Koha 3.12.14 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.13.
This is a maintenance release and contains several bugfixes. Please read more for the full release notes :

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.14
25 Jul 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 

    http://koha-community.org/

Koha 3.12.14 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.14.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 3.12.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 4 bugfixes.



Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.14
======================


Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
	11715	major	Z39.50 search page does not check authorization


Other bugs fixed in 3.12.14
======================


I18N/L10N
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	12034	normal	MSG_REMOVE_FROM_LIST different wording between OPAC and staff client
	10818	trivial	System preference OAI-PMH:ConfFile isn't translatable

Tools
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	12458	minor	Holidays calendar has wrong colors for weekly and yearly repeatable


System requirements
======================

    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 

    http://koha-community.org/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 (99%)
  * 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 (99%)
  * Portuguese (100%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
  * Slovak (99%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Swedish (96%)
  * Turkish (100%)
  * Vietnamese (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
======================

The release team for Koha 3.12.14 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 3.12.14:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.14.
  *      1	Galen Charlton
  *      2	Chris Cormack
  *      1	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      1	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Fridolin Somers

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.14
  *       1 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       2 BibLibre                                                                                    
  *       2 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Equinox                                                                                   
  *       1 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.14.
  *       1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       5 Galen Charlton
  *       5 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Nicole C. Engard
  *       6 Katrin Fischer
  *       5 Kyle M Hall
  *       1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       1 Fridolin Somers
  *       1 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
======================

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 (no branch).

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)