Koha 3.8.11 released
The Koha release team, in association with the multitude of Koha libraries, librarians, support companies, developers and users, are proud to announce the release of the latest stable release of the 3.8.x branch, 3.8.11.
This maintenance release contains code from 12 people from 9 different organisations, making it once again a great example of international and inter company collaboration. Making the official and community supported Koha live up to its’ promise of no single vendor lock in.
As always you can download the tarball at download.koha-community.org, or wait for a day or 2 until the packages at debian.koha-community.org are updated.
Please read below for the release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.11
22 Mar 2013
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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 3.8.11 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.11.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 3.8.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Major fixes of 3.8.11
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Acquisitions
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4266 major encumbrance and expenditure not used in code
Cataloging
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7253 major fast cataloging not always checking out
Searching
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8620 critical Barcode searching not working correctly
Bugs fixed in 3.8.11
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Cataloging
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9377 normal itemtype in duplicate biblio search
9207 minor Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records
Circulation
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8054 normal can hit submit twice when paying fines
8682 normal quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips
Documentation
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9267 normal Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken
MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
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5333 normal Undefined value stops import from z39.50
OPAC
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9585 minor Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail
Packaging
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9784 minor koha-shell missing from koha-common man page
Staff Client
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9663 normal Individual bibliographic record "Save" option requires export permission
9658 trivial Breadcrumb wrong on reports dictionary
System Administration
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7596 normal System preferences editor JavaScript contains untranslatable English string
Templates
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9695 normal Use alphabet system preference on page used to browse patrons for patron card batches
9385 minor patron add labels right aligned in chrome
9545 minor Fix Import Marc Bibliographic Framework Text Label
9586 minor Remove $ENV{DEBUG} info from Member Template
9651 minor When deleting a fund, button is wrongly labelled with 'Delete this budget'
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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9520 minor Update default LOC Z39.50 target
Enhancements in 3.8.11
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Templates
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9650 Show message if there are no notices
9765 Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc
New sysprefs in 3.8.11
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System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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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, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8.11/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 (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
* Danish (74%)
* English (New Zealand) (99%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (76%)
* German (99%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (74%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* 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 3.8.11 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com>
QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Mason James <mason@kohaaloha.com>
Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.11:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11.
* 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 D Ruth Bavousett
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 David Cook
* 3 Chris Cormack
* 1 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 7 Owen Leonard
* 3 Liz Rea
* 3 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11
* 7 ACPL
* 4 Biblibre
* 2 BigBallOfWax
* 1 ByWater-Solutions
* 2 C & P Bibliography
* 4 Catalyst
* 2 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 5 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.11.
* 24 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 3 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 26 Chris Cormack
* 2 Elliott Davis
* 14 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Jonathan Druarth
* 2 Nicole C. Engard
* 4 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 3 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 2 koha.aixmarseille
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.8.x.
The last Koha release was 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 2012.
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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