on the second page of the search results page
	9239	Koha should share Evergreen's QueryParser module for parsing queries
	9403	Material type icons not showing for XSLT default view in intranet

Self checkout
----------
	8033	Add print receipt option to Koha self-check
	9009	Add separate user js and css for SCO module

Serials
----------
	7688	Change subscriptions numbering pattern and frequencies
	8509	Allowing the Expected status even if another status has been saved
	8715	Select all serials for a year

SIP2
----------
	8125	SIP should send Zipcode with address

Staff Client
----------
	6209	Standardize on one javascript library for client-side form validation

System Administration
----------
	4354	Cannot edit existing issuing rules
	5634	Ordering branches should be case independent
	8664	Add floating toolbar with save button to system preferences editor
	8906	Improve OAI management interface
	9760	Simplify local use preferences

Templates
----------
	6261	Consolidate patron toolbar include files
	7731	Library should be used instead of branch and site
	8710	Do not show the images tab in the OPAC if the record has no local cover images
	8877	MARC21 field 511 missing from XSLT
	8893	Show more information on printout
	9137	Focus when editing/adding new itemtypes/authorised values
	9169	Wrap relator code in  to allow for CSS customization
	9265	Switch to HTML5 doctype in OPAC and staff client
	9428	Use DataTables in Authority MARC frameworks page
	9429	Use DataTables on Authorized Values page
	9430	Use DataTables on library transfer limits page
	9431	Use DataTables on Patron Category Administration page
	9435	Use DataTables on libraries and groups administration page
	9436	Use DataTables on cities administration page
	9437	Use DataTables on itemtypes administration page
	9439	Enforce superlibrarian mutual exclusivity of other permissions
	9444	Use DataTables in system preferences editor
	9445	Use DataTables in local use system preferences editor
	9446	Use DataTables on Z39.50 servers administration page
	9450	Use DataTables in cataloging Z39.50 search results
	9457	Ordering branches should be case independent (2)
	9460	Use DataTables on transfers to receive report page
	9461	Use DataTables on holds awaiting pickup report page
	9462	Use DataTables on patron detail page
	9464	Update DataTables configuration on patron statistics page
	9465	Use DataTables on update child to adult patron page
	9466	Use DataTables on saved reports page
	9467	Use DataTables on catalog by item type report page
	9469	Use Datatables in serials statistics wizard
	9471	Use DataTables on serials claims page
	9473	Use DataTables on tags list page
	9476	Use Datatables on Koha news page
	9477	Use Datatables on notices page
	9483	Use DataTables on batch patron modifications page
	9521	Move common jQuery assets to koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/lib
	9615	Combine staff home page images into single sprite
	9616	Replace YUI menu on patrons page with Bootstrap
	9617	Replace YUI menu on catalog pages with Bootstrap
	9619	Replace YUI buttons on libraries administration page with Bootstrap
	9621	Replace YUI menu on lists pages with Bootstrap
	9622	Replace YUI button on MARC frameworks page with Bootstrap
	9623	Replace YUI button on authority types administration page with Bootstrap
	9624	Replace YUI button on reports dictionary page with Bootstrap
	9625	Replace YUI buttons and menus on reports pages with Bootstrap
	9627	Replace YUI buttons and menus on serials pages with Bootstrap
	9628	Replace YUI buttons and menus on budgets administration pages with Bootstrap
	9629	Replace YUI button on patron category administration pages with Bootstrap
	9630	Replace YUI button on cities and towns administration page with Bootstrap
	9631	Replace YUI buttons on classification sources administration page with Bootstrap
	9632	Replace YUI button on the currencies administration page with Bootstrap
	9633	Replace YUI button on the itemtypes administration page with Bootstrap
	9635	Replace YUI buttons on label batches pages with Bootstrap
	9636	Replace YUI buttons on labels pages with Bootstrap
	9637	Replace YUI button on local use system preferences page with Bootstrap
	9639	Replace YUI button on MARC tag structure toolbar with Bootstrap
	9640	Replace YUI button on record matching rules page with Bootstrap
	9641	Replace YUI button on the Koha news management page with Bootstrap
	9642	Replace YUI button on the patron attribute types administration page with Bootstrap
	9643	Replace YUI button on the road types administration page with Bootstrap
	9644	Replace YUI button on the suggestions management page with Bootstrap
	9645	Replace YUI buttons on the quotes management page with Bootstrap
	9646	Replace YUI buttons on the printers administration page with Bootstrap
	9647	Replace YUI buttons on Z39.50 servers administration page with Bootstrap
	9648	Replace YUI buttons on authorized values administration page with Bootstrap
	9649	Replace YUI buttons on cataloging home page with Bootstrap
	9650	Show message if there are no notices
	9669	Replace YUI buttons on staff client cart toolbar
	9672	Replace YUI buttons on MARC editor page with Bootstrap
	9674	Replace YUI buttons and menu on acquisitions pages with Bootstrap
	9675	Replace YUI buttons on authorities home page with Bootstrap
	9676	Replace YUI buttons on authorities editor page with Bootstrap
	9688	Replace YUI button on Authority MARC framework toolbar with Bootstrap
	9689	Replace YUI buttons on the OAI sets administration page with Bootstrap
	9690	Replace YUI buttons on the catalog search results page with Bootstrap
	9693	Remove YUI styling from buttons on the patron card creator's image manage page
	9694	Remove YUI styling from buttons on the patron card creator manage pages
	9696	Remove YUI styling from buttons on patron card creator edit pages
	9698	Replace YUI buttons on patron card creator manage toolbar with Bootstrap
	9764	Replace YUI buttons on the authority search popup with Bootstrap
	9765	Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc
	9769	Replace YUI buttons on acquisitions basket page with Bootstrap
	9771	Replace YUI buttons on acquisitions basket groups page with Bootstrap

Test Suite
----------
	8300	Koha should have mechanized testing suite

Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.0
======================

(this list include all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

Acquisitions
----------
	9928	blocker	No way to see all purchase suggestions at all
	7018	critical	Need all acq permissions to search
	9106	critical	Filtering list of uncertain price list by owner empties order information
	9126	critical	Receiving orders create too much items
	9346	critical	Acqui/neworderempty.pl ignores exchange rates and destroys user data on page load
	10088	critical	Software error when filling a basket with staged record
	4266	major	Encumbrance and expenditure not used in code
	7228	major	Can't order more than 1 when importing all from staged file
	7449	major	Billingplace and freedeliveryplace not saved when creating a new basketgroup
	7593	major	Merging bib records loses connection to order line
	8853	major	Clicking basketgroup name in closed basketgroups reopens it
	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
	9653	major	Filters on suggestion page in intranet are broken
	9923	major	Correction of a bug due to bz 7129

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	9907	blocker	Plugins test dies early on some servers
	10085	blocker	Unapi does not function under Plack
	6554	critical	Resolve encoding problems with corrected UTF8 handling in templates
	9574	critical	Serials/subscription-add.pl does not work right under Plack
	9832	critical	QueryParser causes software error if koha-conf.xml has not been updated
	9971	critical	Plugins system is broken!
	9136	major	C4::Tags not Plack-compatible
	9434	major	Introduce new tied cache system
	10074	major	Encoding problems for login and installer
	10176	major	Invalid URLs in 'Refine Search Results' when it uses UNICODE symbols

Authentication
----------
	10019	major	Encoding problem with utf8 chars in userid

Browser compatibility
----------
	10108	major	Can't print more than one page of overdues

bugs.koha-community.org
----------
	9246	blocker	Upon running koha installer, mysql "Error 1166 at line 1871: Incorrect column name 'closed" appears and crashes install.

