Koha Release 3.8.6
The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of 3.8.6. The latest release of the 3.8.x series. This release contains security fixes for XSS vulnerabilities and any people running 3.8.x are encouraged to upgrade. You can download the tarball from download.koha-community.org, for those using the packages the repository will be updated shortly.
Please continue reading for the release notes.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.6
22 Oct 2012
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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 3.8.6 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.06.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 3.8.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.6
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7589 blocker tinymce editor broken in .deb packages - in 'en' templates
3652 critical XSS vulnerabilities
8379 critical Encoding problem under Plack
8497 critical Strange behavior when modifying the 'timeout' system preference.
Bugs fixed in 3.8.6
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4173 normal Statuses not appearing in the OPAC
6037 normal Invalid markup, missing breadcrumbs on Keyword to MARC Mapping page
7643 normal Can't upload and import zipped file of patron images
8175 normal items.materials check logs error or displays incorrectly in details.pl
8350 normal Searching for a 10 or 13 digit string (with a number in it) that does not exist in one's catalog will fail to affect SQL statement correctly in C4::Breeding
8581 normal Authority display doesn't like GND records
8617 normal Problem with display of comments waiting for moderation in OPAC
8629 normal update of statistics fields on fund selection in order creation/edition
8659 normal Inactive funds in neworderempty not disabled in IE/Opera
8680 normal Z39.50 searches for ISBN/ISSN problematic in the Acquistions Module
8700 normal RESERVESLIP fields not being replaced correctly
8702 normal System preferences search does not allow accented letters
8739 normal Partial Fine Payments Saving Amount Paid Incorrectly
8744 normal Thesaurus in authorities should not lock fields
8791 normal OPAC UNIMARC XSLT details : subject with subfield 3
8796 normal patron cards not starting on designated card
8810 normal Opac: Cart should display branchname instead of branchcode
8873 normal JavaScript error in Opac displaying tag cloud
7642 minor The number that appears when hovering over a tag in the tag cloud isn't the number of items with that tag
7873 minor Title sort in OPAC basket doesn't work
8441 minor Hide MODS export for UNIMARC
8583 minor Add a warning if a Z39.50 search is started from the "Edit biblio record" page
8711 minor alternating colors messed up on reports
8721 minor typo in AllowItemsOnHoldCheckout
8793 minor Fix materialTypeCode/typeOf008 icons for NORMARC XSLT
8863 minor When clearing a patron attribute, they are all cleared
8869 minor Duplicate member check doesn't disable submit button on bottom.
8764 trivial Template change "Authors" to "Additional authors" in OPAC
8772 trivial Uninitialized variable triggers error log entry in smart_rules.pl
8850 trivial Can't place hold on title with ILS-DI
8806 enhancement Debian packaging updates
System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now 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:
* Arabic (100%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (76%)
* Danish (75%)
* English (New Zealand) (100%)
* English (USA)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (76%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (69%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (68%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (100%)
* Spanish (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 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com>
QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Mason James <mason@kohaaloha.com>
Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.6.
1 Joseph Alway
1 Ivan Brown
4 Jared Camins-Esakov
1 Frédérick Capovilla
1 David Cook
5 Chris Cormack
1 Jonathan Druart
1 Nicole Engard
1 Magnus Enger
1 Chris Hall
5 Kyle M Hall
1 Mason James
3 Owen Leonard
2 Julian Maurice
1 Maxime Pelletier
5 Paul Poulain
5 Fridolyn SOMERS
2 Adrien Saurat
2 Robin Sheat
3 Mark Tompsett
3 Marc Veron
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.6.
4 Jared Camins-Esakov
49 Chris Cormack
2 Frédéric Demians
2 Jonathan Druart
3 Magnus Enger
2 Katrin Fischer
6 Kyle M Hall
1 Mason James
4 Owen Leonard
1 Julian Maurice
2 Matthias Meusburger
2 Dobrica Pavlinusic
31 Paul Poulain
2 Mirko Tietgen
9 Marc Veron
2 wajasu
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.8.5, which was released on September 22, 2012.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
http://bugs.koha-community.org/
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