Koha 3.14.11 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.11.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements, several bugfixes and 2 security bugfixes (Bugs 12873 and 12876).
Please read more for the full release notes :

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.14.11

02 oct. 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 http://koha-community.org and Koha 3.14.11 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.11.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 3.14.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancement and 10 bugfixes.

Enhancements in Koha 3.14.11

Acquisitions

  • New column in admin/aqbudgets (bug #7308)
  • Show parent_orderline in received orders table (bug #11864)

Command-line Utilities

  • Add a koha-mysqlcheck script (bug #10782)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.14.11

Hold requests

  • Reserve can be cancelled by any logged in user (critical – 12873)

OPAC

  • Authentication using CAS – bootstrap (major – 12046)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.14.11

Acquisitions

  • Bad encoding in acquisition basket(minor- 12438)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • C4::Breeding::ImportBreeding() is not used(minor- 12112)

Cataloging

  • Barcode scanner clicking ‘save’(normal- 11292)

Hold requests

  • Reserve in waiting/transfer status may be cancelled by user(normal- 12876)

I18N/L10N

  • Untranslatable confirm popup in field 006 and 008 builders(normal- 11646)
  • Untranslatable strings in 007 builder(minor- 11639)

Templates

  • Remove duplicated plugin jquery.dataTables.columnFilter.js(normal- 12105)
  • Remove unused image myshadow.png from the staff client(normal- 12117)

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 http://koha-community.org/documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.14.11/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 (100%)
  • Chinese (China) (96%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  • Czech (99%)
  • Danish (88%)
  • English (New Zealand) (82%)
  • French (97%)
  • French (Canada) (87%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (51%)
  • Italian (99%)
  • Kurdish (70%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (61%)
  • Polish (62%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (88%)
  • Slovak (99%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (89%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (88%)

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

The most up-to-date translations can be found at http://translate.koha-community.org

Release Team

The release team for Koha 3.14.11 is

Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>

Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Installation Documentation Managers:

  • Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>
  • Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>

Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>

QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
QA Team:

  • Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
  • Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
  • Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
  • Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
  • Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
  • Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
  • Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>

Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>

Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Live CD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102@yahoo.com>
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>

Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.14.11:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.11.

  • 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  • 2 Galen Charlton
  • 2 Jonathan Druart
  • 1 Magnus Enger
  • 1 Katrin Fischer
  • 2 Kyle M Hall
  • 2 Rafal Kopaczka
  • 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  • 2 Owen Leonard
  • 4 Julian Maurice
  • 2 Fridolin Somers

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.11

  • 2 ACPL
  • 1 BSZ BW
  • 8 BibLibre
  • 2 ByWater-Solutions
  • 2 Equinox
  • 1 Libriotech
  • 2 poczta.onet.pl
  • 3 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.14.11.

  • 7 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  • 1 Christopher Brannon
  • 19 Galen Charlton
  • 1 Chris Cormack
  • 5 Jonathan Druart
  • 12 Katrin Fischer
  • 4 Kyle M Hall
  • 2 Owen Leonard
  • 2 Martin Renvoize
  • 2 Marcel de Rooy
  • 1 Paola Rossi
  • 18 Fridolin Somers
  • 1 Mark Tompsett
  • 1 Cedric Vita
  • 1 Cédric Vita
  • 1 Marc Véron
  • 2 remy juliette

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 3.14.x.

The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on Septembre 9, 2014.

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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