Cataloging
----------
	7253	major	Fast cataloging not always checking out
	9392	major	Confirmation does not appear for negative notforloan items issues
	9662	major	Z3950_search.pl ISSN search field not passed to Z3950Search
	9684	major	Z39.50 Card View broken in CCSR
	9908	major	OCLC Connexion Desktop Client Doesn't Work

Circulation
----------
	8770	blocker	Amount does not equal amountoutstanding on a fine with no payments or credits
	9933	blocker	Changing/editing circulation rules for specific library affects all libraries
	9380	critical	Branch not recording right on writeoff
	9953	major	When OpacMaintenance breaks lifting debarment
	10030	major	MaxFines checks against amount, not amount outstanding
	10079	major	HomeOrHoldingBranch should not control who can delete when IndependantBranches is enabled

Command-line Utilities
----------
	9103	major	Overdue_notices.pl should use AutoEmailPrimaryAddress syspref
	9656	major	Fines.pl creating a log file should be optional

Database
----------
	9919	blocker	Syntax error in kohastructure.sql
	10185	blocker	Updatedatabase.pl remove all reserves

Hold requests
----------
	9922	critical	Holds queue shows home library with AutomaticReturn
	5801	major	C4::Circulation::_GetCircControlBranch should not be used in opac-reserve.pl
	8294	major	Enumeration should show in copy specific hold menu
	9575	major	Serious Holds Problem with IndependantBranches
	10166	major	Can't place holds on multiple titles if one or more are un-holdable

I18N/L10N
----------
	8061	major	Koha's templates do not cope well with right-to-left languages
	9414	major	Fix sample letters for German and Norwegian

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	9135	blocker	Updatedatabase.pl fails when DEBUG is set
	9812	blocker	Several files shouldn't be exposed or browseable through a URL
	9843	blocker	OpenILS/QueryParser.pm not (always) installed when installing from tarball
	9914	blocker	Dependency updates for 3.12
	9767	critical	Fix for updatedatabase.pl (mixed version numbers)

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
----------
	9413	blocker	Renewal notice features breaks English installer

MARC Authority data support
----------
	9132	major	Paging through OPAC authority search results does not work
	9145	major	Authorities: standard language for UNIMARC

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
----------
	9839	major	When importing MARC records, item record not created even when set to "always add"

Notices
----------
	8378	major	 syntax not working on overdues anymore

OPAC
----------
	10072	critical	"my suggestions" always says "There are no pending purchase suggestions."
	10217	critical	Make sure direct links to detail views work when there is no session
	8883	major	Opacsmallimage doesn't work in ccsr theme
	8979	major	"News" does not work with CCSR
	9147	major	OPAC hidden fields are not hidden in ISBD view
	9679	major	Can't place hold from cart in CCSR
	9711	major	OPACPopupAuthorsSearch  ugly in CSSR
	9995	major	For reference items no longer listed in XSLT result lists
	10070	major	History of anonymous searches is not kept
	10201	major	Old OPAC patron update system should be removed

Packaging
----------
	9052	blocker	YUI assets installed in the wrong place by packages
	9256	critical	Search is broken for 3.10 package-installs when marcflavour != marc21
	10061	critical	Fix the tiny_mce error when building packages
	9918	major	Packaging updates for 3.12

Patrons
----------
	6506	critical	Deleting patron history missing errors
	9930	critical	Can't update patron info in ccsr

Reports
----------
	6898	major	Circulation librarians can't run overdues without reports permissions

Searching
----------
	9980	blocker	Anonymous searches in the OPAC entirely broken
	8620	critical	Barcode searching not working correctly
	7440	major	Vestiges of NoZebra should be removed
	8746	major	Rebuild_zebra_sliced.sh don't work where Record length of 106041 is larger than the MARC spec allows
	9341	major	Problem with UNIMARC authors facets
	9395	major	Problem with callnumber and standard number search in OPAC and Staff Client
	9620	major	IncludeSeeFromInSearches ON and data in $9 subfields can break indexing
	9961	major	Truncation and QueryAutoTruncate not working properly with new QueryParser

Serials
----------
	9902	major	Item subfields not populating

Staff Client
----------
	9591	blocker	Set Library changes after viewing Holds Queue >> reserves item
	9272	major	Plack goes into paroxysms of horror when faced with deleting an authorized value

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

Templates
----------
	9529	major	Adding a patron shows javascript on screen under login section
	9570	major	View plain not working in ccsr

Test Suite
----------
	9142	blocker	Failing test case in 3.10.0 release.
	9486	blocker	T/Letters.t loads modules in wrong order
	9909	blocker	If plugins directory isn't writable, plugins test shouldn't try to write to it
	9911	blocker	Remove two invalid tests
	9912	blocker	DateUtils.t must not access database

Tools
----------
	9883	blocker	Koha::Plugins::* should not require koha-conf to load
	9884	blocker	Plugin permissions not added to translations
	9900	blocker	Plugins should not be enabled by default
	8264	major	Local cover images not working in IE8
	9065	major	Upload local cover image permission implementation error
	9421	major	Tools/picture-upload.pl not Plack-compatible
	9535	major	Patron card creator "Remove duplicates" function doesn't work

Transaction logs
----------
	9293	major	Action_logs not tracking payments

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
----------
	9986	major	Two fixes on Z3950 Search

Other bugs fixed in 3.12.0
======================

(this list include all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

About
----------
	9595	normal	Update About page for license update to GPL3
	9813	normal	Update About page with license information about Bootstrap and jQuery
	7143	trivial	Bug for tracking changes to the about page
	9418	trivial	Some corrections and additions to about.tt
	9956	trivial	Add missing translators to the about page

Acquisitions
----------
	2046	normal	Suggestions: Title Field too small
	7358	normal	Basket.pl : it is possible to affect a closed basket to a  closed basketgroup
	8443	normal	Suggestions : publication year and copyright date
	8557	normal	In orderreceive.tt and serials-edit.tt the use of a barcode scan send the form unexpectedly
	9168	normal	Software error when filtering in receipt summary
	9280	normal	Bad price calculation when filling a basket with staged records
	9506	normal	Values are false in the generated pdf for basketgroups
	9824	normal	Hide basket with no expected items in basket list by bookseller
	9937	normal	Routines introduced for creating a subscription from an order need unit tests.
	10065	normal	Style invoice edit form according to standard structure
	10115	normal	Hiding advanced search in Orders search tab removes plus button
	10152	normal	Default sorting wrong in parcels.pl
	10270	normal	GetOrdersByBiblionumber needs better unit tests
	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
	9438	minor	Biblio notes displayed when ordering
	9685	minor	Allow sort baskets by number
	10106	minor	Markup error causing misplacement of "reopen" checkbox on invoice edit screen
	7875	trivial	Pending suggestion link (the numbers) from staff client home directs to accepted suggestions instead of pending
	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
	9455	trivial	Embedded mysql quotes in sql string
	9791	trivial	Some tables are displayed with a pixel before and after

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	7853	normal	Opac-maintanance.pl should correctly redirect back to opac-main.pl, if no updates are outstanding
	9183	normal	C4::Search should only have one ZOOM event loop
	9546	normal	MANIFEST.SKIP breaking regexp when running make manifest tardist
	9552	normal	BIB1 Relation "Greater Than" Attribute Not Mapped Properly in CCL.Properties
	9683	normal	Allow disable rewrite apache mod
	9727	normal	Typo in code causes compilation failure with Solr enabled
	9894	normal	'hidden' value is hard to understand in frameworks
	9926	normal	Missing perl modules in Koha
	9951	normal	Resolve encoding problems where script parameters are not decoded
	8429	minor	Unnecessary use of Exporter in SIP/ILS objects
	9292	minor	Remove dead code related to 'publictype'
	9401	minor	Javascript used for tags handling wants access to CGISESSID cookie
	9582	minor	Unused code in members/pay.pl
	10054	minor	When SingleBranchMode is enabled, allow superlibrarians to set logged in library
	10143	minor	Fix FSF address in license headers
	9609	trivial	Rebuild zebra reports double numbers for exported records with -z option
	10156	trivial	Fix usr/bin/perl path for get_report_social_data.pl

Authentication
----------
	9008	normal	Warn if librarian logged-in with mysql/admin account
	9827	normal	Remove 'insecure' system preference
	9841	minor	Improve the link from the "logged in as mysql-user"-warning

Browser compatibility
----------
	7687	minor	Remove problematic CSS gradient declarations targeting Internet Explorer

