Koha 3.16.4 released
The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 3.16.4 of the Koha library automation system.
Koha 3.16.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Some of the bugs fixed are serious; users of earlier releases of Koha 3.16.x are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
It can be downloaded from download.koha-community.org. Debian packages of Koha 3.16.4 will be available shortly.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.16.4
01 Oct 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 3.16.4 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.16.04.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 3.16.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Some of the bugs fixed
are serious; users of earlier releases of Koha 3.16.x are urged to
upgrade as soon as possible.
It includes 0 features, 3 enhancements and 19 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.16.4
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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12151 Remove remaining uses of the Perl smartmatch operator
Circulation
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11703 Convert checkouts table to ajax datatable
Packaging
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12492 Package dependency changes to account for bug 12393
Critical bugs fixed in 3.16.4
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Acquisitions
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12619 major Shipment date gets lost on finishing the invoice
Hold requests
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12873 critical Reserve can be cancelled by any logged in user
Notices
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12717 critical Library no longer receiving overdue email for
patrons without email address
OPAC
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12371 critical Links in every patron self-registration email
points to a single borrower
Reports
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12432 major Saved reports tabs not working
Searching
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12593 critical Search facets die with regex error if biblio has square brackets in fields
Templates
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10519 major Suggestions: 'Organize by' and correct display of tab descriptions broken
12963 major Columns misplaced in moremember.tt
Other bugs fixed in 3.16.4
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Acquisitions
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12438 minor Bad encoding in acquisition basket
Cataloging
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12419 normal Not for loan items are not listed
Circulation
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12729 normal Overdue items won't show as overdue in red in circulation
12811 normal Patron 'Details' and 'Check out' pages not working properly
for staff users which don't have renewal override permissions
12899 normal Row grouping in checkouts table is alphabetical and layout
depends on words chosen in translation
Hold requests
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12876 normal Reserve in waiting/transfer status may be cancelled by user
MARC Bibliographic data support
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12465 normal XSLT: Missing punctuation between 710$a and $b
Searching
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12788 normal Refine search displays 4xx fields from authority records
12405 minor Search links on callnumber fails on intranet results page
12600 trivial Duplicated use statement in Search.pm
Templates
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12429 normal Patron seeing fines codes
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/3.16/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 (99%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (China) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (99%)
* Danish (86%)
* English (New Zealand) (81%)
* French (95%)
* French (Canada) (83%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Italian (99%)
* Kurdish (68%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
* Polish (85%)
* Portuguese (99%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (88%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (86%)
* Turkish (100%)
* Vietnamese (85%)
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 3.16.4 is
Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team: Galen Charlton
Chris Cormack
Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart ,
Brendan Gallagher
Kyle Hall
Julian Maurice
Paul Poulain
Martin Renvoize
Module Maintainers: Jared Camins-Esakov
Chris Cormack
Galen Charlton
Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart ,
Brendan Gallagher
Kyle Hall
Chris Nighswonger
Fridolin Somers
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger
Alex Sassmannshausen
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
Database Documentation Manager:
Zeno Tajoli
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Galen Charlton
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.16.4:
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.4.
* 4 Jacek Ablewicz
* 11 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Katrin Fischer
* 3 Kyle M Hall
* 3 Rafal Kopaczka
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 3 Owen Leonard
* 2 Dobrica Pavlinusic
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 2 Fridolin Somers
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.4
* 3 ACPL
* 1 BSZ BW
* 5 BibLibre
* 3 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 Catalyst
* 1 PTFS-Europe
* 4 biblos.pk.edu.pl
* 3 poczta.onet.pl
* 2 rot13.org
* 12 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.16.4.
* 3 Aleisha
* 34 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 3 Christopher Brannon
* 34 Galen Charlton
* 4 Nick Clemens
* 3 David Cook
* 2 Chris Cormack
* 5 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 22 Katrin Fischer
* 6 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Paola Rossi
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 3.16.x.
The last Koha release was 3.8.21, which was released on January 2, 2014.
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)