Koha 3.8.9 released
The Koha release team is proud to announce the latest maintenance release of the 3.8.x Koha series.
As always you can download the release at download.koha-community.org or wait for a few days for the debian packages to be updated.
Please read more for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.9
22 Jan 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 3.8.9 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.09.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 3.8.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.9
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Acquisitions
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9126 critical Receiving orders create too much items
Tools
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9065 major Upload local cover image permission implementation error
Bugs fixed in 3.8.9
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9292 minor Remove dead code related to 'publictype'
I18N/L10N
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6574 normal js error in en-GB template breaks circulation toolbar
9140 normal Untranslatable strings in item circulation history
9141 normal Untranslatable strings on "pay an amount..." page
Notices
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8299 normal overdue_notice.pl shows warning messages
OPAC
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9102 normal [SECURITY] We should set httponly on our session cookie
9158 minor Correcting whitespace around display of series 440 marc fields
9309 minor "OPACurlOpenInNewWindow" isn't respected for 856$u links shown in OPAC when not using XSLT
Reports
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9182 trivial Saved reports list : wrong sortable columns
Searching
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8984 normal Zebra does not index some fields in UNIMARC biblio records
Staff Client
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9335 minor Message Log Popups don't disappear?
Templates
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9284 normal JavaScript should conform to coding guidelines recommended by JSHint
9278 minor Remove unused OPAC CSS file sanop.css
Test Suite
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8924 minor Some modules erroneously skipped by 00-load
Tools
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8977 normal printoverdues.sh call an uninitialized variable
Enhancements in 3.8.9
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OPAC
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8712 We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug
Templates
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9169 Wrap relator code in <span> to allow for CSS customization
New sysprefs in 3.8.9
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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/3.8.9/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 (99%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Basque (75%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
* Danish (74%)
* English (New Zealand) (99%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (76%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (69%)
* 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
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The release team for Koha 3.8.9 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
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.9:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9.
* 2 D Ruth Bavousett
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 3 Chris Cormack
* 1 Stéphane Delaune
* 1 Srikanth Dhondi
* 1 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Chris Hall
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 5 Owen Leonard
* 1 Julian Maurice
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Adrien Saurat
* 1 Robin Sheat
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9
* 5 ACPL
* 5 Biblibre
* 1 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 7 Catalyst
* 1 KohaAloha
* 1 PTFS-Europe
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 2 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.9.
* 21 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 23 Chris Cormack
* 2 Elliott Davis
* 13 Jonathan Druart
* 4 Katrin Fischer
* 9 Kyle M Hall
* 4 Owen Leonard
* 4 Paul Poulain
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Zeno Tajoli
* 1 Marc Veron
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
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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 3.6.11, 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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