Koha 3.12.8 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.8.
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 3.12.8
24 Dec 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 3.12.8 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.08.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 3.12.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 16 enhancements and 47 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.8
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11058 Compile time warning issued by C4/Record.pm
Authentication
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11146 Show a go back link on no permission page
Circulation
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10785 Dropbox should be book drop
OPAC
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10750 Correct capitalization on suggestion form in OPAC
10776 Subscription notification screen has awkward wording
11098 Label in Opac - topics on facets not easily css selectable
11105 Label - opac - places on facets not easily css selectable
Serials
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10809 Use template branches plugin in serials search
Staff Client
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11099 Label in Staff Client - series on facets not easily css selectable
11102 Label in Staff Client - places on facets not easily css selectable
Templates
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7484 Keeping typed values when searching for authorities
9294 Move JavaScript out of circulation template
10850 Give Quick spine label template page its own id
11106 Label item type facet in staff client
11107 Label in staff client - authors on facets not easily accessible
Test Suite
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11100 Label in staff client - Topics on facets not easily css selectable
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.8
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Acquisitions
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11322 critical Suggestion "notes" field should be sanitized or escaped
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10843 major Print a slip can cause an error
Hold requests
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10243 major Holds queue is making transfer requests that contradict the branch holds policy
I18N/L10N
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10935 major CSV for basket and basketgroup are broken when translated
OPAC
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8368 critical List email broken for non english templates
11307 critical Potential XSS attack vector in opac rss feed
11341 critical XSS attack vector in facets in OPAC - prog theme
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.8
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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11059 normal Not possible to sort staged dates in metric format
11108 normal Undoing receiving does not appear to work (but actually does)
9374 minor In baskets, prices between 0 and 1 are displayed in red
10535 minor By default sort funds by name
10705 trivial Shipment cost should be 'shipping'
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11015 normal Copyright headers are missing in some packages
11061 normal Koha::Calendar::_mock_init is unused
11077 trivial Correct silent warnings in C4/Auth.pm
Cataloging
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10982 normal Link to IFLA UNIMARC documentation in Cataloging
11070 minor Typo in UNIMARC 115a plugin
11034 trivial BiblioAutoLink has incorrect return in addbiblio.pl
Circulation
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10884 normal Circulation table: odd behavior on checkboxes
10954 minor Payment receipt does not display the payment made
Command-line Utilities
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9192 normal UNIMARC_sync_date_created_with_marc_biblio.pl field creation
Database
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11275 normal Make deleteditems.materials of type text
10889 trivial Wrong description for a column of biblio table in kohastructure.sql
Label printing
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11222 normal A regression on label-item-search.pl done by Bug 9239
MARC Authority data support
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10335 minor UNIMARC authorities search doesn't display properly information on parallel form
10905 minor Author tracings incorrect when UseAuthoritiesForTracings is turned on
MARC Bibliographic data support
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6201 normal BibTeX export does not incude MARC21 main entry
OPAC
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10283 normal Hide "many items" on second tab when using OpacSeparateHoldings
11183 normal Warnings in opac
11242 minor Fix opac-MARCdetail.pl bizarre ordering of data and noisy warnings
10829 trivial Browse across pages breaks for authority searches
Patrons
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11002 normal Mandatory fields are not translatable
11125 minor Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form
Searching
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10271 minor An index containing ns or nb does not work
Serials
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3934 normal Move test prediction pattern button
SIP2
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10445 normal SIP Server doesn't respect maxoutstanding system preference
Staff Client
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9218 normal Intranet cart email broken for non english templates
11003 normal JS error on the cart page
System Administration
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7491 normal Description for item-level_itypes is misleading
10038 trivial Doubled 'default' entry when creating a new authority type
Templates
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11097 normal Hide duplicate patron button if logged in user lacks CAN_user_borrowers permission
Test Suite
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10298 normal T::lib::Mocks tries to deal with syspref but doesn not manage to
Tools
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10996 normal Cannot exclude numeric subfields on export
11245 normal Typo in modborrowers.tt javascript string
11086 trivial Koha Tools Upload Patron Images text description change
Web services
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10974 normal OAI-PMH Resumption Tokens Do Not Handle Time
System requirements
======================
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) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (99%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (91%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (97%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (99%)
* Kurdish (78%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
* Polish (99%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (99%)
* 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 3.12.8 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
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.12.8:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.8.
* 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Blou
* 3 Colin Campbell
* 13 Galen Charlton
* 1 Katherine Chisholm
* 1 David Cook
* 7 Chris Cormack
* 2 Frédéric Demians
* 14 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Rachel Dustin
* 3 Katrin Fischer
* 6 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Gab Hikaka
* 2 Srdjan Jankovic
* 1 Janusz Kaczmarek
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Ketan Kulkarni
* 4 Owen Leonard
* 1 Andrew Lockett
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Jonet Moore
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 9 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Zeno Tajoli
* 1 Lyon3 Team
* 1 Mark Tompsett
* 1 Sue Tunnicliff
* 1 raewyn adams
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.8
* 4 ACPL
* 3 BSZ BW
* 24 BibLibre
* 3 BigBallOfWax
* 6 ByWater-Solutions
* 7 Catalyst
* 13 Equinox
* 4 PTFS-Europe
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 2 Rijksmuseum
* 2 Tamil
* 1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 bopdhb.govt.nz
* 2 carvingit.com
* 1 cineca.it
* 1 inlibro.com
* 2 massey.ac.nz
* 1 mpdc.govt.nz
* 1 tpk.govt.nz
* 9 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.8.
* 2 Koha Team Amu
* 1 Pierre Angot
* 90 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 2 Petter Goksoyr Asen
* 1 Heather Braum
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 90 Galen Charlton
* 3 David Cook
* 7 Chris Cormack
* 16 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Dani Elder
* 31 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Brendan Gallagher
* 21 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 10 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 13 Owen Leonard
* 2 Julian Maurice
* 1 Joy Nelson
* 2 David Noe
* 3 Paul Poulain
* 1 Campbell Reid-Tait
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 7 Paola Rossi
* 22 Fridolin SOMERS
* 1 Garming Sam
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 3 Srdjan
* 4 Mark Tompsett
* 2 Ed Veal
* 2 Cedric Vita
* 1 KohaCon13 demo
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 3.12.7, which was released on November 22, 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)