Koha 3.12.1 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.12.1, this is a stable release and contains many bugfixes. The packages are available at debian.koha-community.org or you can download the tarball from download.koha-community.org
This is my first release as 3.12.x release maintainer, thanks to the community for their support and specially for their hard work.
Please read more for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.1
22 jun 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 3.12.1 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.01.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 3.12.1 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 9 enhancements and 32 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.1
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Cataloging
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7892 On staged marc record management open in tab
OPAC
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6399 Tooltip for tags that says 'separate by comma'
8600 Remove search terms in advanced search
Packaging
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10367 Allow packages to work on debian wheezy
Staff Client
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9507 Some code used to prevent form from being unexpectedly submitted is duplicated
Templates
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9508 The dateformat variable is not standardized in template files
10015 UniqueItemFields could have link to database documentation
10036 Adding header search to additem page
10221 Hold expiration doesn't show on patron's list of holds
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.1
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Circulation
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10262 critical Fine calculation at checkin not respecting CircControl
10120 major Fine recalculation on return needs to be a system preference
Hold requests
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10311 major Holds queue ignores item-level holds where only one items exists
translate.koha-community.org
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10413 major Odd space character brakes translation
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.1
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Acquisitions
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10313 normal Selecting an invoice from the historic orders page does not take you to that invoice
10381 normal Hide basket links should be improved
Cataloging
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10178 trivial Typos in plugins for 006 and 008 in MARC21
Circulation
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10288 trivial Tiny typo on "Pending offline circulation actions"
Command-line Utilities
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10326 minor Bulkmarcimport.pl turns off CataloguingLog sys pref
Documentation
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10250 minor Typos in help/reports/guided_reports.tt
10251 minor Typos in help/members/member-flags.tt
OPAC
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2774 normal Path to theme is hard-coded in many places
10292 normal XSLT files always taken from 'prog' theme for English
10359 minor CCSR theme should apply jqTransform after OpacUserJS
10354 trivial Don't show optgroup Libraries when no search groups are defined
Patrons
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10184 trivial Circulation History reverses sort order
Staff Client
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10310 normal Prevent submit form pressing enter should be improved
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus
Templates
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10249 normal Untranslatable strings in Javascript on OPAC detail page
10261 normal Link to patron files missing from circ-menu.tt
10218 minor In OPAC XSLT search results, add class to 'online access'
10284 minor Missing spaces between label and content in XSLT view for 785/780
10406 minor Remove obsolete CSS related to YUI autocomplete
10420 minor Standardize spelling of "authorized"
10186 trivial Typo in subscription-add.tt (years vs year)
10191 trivial 2 option tags are not closed in unimarc_field_115a.tt and unimarc_field_116.tt
10193 trivial Copies should be holdings as label for items on MARC view
10307 trivial Z39.50 server search tab shows z390.50
10350 trivial Capitalization: Home Library column in staff detail items table
Test Suite
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10290 normal UT: VirtualShelves.t needs to create its own data
10296 minor UT: db schemas are useless
Tools
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9300 normal Filtering export.pl by accession date does not work
New sysprefs in 3.12.1
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* CalculateFinesOnReturn
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/3.12/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 (90%)
* Armenian (98%)
* Chinese (China) (84%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (93%)
* Danish (100%)
* English (New Zealand) (94%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (61%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (93%)
* Greek (56%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Portuguese (92%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* 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 3.12.1 is
Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov
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 3.12.1:
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.1.
* 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Colin Campbell
* 1 Frédérick Capovilla
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 1 Chris Cormack
* 6 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Nicole Engard
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 3 Katrin Fischer
* 1 Connor Fraser
* 2 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Janusz Kaczmarek
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 13 Owen Leonard
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 2 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 1 Jesse Weaver
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.1
* 13 ACPL
* 3 BSZ BW
* 8 BibLibre
* 1 BigBallOfWax
* 4 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 1 Catalyst
* 2 Equinox
* 1 Libeo
* 1 Libriotech
* 2 PTFS-Europe
* 3 Rijksmuseum
* 2 Université Rennes 2
* 7 unidentified
* 1 yahoo.com
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.1.
* 1 Pierre Angot
* 46 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 51 Galen Charlton
* 1 Mickey Coalwell
* 2 David Cook
* 13 Chris Cormack
* 16 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Frederic Durand
* 5 Nicole C. Engard
* 4 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 3 Owen Leonard
* 1 Julian Maurice
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 9 Marcel de Rooy
* 2 Srdjan
* 3 Mirko Tietgen
* 3 Cedric Vita
* 2 George Williams
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 3.12.x.
The last Koha release was 3.12.0, which was released on May 19, 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)