RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.16.10

23 Apr 2015

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 3.16.10 can be installed via packages, or downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.16.10.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 3.16.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements and 12 bugfixes.

Table of contents

New features in Koha 3.16.10

Enhancements in Koha 3.16.10

Circulation

• TransferSlip should accept both itemnumber and barcode (bug 12122)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.10

Searching

• Search results item status incorrect for holds (major – bug 13636)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.10

Authentication

• Auth.pm code issues (trivial – bug 13521)

Hold requests

• Holds ratios report ignores ordered items (minor – bug 13298)

OPAC

• Biblio.size value not correctly displayed in list emails sent from OPAC and intranet (normal – bug 11357)

Serials

• On creating a new subscription, notes fields get confused (normal – bug 13746)

SIP2

• SIP2 does not send rental charge fee! (normal – bug 12820)

Templates

• On receiving, “vendor note” label should not be displayed if nothing to display (normal – bug 13270)
• Paging on some datatables slightly broken (normal – bug 13744)
• Biblioitems.size value not correctly displayed (more) (minor – bug 13268)

Tools

• CSV export for viewlog.pl is missing newlines (normal – bug 11331)
• News does not always display in staff or OPAC (normal – bug 12507)

Web services

• OAI Server doesn’t handle properly resumption token (normal – bug 13568)

New system preferences in Koha 3.16.10

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/3.16.10/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 (100%)
• Czech (99%)
• Danish (86%)
• French (96%)
• German (100%)
• Italian (100%)
• Kurdish (68%)
• Polish (100%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Slovak (100%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (86%)
• Turkish (100%)
• Vietnamese (94%)

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 3.16.10 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
• Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

QA Team:

• Galen Charlton
• Jonathan Druart
• Brendan Gallagher
• Kyle Hall
• Julian Maurice
• Paul Poulain
• Martin Renvoize
• Marcel de Rooy
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Alex Sassmannshausen
  • Zeno Tajoli
• Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
• Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall
• Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Mason James
• Release Maintainer (3.18.x): Chris Cormack

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.16.10:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.10:

• Colin Campbell (1)
• Frédéric Demians (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Katrin Fischer (4)
• Mason James (4)
• Kyle M Hall (4)
• Martin Renvoize (2)
• Benjamin Rokseth (1)
• Fridolin Somers (4)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.10:

• BSZ BW (4)
• BibLibre (7)
• ByWater-Solutions (4)
• KohaAloha (4)
• Oslo Public Library (1)
• PTFS-Europe (3)
• Tamil (1)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.16.10:

• Brendan Gallagher (2)
• Chris Cormack (6)
• Christophe Brocquet (1)
• Heather Braum (1)
• John Andrews (1)
• Jonathan Druart (12)
• Katrin Fischer (9)
• Mason James (8)
• Nicole (3)
• Owen Leonard (4)
• Sheila Kearns (1)
• Kyle M Hall (3)
• Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (1)

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 3.16.x.

The last Koha release was 3.18.6, which was released on April 23, 2015.

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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