Cataloging
----------
	5790	normal	Deleting a biblio should alert/fail if there are existent holds
	9123	normal	Authorities search ordered by authid does not work
	9358	normal	Fixed field plugins for MARC21 should be updated for MARC21 update #15
	9377	normal	Itemtype in duplicate biblio search
	9497	normal	Make it easier to add to the the list of possible encodings for Z39.50 servers and add ISO 8859-1
	9523	normal	Trying to import staged marc records where a matched bib has been deleted caused the import to hang
	10225	normal	If an item isn't editable, don't show the onclick Edit/Delete menu
	9019	minor	ILS-DI: GetRecords should return item fields in marcxml
	9207	minor	Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records
	9353	minor	Missing subfields on MARC21 frameworks
	9494	minor	Library of Congress Z39.50 target seed data outdated
	9759	minor	Last subfield can be deleted
	10033	minor	Dangerous query in _koha_modify_item
	9534	trivial	No way to get back to bib detail from edit record screen
	10093	trivial	Typo in marc21_leader.tt

Circulation
----------
	8054	normal	Can hit submit twice when paying fines
	8079	normal	Opac not showing fines - says 'no'
	8559	normal	Conflicting item statuses
	8682	normal	Quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips
	9219	normal	Show damaged and lost statuses for issues on circulation.pl as they are on moremember.pl
	9860	normal	Incorrect box heading 'Cannot check in' when a late document is returned
	9875	normal	Don't display empty tab when using (OPAC)SeparateHoldings
	8781	minor	Access to Transfer page while "independent branches" is on
	9289	minor	Adjacent checkbox behavior broken on circulation.pl
	9720	minor	Uninitialized value warnings in circulation
	9526	trivial	Patron statistics table is not pretty, the page needs the circ toolbar added

Command-line Utilities
----------
	2013	normal	New Overdues.pm breaks fines2.pl
	8840	normal	Ubuntu-pkg-check.sh fix and extend functionality
	9496	normal	Rebuild_zebra.pl should handle invalid XML records better
	9885	normal	Passwords generated by command line scripts are weak
	9104	minor	Country in CSV in overdue_notices.pl
	9235	minor	Hardcoded values in cronjobs/backup.sh
	8200	trivial	/home/chris/git/koha.git in /usr/share/koha/misc/translator/update.pl
	9671	trivial	Fines.pl cronjob help lists wrong values for finesmode syspref

Database
----------
	9681	normal	Add some indexes in database
	9745	trivial	Don't nuke translated permissions with changes introduced in bug 9382

Documentation
----------
	8945	normal	Koha 3.10 Help Files Update
	9267	normal	Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken
	9850	normal	Koha 3.12 Help Files Update
	9440	trivial	Update Koha's LICENSE file from GPL2 to GPL3
	10042	trivial	Minor typo ("Communnity") in packages docs

Hold requests
----------
	8419	normal	Suspended holds appear on the daily holds queue
	9320	normal	Pending reserves is showing reserves already waiting
	8508	minor	Holds to Pull : Library dropdown options are erroneously concatenated by br tags

Holidays
----------
	9211	normal	Days_between wrong behaviour

I18N/L10N
----------
	6574	normal	Js error in en-GB template breaks circulation toolbar
	6709	normal	Marc21_field_006.xml and marc21_field_008.xml can't be translated.
	7938	normal	The -v option to the translate script is not documented
	9112	normal	Update of SQL file for italian setup
	9140	normal	Untranslatable strings in item circulation history
	9141	normal	Untranslatable strings on "pay an amount..." page
	9266	normal	Untranslated strings in tags moderation
	9331	normal	Untranslatable strings in ajax.js
	9797	normal	Untranslatable strings have returned to ajax.js
	9818	normal	"Overdue Fines Cap ($)" should not use $ (I18N)
	10017	normal	Opac CCSR template do not cope well with right-to-left languages
	10083	normal	In Transit string doesn't get translated in the staff interface
	10214	normal	Malformed syspref.po file
	9056	minor	Add more translations to table language_descriptions
	9493	minor	Confirmations for user holds in opac are not translatable
	9020	trivial	Translate new permissions for 3.10
	9381	trivial	Add Catalan language

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	9734	normal	String::Random is marked as optional, but C4::Members requires it
	9315	trivial	Bad version of String::Random reported by koha_perl_deps.pl

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
----------
	9498	normal	Update encoding for Norwegian sample Z39.50 servers
	9752	normal	Set marcflavor = normarc when NORMARC is chosen in the web installer
	9837	normal	Fix Norwegian authorized values for the web installer
	10050	normal	Update German web installer files for 3.12
	9831	minor	Wrong and missing values in installer for French UNIMARC
	9863	trivial	'import' button in web installer should read 'Import'

Label printing
----------
	8943	normal	Add table sorting to labels

MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
	7054	normal	NORMARC: wrong default for 000 position 17
	7055	normal	NORMARC: Links and defaults for 008 position 15-17 and 35-37
	9213	normal	Implement analytics for NORMARC XSLT
	9274	normal	Software error in bibtex export
	9804	trivial	Fix name for NORMARC biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
----------
	5333	normal	Undefined value stops import from z39.50
	9035	trivial	Remove deprecated 'bulkauthimport.pl' file
	9144	trivial	Bulkmarcimport.pl - Problem identifying errors

Notices
----------
	8299	normal	Overdue_notice.pl shows warning messages
	9348	minor	Format dates in HOLD notices consistently
	9886	minor	ParseLetter removes too often punctuation characters from fields
	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
	8515	normal	OPAC password change does not obey OpacPasswordChange
	8660	normal	Tag status does not show on multiple tag add
	8955	normal	Self checkout should degrade gracefully with JavaScript turned off
	9102	normal	[SECURITY] We should set httponly on our session cookie
	9115	normal	[3.6.X] basket window should close automatically when placing a hold
	9166	normal	OPAC needs configuration file for datepicker
	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
	9287	normal	Socialnetworks is enabled by default
	9504	normal	URL escape in OPAC more searches
	9572	normal	Opac info tooltip from branches is not well positioned
	9660	normal	OpenLibrary covers are too small on OPAC search results
	9731	normal	Remove changelanguage.pl in favor of (already present) opac-changelanguage.pl
	9932	normal	Broken calendar image and misplaced masthead include for CCSR theme
	9970	normal	Add datepicker widget default configuration to OPAC patron entry form
	10026	normal	OPAC cart not showing location anymore
	10107	normal	Opacbookbag shouldn't prevent from adding items to a list in the OPAC
	10204	normal	Patron image no longer appears in the OPAC
	10266	normal	Restricted status doesn't show in OPAC
	4862	minor	"Browse by subject" is misnamed
	7657	minor	Google and OpenLibrary image conflict
	8981	minor	Remove Nonpublic General Note from OPAC authorities display
	8983	minor	Typo error in UNIMARCslim2OPACResults.xsl
	9003	minor	Add css fix for opac news items with strong and em
	9098	minor	Replace tabulations by spaces in opac-user.pl
	9158	minor	Correcting whitespace around display of series 440 marc fields
	9308	minor	Logo-koha.png not transparent in ccsr theme.
	9309	minor	"OPACurlOpenInNewWindow" isn't respected for 856$u links shown in OPAC when not using XSLT
	9329	minor	Wrong message for already expired cards
	9585	minor	Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail
	9756	minor	Patron self registration missing the system preference PatronSelfRegistrationAdditionalInstructions
	9935	minor	Social icons missing in CSSR theme
	9946	minor	Opac-topissues with no time limit
	10073	minor	Show ccode or location also if not bound to Authorized Values in XSLT
	8546	trivial	Error in description of OPAC Advanced Search Publication date range search
	9059	trivial	Increase size of opac-sendbasket window
	10006	trivial	Holding branch is not available to XSLT display

Packaging
----------
	8816	normal	Add WARNING to debian/control file, to not manually edit
	9260	normal	Koha-run-backups complains "[: 97: missing ]"
	9890	normal	Fix the new plugin system for package installs
	10041	normal	Provide a koha-translate script to aid package users on installing translations
	10094	normal	Koha-list should have an --disabled option
	10101	normal	Koha-enable error handling
	10104	normal	Koha-disable error handling
	10144	normal	Koha-start-zebra error handling
	10146	normal	Koha-stop-zebra error handling
	10149	normal	Koha-restart-zebra error handling
	10150	normal	Koha-email-disable error handling
	10157	normal	Koha-email-enable error handling
	10159	normal	Koha-rebuild-zebra error handling
	10259	normal	Koha-*-zebra scripts are expected to run without warnings if no instance name passed
	9592	minor	Package dependency updates for master
	9784	minor	Koha-shell missing from koha-common man page
	9802	minor	Add test case to verify package man pages are well formatted
	10084	minor	YUI path wrong in CCSR theme with packages

