Koha 3.16.13 released

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The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of Koha
3.16.13. This release contains 1 enhancements and 43 bugfixes

All 3.16.x users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this
version. Please install from the tarball from http://www.koha-community.org/download-koha

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.16.13

30 Jul 2015

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 and Koha 3.16.13 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.16.13.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 3.16.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements and 43 bugfixes.

Table of contents

New features in Koha 3.16.13

Enhancements in Koha 3.16.13

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • Remove Smithsonian as a delivered z39.50 target (bug 4925)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.13

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • Raise required version of URI::Escape to 3.31 (major – bug 8686)
  • Security updates break some Koha plugins (major – bug 14467)

Circulation

  • New renew page in staff client doesn’t record branch in statistics (major – bug 12066)

MARC Authority data support

  • Kohaidx is missing for id in authority-koha-indexdefs.xml (major – bug 14453)

OPAC

  • Result list RSS feed broken (major – bug 14524)

Searching

  • Books entered in malayalam language cannot to search (critical – bug 10866)

Staff Client

  • SQL Injection in Staff Client (critical – bug 14426)
  • Get_template_and_user can not have an empty template_name (major – bug 14440)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.13

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • Encoding broken in the syspref template plugin (normal – bug 12411)
  • C4::Charset should not depend on C4::Context (minor – bug 11790)

Cataloging

  • Keep highlight on the active item in item editor (minor – bug 14276)

Command-line Utilities

  • Koha-translate error string for non-existent lang removal (trivial – bug 14203)

I18N/L10N

  • JQuery Timepicker is not translated on returns page (minor – bug 13427)
  • HTML comment disables translation in cataloguing/addbooks.tt (minor – bug 14485)

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • Typographical error in updatedatabase.pl (minor – bug 14422)

Label/patron card printing

  • Units doesn’t get saved usefully for patroncards (minor – bug 14366)

OPAC

  • Paging on ‘recent comments’ page in OPAC is not displaying correctly (normal – bug 14173)
  • Noisy warns in C4/CourseReserves.pm (minor – bug 14184)
  • Noisy warns in opac-readingrecord.pl (minor – bug 14185)
  • Noisy warns in opac-reserve.pl (minor – bug 14186)
  • Improving opac-detail.pl performances (minor – bug 14496)

Patrons

  • “Add Child” button missing on moremember.pl (normal – bug 14324)
  • Unable to delete patron images (normal – bug 14338)
  • Patron modification error shows borrowernumber (minor – bug 11929)

Reports

  • Column.def should be updated with descriptions for new columns (normal – bug 14130)

Searching

  • QueryParser fails tests (normal – bug 12647)
  • Zebra index configuration doesn’t allow exact search for ‘C.’ (normal – bug 14401)

Staff Client

  • Small error in example in SMS.pm (trivial – bug 14421)

System Administration

  • Library group records – category type reverts to “searchdomain” when editing group record (normal – bug 8802)
  • Editing a syspref in a textarea does not enable the Save button (normal – bug 14389)
  • Change the ‘delimiter’ syspref description to say it applies to more than just Reports (minor – bug 14215)

Templates

  • Replace trim() with $.trim() in opac-shareshelf.tt (normal – bug 14266)
  • Change order status ‘Pending’ to ordered like in database (minor – bug 13946)
  • Local Use syspref addition form missing variable type ‘Free’ (minor – bug 14135)
  • Remove CGI::scrolling_list from guided_reports.pl (minor – bug 14275)
  • XSLT Syntax error in MARC21slimOPACResults.xsl (minor – bug 14326)
  • Rotating collections and calendar are circ tools (trivial – bug 13874)
  • Useless copy/paste from Template::Plugin::HtmlToText (trivial – bug 14329)
  • Improvements to the ‘Transfers to receive’ page (branchname, mailto link) (trivial – bug 14356)

Test Suite

  • Silence warnings t/Charset.t (minor – bug 14112)
  • Fix failing t/Creators.t test (minor – bug 14602)

Tools

  • Inventory has bad $_ references (normal – bug 14001)
  • Second click on modification log misses object parameter (minor – bug 10355)

New system preferences in Koha 3.16.13

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

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 at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.16.13/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:

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (99%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Czech (99%)
  • Danish (86%)
  • French (96%)
  • German (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Kurdish (67%)
  • Polish (99%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Slovak (100%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (86%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (94%)

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

The most up-to-date translations can be found at http://translate.koha-community.org

Release Team

The release team for Koha 3.16.13 is

  • Release Manager: Galen Charlton
  • Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
  • Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
  • QA Team:
    • Ruth Bavousett
    • Chris Cormack
    • Marcel de Rooy ,
    • Jonathan Druart ,
    • Brendan Gallagher
    • Kyle Hall
    • Paul Poulain
    • Martin Renvoize
  • Bug Wranglers:
    • Chris Cormack
    • Magnus Enger
  • Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
  • Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Kyle Hall
  • Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  • Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
  • Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Mason James

      • Credits

      We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.16.13:

      • Universidad de El Salvador
      • Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

      We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.13:

      • Aleisha (3)
      • Barton Chittenden (1)
      • Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
      • David Cook (3)
      • Indranil Das Gupta (3)
      • Marcel de Rooy (2)
      • Jonathan Druart (10)
      • Julian FIOL (1)
      • Katrin Fischer (8)
      • Eivin Giske Skaaren (1)
      • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (3)
      • Mason James (2)
      • Kyle M Hall (3)
      • Liz Rea (1)
      • Winona Salesky (1)
      • Fridolin Somers (6)
      • Mirko Tietgen (1)
      • Mark Tompsett (4)
      • Marc Véron (1)

      We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.13:

      • BSZ BW (8)
      • BibLibre (12)
      • ByWater-Solutions (4)
      • Catalyst (1)
      • KohaAloha (2)
      • Prosentient Systems (3)
      • Rijksmuseum (2)
      • abunchofthings.net (1)
      • bugs.koha-community.org (1)
      • koha-community.org (4)
      • l2c2.co.in (1)
      • unidentified (14)
      • veron.ch (1)
      • yahoo.no (1)

      We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.16.13:

      • Aleisha (1)
      • Amit Gupta (1)
      • Cédric Vita (1)
      • Chris Cormack (8)
      • Jesse Weaver (1)
      • Jonathan Druart (26)
      • Josef Moravec (1)
      • Katrin Fischer (13)
      • Liz (1)
      • Liz Rea (3)
      • Marc Veron (1)
      • Marc Véron (3)
      • Mark Tompsett (7)
      • Mason James (46)
      • Mirko Tietgen (1)
      • Nick Clemens (5)
      • Paola Rossi (1)
      • Tomas Cohen Arazi (13)
      • Hector Eduardo Castro Avalos (1)
      • Indranil Das Gupta (1)
      • Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (11)
      • Kyle M Hall (10)
      • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (6)
      • Marcel de Rooy (2)
      • Jason Robb – SEKLS (jrobb@sekls.org) (1)

      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

      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 3.16.13.

      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)

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