Koha 3.10.3 released
The Koha release team, in association with the many developers and users who have had input, are happy to announce the release of Koha version 3.10.3.
This is the latest stable release, please read below for the release notes, and as always you can download from download.koha-community.org or wait a couple of days for the packages to be updated.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.3
21 Feb 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 3.10.3 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.03.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 3.10.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Major fixes in 3.10.3
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Acquisitions
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9236 major deleting an order when receiving redirects to closed basket
9281 major Impossible to create an order from a staged file
9432 major acqui/addorderiso2409.pl is not Plack-friendly
9454 major NewBasket does not use placeholders in sql
9503 major Link from histsearch via invoicenumber results in error
Circulation
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9380 critical branch not recording right on writeoff
MARC Authority data support
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9145 major Authorities: standard language for UNIMARC
OPAC
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9147 major OPAC hidden fields are not hidden in ISBD view
System Administration
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8401 critical Search term deleted from system preference content
Test Suite
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9486 blocker t/Letters.t loads modules in wrong order
Tools
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9421 major tools/picture-upload.pl not Plack-compatible
Bugs fixed in 3.10.3
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Acquisitions
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9280 normal Bad price calculation when filling a basket with staged records
9116 minor Code cleaning: Remove some useless temp variables
9226 minor Wrong branch filter after suggestion creation
9364 minor Wrong billing/delivery addresses when creating a basket
9062 trivial Tax and discount should be formatted the same
9268 trivial Scanning in barcode or ISBN in Acquisitions -> new order submits the form unexpectedly
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9546 normal MANIFEST.SKIP breaking regexp when running make manifest tardist
9552 normal BIB1 Relation "Greater Than" Attribute Not Mapped Properly in CCL.Properties
Cataloging
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9497 normal Make it easier to add to the the list of possible encodings for Z39.50 servers and add ISO 8859-1
9494 minor Library of Congress Z39.50 target seed data outdated
Circulation
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8079 normal opac not showing fines - says 'no'
Command-line Utilities
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9104 minor country in CSV in overdue_notices.pl
Hold requests
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9320 normal Pending reserves is showing reserves already waiting
Holidays
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9211 normal days_between wrong behaviour
I18N/L10N
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9493 minor confirmations for user holds in opac are not translatable
Notices
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9348 minor Format dates in HOLD notices consistently
9499 trivial --itemscontent= option is undocumented in advanced-notice.pl cronjob + default date should be date_due, not issuedate
OPAC
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8108 normal Remove unused images from the OPAC
9174 normal Item type image does not display for biblio-level itemtypes in list display in OPAC
9276 normal Display of biblio-level authorized values on OPAC search results broken
9308 minor logo-koha.png not transparent in ccsr theme.
9329 minor Wrong message for already expired cards
Packaging
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9592 minor Package dependency updates for master
Patrons
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9407 minor patrons search should match substrings
Reports
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9451 normal borrower_stats.pl gives off warnings and is not Plack-compatible
Searching
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7507 normal Audience Subtype limit on Advanced Search does not have all Audiences
9402 trivial useless letter "v" between 2 <option> tags
Serials
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7608 normal Manual history is always 'enabled'
9222 minor manual history reversed in subscription-detail.pl
9229 minor branch code instead of name in subscription-detail.pl
SIP2
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9343 minor SIP doesn't handle debarred date/status correctly
Staff Client
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9376 minor Problem with dateexpiry display in moremember.tt
9382 trivial Bold necessary permissions for staff client access.
9398 trivial [ ? ] Link Lacks Context for All General Users (Accessibility) [Contexual Help]
System Administration
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9201 normal OAI-PMH mapping value cannot be 0
Templates
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9310 normal Patron image upload template corrections
9583 normal OPAC cart button display problem in Chromium
Tools
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9509 normal batchMod.pl does not ensure each barcode is unique
translate.koha-community.org
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8942 normal Translation process breaks javascript in calendar.inc
Enhancements in 3.10.3
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Cataloging
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9357 Missing 'c' option in LEADER_18 value builder
Packaging
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9143 Package related updates for master
Templates
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9615 Combine staff home page images into single sprite
New sysprefs in 3.10.3
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* UNIMARCAuthorityField100
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/3.10.3/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 (89%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (93%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Danish (79%)
* English (New Zealand) (99%)
* French (98%)
* French (Canada) (68%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (97%)
* Greek (62%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Turkish (98%)
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 3.10.3 is
Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: D Ruth Bavousett <ruth@bywatersolutions.com>
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>,
QA Team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>,
Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>,
Elliott Davis <elliott@bywatersolutions.com>
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>,
Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch>,
Chris Hall <chrish@catalyst.net.nz>,
Mirko Tietgen <5p4m@gmx.de>
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Packaging Assistant: Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea <liz@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.3:
* KEEP SOLUTIONS
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.3.
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 10 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Colin Campbell
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 4 Chris Cormack
* 2 Hugh Davenport
* 6 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 2 Vitor FERNANDES
* 1 Corey Fuimaono
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 5 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Fred Pierre
* 1 MJ Ray
* 3 Liz Rea
* 5 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 3 Adrien Saurat
* 2 Robin Sheat
* 1 Mirko Tietgen
* 1 Ed Veal
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.3
* 5 ACPL
* 15 Biblibre
* 2 BigBallOfWax
* 6 ByWater-Solutions
* 10 C & P Bibliography
* 7 Catalyst
* 2 Equinox
* 1 Libriotech
* 2 PTFS-Europe
* 2 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Software.coop
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 abunchofthings.net
* 2 davenport.net.nz
* 2 keep.pt
* 1 smfpl.org
* 3 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.3.
* 56 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 8 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 67 Chris Cormack
* 2 Hugh Davenport
* 6 Elliott Davis
* 26 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Nicole C. Engard
* 19 Katrin Fischer
* 7 Kyle M Hall
* 6 Mason James
* 5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 9 Owen Leonard
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 2 Liz Rea
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 2 Mirko Tietgen
* 1 Marc Veron
* 3 mathieu saby
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 3.10.x.
The last Koha release was 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 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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