The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.19.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from
http://download.koha-community.org
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.19
29 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 3.8.19 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.19.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 3.8.19 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 0 features, 0 enhancements and 11 bugfixes.
New features in 3.8.19
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Enhancements in 3.8.19
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Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.19
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Other bugs fixed in 3.8.19
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Acquisitions
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10483 normal Check_uniqueness.pl does not work
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10642 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::RotatingCollections.pm
Cataloging
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10715 trivial MARC21 007 Plugin Editor doesn't load position 01
Circulation
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10362 normal On return with reserve or transfer the alerts are not shown
Documentation
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10703 normal Add/update database documentation
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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10712 normal Some values not saved in koha install log
Notices
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10664 normal Software error in overdue_notices.pl if there is no active currency
Patrons
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10481 normal No enrollment fee when changing patron category
Serials
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10728 trivial Subscription-renew generates unnecessary warnings in logs
Staff Client
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8887 normal Search preferences: Strange behaviour with exact matches (default instead of custom favicon used, displays to much results)
Test Suite
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10653 normal UT : C4::RotatingCollections.pm needs unit tests.
New sysprefs in 3.8.19
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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/3.8/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 (84%)
* Armenian (84%)
* Chinese (China) (56%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (98%)
* Danish (87%)
* English (New Zealand) (84%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (65%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (83%)
* Greek (80%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (83%)
* Maori (58%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (57%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (84%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* 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 3.8.19 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain
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 3.8.19:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.19.
* 2 Colin Campbell
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole Engard
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 2 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Marc Veron
* 1 Kenza Zaki
* 1 root
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.19
* 6 BibLibre
* 2 ByWater-Solutions
* 2 Equinox
* 2 PTFS-Europe
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 1 kenza-VirtualBox
* 1 unidentified
* 1 veron.ch
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.19.
* 15 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 19 Galen Charlton
* 4 Chris Cormack
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 7 Chris Hall
* 9 Kyle M Hall
* 17 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 3 Srdjan
* 1 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 3.8.x.
The last Koha release was 3.8.14, which was released on June 23, 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)
