Koha 3.14.4 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.4.
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 3.14.4
26 févr. 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 3.14.4 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.04.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 3.14.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 enhancements and 20 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.14.4
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Packaging
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10646 Mod_rewrite should be enabled by the postinst script
10896 Add a --verbose option to koha-translate
Critical bugs fixed in 3.14.4
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Hold requests
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11336 major Priority is not updated on deleting holds
OPAC
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10952 major Store anonymous search history in session
Searching
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9579 major Facets truncation broken for multi-byte characters
Other bugs fixed in 3.14.4
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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7965 normal Silence warns in staff error log (koha-error_log)
11384 minor Koha should not use "ctid" as a column name
Cataloging
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11316 trivial Plugin icon missing tooltip in addbiblio.pl
Documentation
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11483 normal New serial pages missing help
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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11260 normal Update German web installer
OPAC
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11342 minor Error with opac self registration if BorrowersTitles is empty
Packaging
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11509 trivial Koha-create should print better usage information
11510 trivial Typo in koha-translate usage message
Searching
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11192 normal Fix two definitions in ccl.properties
6886 minor Single branch mode should disable showing the branch name in front of all callnumbers
Serials
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10429 minor Branch filter not working in serial claims
Test Suite
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11439 normal UT: XISBN.t returns failure
11457 normal T/db_dependent/Bookseller.t can fail when subscription table is not empty
11499 normal Zebra_setup.pl not correctly setting indexing mode
11470 minor Circulation_transfers.t can fail, spuriously
Tools
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11208 normal Multi transport types: a sms message without sms number should be marked as failed
11475 normal Batch modification process ends with broken link
New sysprefs in 3.14.4
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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/3.14/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 (83%)
* Armenian (99%)
* Chinese (China) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (100%)
* Danish (91%)
* English (New Zealand) (84%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (89%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (53%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (72%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
* Polish (65%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (92%)
* 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 3.14.4 is
Release Manager: Galen Charlton
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 3.14.4:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.4.
* 6 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 13 Galen Charlton
* 3 Chris Cormack
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole Engard
* 4 Katrin Fischer
* 3 Kyle M Hall
* 3 Julian Maurice
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 3 Fridolin Somers
* 1 Mark Tompsett
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.4
* 4 BSZ BW
* 10 BibLibre
* 3 BigBallOfWax
* 4 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 Catalyst
* 13 Equinox
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 7 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.14.4.
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 3 Christopher Brannon
* 44 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 11 Chris Cormack
* 3 Charlene Criton
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 17 Katrin Fischer
* 9 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 41 Fridolin Somers
* 1 Mark Tompsett
* 1 Signed-off-by jmbroust
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 3.14.x.
The last Koha release was 3.14.0, which was released on November 21, 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)
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 26 févr. 2014 11:40:37 Z #####
A great thanks to all contributors.