Koha 3.10.9 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.10.9.
This is a security release.

As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.9
28 jul 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 3.10.9 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.09.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 3.10.9 is a security release.

This release includes a fix for a security bug where manipulation of the cookie
used for retaining OPAC search history for anonymous sessions could
theoretically result in the execution of arbitrary code on a Koha webserver.
Further details on the security issue can be found at:

    http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10657.

System requirements
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    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 

    
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/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 (97%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Chinese (China) (64%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (97%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (98%)
  * French (95%)
  * French (Canada) (66%)
  * German (98%)
  * German (Switzerland) (94%)
  * Greek (60%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Kurdish (94%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
  * Portuguese (97%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
  * Slovak (99%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (99%)

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 3.10.9 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
======================

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.9.
  *      3	Galen Charlton

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.9
  *       3 Equinox                                                                                   

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.9.
  *       1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       4 Galen Charlton
  *       5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel

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 3.10.x.

The last Koha release was 3.12.2, which was released on July 22, 2013.

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)