Koha 3.2.9 is now available

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Due to a security issue, it is necessary to announce the quick release of 3.2.9.

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz

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Release notes for 3.2.9 are below the fold.

Come and get it, quick!

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.9 - 16 May 2011
========================================================================

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 3.2.9 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz

Installation instructions can be found at:

    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING 3.2.x EOL
========================================================================
With the release of 3.4.0, the 3.2.x branch is nearing its EOL.
After 3.2.10 or 04/15/2011, a motion will be made at the August 2011
general IRC meeting to officially announce EOL for the 3.2.x branch.
Please keep this in mind when planning new deployments and upgrades to
existing systems.

Highlights of 3.2.9
======================

NOTE: This release is a security release. It is strongly recommended that users apply
this upgrade immediately to production systems. If you are installing a new system, please
use this version rather than earlier versions.

System Requirements
======================

    Changes since 3.0:

    * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8.
    * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies.
      Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of
      any new modules to install during upgrade.

Upgrades
======================

The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly
from 3.0.x.  In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different.
During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping
that contains a record of how budgets were mapped.  It is strongly
recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review
the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x.

Documentation
======================

As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook.  The
home page for Koha documentation is

    
Documentation


As of the date of these release notes, several translations of the
Koha manual are available:

English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/
Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/
French:  http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/

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:

  * Chinese
  * Danish
  * English (New Zealand)
  * English (USA)
  * French (France)
  * French (Canada)
  * German
  * Greek
  * Hindi
  * Italian
  * Norwegian
  * Portuguese
  * Spanish
  * Turkish

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

    http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html

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 3.2 is

Release Manager:        Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com>
Documentation Manager:  Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager:    Chris Cormack <chris@bigallofwax.co.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.0.x):
                        Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com>
Release Maintainer (3.2.x):
                        Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>

Credits
======================

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.9:

Alex Arnaud
Jared Camins-Esakov
Colin Campbell
Frédérick Capovilla
Galen Charlton
Tomas Cohen
Chris Cormack
Christophe Croullebois
Marcel de Rooy
Stéphane Delaune
Frédéric Demians
Ricardo Dias
Jonathan Druart
Frederic Durand
Nicole Engard
Magnus Enger
Katrin Fischer
Srdjan Jankovic
Koustubha Kale
koha-preprod@sys-tech.net
Henri-Damien Laurent
Owen Leonard
Matthias Meusburger
Sophie Meynieux
Chris Nighswonger
Paul Poulain
root@lists.nekls.org
Robin Sheat
Ian Walls

We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
please send patch against these release notes to
koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.

The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.6 Release Team and all
who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well
over 680 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes
possible the release of 3.2.9 on its announced schedule.

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 Koha 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix
releases) is 3.2.x.

The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0.

Bugs and feature requests
======================

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at

    http://bugs.koha-community.org/

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