Patrons
----------
	207	normal	Display of institutional member's info gives strange information
	9002	normal	Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form
	9479	normal	The member notices page does not display dates in the syspref format
	9556	normal	Changing patron category does not fully update patron messaging preferences
	9772	normal	Displayed Norwegian chars correctly in the patron category dropdown on the Patrons page
	9783	normal	Can hit submit twice when adding patrons
	9917	normal	Routing list tab on patron account should depend on syspref/permission
	10053	normal	Borrowers.branchcode cannot be null
	9406	minor	No confirmation displayed after renewing a patron from details page
	9407	minor	Patrons search should match substrings
	9484	minor	Userid not generated consistently (different editing pages)
	9997	minor	Suspected typo in patron self registration code
	9330	trivial	Patron duplication : should duplicate with empty title (salutation field)
	9981	trivial	Sort1 not automatically cleared when duplicating a patron

Reports
----------
	6602	normal	Reports dictionary doesn't properly recognize text columns
	9033	normal	Wide character error in runreport.pl
	9451	normal	Borrower_stats.pl gives off warnings and is not Plack-compatible
	9659	normal	Undefined authorised value category yields empty dropdown menu on SQL reports
	9719	normal	Changing the rows per page on a custom report fails if it has user supplied parameters
	10110	normal	Problems with diacritics in saved SQL reports
	9182	trivial	Saved reports list : wrong sortable columns

Searching
----------
	7507	normal	Audience Subtype limit on Advanced Search does not have all Audiences
	8984	normal	Zebra does not index some fields in UNIMARC biblio records
	9049	normal	Rebuild_zebra should not use shadow when called with -r
	8946	minor	Wrong label and missing values in UNIMARC coded fields advanced search
	9419	minor	The highlight feature can cause a browser freeze
	9588	minor	Weighted search query with index
	9402	trivial	Useless letter "v" between 2

Koha Community Newsletter: April 2013

danielg — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:54:28 +0000

Koha Community Newsletter
April 2013

Volume 4, Issue 4
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
Please submit news items to

Koha Development
Koha Community
Upcoming Koha Events
Past Koha Events
- April General IRC Meeting
- Marseille Hackfest

Koha Development

Koha 3.10.5 Released
by Chris Cormack

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

Koha 3.10.5 can be downloaded here; installation instructions are here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball. Packages are here.

Release notes are here.

Koha 3.8.12 Released
by Chris Cormack

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.12. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.

Koha 3.8.12 can be downloaded here; installation instructions are here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball. Packages are here.

Release notes are here.

Koha Statistics

Chris Cormack, Koha Community statistics wizard, has posted statistics for March 2013.

Release Team for Koha 3.14 Elected
by Liz Rea

The Koha Community is pleased to announce the release team for Koha version 3.14 (code name Pi). The team includes volunteers from nine countries and represents Koha support companies and libraries from around the world.

Release Manager: Galen Charlton, USA, Equinox
Translation Manager: D Ruth Bavousett, USA
Documentation Manager, Database Doc Manager: Nicole Engard, USA, ByWater Solutions
Installation Documentation Managers: Mason James, New Zealand, KohaAloha; Samuel Desseaux, France
Quality Assurance Manager: Katrin Fischer, Germany, BSZ
Quality Assurance Team: Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum; Chris Cormack, New Zealand, Catalyst IT; Jonathan Druart, France, BibLibre; Brendan Gallagher, USA, ByWater Solutions; Mason James, New Zealand, KohaAloha; Paul Poulain, France, BibLibre; Kyle M Hall, USA, ByWater Solutions
Release Maintainers: 3.12.x: Tomás Cohen Arazi, Argentina, UNC; 3.10.x: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel, Argentina; 3.8.x: Chris Hall, New Zealand, Catalyst IT
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, New Zealand, Catalyst IT
Live CD/DVD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy, Vietnam
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux, France
Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger, Norway, Libriotech
Newsletter Editor: Daniel Grobani, USA, Samuel Merritt University

Thanks to our volunteers, and here’s to a successful 3.14 Release!

P.S. No, it’s not really code name Pi. But it could be!

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Integrators with Koha, Stand Up and be Counted
by Galen Charlton

Does your project, service, or product interact with Koha in some automated fashion? If so, we’d like to hear from you.

I’m using the phrase “automated fashion” very broadly. There are many ways to receive data from a Koha system, update data in a Koha database, or make transactions happen. A few of these ways include:

RESTful web service calls
SIP2 to perform patron and circulation requests
Z39.50, unAPI, and OpenSearch to retrieve catalog data
LDAP to authenticate patrons
MARC exports and imports
Screen-scraping (although if you’re screen-scraping Koha, we may be able to suggest a better way to do it)
Direct database access
And others

Some of the things we’d like to know include:

The name of your service or product
What it does for a Koha library
How it is accessing Koha
Whether there are specific APIs or entry points that your application depends on
If there are things that Koha could be doing to make your life easier

We want to hear from everybody, whether you are a library that has integrated Koha with other software, a Koha support group, a vendor providing products or services to libraries, or a member of a free software project whose software talks with Koha. If you work for a Koha library and know that Koha works with another service, we want to hear from you too, even if you don’t know how Koha is doing the talking.

Why do we want to know? Our reasons include:

Finding out which entry points we should be particularly careful about changing as Koha gets enhanced.
Seeing if there are things we could be doing better to encourage more people and applications to participate in the Koha ecosystem.
(Maybe) putting together a list of third-party services that interact with Koha.

To respond, please comment on this post.

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Nguyen Quoc Uy is working to promote Koha in Vietnam. He’s joined the 3.14 release team and created a website to share Koha resources in Vietnamese.

Jessica Tobin of the Arnold Library in Seattle will be participating in a panel presentation on libraries’ experiences with open source ILS’s at the 2013 Washington Library Association/Oregon Library Association (WLA/OLA) conference in Vancouver, WA, on April 26.

Chris Cormack has used jqPlot to add a new graph to the Koha Dashboard showing the totals of the last 7 days’ bug activity.

Kenza, a student, has been hired for the summer by BibLibre and will be devoting all her time to Koha community work.

Jesse Weaver, A.K.A. pianohacker, has been hired for the summer by ByWater Solutions and will be devoting all his time to Koha community work. Jesse may also be joining the Quality Assurance Team for the summer.

Owen Leonard submitted a patch for Koha bug 10,000.

Mark Johnson of OSS Watch has posted an account of the LibLime/PTFS/Community rift and lessons for those involved with open source projects.

La traduction de la newsletter Koha Communautaire de mars 2013 viennent d’être publiées sur Koha-fr.

Christine Park is seeking panelists for the California Academic and Research Library Association’s October webinar, “So you’re thinking of upgrading your ILS”. If your library has recently switched its ILS and you’d like to share your experience with others, see Christine’s call for panelists.

Karam Qubsi reports that Koha master and 3.12 now support RTL (for right-to-left languages) “like never before.”

Support Provider News

David Noe has joined ByWater Solutions as Koha Migrations Specialist.

BibLibre has launched a Koha demonstration site, with access to both a staff interface and an OPAC. More info is here.

ByWater Solutions has posted a page on Koha’s new plugin system.

Upcoming Koha Events

May General IRC Meeting

The May general IRC meeting will be held on 7 May 2013 at 02:00 UTC.

The agenda and other information is here.

Limoges Koha Event

Symposium Koha 2013 will be held in Limoges 24-26 June 2013. More info is here.

KohaCon13 Big Update
by Nancy Keener, KohaCon13 Chair

KohaCon13, the international users’ conference of the Koha open-source library system, will be held October 16–22 at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, USA.

