Koha 3.12.12 released

The Koha community are happy to announce the 12th release of the 3.12 series of Koha.

This is a maintenance and contains a few bug fixes and translation updates. As always you can download the new release from download.koha-community.org or wait a day or 2 for the packages to be updated.

Please continue reading for the release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.12
24 Mar 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 3.12.12 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.12.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 3.12.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.12
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Notices
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	9210	major	Automatic carriage return are missing in print letters generated for holds

Other bugs fixed in 3.12.12
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I18N/L10N
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	11505	normal	Untranslatable table headers in Label batch manager

Templates
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	11502	minor	Branch filter in "Holds To Pull" is too fuzzy

New sysprefs in 3.12.12
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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/3.12/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 (100%)
  * 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 (100%)
  * 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 3.12.12 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
  Installation Documentation Manager: Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
  Translation Manager:   Ruth Bavousett <druthb@bywatersolutions.com>
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
  QA Team:               Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
                         Elliott Davis <elliott@bywatersolutions.com>,
                         Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>,
                         Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
                         Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>,
                         Chris Hall
                         Mirko Tietgen
                         Marc Veron
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
  Live CD Manager:       Vimal Kumar V.

  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea <lrea@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 3.12.12:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.12.
  *      1	David Cook
  *      1	Chris Cormack
  *      1	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Sophie Meynieux

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.12
  *       1 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       1 BibLibre                                                                                    
  *       1 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Prosentient Systems

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.12.
  *       3 Galen Charlton
  *       5 Chris Cormack
  *       2 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Katrin Fischer
  *       1 Kyle M Hall
  *       1 Paul Poulain
  *       3 Fridolin Somers

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 3.12.x.

The last Koha release was 3.14.0, which was released on November 21, 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)