The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.17.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from
http://download.koha-community.org
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.17
24 Aug 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 3.8.17 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.17.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 3.8.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 0 features, 2 enhancements and 23 bugfixes.
New features in 3.8.17
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Enhancements in 3.8.17
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Acquisitions ----------
10514 Add item link on acquisitions add item is too small
Packaging
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10411 Add cache control headers to static resources in the apache config
Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.17
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Acquisitions
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10088 critical Software error when filling a basket with staged record
Authentication
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10384 major Software error when LDAP connexion fails
Circulation
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10490 major Overdue fines cap (amount) in circulation rules is saved incorrectly (rounded)
I18N/L10N
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10560 major No way to disable english
Other bugs fixed in 3.8.17
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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10556 normal Deliverytime is not inserted on adding a supplier
10535 minor By default sort funds by name
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10527 normal C4::Branch::get_branch_code_from_name is useless
Authentication
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10029 normal CAS authentication fails in OPAC reserve
Cataloging
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9113 normal Batch modification removes +
9533 normal Batch item modification should ignore defaults
9770 minor C4::ClassSortRoutine::Dewey can pad the wrong part of a call number internally
10448 minor Changing framework when cataloguing clears all fields
10428 trivial Undefined check in add additem.pl
Lists
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5894 normal Adding multiple items from a cart to a list shows only the first title
Notices
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10127 normal Printoverdues.sh should tar only pdf files
Serials
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10484 normal Serials-edit.pl not checking for barcode field before checking for barcode subfield
10563 normal Link to edit subscription from 'check expiraton' page is broken
Templates
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10497 normal Star ratings not showing right in ccsr detail
10422 minor Remove references to unused and non-existent wizard.css
9519 trivial Wrong language code for Italian in the advanced search language limitations
Test Suite
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10290 normal UT: VirtualShelves.t needs to create its own data
10386 normal UT: VirtualShelves.t needs some more adjustments
New sysprefs in 3.8.17
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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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The Koha manual is 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/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 (97%)
* Armenian (97%)
* Chinese (China) (63%)
* Danish (100%)
* English (New Zealand) (97%)
* French (97%)
* French (Canada) (74%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (96%)
* Greek (92%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (91%)
* Maori (67%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
* Portuguese (97%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
* 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 3.8.17 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Installation Documentation Managers:
Samuel Desseaux
Mason James
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team: Chris Cormack
Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart ,
Brendan Gallagher
Kyle Hall
Mason James
Paul Poulain
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
Live CD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi
Credits
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.17:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.17.
* 1 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 1 Chris Cormack
* 4 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Jason Etheridge
* 2 Katrin Fischer
* 1 Chris Hall
* 2 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Sonia LEMAIRE
* 3 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 5 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 2 Robin Sheat
* 1 Marc Veron
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.17
* 3 ACPL
* 2 BSZ BW
* 11 BibLibre
* 1 BigBallOfWax
* 2 ByWater-Solutions
* 2 Catalyst
* 3 Equinox
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 2 Rijksmuseum
* 2 unidentified
* 1 veron.ch
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.17.
* 27 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 30 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 12 Chris Cormack
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 2 Jason Etheridge
* 11 Katrin Fischer
* 28 Chris Hall
* 10 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 28 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 1 Liz Rea
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Paola Rossi
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Silvia Simonetti
* 2 Srdjan
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
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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 3.8.14, which was released on June 23, 2013.
Bugs and feature requests
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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)
