Koha 3.12.11 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.11.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org
Please read more for the full release notes
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.11
25 Feb 2014
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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 3.12.11 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.11.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 3.12.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 3 enhancements and 13 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.11
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Packaging
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10896 Add a --verbose option to koha-translate
Templates
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11398 A typo occurred with occured
Test Suite
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11540 Increasing test coverage for C4::Charset
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.11
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Acquisitions
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9948 critical Acq data going on first item even if not received
Cataloging
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8018 major New subfields have a default max length of zero
Command-line Utilities
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11417 major Remove_unused_authorities.pl doesn't accept --test
Patrons
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10453 critical Updating child to adult loses password
Searching
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9579 major Facets truncation broken for multi-byte characters
Tools
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11412 major Bulkmarcimport can crash when searching for duplicates
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.11
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11402 minor Labels::_guide_box should return undef if undefned data is passed
Command-line Utilities
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11188 minor Make gather_print_notices.pl die on failed open()
Packaging
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11510 trivial Typo in koha-translate usage message
Searching
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7518 normal Searches with quotation marks don't work
Test Suite
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11439 normal UT: XISBN.t returns failure
Tools
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11279 normal Quote of the day feature won't pick a quote
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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11419 minor Z39.50 searches not displaying errors
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
======================
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
* English (USA)
* Arabic (88%)
* Armenian (99%)
* Chinese (China) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (91%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (97%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (77%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
* Polish (100%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (97%)
* 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
======================
The release team for Koha 3.12.11 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: Vimal Kumar V.
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Kyle Hall
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.12.11:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.11.
* 1 Jacek Ablewicz
* 7 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Pablo Bianchi
* 1 Gaetan Boisson
* 3 Galen Charlton
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 3 Katrin Fischer
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Emma Heath
* 1 Matthias Meusburger
* 1 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.11
* 3 BSZ BW
* 5 BibLibre
* 1 ByWater-Solutions
* 3 Equinox
* 1 Libriotech
* 1 Rijksmuseum
* 1 biblos.pk.edu.pl
* 8 unidentified
* 1 wegc.school.nz
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.11.
* 26 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Nora Blake
* 27 Galen Charlton
* 7 Chris Cormack
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 14 Katrin Fischer
* 2 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Emma Heath
* 1 Tom Houlker
* 1 Leila
* 7 Fridolin SOMERS
* 12 Fridolin Somers
* 2 Mark Tompsett
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 3.12.10, which was released on February 7, 2014.
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)
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