We are going to have a great conference. Registration is free! Please consider joining us to learn about Koha, the community, and what libraries are doing with Koha around the world. Talks will range from introductory to advanced and will be geared toward Koha users, developers, and fans.

We had our fourth IRC planning meeting on 23 April.

We currently have 38 people registered. We need to have all hotel reservations made by September 15th to get the free meeting rooms and AV equipment.

19 programs have been proposed so far:

training
14 years of the Koha project
hardware requirements for standard and virtual servers
accessing all library materials at one time with VuFind
round table discussions on all modules
using telephone notification in Koha
Koha live USB for LIS teaching purposes
Libki demo
plug-ins
accessing all library materials at one time with DSpace
testing and signing off on bugs
history of Koha
community organization
Koha use cases
new web services and Drupal integration
a Nevada cultural moment
serials management on a shoestring
open source ERMSs
GoKB

We would like a few more people to volunteer to offer a program. And if you don’t see a program you think we need, please email me.

Galen Charlton, our next Release Manager, will be our opening speaker. Megan Conelly, a Washoe County Librarian, will be our Mistress of Ceremonies.

Thursday night will be the Nevada Library Association (NLA) President’s reception at the Downtown Reno library branch, which is directly north of the Atlantis via a short bus ride. This special event will feature beer, wine, and food and will most likely cost US$20.

27 people have expressed interest in a Saturday road trip, so that is going forward. We are investigating Tahoe, Squaw Valley, Virginia City, University of Nevada, and Reno Makerspace.

We are preparing to send out sponsorship invitations to vendors, inviting them to sponsor food for our break times, buses for our Saturday trips, or just to give money. Sponsors will be acknowledged before and during the conference. We will be asking local restaurants for discounts. More information will be on the KohaCon13 website soon.

Vendors requesting booth space at KohaCon13 are being directed to our NLA friends who will be just next door. There will be a table for brochures, and of course our attendees will be welcome to visit NLA vendors.

A lot of libraries have migrated to Koha in the last year. KohaCon13 is the best place to see what is going on and to meet all of the people who help keep Koha the best ILS out there. It just happens to be open source!

Learn more about KohaCon13 on the official conference site.

Past Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

The April general IRC meeting was held on 3 April 2013.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Marseille Hackfest

A Koha hackfest was held at BibLibre’s office in Marseille in March. Brendan Gallagher wrote about his experience of the event.

Koha 3.10.5 released

Chris Cormack — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:23:30 +0000

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

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.5
23 Apr 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 3.10.5 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.05.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 3.10.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes of 3.10.5
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	9928	blocker	no way to see all purchase suggestions at all
	7018	critical	need all acq permissions to search
	7449	major	billingplace and freedeliveryplace not saved when creating a new basketgroup

Cataloging
----------
	9908	major	OCLC Connexion Desktop Client Doesn't Work

Circulation
----------
	9953	major	When OpacMaintenance breaks lifting debarment

Hold requests
----------
	9922	critical	holds queue shows home library with AutomaticReturn

Notices
----------
	8378	major	 syntax not working on overdues anymore

OPAC
----------
	8979	major	"News" does not work with CCSR

Patrons
----------
	9930	critical	can't update patron info in ccsr

Searching
----------
	9341	major	Problem with UNIMARC authors facets

Tools
----------
	9535	major	Patron card creator "Remove duplicates" function doesn't work

Other bugs fixed in 3.10.5
==========================

About
----------
	9956	trivial	Add missing translators to the about page

Acquisitions
----------
	7875	trivial	Pending suggestion link (the numbers) from staff client home directs to accepted suggestions instead of pending

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	9727	normal	Typo in code causes compilation failure with Solr enabled
	9609	trivial	Rebuild zebra reports double numbers for exported records with -z option

Authentication
----------
	9841	minor	Improve the link from the "logged in as mysql-user"-warning

Command-line Utilities
----------
	9496	normal	rebuild_zebra.pl should handle invalid XML records better
	9885	normal	Passwords generated by command line scripts are weak

Database
----------
	9745	trivial	Don't nuke translated permissions with changes introduced in bug 9382

I18N/L10N
----------
	7938	normal	The -v option to the translate script is not documented

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
----------
	9498	normal	Update encoding for Norwegian sample Z39.50 servers
	9752	normal	Set marcflavor = normarc when NORMARC is chosen in the web installer
	9837	normal	Fix Norwegian authorized values for the web installer
	9863	trivial	'import' button in web installer should read 'Import'

MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
	9274	normal	Software error in bibtex export

OPAC
----------
	9166	normal	OPAC needs configuration file for datepicker
	9504	normal	URL escape in OPAC more searches
	9660	normal	OpenLibrary covers are too small on OPAC search results
	9932	normal	Broken calendar image and misplaced masthead include for CCSR theme
	9003	minor	Add css fix for opac news items with strong and em
	9935	minor	Social icons missing in CSSR theme

Packaging
----------
	8816	normal	add WARNING to debian/control file, to not manually edit
	9802	minor	Add test case to verify package man pages are well formatted

Patrons
----------
	9002	normal	Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form

Searching
----------
	9419	minor	The highlight feature can cause a browser freeze

Self checkout
----------
	9748	minor	noitemlinks not being enforced

Serials
----------
	9947	minor	Creating item for received serial prefills enumchron subfield

SIP2
----------
	9838	trivial	SIP tests : fix in 04patron_status.t

Staff Client
----------
	9726	minor	XISBN service throttle not initialized

Templates
----------
	9554	normal	single quote in didyoumean
	9945	normal	Pretty icon display in authorised values configuration
	5648	minor	icons clumping together
	9571	minor	Fix width for textareas in Edit Item screen
	9952	trivial	MARC tab: tab 0 is not translated correctly

Tools
----------
	9415	normal	XML catalog export is missing root node
	9954	minor	CSV profile encoding not selected on editing

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

Enhancements in 3.10.5
======================

Circulation
----------
	9423	Add notforloan value to issue confirmation or blocking message

New sysprefs in 3.10.5
======================

  * UNIMARCAuthorsFacetsSeparator

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/3.10.5/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 (99%)
  * Armenian (99%)
  * Chinese (China) (92%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (98%)
  * French (Canada) (68%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (97%)
  * Greek (62%)
  * Italian (99%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
  * Portuguese (99%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (100%)

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 3.10.5 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov 
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard 
  Translation Manager:   D Ruth Bavousett 
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer ,
  QA Team:               Marcel de Rooy ,
                         Jonathan Druart ,
                         Mason James ,
			             Elliott Davis 
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger ,
                         Marc Véron ,
			             Chris Hall ,
                         Mirko Tietgen <5p4m@gmx.de>
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat 
  Packaging Assistant:   Mason James 

  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea 
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack 
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack 

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.5:
  * KEEP SOLUTIONS

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.5.
  *      3	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      1	Colin Campbell
  *      1	Galen Charlton
  *      3	David Cook
  *      5	Chris Cormack
  *      2	Jonathan Druart
  *      4	Magnus Enger
  *      1	Vitor FERNANDES
  *      4	Kyle M Hall
  *      1	Mason James
  *      2	Peter Crellan Kelly
  *      2	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Chris Nighswonger
  *      4	Dobrica Pavlinusic
  *      1	Karam Qubsi
  *      1	Thatcher Rea
  *      2	Liz Rea
  *      2	Marcel de Rooy
  *     15	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Mathieu Saby
  *      2	Adrien Saurat
  *      1	Robin Sheat
  *      1	Will Stokes
  *      1	ByWater Migration Support
  *      1	Aaron Wells
  *      1	Jen Zajac

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.5
  *       2 ACPL                                                                                          
  *      19 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       4 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       6 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       3 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       9 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Equinox                                                                                   
  *       1 Foundations                                                                              
  *       1 KohaAloha                                                                                  
  *       4 Libriotech                                                                                 
  *       1 PTFS-Europe                                                                              
  *       3 Prosentient Systems
  *       2 Rijksmuseum                                                                               
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       1 keep.pt
  *       4 rot13.org                                                                                      
  *       1 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.5.
  *       4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       1 Larry Baerveldt
  *       1 Brendan
  *      51 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       5 Galen Charlton
  *      60 Chris Cormack
  *       1 Frédéric Demians
  *      14 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Frédéric Durand
  *       1 Nicole C. Engard
  *       4 Magnus Enger
  *      25 Katrin Fischer
  *       6 Kyle M Hall
  *       6 Mason James
  *       5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       9 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Sophie Meynieux
  *       1 Chris Nighswonger
  *       1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
  *       6 Paul Poulain
  *       1 MJ Ray
  *       5 Liz Rea
  *       5 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Mathieu Saby
  *       1 Robin Sheat

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 3.8.10, which was released on February 23, 2013.

