Koha 3.20.3 released

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The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of Koha 3.20.3. This is a maintenance release but contains 1 security fix also. All Koha 3.20.x users are recommended to upgrade. As always you can download at download.koha-community.org, or wait for a few hours for the packages to be available.

Please continue reading for the full release notes

Release notes for Koha 3.20.3

23 Aug 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 3.20.3 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.20.03.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 3.20.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release and contains one security fix.

Table of contents

Security fixes in Koha 3.20.3

  • patronimage.pl permissions issue (critical – bug 14566)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.20.3

Acquisitions

  • Duplicate check for creating items on order broken (major – bug 8684)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • Error in GetMarcBiblio can cause severe data loss (critical – bug 10961)

Cataloging

  • Cataloguing plugins for generating inventory numbers are broken (major – bug 14660)

Lists

  • Private lists browsing broken in translated staff interface (major – bug 14517)

Searching

  • EmbedSeeFromHeadings record filter shouldn’t process MARC holding fields (major – bug 14456)

SIP2

  • SIP2 terminal authentication via telnet transport broken (critical – bug 14644)

Tools

  • Export data bad encoding (major – bug 14592)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.20.3

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • Terribly slow checkout caused by DateTime->new in far future (normal – bug 14494)

Cataloging

  • Merge reference selection has no effect when merging authorities. (normal – bug 14387)

Circulation

  • Offline circ permission issue (normal – bug 13663)
  • Stop overdue_notices.pl from issuing the warning: Use of uninitialized value $borrowernumber (minor – bug 14534)
  • Warns from returns.pl during checkin (trivial – bug 14487)

Documentation

  • Typo in help file for 3.20 (stage-marc-import.tt) (trivial – bug 14545)
  • Typo in help file for 3.20 (basket.tt) (trivial – bug 14547)
  • Typo in help file for 3.20 (batch_record_modification.tt) (trivial – bug 14548)

OPAC

  • Default emailing preferences not loaded for self registering patron (normal – bug 11693)

Patrons

  • Typo for borrowers (trivial – bug 14569)

Self checkout

  • Checkouts default sort order for Self Checkout (SCO) confusing for patrons (normal – bug 14404)

Tools

  • Noisy warns in Notices (letter.tt) module (minor – bug 14445)

New system preferences in Koha 3.20.3

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/3.20.3/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 (99%)
  • Chinese (China) (87%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (98%)
  • Danish (83%)
  • English (New Zealand) (97%)
  • French (95%)
  • French (Canada) (90%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Italian (99%)
  • Kurdish (60%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (61%)
  • Polish (97%)
  • Portuguese (98%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (85%)
  • Slovak (97%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (90%)
  • Turkish (97%)
  • Vietnamese (85%)

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 3.20.3 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.20.3:

  • Universidad de El Salvador

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.3:

  • mxbeaulieu (1)
  • Aleisha (2)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (1)
  • Alex Arnaud (1)
  • Hector Castro (3)
  • Galen Charlton (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Chris Cormack (1)
  • Indranil Das Gupta (2)
  • Stéphane Delaune (1)
  • Frédéric Demians (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
  • Ulrich Kleiber (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.3:

  • BSZ BW (3)
  • BibLibre (4)
  • ByWater-Solutions (2)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Equinox (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (4)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Tamil (1)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
  • biblos.pk.edu.pl (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (3)
  • koha-community.org (3)
  • unidentified (8)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.20.3:

  • Aleisha (2)
  • Amit Gupta (2)
  • Chris Cormack (34)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Galen Charlton (1)
  • Hector Castro (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (17)
  • Josef Moravec (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (8)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (34)
  • Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (3)
  • Kyle M Hall (11)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)

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 3.20.x.

The last Koha release was 3.16.9, which was released on March 29, 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)