Koha 3.14.9 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.9.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
Please read more for the full release notes :

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.14.9

25 juil. 2014

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 and Koha 3.14.9 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.09.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 3.14.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancement and 12 bugfixes.

Enhancements in Koha 3.14.9

I18N/L10N

  • I18n toolchain misses one instance of text “Select titles to: ” in bootstrap (bug #11495)

OPAC

  • Make the NoLoginInstructions a customizable field through preferences (bug #10951)
  • Improve RDFa schema.org mappings in prog and bootstrap (bug #11786)

Patrons

  • Restructure patron lists add form for improved usability (bug #11671)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.14.9

Acquisitions

  • Accepting a suggestion hides ‘pending’ tab (major – 4068)

Cataloging

  • Javascript error when merging authorities (critical – 12295)

OPAC

  • OverDrive API now prepends http:// to URLs (major – 11978)

Patrons

  • Members are restricted even if the debarment is ended – moremember.pl (major – 12292)

Serials

  • Working with serials now requires admin (parameters) permission (major – 11226)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.14.9

Acquisitions

  • Bad encoding in acquisition basket (minor- 12438)

I18N/L10N

  • MSG_REMOVE_FROM_LIST different wording between OPAC and staff client (normal- 12034)
  • System preference OAI-PMH:ConfFile isn’t translatable (trivial- 10818)

Patrons

  • Tiny code cleanup in members (trivial- 11855)

Staff Client

  • Indentation issues allow markup errors in header.inc (normal- 12060)

Templates

  • Use new DataTables include in batch patron modification template (normal- 11738)

Tools

  • Holidays calendar has wrong colors for weekly and yearly repeatable (minor- 12458)

New system preferences in Koha 3.14.9

  • NoLoginInstructions

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 at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.14.9/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 (81%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Chinese (China) (97%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (99%)
  • Danish (89%)
  • English (New Zealand) (83%)
  • French (98%)
  • French (Canada) (88%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (52%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Kurdish (71%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (62%)
  • Polish (63%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (89%)
  • Slovak (100%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (90%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (89%)

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

The most up-to-date translations can be found at http://translate.koha-community.org

Release Team

The release team for Koha 3.14.9 is

Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>

Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Installation Documentation Managers:

  • Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>
  • Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>

Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>

QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
QA Team:

  • Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
  • Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
  • Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
  • Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
  • Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
  • Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
  • Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>

Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>

Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Live CD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102@yahoo.com>
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>

Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers.biblibre.com>

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.14.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.9.

  • 4 Galen Charlton
  • 4 Jonathan Druart
  • 1 Katrin Fischer
  • 2 Kyle M Hall
  • 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  • 3 Owen Leonard
  • 1 Marcel de Rooy
  • 1 Dan Scott
  • 4 Fridolin Somers
  • 1 Mark Tompsett
  • 1 Jesse Weaver
  • 2 blou

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.14.9

  • 3 ACPL
  • 1 BSZ BW
  • 8 BibLibre
  • 2 ByWater-Solutions
  • 4 Equinox
  • 1 Rijksmuseum
  • 1 coffeecode.net
  • 2 inlibro.com
  • 3 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.14.9.

  • 4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  • 19 Galen Charlton
  • 1 Chris Cormack
  • 7 Jonathan Druart
  • 1 Nicole C. Engard
  • 8 Katrin Fischer
  • 2 Kyle M Hall
  • 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  • 4 Owen Leonard
  • 1 Martin Renvoize
  • 1 Marcel de Rooy
  • 1 Paola Rossi
  • 1 Dan Scott
  • 21 Fridolin Somers
  • 3 Mark Tompsett
  • 2 Marc Véron

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 3.14.x.

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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