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 3.8.12 released

Chris Cormack — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:10:28 +0000

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.12, this is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.

As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org

Please read below for the full release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.12
23 Apr 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 3.8.12 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.12.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 3.8.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes in 3.8.12
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	7018	critical	need all acq permissions to search

Cataloging
----------
	8860	critical	can't merge if you don't have fast cataloging permissions
	9908	major	OCLC Connexion Desktop Client Doesn't Work

Circulation
----------
	9953	major	When OpacMaintenance breaks lifting debarment

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	8780	major	Lower dependency version for DateTime::TimeZone

Notices
----------
	8378	major	 syntax not working on overdues anymore

Searching
----------
	9050	major	rebuild_zebra should use the adelete action so it doesn't fail when deleting a record not in the index
	9341	major	Problem with UNIMARC authors facets

Tools
----------
	9535	major	Patron card creator "Remove duplicates" function doesn't work

Other bugs fixed in 3.8.12
==========================

About
----------
	9956	trivial	Add missing translators to the about page

Acquisitions
----------
	7875	trivial	Pending suggestion link (the numbers) from staff client home directs to accepted suggestions instead of pending

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	7379	normal	copynumber is displayed 'as is' when linked to autorised values
	9609	trivial	Rebuild zebra reports double numbers for exported records with -z option

Command-line Utilities
----------
	9885	normal	Passwords generated by command line scripts are weak

Hold requests
----------
	9786	normal	[3.8.X] Holds to pull showing items not available

I18N/L10N
----------
	7938	normal	The -v option to the translate script is not documented

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	8742	trivial	Example uses perl 5.8 in Makefile.PL

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
----------
	9863	trivial	'import' button in web installer should read 'Import'

MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
	9274	normal	Software error in bibtex export

OPAC
----------
	9502	minor	[3.8.X] famfamfam: wrongly placed in package 3.8.8/9

Packaging
----------
	8816	normal	add WARNING to debian/control file, to not manually edit
	9802	minor	Add test case to verify package man pages are well formatted

Patrons
----------
	9002	normal	Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form

Searching
----------
	9419	minor	The highlight feature can cause a browser freeze

Self checkout
----------
	9748	minor	noitemlinks not being enforced

Serials
----------
	9947	minor	Creating item for received serial prefills enumchron subfield

SIP2
----------
	9838	trivial	SIP tests : fix in 04patron_status.t

Staff Client
----------
	9726	minor	XISBN service throttle not initialized

Templates
----------
	9945	normal	Pretty icon display in authorised values configuration
	5648	minor	icons clumping together
	8737	minor	Incorrect icon at login in staff client
	9571	minor	Fix width for textareas in Edit Item screen
	9781	minor	[3.6.X/3.8.x] Fix dynarch calendar positioning in IE

Tools
----------
	8861	minor	Undefined variables in batchMod.pl trigger error logs
	9954	minor	CSV profile encoding not selected on editing

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

Enhancements in 3.8.12
======================

----------

New sysprefs in 3.8.12
======================

  * UNIMARCAuthorsFacetsSeparator

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/3.8.12/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 (100%)
  * Armenian (99%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
  * Danish (74%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (76%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (99%)
  * Greek (95%)
  * Italian (99%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
  * Portuguese (99%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (100%)

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 3.8.12 is

  Release Manager:       Paul Poulain 
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard 
  Translation Manager:   Frédéric Demians 
  QA Manager:            Ian Walls 
  QA team:               Marcel de Rooy ,
                         Jonathan Druart 
			             Mason James 
  Bug Wranglers:         Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger

  Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger 
  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov 
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack 

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.12:
  * KEEP SOLUTIONS

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12.
  *      1	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      3	David Cook
  *      8	Chris Cormack
  *      2	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Vitor FERNANDES
  *      2	Kyle M Hall
  *      2	Peter Crellan Kelly
  *      1	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Chris Nighswonger
  *      4	Dobrica Pavlinusic
  *      1	Karam Qubsi
  *      1	Thatcher Rea
  *      1	Marcel de Rooy
  *      9	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Mathieu Saby
  *      2	Adrien Saurat
  *      1	Robin Sheat
  *      1	Will Stokes
  *      4	Mark Tompsett
  *      1	Aaron Wells
  *      1	Jen Zajac
  *      1	“ByWater

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12
  *       1 ACPL                                                                                          
  *      13 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       6 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       3 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       1 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       8 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Foundations                                                                              
  *       3 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 Rijksmuseum                                                                               
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       1 bywatersolutions.com”
  *       1 keep.pt
  *       4 rot13.org                                                                                      
  *       6 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.12.
  *       4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      29 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       2 Galen Charlton
  *      45 Chris Cormack
  *      10 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Frédéric Durand
  *       3 Magnus Enger
  *      13 Katrin Fischer
  *       8 Kyle M Hall
  *       4 Mason James
  *       1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      10 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Sophie Meynieux
  *       1 Chris Nighswonger
  *       1 Paul Poulain
  *       1 MJ Ray
  *       1 Liz Rea
  *       4 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Robin Sheat
  *       1 wajasu

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 3.8.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

Release Team for Koha 3.14 (Code name Pi) Elected

Liz Rea — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:04:43 +0000

The Koha Community is pleased to announce the release team for Koha version 3.14. The team includes volunteers from nine countries, and represent Koha support companies and libraries from around the world.

Release Manager for 3.14: Galen Charlton, USA, Equinox
Translation Manager: D Ruth Bavousett, USA
Documentation Manager, Database Doc Manager: Nicole Engard, USA, ByWater Solutions
Installation Documentation Managers: Mason James, New Zealand, KohaAloha and Samuel Desseaux, France
Quality Assurance Manager: Katrin Fischer, Germany, BSZ
Quality Assurance Team: Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum; Chris Cormack, New Zealand, Catalyst IT; Jonathan Druart, France, Biblibre; Brendan Gallagher, USA, ByWater Solutions; Mason James, New Zealand, KohaAloha; Paul Poulain, France, Biblibre; Kyle M Hall, USA, ByWater Solutions
Release Maintainers: Tomás Cohen Arazi, Argentina, UNC – 3.12.x; Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel, Argentina, 3.10.x; Chris Hall, New Zealand, Catalyst IT – 3.8.x.
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, New Zealand, Catalyst IT
Live CD/DVD Magager: Nguyen Quoc Uy, Vietnam
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux, France
Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger, Norway, Libriotech
Newsletter Editor: Daniel Grobani, USA, Samuel Merritt University

Thanks to our volunteers, and here’s to a successful 3.14 Release!

PS. No, it’s not really code name Pi. But it could be!

Olly olly oxen free: integrators with Koha, stand up and be counted

Galen Charlton — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:00:43 +0000

Does your project, service, or product interact with Koha in some automated fashion? If so, we’d like to hear from you.

RESTful web service calls
SIP2 to perform patron and circulation requests
Z39.50, unAPI, and OpenSearch to retrieve catalog data
LDAP to authenticate patrons
MARC exports and imports
Screen-scraping (although if you’re screen-scraping Koha, we may be able to suggest a better way to do it)
Direct database access
And others

Some of the things we’d like to know include:

The name of your service or product
What it does for a Koha library
How it is accessing Koha
Whether there are specific APIs or entry points that your application depends on
If there are things that Koha could be doing to make your life easier

Why do we want to know? Our reasons include:

Finding out which entry points we should be particularly careful about changing as Koha gets enhanced.
See if there are things we could be doing better to encourage more people and applications to participate in the Koha ecosystem.
(Maybe) putting together a list of third-party services that interact with Koha.

To respond, please comment on this post.

