Koha 3.8.3 Released
The Koha community is proud to release Koha version 3.8.3. This is a
bugfix release, and contains a number of important fixes
You can obtain Koha 3.8.3 from the http://download.koha-
site. Debian packages will be available from the
http://debian.koha-community.
Please read the release notes by clicking on more
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.3
20 Jul 2012
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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
Koha 3.8.3 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.03.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 3.8.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.3
======================
5981 blocker OPAC: Add limits to search history
7619 blocker 3M self checkout don’t work in France
8154 blocker The export today’s checked in barcodes generated file is always empty
8267 blocker Overdue notices not working
5644 critical dropbox mode doesn’t set the correct date
7818 critical support DOM mode for Zebra indexing of bibliographic records
8289 critical Upgrading from 2.2 does not work anymore
5327 major Unit tests required for all C4 modules
7848 major Issues data missing from circulation notices
8229 major Tabs in marc subfield structure is not shown correctly
8315 major fix ‘C4::Output 3.02’ errors in Koha
8356 major moveitem.tt and linkitem.tt have cataloging typo
8384 major Some Perl scripts do not compile
Bugs fixed in 3.8.3
======================
3280 normal opac/opac-sendbasket.pl security leaky
6394 normal purchase order has french hard coded in
6634 normal manager_id not populated when paying fines
6720 normal Saved authorities always show as ‘Default’
6939 normal DefaultClassificationSource not used in 942$2
7299 normal ILSDI HoldItem service does’t set the itemnumber in reserves table
8043 normal today’s checkouts are in Previous checkouts in circulation.pl
8152 normal Clicking cancel on edit suggestion redirect to the suggestion detail
8224 normal aqplan.pl and aqbudgets: authorized values doesn’t appear in planning list
8255 normal Local cover images should be cacheable
8282 normal Bug in modules list in about.pl
8311 normal Mis-scoped function call in C4::Auth
8375 normal Common diacritics not shown correctly when exporting batch label to PDF
8383 normal Need test to check that Perl files will compile
8386 normal Error in duplicate detection message for authorities
8398 normal Missing image file in staff global css
6855 minor bullet point showing in wrong place on error message
7630 minor Warning on moremember.pl about param without key
7642 minor The number that appears when hovering over a tag in the tag cloud isn’t the number of items with that tag
8006 minor Loading offline circulation does not anonymize
8191 minor New value for 8 position in coded data field 100 in unimarc
8194 minor Layout problem on subscription add when showing manual history
8217 minor Focus on search box in Detail page (staff search)
8232 minor Comments in OPAC contain untranslatable javascript messages
8235 minor Packaging scripts get upset with non-Debian perl modules
8242 minor Permission for “change password” button in members toolbar should be “borrowers” instead of “staffaccess”
8272 minor OPAC : date expiration format
8288 minor showmarc.tt should not include full doc-head-close.inc
8314 minor Missing MARCISBNS param in opac-detail.pl
8335 minor Missing Icon PR.png or typo in MARC21slim2OPACDetail.xsl
6350 trivial Bug for tracking updates to the history file
7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
7367 trivial General OPAC typo omnibus
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus
7994 trivial Syntax error in yaml (syspref) files
8313 trivial add ASHS to ‘Koha team’ page, for sponsorship of the ‘star-ratings’ feature
8323 trivial User created lists not sorting properly
7286 enhancement Introduce rebuild_zebra_sliced.zsh to recursively rebuild zebra & be error proof
8216 enhancement Enable critic tests on SIP modules
8223 enhancement Properly format SQL query in C4::Bookseller::GetBookSeller
System requirements
======================
Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
======================
As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The
home page for Koha documentation is
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
======================
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
* Arabic (100%)
* Armenian (80%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Danish (75%)
* English (New Zealand) (78%)
* English (USA)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (67%)
* German (100%)
* Greek (69%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (68%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
* Spanish (87%)
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 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians
QA Manager: Ian Walls
QA team: Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart
Mason James
Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack
Credits
======================
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.3.
3 Alex Arnaud
6 Jared Camins-Esakov
3 Colin Campbell
10 Galen Charlton
1 David Cook
11 Chris Cormack
2 Frédéric Demians
3 Jonathan Druart
2 Katrin Fischer
1 Chris Hall
5 Kyle M Hall
2 Claire Hernandez
2 Mason James
5 Owen Leonard
1 Frère Sébastien Marie
1 Julian Maurice
2 Matthias Meusburger
1 Sophie Meynieux
1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
1 Maxime Pelletier
4 Paul Poulain
3 Marcel de Rooy
2 Robin Sheat
1 Lyon3 Team
1 Mirko Tietgen
2 Mark Tompsett
1 Duncan Tyler
2 Marc Veron
1 Stacey Walker
1 wajasu
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.3.
1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
17 Jared Camins-Esakov
10 Galen Charlton
82 Chris Cormack
1 Frédéric Demians
1 Jonathan Druart
3 Nicole C. Engard
10 Katrin Fischer
4 Kyle M Hall
1 Mason James
2 Owen Leonard
1 Julian Maurice
1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
62 Paul Poulain
1 Liz Rea
2 Martin Renvoize
3 Marcel de Rooy
1 Robin Sheat
1 Delaye Stephane
5 Marc Veron
2 Stacey Walker
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 3.8.2, which was released on June 22, 2012.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini
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