Koha 3.14.2 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.2.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
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 3.14.2
23 janv. 2014
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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
http://koha-community.org/
Koha 3.14.2 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.02.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 3.14.2 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 8 enhancements and 37 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.14.2
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Acquisitions
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10983 Unused subroutines in C4:Budgets
Cataloging
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10970 Update MARC21 frameworks to Update Nr. 17 - DB update
MARC Authority data support
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8334 Authority UNIMARC 100 field plugin
MARC Bibliographic data support
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11032 Validate passed records in Biblio.pm
Packaging
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11284 Package related updates for the new release
Patrons
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10834 Add Sort 1 and Sort 2 to list of searchable patron fields
Searching
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9940 Add a new index for original language of document
Serials
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10852 Add 3 filters to the serials search
Critical bugs fixed in 3.14.2
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Acquisitions
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9948 critical Acq data going on first item even if not received
Cataloging
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8018 major New subfields have a default max length of zero
11338 major Items that are captured for holds can be deleted without warning
11410 major Cataloging search finds no results for searches with ampersands
OPAC
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10605 major Problems with translated cart email sent
11535 major Patron self-registration form does not sanitize its input
Patrons
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11282 blocker Not possible to create multiple restrictions from patron details/new restriction overwrites existing
10453 critical Updating child to adult loses password
11009 major Do not allow reading records of anonymous patron
Tools
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11414 critical Marc modification template limitations should alert the user
11412 major Bulkmarcimport can crash when searching for duplicates
Other bugs fixed in 3.14.2
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Acquisitions
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8683 normal Acq: Clear button doesn't clear all item fields
9224 normal Acqui/finishreceive.pl is not Plack-compatible
11166 normal Branch filter in budgets admin uses pattern match instead of equals
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10626 normal Remove doubled up TT plugins
11112 normal Koha::Calendar->new loads all holidays
11391 normal Suggestions.suggesteddate has a problematic default value
11384 minor Koha should not use "ctid" as a column name
Cataloging
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10808 minor Thesaurus search form does not correspond to current search query
Database
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11155 normal PostgreSQL schema contains syntax errors
6331 minor Obsolete marc column in deleteditems
Documentation
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11383 minor There is no help page for the marc modification templates tool
I18N/L10N
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11225 normal \n in translation strings should be removed
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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11261 normal Sample frequencies and numbering patterns should better be mandatory on install
MARC Authority data support
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10905 minor Author tracings incorrect when UseAuthoritiesForTracings is turned on
MARC Bibliographic data support
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11004 normal Make xmlControlfield.js use the marcflavour syspref to look for XML files
OPAC
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10781 minor Remove C4::ILSDI::Utility
10797 minor Move styling from element to CSS file for search input field in OPAC
11174 trivial Wrong parameter 'valuec' in opac-authoritiessearchresultlist
Packaging
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10735 normal Koha-dump not working
Searching
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10688 normal QueryParser doesn't recognize QP queries when used in a fielded search box
11252 normal Rebuild_zebra.pl should not have --munge-config
11255 normal Sort by relevance asc generates a wrong query
Templates
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10661 normal Mandatory item fields should be formatted the same on all forms
Test Suite
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11124 normal The staff benchmark script does not work with sql administrator account
11439 normal UT: XISBN.t returns failure
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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11419 minor Z39.50 searches not displaying errors
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
http://koha-community.org/documentation/
As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.14/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 (83%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (91%)
* English (New Zealand) (84%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (89%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (53%)
* Italian (96%)
* Kurdish (72%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Polish (60%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (99%)
* Swedish (89%)
* 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 3.14.2 is
Release Manager: Galen Charlton
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
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.14.2:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.2.
* 2 Jacek Ablewicz
* 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Pablo Bianchi
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 3 Colin Campbell
* 24 Galen Charlton
* 19 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole Engard
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 1 Vitor FERNANDES
* 3 Katrin Fischer
* 9 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Srdjan Jankovic
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 1 Matthias Meusburger
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 13 Fridolin SOMERS
* 7 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 2 Robin Sheat
* 1 Zeno Tajoli
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.2
* 1 ACPL
* 3 BSZ BW
* 40 BibLibre
* 10 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 3 Catalyst
* 24 Equinox
* 1 Libriotech
* 3 PTFS-Europe
* 2 Rijksmuseum
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 2 biblos.pk.edu.pl
* 1 cineca.it
* 1 keep.pt
* 5 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.14.2.
* 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Nora Blake
* 1 Christopher Brannon
* 1 Heather Braum
* 95 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 19 Chris Cormack
* 1 Stephane Delaye
* 20 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 1 Suzanne Fayle
* 24 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Brendan Gallagher
* 25 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 1 David Noe
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 7 Marcel de Rooy
* 2 Paola Rossi
* 89 Fridolin SOMERS
* 4 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Fridolin Somers
* 1 Mark Tompsett
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 3.14.x.
The last Koha release was 3.14.1, which was released on December 23, 2013.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
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)
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 janv. 2014 17:37:37 Z #####
A great tanks to all contributors.