Koha 3.8.12 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.12, this is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org
Please read below for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.12
23 Apr 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 3.8.12 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.12.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 3.8.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Major fixes in 3.8.12
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Acquisitions
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7018 critical need all acq permissions to search
Cataloging
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8860 critical can't merge if you don't have fast cataloging permissions
9908 major OCLC Connexion Desktop Client Doesn't Work
Circulation
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9953 major When OpacMaintenance breaks lifting debarment
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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8780 major Lower dependency version for DateTime::TimeZone
Notices
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8378 major <fine> syntax not working on overdues anymore
Searching
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9050 major rebuild_zebra should use the adelete action so it doesn't fail when deleting a record not in the index
9341 major Problem with UNIMARC authors facets
Tools
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9535 major Patron card creator "Remove duplicates" function doesn't work
Other bugs fixed in 3.8.12
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About
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9956 trivial Add missing translators to the about page
Acquisitions
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7875 trivial Pending suggestion link (the numbers) from staff client home directs to accepted suggestions instead of pending
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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7379 normal copynumber is displayed 'as is' when linked to autorised values
9609 trivial Rebuild zebra reports double numbers for exported records with -z option
Command-line Utilities
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9885 normal Passwords generated by command line scripts are weak
Hold requests
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9786 normal [3.8.X] Holds to pull showing items not available
I18N/L10N
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7938 normal The -v option to the translate script is not documented
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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8742 trivial Example uses perl 5.8 in Makefile.PL
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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9863 trivial 'import' button in web installer should read 'Import'
MARC Bibliographic data support
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9274 normal Software error in bibtex export
OPAC
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9502 minor [3.8.X] famfamfam: wrongly placed in package 3.8.8/9
Packaging
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8816 normal add WARNING to debian/control file, to not manually edit
9802 minor Add test case to verify package man pages are well formatted
Patrons
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9002 normal Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form
Searching
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9419 minor The highlight feature can cause a browser freeze
Self checkout
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9748 minor noitemlinks not being enforced
Serials
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9947 minor Creating item for received serial prefills enumchron subfield
SIP2
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9838 trivial SIP tests : fix in 04patron_status.t
Staff Client
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9726 minor XISBN service throttle not initialized
Templates
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9945 normal Pretty icon display in authorised values configuration
5648 minor icons clumping together
8737 minor Incorrect icon at login in staff client
9571 minor Fix width for textareas in Edit Item screen
9781 minor [3.6.X/3.8.x] Fix dynarch calendar positioning in IE
Tools
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8861 minor Undefined variables in batchMod.pl trigger error logs
9954 minor CSV profile encoding not selected on editing
translate.koha-community.org
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8942 normal Translation process breaks javascript in calendar.inc
Enhancements in 3.8.12
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New sysprefs in 3.8.12
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* UNIMARCAuthorsFacetsSeparator
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/3.8.12/en/
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary
Translations
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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 (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
* Danish (74%)
* English (New Zealand) (99%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (76%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (95%)
* Italian (99%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* 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
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The release team for Koha 3.8.12 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 3.8.12:
* KEEP SOLUTIONS
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12.
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 3 David Cook
* 8 Chris Cormack
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Vitor FERNANDES
* 2 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Peter Crellan Kelly
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 1 Chris Nighswonger
* 4 Dobrica Pavlinusic
* 1 Karam Qubsi
* 1 Thatcher Rea
* 1 Marcel de Rooy
* 9 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 2 Adrien Saurat
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 1 Will Stokes
* 4 Mark Tompsett
* 1 Aaron Wells
* 1 Jen Zajac
* 1 “ByWater
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12
* 1 ACPL
* 13 Biblibre
* 6 BigBallOfWax
* 3 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 8 Catalyst
* 1 Foundations
* 3 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Rijksmuseum
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 bywatersolutions.com”
* 1 keep.pt
* 4 rot13.org
* 6 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.12.
* 4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 29 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 45 Chris Cormack
* 10 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Frédéric Durand
* 3 Magnus Enger
* 13 Katrin Fischer
* 8 Kyle M Hall
* 4 Mason James
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 10 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Chris Nighswonger
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 1 MJ Ray
* 1 Liz Rea
* 4 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 1 wajasu
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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