Koha 3.12.7 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.7.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org
Please read more for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.7
22 Nov 2013
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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
Home
Koha 3.12.7 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.07.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 3.12.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 8 enhancements and 42 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.7
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OPAC
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7813 Add ability to delete local cover images
Packaging
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10622 Add --sip and --nosip switches to koha-list
10624 Koha-common.init should implement the 'status' option switch
Patrons
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9372 Automatic carriage return in message_queue where content_type is html
10894 ID required for mainaddress fieldset in create new patron
Serials
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10570 Show internal note from subscription in results on check expiration page
Templates
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10803 "Make payment" in circ is not easily translatable
Tools
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9618 Add support for intranetuserjs to labels/spinelabel-print.pl
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.7
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9299 major For loop in Auth_with_ldap.pm requires an extended patron attribute to be set or LDAP logins fail
10897 major T/ILSDI_Services.t is db dependent
Authentication
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10925 major LDAP Auth fails if DEBUG is enable
Circulation
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10016 critical SelfCheckTimeout not logging patron out
10663 critical Holds never block renewals
Notices
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11218 critical Due notices broken / not generated
Serials
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10430 major Status filter not working in serial claims when translated
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.7
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Acquisitions
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8821 normal Receive shipment page should hide inactive funds like new order form does
10847 trivial Open external link to website of a vendor in new tab/window
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10872 minor C4::Items GetHiddenItems fix and optimization
10305 trivial _increment_barcode is called twice
11269 trivial Latest MARC::Record makes visible some wrong usage of field->subfield in C4::Search
Browser compatibility
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10376 normal Printing cart does not work under IE9
Cataloging
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11054 normal Creating a child record has problems with accented Latin characters
10331 trivial Little errors in unimarc_field_4XX.pl (punctuation)
10687 trivial Delete erroneous tags 68a and 68b on default MARC21 auth framework
Circulation
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10027 normal Fine details not showing when printing a fine
9943 minor Pay fines page "Pay selected" button give invalid amount when nothing is selected
Command-line Utilities
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10810 trivial Fix synopsis for -html option to overdue_notices.pl
Developer documentation
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10967 trivial POD ERROR in acqui/booksellers.pl
Documentation
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7764 normal INSTALL.ubuntu needs to be updated
Hold requests
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10731 minor IntranetSlipPrinterJS is not working for hold slips
I18N/L10N
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10948 normal Some strings in the authority result list turned out untranslatable
7478 minor Template/translation problem in catalogue_out.tt
8070 minor block produced by showmarc.pl really not good in RTL languages
10841 minor Edit/Delete item context links in items table are not translatable
10871 trivial Confirmation message for deleting news entries is not translatable
Notices
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10720 normal Substitution term in overdue notices shouldn't be removed even if they don't match
OPAC
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10619 normal Sco.css missing for CCSR OPAC templates
10564 minor Use OPACURLOpenInNewWindow in UNIMARCslim2OPACResults.xsl
Packaging
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10617 trivial Init script cleanup
Patrons
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10924 normal Contact note not updating via opac
Reports
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10718 normal Items with no checkouts report does not work
Searching
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5645 normal Z39.50 search from search results not parsing query correctly
10684 normal Koha search dies on undecodable records
Serials
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10689 minor Public note does not appear in subscriptions search
SIP2
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9531 normal Make SIP2 message terminator configurable via SIPconfig.xml
10817 normal SIPserver does not return holds info when requested
Staff Client
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10911 normal Records with 880 fields have broken details links in intranet search results using XSLT.
Templates
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10888 normal Don't hide authorities module from users without permission to edit authorities
10465 trivial Reference to fields 780 and 785 in UNIMARC XSLT should be removed
Web services
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10667 normal ILS-DI: AuthenticatePatron should also work with cardnumber
System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
======================
The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.The home page for Koha
documentation is
Documentation
As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.12/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 (89%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (100%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (92%)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (97%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (99%)
* Kurdish (78%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Polish (73%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (92%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (97%)
* Turkish (99%)
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 3.12.7 is
Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Installation Documentation Managers:
Samuel Desseaux
Mason James
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team: Chris Cormack
Marcel de Rooy
Jonathan Druart
Brendan Gallagher
Kyle Hall
Mason James
Paul Poulain
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
Live CD Manager: Vimal Kumar V.
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.12.7:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.7.
* 8 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 D Ruth Bavousett
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Colin Campbell
* 13 Galen Charlton
* 4 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Magnus Enger
* 11 Katrin Fischer
* 8 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Srdjan Jankovic
* 1 Janusz Kaczmarek
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Ketan Kulkarni
* 7 Owen Leonard
* 2 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 David Roberts
* 1 Marcel de Rooy
* 6 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 2 Mark Tompsett
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.7
* 7 ACPL
* 11 BSZ BW
* 12 BibLibre
* 8 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 1 Catalyst
* 13 Equinox
* 2 Libriotech
* 3 PTFS-Europe
* 1 Rijksmuseum
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 carvingit.com
* 13 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.7.
* 2 Nuño López Ansótegui
* 75 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 71 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 9 Chris Cormack
* 1 Frédéric Demians
* 13 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 25 Katrin Fischer
* 2 Brendan Gallagher
* 9 Kyle M Hall
* 4 Mason James
* 14 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 7 Owen Leonard
* 1 Melia Meggs
* 1 Josef Moravec
* 4 Liz Rea
* 2 Campbell Reid-Tait
* 4 Marcel de Rooy
* 2 Paola Rossi
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Adrien Saurat
* 4 Robin Sheat
* 2 Srdjan
* 1 Mark Tompsett
* 2 Ed Veal
* 1 Marc Veron
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently 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 3.12.x.
The last Koha release was 3.12.17, which was released on October 28, 2013.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
http://bugs.koha-community.org/
He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)
Congratulations to the koha team worldwide!
It’s a nice feeling to see my name here on this page.