Koha 3.12.5 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.5.
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 3.12.5
23 Sep 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 3.12.5 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.05.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 3.12.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 10 enhancements and 49 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.5
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Cataloging
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10678 Allow framework selection when creating from Z39.50
Documentation
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9247 Add two more usage examples to the manpage for koha-mysql
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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10593 AuthoritiesLog should default to yes
Lists
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7257 Add a link to remove an individual title from a list
MARC Authority data support
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5262 Authority plugin doesn't copy indicators
OPAC
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8712 We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug
10743 Add style to privacy rules
Templates
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10130 Input fields for branch configuration are too short
10614 Have add order form at top and bottom
10755 Add "Keyword as Phrase" to staff client advanced search indexes
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.5
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Cataloging
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10766 major Cataloging reservoir search broken if UseQueryParser is off
Hold requests
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10628 major AutomaticItemReturn prevents holds queue from filling local holds with local items
OPAC
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2394 major Canreservefromotherbranches preference not working
Templates
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10701 major In transit information doesn't display on the bibliographic detail page
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.5
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About
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10915 normal About->timeline broken on upgraded Koha
7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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9238 normal Fund pull down says 'select budget'
10028 normal ModReceiveOrder works unexpectedly
10483 normal Check_uniqueness.pl does not work
10557 normal GetBooksellersWithLateOrders has an unused branch parameter
10573 normal French translation for printing a basketgroup
10786 normal Javascript error on the parcel page: YAHOO is not defined
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10629 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::Branch.pm
10642 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::RotatingCollections.pm
10693 normal CreateBranchTransferLimit's return values in C4::Circulation.pm should be more explicit
10699 normal DeleteBranchTransferLimits in C4/Circulation.pm needs return value
Cataloging
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10543 normal False mandatory warning in additem
10715 trivial MARC21 007 Plugin Editor doesn't load position 01
Circulation
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5652 normal Patron checkout and holds summary should show subtitles
10081 minor IndependentBranches error message missing the library name
Documentation
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10703 normal Add/update database documentation
8670 trivial Update POD of C4::Branch::GetBranches() to use TT syntax
10763 trivial Update POD of C4::Creators::Lib::html_table() to use TT syntax
10764 trivial Update POD of C4::Items::GetItemStatus() to use TT syntax
10765 trivial Update POD of C4::Koha::GetSupportList() to use TT syntax
MARC Bibliographic data support
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9820 normal Missing space between 100/700 $a and $c (MARC21/XSLT)
Notices
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10727 normal Replace carriage return with
when writing hold notices
OPAC
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10587 minor HTML errors on authority detail page in OPAC
10588 minor Opac-topissues first branch always selected in filters
10686 minor Fielded searches confuse highlighter
Packaging
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10574 minor Remove the message about upgrading to 3.4
10645 trivial Missing zebra languages in koha-create manpage
Patrons
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5904 normal Ysearch.pl members improvements (Independant branches behaviour)
10481 normal No enrollment fee when changing patron category
10511 minor Odd behavior for messaging preferences with Talking Tech enabled
Searching
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10741 normal Can not place a hold on an item in transit and for loan
10704 trivial Search term highlighting doesn't work beyond the first results page
Serials
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10728 trivial Subscription-renew generates unnecessary warnings in logs
Staff Client
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8887 normal Search preferences: Strange behaviour with exact matches (default instead of custom favicon used, displays to much results)
System Administration
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10690 trivial Warn about trailing slashes in description of OPACBaseURL and staffClientBaseURL
Templates
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9603 normal Fix layout of Patron Card Creator Layout screen for display in IE
10656 normal Shelving locations not alpha on search
10716 normal The booksellers template generates a JS error
Test Suite
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10508 normal UT: C4::Branch.pm needs unit tests
10528 normal UT: C4::Bookseller.pm needs unit tests
10653 normal UT : C4::RotatingCollections.pm needs unit tests.
10692 normal UT: Routines about transfers in C4::Circulation.pm need unit tests
10710 normal UT : OfflineOperation's routines in C4/Circulation.t need unit tests.
10767 normal UT: Routines which interact with the table issuingrules in C4/Circulation need unit test
Sysprefs changes in 3.12.5
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* AuthoritiesLog: changed its default to 'Yes'
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
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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 (89%)
* Armenian (94%)
* Chinese (China) (60%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (92%)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (98%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (94%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (78%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (98%)
* 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 3.12.5 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): 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 3.12.5:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.5.
* 5 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 16 Galen Charlton
* 3 David Cook
* 1 Chris Cormack
* 1 Christophe Croullebois
* 2 Srikanth Dhondi
* 7 Jonathan Druart
* 4 Nicole Engard
* 2 Magnus Enger
* 1 Jonathan Field
* 3 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 1 Janusz Kaczmarek
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 12 Owen Leonard
* 1 Julian Maurice
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 7 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 2 Marc Veron
* 9 Kenza Zaki
* 1 root
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.5
* 12 ACPL
* 26 BibLibre
* 7 ByWater-Solutions
* 2 C & P Bibliography
* 4 Catalyst
* 16 Equinox
* 1 KohaAloha
* 2 Libriotech
* 2 PTFS-Europe
* 3 Prosentient Systems
* 1 kenza-VirtualBox
* 7 unidentified
* 2 veron.ch
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.5.
* 86 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 3 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 99 Galen Charlton
* 13 Chris Cormack
* 13 Jonathan Druart
* 4 Nicole C. Engard
* 4 Magnus Enger
* 37 Katrin Fischer
* 24 Kyle M Hall
* 8 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 8 Owen Leonard
* 2 Melia Meggs
* 1 Campbell Reid-Tait
* 4 Marcel de Rooy
* 13 Srdjan
* 5 Mirko Tietgen
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 3.12.4, which was released on August 23, 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)