Koha 3.12.6 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.6.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
Disclaimer: I apologize for the delay and the amount of patches that remain to be included in the stable release. Preparing for attending KohaCon13 left me with no time to review the patches. Hopefully next release will include all the delayed patches.
As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org
Please read more for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.6
28 Oct 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 3.12.6 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.06.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 3.12.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 enhancements and 11 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.6
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Packaging
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8507 Koha-create should be updated to use DOM indexing for bib
Templates
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10349 Don't show empty Descriptions/Title notes tabs in OPAC and staff
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.6
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Hold requests
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10272 critical CheckReserves returns not respecting ReservesControlBranch
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.6
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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8705 normal Software error on help of main page
MARC Bibliographic data support
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10324 trivial Editorial series do not display correctly in normal view (UNIMARC / no XSLT)
OPAC
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10672 normal Add subtitle to display of checkouts, overdues, and holds on the patron summary
Packaging
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10802 normal History.txt missing in packages
Templates
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10218 minor Add individual CSS classes for bibliographic information on OPAC results and detail pages (UNIMARC)
10721 minor Improve DataTables configuration on transfers to receive report
10793 minor XSLT change 780/785 search queries to use ti,phr indexes like other linking entries
10609 trivial Use branch name rather than branch code in serials-collection.pl
Test Suite
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10333 normal UT: Labels/t_Batch.t needs to create its own data
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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10742 minor Simple search to z39.50 search keeps index
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/3.12/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 (89%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (100%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (92%)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (97%)
* German (99%)
* German (Switzerland) (98%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (78%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Polish (63%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (92%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (98%)
* 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 3.12.6 is
Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov
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: Vimal Kumar V.
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 3.12.6:
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.6.
* 4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 1 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Janusz Kaczmarek
* 3 Owen Leonard
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Mirko Tietgen
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.6
* 3 ACPL
* 2 BibLibre
* 2 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 Equinox
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 abunchofthings.net
* 5 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.6.
* 16 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 13 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 6 Chris Cormack
* 9 Katrin Fischer
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Srdjan
* 2 Mirko Tietgen
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 3.12.x.
The last Koha release was 3.8.17, which was released on August 24, 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)