Koha 3.12.9 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.9.

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 3.12.9
23 Jan 2014
========================================================================

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 3.12.9 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.09.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 3.12.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 3 enhancements and 13 bugfixes.


Enhancements in 3.12.9
======================

OPAC
----------
	11104	Label in opac topics in facets not easily css selectable

Staff Client
----------
	9728	XISBN use simple search instead of SQL
	11101	Item Type label in OPAC not easily css selectable.


Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.9
======================


Cataloging
----------
	11410	major	Cataloging search finds no results for searches with ampersands

OPAC
----------
	10605	major	Problems with translated cart email sent
	11535	major	Patron self-registration form does not sanitize its input


Other bugs fixed in 3.12.9
======================


Acquisitions
----------
	8683	normal	Acq: Clear button doesn't clear all item fields
	9224	normal	Acqui/finishreceive.pl is not Plack-compatible
	11166	normal	Branch filter in budgets admin uses pattern match  instead of equals

Cataloging
----------
	10808	minor	Thesaurus search form does not correspond to current search query

OPAC
----------
	11174	trivial	Wrong parameter 'valuec' in  opac-authoritiessearchresultlist

Packaging
----------
	10735	normal	Koha-dump not working

Searching
----------
	10688	normal	QueryParser doesn't recognize QP queries when used in a fielded search box
	11255	normal	Sort by relevance asc generates a wrong query

Templates
----------
	2310	normal	Delete grayed out w/out explanation

Test Suite
----------
	11439	normal	UT: XISBN.t returns failure


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 (99%)
  * Chinese (China) (99%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Czech (100%)
  * 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 (99%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
  * Slovak (99%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Swedish (97%)
  * 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 3.12.9 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 3.12.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.9.
  *      1	Jacek Ablewicz
  *      1	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      1	Galen Charlton
  *      6	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Kyle M Hall
  *      1	Tim Hannah
  *      1	Owen Leonard
  *      4	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Robin Sheat
  *      1	Claire Stent
  *      1	Zeno Tajoli

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.9
  *       1 ACPL                                                                                          
  *      10 BibLibre                                                                                    
  *       1 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       1 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       1 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Equinox                                                                                   
  *       1 biblos.pk.edu.pl
  *       1 cineca.it
  *       2 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.9.
  *      20 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       1 Christopher Brannon
  *       1 Heather Braum
  *      19 Galen Charlton
  *       3 Chris Cormack
  *       4 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Suzanne Fayle
  *       9 Katrin Fischer
  *       2 Brendan Gallagher
  *       5 Kyle M Hall
  *       2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       1 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Liz Rea
  *       2 Marcel de Rooy
  *      15 Fridolin SOMERS

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 3.12.8, which was released on December 24, 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)

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