Koha 3.14.5 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.5.
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 3.14.5
26 mars 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
Home
Koha 3.14.5 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.05.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 3.14.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 14 bugfixes.
Critical bugs fixed in 3.14.5
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Notices
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9210 major Automatic carriage return are missing in print letters generated for holds
Patrons
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11352 critical Batch Patron Deletion/Anonmyzation deletes more than warning states it will delete
Other bugs fixed in 3.14.5
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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11018 normal Add order from a reverted file
Hold requests
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9788 minor Improvements for calling GetReservesFromItemnumber
I18N/L10N
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11505 normal Untranslatable table headers in Label batch manager
OPAC
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11381 minor IDreamBooks too close to title on bootstrap
11476 minor Opac self registration title pull down offers 2 empty options
11522 minor Self registration formatting
11329 trivial Check for marc record in opac-showmarc
Packaging
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11509 trivial Koha-create should print better usage information
Templates
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11503 normal Several typos
11502 minor Branch filter in "Holds To Pull" is too fuzzy
Transaction logs
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11473 normal View log template has malformed conditionals, and logging info incorrect/inconsistent/unexpected
New sysprefs in 3.14.5
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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/3.14/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 (82%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (98%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (90%)
* English (New Zealand) (84%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (89%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (98%)
* Greek (52%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (72%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
* Polish (65%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (91%)
* 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 3.14.5 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
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.14.5:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.5.
* 1 Jacek Ablewicz
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 3 Galen Charlton
* 5 David Cook
* 1 Chris Cormack
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 5 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Francesca Moore
* 6 Marcel de Rooy
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.5
* 5 ACPL
* 3 BibLibre
* 1 BigBallOfWax
* 3 Equinox
* 5 Prosentient Systems
* 6 Rijksmuseum
* 1 biblos.pk.edu.pl
* 2 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.14.5.
* 1 Pierre Angot
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 26 Galen Charlton
* 8 Chris Cormack
* 15 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 5 Katrin Fischer
* 8 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 25 Fridolin Somers
* 2 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 3.8.21, which was released on January 2, 2014.
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)
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 26 mars 2014 10:29:54 Z #####
A great thanks to all contributors.