Koha 3.6.5 released

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The Koha release team is happy to announce the release of Koha 3.6.5

This is a stable release and contains bugfixes as well as updated translations.

You can download it at

http://download.koha-community.org/

Go forth, download, and enjoy 🙂

Release notes are below the fold
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.5
24 May 2012
========================================================================

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


Koha 3.6.5 can be downloaded from:


Installation instructions can be found at:


    OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 3.6.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.6.5
======================
3916    critical    Batch Modify tool overwrites dropdown fields – no option for “no change”
6488    critical    opachiddenitems not working in master
7485    critical    Cannot edit barcode on Fast Add
7513    critical    MARC Import Hangs
7597    critical    fines not recording the right info in the stats table
7631    critical    Self checkout renewal fails because of reference to non-existent subroutine in sco-main.pl
7893    critical    Missing build-dependency on libdatetime-format-dateparse-perl and libreadonly-perl
7924    critical    Fix handling of command line arguments in koha-remove
7231    major       ordering from staged file not using price
7272    major       Fix for Bug 6328 causes user accounts to be frozen (SIP2)
7284    major       Authority matching algorithm improvements
7454    major       Sip renewal all response returns incorrect info
7482    major       overdues report downloads without names
7581    major       Holds not working in OPAC in singlebranchmode
7636    major       error when trying to email cart when opacuserlogin set to don’t allow
7838    major       Add sort-string-utf.chr for Ukrainian and Russian
Bugs fixed in 3.6.5
======================
1662    normal      Is there a difference between Full and Simplified for Serials History
3216    normal      UNIMARC author facets
4976    normal      Status of item returned with process_koc.pl is empty in Intranet
5180    normal      Autocomplete broken on overdues report
5373    normal      fields listed on patron import do not match the csv file
5482    normal      Translation problem in guided reports – Item field names
5657    normal      biblio records update fails when updating multiple authorities linked with the same biblio
5749    normal      The display of borrower adresses composed of streetnumber, streettype and address is broken
5841    normal      Routing slip not displaying publication date
6125    normal      Plugin for date acquired does not work on ACQ framework
6434    normal      Many changes for Ukrainian and Russian sql-tables
6701    normal      language on timeout system preference is wrong
7092    normal      Complete-subfield searches TraceCompleteSubfields syspref not working correctly
7271    normal      Revert getitems default sort to homebranch instead of holding branch
7445    normal      Clicking on a tag gives “Language … does not exist”
7493    normal      Deleting a record with comments breaks
7537    normal      Implement TraceCompleteSubfields, TraceSubjectSubdivisions and UseICU for NORMARC XSLT
7558    normal      Serial issue note doubled up in full history
7579    normal      Icons for authorized values/item types not showing in OPAC
7590    normal      Cataloging authorities search result page is broken
7609    normal      Improving links to find analytics and volumes when using UseControlnumber
7644    normal      Invalid markup in staff client language chooser
7645    normal      System preferences editor save button obscured by language chooser
7656    normal      “undefined” pop-up message when putting hold on reference item
7665    normal      Bibs with no ISBN’s show broken images for covers when using Syndetics cover images.
7695    normal      Boolean operator AND in XSLT gets translated
7699    normal      Restricted until datepicker broken
7724    normal      Tests requiring Zebra should be skipped if Zebra isn’t set up
7727    normal      NORMARC XSLT OPAC detail view shows double tabs
7749    normal      Not all OKs on the start page are translatable
7766    normal      C4/Auth.pm emits debug output to STDOUT
7780    normal      fix translator tool verbosity
7824    normal      [3.6 only] Typo in opac-userupdate.tt causes the first name to not show in the header
7837    normal      nb-NO z3950servers.sql misses column names
7858    normal      Missing packages from install_misc/ubuntu.packages
7885    normal      Change filename of TransferLog suggested by packages to fit with logrotate
7886    normal      C4/ShelfBrowser slow SQL performance
7940    normal      Placing a hold on a single item from the staff cart causes errors
8020    normal      Prepare debian packages for 3.8 release
4819    enhancement Add ID attribute to certain areas of OPAC so jquery can be used to hide them
7140    enhancement Add item type description on the catalogue search and detail screens
7143    enhancement Bug for tracking changes to the about page
7436    enhancement Set itemtypes.rentalcharge = 0 in sample data for nb-NO and de-DE
7617    enhancement Authority search results should optionally be sorted by system order
7700    enhancement Cart’s more details view shows identity numbers
7734    enhancement NO_LIBRARY_SET should be translatable
7738    enhancement “Display more constraints” in subfield configuraton is not properly translatable
7746    enhancement In staff ‘No public lists.’ is not translatable
7758    enhancement Koha allowing LOST items to check out without alert
7760    enhancement Add ids and classes to every staff page to help with customizaton
7761    enhancement cleaning up empty declarations from staff-global.css
7876    enhancement Add ids to divs and spans with ids in opac-user.tt
7935    enhancement Introduce sys pref to control ‘browse results’ in OPAC
New sysprefs in 3.6.5
======================
  * AutoCreateAuthorities
  * CatalogModuleRelink
  * LinkerKeepStale
  * LinkerModule
  * LinkerOptions
  * LinkerRelink
  * OpacBrowseResults
  * UseICU
  * dateformat
System requirements
======================
    Changes since 3.4:
    * Perl 5.10 is required
Documentation
======================
As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook.  The
home page for Koha documentation is
As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
Translations
======================
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
  * Chinese (Taiwan)
  * Danish
  * English (USA)
  * English (UK)
  * French (France)
  * German
  * Italian
  * Portuguese (Brazil)
  * Spanish
Partial translations are available for various other languages.
The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
list to volunteer:
The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
Release Team
======================
The release team for Koha 3.6 is
Release Manager:        Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Documentation Manager:  Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager:    Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager:             Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Bug Wranglers:          Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Past Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.6:
  * Los Gatos Public Library
  * NEKLS
  * East Brunswick Public Library
  * Athens County Public Libraries
  * Horowhenua Library Trust
  * Halton Borough Council
  * South Taranaki District Council
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to
Koha 3.6.5.
     1  BibLibre
     1  Gaetan Boisson
    12  Jared Camins-Esakov
     3  Colin Campbell
     1  David
     2  Stéphane Delaune
     2  Frédéric Demians
     1  Jonathan Druart
     9  Magnus Enger
    28  Katrin Fischer
     1  Chris Hall
    12  Kyle M Hall
     3  Srdjan Jankovic
     1  Janusz Kaczmarek
    11  Owen Leonard
     1  Sophie Meynieux
     1  Chris Nighswonger
     3  Dobrica Pavlinusic
     1  Maxime Pelletier
     6  Paul Poulain
     1  MJ Ray
     3  Liz Rea
     2  Marcel de Rooy
     3  Adrien Saurat
     5  Robin Sheat
     1  Zeno Tajoli
     2  Serhij Dubyk {Сергій Дубик}
We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to
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
The branch for Koha 3.6.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix
releases) is 3.6.x.
Koha 3.8.0 was released on April 23, 2012. The next major feature release of
Koha will be Koha 3.10.0.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
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