Koha Community Newsletter: March 2013

danielg — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:30:03 +0000

Koha Community Newsletter
March 2013

Volume 4, Issue 3
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
Please submit news items to

Koha Development
Koha Community
Upcoming Koha Events
Past Koha Events
- March General IRC Meeting

Koha Development

Koha 3.10.4 Released
by Chris Cormack

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, once again a great example of international and inter-company collaboration and making the official and community-supported Koha live up to its promise of no single-vendor lock-in.

Koha 3.10.4 can be downloaded here; installation instructions are here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball. Packages are here.

Release notes are here.

Koha 3.8.11 Released
by Chris Cormack

This maintenance release contains code from 12 people from 9 different organisations, once again a great example of international and inter-company collaboration and making the official and community-supported Koha live up to its promise of no single-vendor lock-in.

Koha 3.8.11 can be downloaded here; installation instructions are here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball. Packages are here.

Release notes are here.

Koha 3.12 Beta Released

Jared Camins-Esakov has released a beta version of Koha 3.12 and an accompanying announcement. Key points:

Koha has to be translated.
Koha’s documentation has to be updated.
Koha’s installation instructions need to be updated.
Enhancement bugs need to be reclassified.
Open bug reports need to be (re)confirmed.
Bugs need to be fixed.
Bug fixes need to be tested.
Volunteers must be found, recruited, and/or made for 3.14.

Koha Statistics

Chris Cormack, Koha Community statistics wizard, has posted statistics for February 2013, Koha 3.10.4, and Koha 3.8.11

Koha 3.12 Release Manager’s Newsletter

3.12 Release Manager Jared Camins-Esakov has posted his second quarterly missive.

Live DVD Blueprint

A blueprint for development of the Koha Live DVD has been posted to the wiki.

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Galen Charlton has been named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers 2013! (Occasioning the rare use of an exclamation point in this newsletter).

Galen, in but one display of his moving & shaking, has written a number of posts on his recently reactivated blog.

Chris Fitzpatrick is working on integrating Koha and Blacklight.

Chris Cormack is working on integrating Goodreads reviews into Koha.

Volkan Sönmez at the Süleyman Demirel Üniversity Library in Isparta, Turkey, has posted to the wiki instructions in Turkish on installing Koha 3.10 on Centos 6.3 x86 64.

Nicole Engard has posted advice for beginners in the Koha community, a video on making screencasts for bug/ticket reporting, and a diagram explaining the Koha development cycle.

Don Christie tweeted about Marshall Breeding’s map of worldwide registered Koha sites.

Support Provider News

The Galecia Group has posted an Open Source ILS Feature Comparison Tool.

iZi Software in Malaysia has been added to the community’s directory of paid support providers.

Joy Nelson has been named Director of Migrations at ByWater Solutions.

Upcoming Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

The April general IRC meeting will be held on 3 April 2013 at 10:00 UTC.

The agenda and other information is here.

KohaCon13 Registration and Call for Speakers
by Nicole Engard

Registration for KohaCon13, the international users’ conference of the Koha open-source library system, is now open! KohaCon13 will be held October 16–22 at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, USA and registration is free!

Please consider joining us to learn about Koha, about the community, and about what libraries are doing with Koha around the world. Also consider sharing your story with us by speaking. The call for speakers is open and available here. Talks will range from introductory to advanced and will be geared toward Koha users, developers, and fans.

Learn more about KohaCon13 on the official conference site.

Italian Koha Event

Hyperborea and the Biblioteca Franco Serantini are organizing an event dedicated to Koha on 19 April in Pisa. More info is here.

Past Koha Events

March General IRC Meeting

The March general IRC meeting was held on 13 March 2013.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Koha 3.12 beta 1 released (and you can help!)

Jared Camins-Esakov — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:49:55 +0000

About an hour ago I cut a beta for Koha 3.12.0. The tarball is available at http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.00-beta1.tar.gz and the release notes at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob_plain;f=misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_0.txt;h=0e8a3cf74de202af325069b7aec329eff229ec11;hb=a4f4d69c3b0f82e765b20cdee7be95456ee9db23

Packages will follow in the squeeze-dev repository sometime at the beginning of the week.

As a reminder, Koha 3.12 is in feature freeze so any features that are not in the beta will not be in Koha 3.12, and I will not respond to any complaints about features that didn’t make the cut-off other than forwarding them to the Koha mailing lists.

So, what now? Now, we seek out and destroy bugs! If you have a spare testing server, take the beta for a spin, and try to break it. “Sure,” you say, “I know that I can do that. But what can I help with that deserved an exclamation mark in the subject line?” I’m glad you asked. Here is a list of some things that need to be done before May 22:

* Koha has to be translated.

I will be asking the Translation Manager to pull the latest strings into Pootle so that the translation teams can get a head start (and if you know any language other than American English, you can help translate! Head on over to http://translate.koha-community.org/ and get started)

* Koha’s documentation has to be updated.

We have a Documentation Manager, but if you have any ideas about how to document a new feature, or an old feature, or clarify instructions, you, too, can write documentation. Take a look at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Editing_the_Koha_Manual if you want to work on this.

* Koha’s installation instructions need to be updated.

Some of the installation instructions that are included in the tarball were last updated (for all practical purposes) in 2010. That’s a long time ago in computer time. If you have some thoughts on how the various INSTALL.* files in the tarball might be updated to be more clear, open up a text editor and send in your corrections (preferably as a patch, but if you have suggestions and are not comfortable with git, an e-mail to koha-devel will work too).

* Enhancement bugs need to be reclassified.

During the 3.12 release cycle we added a new category of bug report: “New feature.” However, a lot of the new features that are going into 3.12 are still listed as “enhancements” in Bugzilla, which means the automated release notes generator doesn’t pick them up properly. Any time the RM spends fixing that is time the RM does not spend fixing problems with Koha. This is is a task that anyone can do. All it takes is a bit of critical thinking and an account on Bugzilla: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/

* Open bug reports need to be (re)confirmed.

We have scads of bug reports in Bugzilla, and many of them probably report bugs that have been fixed for weeks, months, or years. If we can get all the bugs that are already fixed closed, it’ll be easier to focus on the bugs that still exist. Head on over to Bugzilla, choose some old bugs, and start testing!

* Bugs need to be fixed.

This goes hand-in-hand with the testing that you’ve all heard me to talk to death, but once a bug has been found, it has to be fixed. If you know how to fix a bug, please do!

* Bug fixes need to be tested.

There are many bugfixes already on bugzilla, and there will be many more being written in the next two months. After a patch has been written, it has to be tested by at least one third party (i.e. not the developer and not me) in order to move through the QA process to inclusion in Koha. Even if you don’t have a spare server, you can test patches in the sandboxes hosted by BibLibre: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes

* Volunteers must be found, recruited, and/or made for 3.14.

If you want to be involved in 3.14, there’s still time to volunteer for an open position. Just put your name on the ballot at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.14

Koha 3.10.4 released

Chris Cormack — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:02:14 +0000

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.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.4
22 Mar 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 3.10.4 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.04.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 3.10.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes in 3.10.4
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	4266	major	encumbrance and expenditure not used in code
	8853	major	clicking basketgroup name in closed basketgroups reopens it

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	9574	critical	serials/subscription-add.pl does not work right under Plack

Cataloging
----------
	7253	major	fast cataloging not always checking out

Command-line Utilities
----------
	9656	major	fines.pl creating a log file should be optional

Packaging
----------
	9256	critical	Search is broken for 3.10 package-installs when marcflavour != marc21

Searching
----------
	8620	critical	Barcode searching not working correctly
	9395	major	Problem with callnumber and standard number search in OPAC and Staff Client
	9620	major	IncludeSeeFromInSearches ON and data in $9 subfields can break indexing

Templates
----------
	9570	major	view plain not working in ccsr

Bugs fixed in 3.10.4
======================

Cataloging
----------
	9377	normal	itemtype in duplicate biblio search
	9207	minor	Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records

Circulation
----------
	8054	normal	can hit submit twice when paying fines
	8682	normal	quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips

Documentation
----------
	9267	normal	Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
----------
	5333	normal	Undefined value stops import from z39.50

OPAC
----------
	9585	minor	Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail

Packaging
----------
	9784	minor	koha-shell missing from koha-common man page

Staff Client
----------
	9663	normal	Individual bibliographic record "Save" option requires export permission
	9658	trivial	Breadcrumb wrong on reports dictionary

System Administration
----------
	7596	normal	System preferences editor JavaScript contains untranslatable English string

Templates
----------
	9695	normal	Use alphabet system preference on page used to browse patrons for patron card batches
	9385	minor	patron add labels right aligned in chrome
	9545	minor	Fix Import Marc Bibliographic Framework Text Label
	9586	minor	Remove $ENV{DEBUG} info from Member Template
	9651	minor	When deleting a fund, button is wrongly labelled with 'Delete this budget'
	9655	trivial	Capitalization wrong on 'Close and Print' button in basket groups

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
----------
	9520	minor	Update default LOC Z39.50 target

Enhancements in 3.10.4
======================

Templates
----------
	9650	Show message if there are no notices
	9765	Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc

New sysprefs in 3.10.4
======================

  * OPACNumbersPreferPhrase
  * IntranetNumbersPreferPhrase

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/3.10.4/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 (99%)
  * Chinese (China) (93%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  * Danish (79%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (98%)
  * French (Canada) (68%)
  * German (99%)
  * German (Switzerland) (97%)
  * Greek (62%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
  * Portuguese (100%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (100%)

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 3.10.4 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov 
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard 
  Translation Manager:   D Ruth Bavousett 
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer ,
  QA Team:               Marcel de Rooy ,
                         Jonathan Druart ,
                         Mason James ,
			 Elliott Davis 
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger ,
                         Marc Véron ,
			 Chris Hall ,
                         Mirko Tietgen <5p4m@gmx.de>
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat 
  Packaging Assistant:   Mason James 

  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea 
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack 
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack 

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.4:
  * KEEP SOLUTIONS

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.4.
  *      2	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1	D Ruth Bavousett
  *      3	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      2	David Cook
  *      4	Chris Cormack
  *      2	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Magnus Enger
  *      1	Vitor FERNANDES
  *      1	Katrin Fischer
  *      1	Kyle M Hall
  *      3	Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      8	Owen Leonard
  *      3	Liz Rea
  *      3	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      2	Mathieu Saby

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.4
  *       8 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       1 BSZ BW                                                                                         
  *       5 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       2 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       1 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       3 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       5 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Libriotech                                                                                 
  *       2 Prosentient Systems
  *       2 Université Rennes 2
  *       1 keep.pt
  *       6 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.4.
  *      33 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       3 Galen Charlton
  *       2 David Cook
  *      35 Chris Cormack
  *       5 Elliott Davis
  *      16 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Jonathan Druarth
  *       3 Nicole C. Engard
  *       9 Katrin Fischer
  *       5 Kyle M Hall
  *       6 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       4 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Liz Rea
  *       1 Martin Renvoize
  *       3 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Robin Sheat
  *       1 Mirko Tietgen
  *       2 koha.aixmarseille

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/

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Koha 3.8.11 released

Chris Cormack — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:55:33 +0000

This maintenance release contains code from 12 people from 9 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.

Please read below for the release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.11
22 Mar 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 3.8.11 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.11.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 3.8.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes of 3.8.11
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	4266	major	encumbrance and expenditure not used in code

Cataloging
----------
	7253	major	fast cataloging not always checking out

Searching
----------
	8620	critical	Barcode searching not working correctly

Bugs fixed in 3.8.11
======================

Cataloging
----------
	9377	normal	itemtype in duplicate biblio search
	9207	minor	Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records

Circulation
----------
	8054	normal	can hit submit twice when paying fines
	8682	normal	quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips

Documentation
----------
	9267	normal	Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
----------
	5333	normal	Undefined value stops import from z39.50

OPAC
----------
	9585	minor	Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail

Packaging
----------
	9784	minor	koha-shell missing from koha-common man page

Staff Client
----------
	9663	normal	Individual bibliographic record "Save" option requires export permission
	9658	trivial	Breadcrumb wrong on reports dictionary

System Administration
----------
	7596	normal	System preferences editor JavaScript contains untranslatable English string

Templates
----------
	9695	normal	Use alphabet system preference on page used to browse patrons for patron card batches
	9385	minor	patron add labels right aligned in chrome
	9545	minor	Fix Import Marc Bibliographic Framework Text Label
	9586	minor	Remove $ENV{DEBUG} info from Member Template
	9651	minor	When deleting a fund, button is wrongly labelled with 'Delete this budget'

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
----------
	9520	minor	Update default LOC Z39.50 target

Enhancements in 3.8.11
======================

Templates
----------
	9650	Show message if there are no notices
	9765	Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc

New sysprefs in 3.8.11
======================

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/3.8.11/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 (99%)
  * Armenian (99%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
  * Danish (74%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (76%)
  * German (99%)
  * German (Switzerland) (99%)
  * Greek (74%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
  * Portuguese (100%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (100%)

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 3.8.11 is

  Release Manager:       Paul Poulain 
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard 
  Translation Manager:   Frédéric Demians 
  QA Manager:            Ian Walls 
  QA team:               Marcel de Rooy ,
                         Jonathan Druart 
			 Mason James 
  Bug Wranglers:         Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger

  Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger 
  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov 
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack 

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.11:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11.
  *      2	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1	D Ruth Bavousett
  *      2	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      2	David Cook
  *      3	Chris Cormack
  *      1	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Kyle M Hall
  *      2	Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      7	Owen Leonard
  *      3	Liz Rea
  *      3	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Mathieu Saby

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11
  *       7 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       4 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       2 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       1 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       2 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       4 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       2 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       5 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.11.
  *      24 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       3 Galen Charlton
  *       2 David Cook
  *      26 Chris Cormack
  *       2 Elliott Davis
  *      14 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Jonathan Druarth
  *       2 Nicole C. Engard
  *       4 Katrin Fischer
  *       5 Kyle M Hall
  *       3 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       2 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Liz Rea
  *       1 Martin Renvoize
  *       3 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Robin Sheat
  *       2 koha.aixmarseille

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 3.8.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/

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Official Website of Koha Library Software

Koha 3.12.0 released

Koha Community Newsletter: April 2013

Koha Community Newsletter April 2013

Table of Contents

Koha Development

Koha 3.10.5 Released by Chris Cormack

Koha 3.8.12 Released by Chris Cormack

Koha Statistics

Release Team for Koha 3.14 Elected by Liz Rea

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Integrators with Koha, Stand Up and be Counted by Galen Charlton

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Support Provider News

Upcoming Koha Events

May General IRC Meeting

Limoges Koha Event

KohaCon13 Big Update by Nancy Keener, KohaCon13 Chair

Past Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

Marseille Hackfest

Koha 3.10.5 released

Koha 3.8.12 released

Release Team for Koha 3.14 (Code name Pi) Elected

Olly olly oxen free: integrators with Koha, stand up and be counted

Koha Community Newsletter: March 2013

Koha Community Newsletter March 2013

Table of Contents

Koha Development

Koha 3.10.4 Released by Chris Cormack

Koha 3.8.11 Released by Chris Cormack

Koha 3.12 Beta Released

Koha Statistics

Koha 3.12 Release Manager’s Newsletter

Live DVD Blueprint

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Support Provider News

Upcoming Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

KohaCon13 Registration and Call for Speakers by Nicole Engard

Italian Koha Event

Past Koha Events

March General IRC Meeting

Koha 3.12 beta 1 released (and you can help!)

Koha 3.10.4 released

Koha 3.8.11 released

Koha Community Newsletter
April 2013

Koha 3.10.5 Released
by Chris Cormack

Koha 3.8.12 Released
by Chris Cormack

Release Team for Koha 3.14 Elected
by Liz Rea

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Integrators with Koha, Stand Up and be Counted
by Galen Charlton

KohaCon13 Big Update
by Nancy Keener, KohaCon13 Chair

Koha Community Newsletter
March 2013

Koha 3.10.4 Released
by Chris Cormack

Koha 3.8.11 Released
by Chris Cormack

KohaCon13 Registration and Call for Speakers
by Nicole Engard