The Koha release team is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.16.9.

This is the latest bugfix release of the 3.16.x branch of Koha. We recommend all 3.16.x users upgrade to this latest version.

As always, you can wait a day or two for the packages to appear at debian.koha-community.org – or if you are still running from tarballs, you can download them at http://download.koha-community.org

Please read below for the full release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.16.9

29 Mar 2015

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 3.16.9 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.16.09.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 3.16.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancements and 20 bugfixes.

Table of contents

New features in Koha 3.16.9

Enhancements in Koha 3.16.9

OPAC

• Give news in Opac a unique anchor (bug 13729)

Packaging

• Koha-disable should also stop SIP/Zebra/Indexer for instance (bug 13785)

Test Suite

• Add unit tests for C4::Boolean (bug 13814)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.9

Cataloging

• AddBiblio fails on mysql with STRICT_TRANS_TABLES (major – bug 13523)

Templates

• Delete record don’t wait for confirmation (major – bug 13254)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.16.9

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• Makefile.PL mentions win32 (normal – bug 13586)

Cataloging

• $record->title is called even if marc flavour is UNIMARC (normal – bug 13635)
• OPAC = hidden removes pull down from item form (normal – bug 13648)

Circulation

• Returns via the checkouts tables uses the phrase “Returned” rather than “Checked in” (trivial – bug 13804)

I18N/L10N

• Label layout types and text justification types are not translatable (normal – bug 11364)
• “No fund found” not translatable (minor – bug 13741)

OPAC

• Opaccredits printing at top on printable version (minor – bug 12399)

Packaging

• Allow running Zebra daemon for disabled instances in packages (minor – bug 13784)

Patrons

• _AUTHOR_ not replaced in relatives checkouts (normal – bug 13605)

Reports

• Parameter public is lost on creating a report (normal – bug 13578)

SIP2

• SIP tests : fix in 10renew_all.t (additional checkin) (minor – bug 9848)

Templates

• Datatables paging for news page is broken (normal – bug 13858)
• Serial collection page shows branchcode instead of branchname (minor – bug 13745)
• Holds queue: Always show branch name, not branch code (minor – bug 13750)
• Capitalization: Holds Queue (trivial – bug 13682)

Test Suite

• T/db_dependent/XISBN.t should work on DOM too (normal – bug 12782)

Tools

• Inventory: fix “wrong place” and “item not scanned” statuses (normal – bug 12631)

Web services

• SVC bib bad encoding (normal – bug 13801)

New system preferences in Koha 3.16.9

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/3.16.9/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 (100%)
• Armenian (99%)
• Czech (99%)
• Danish (86%)
• French (96%)
• German (100%)
• Italian (100%)
• Kurdish (68%)
• Polish (100%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Slovak (100%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (86%)
• Turkish (100%)
• Vietnamese (94%)

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 3.16.9 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
• Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

QA Team:

• Galen Charlton
• Jonathan Druart
• Brendan Gallagher
• Kyle Hall
• Julian Maurice
• Paul Poulain
• Martin Renvoize
• Marcel de Rooy
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Alex Sassmannshausen
  • Zeno Tajoli
• Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
• Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall
• Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Mason James
• Release Maintainer (3.18.x): Chris Cormack

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.16.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.9:

• Rochelle (1)
• Larry Baerveldt (2)
• Tomas Cohen Arazi (6)
• Jonathan Druart (6)
• Julian FIOL (2)
• Katrin Fischer (6)
• Mason James (4)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Rafal Kopaczka (1)
• Matthias Meusburger (1)
• Kyle M Hall (1)
• Benjamin Rokseth (1)
• Viktor Sarge (1)
• Adrien Saurat (1)
• Fridolin Somers (1)
• Marc Véron (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.16.9:

• BSZ BW (6)
• BibLibre (11)
• ByWater-Solutions (3)
• KohaAloha (4)
• Oslo Public Library (1)
• poczta.onet.pl (1)
• pttk.fi (1)
• regionhalland.se (1)
• unidentified (7)
• veron.ch (2)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.16.9:

• Brendan Gallagher (9)
• Chris Cormack (3)
• joel aloi (1)
• Jonathan Druart (12)
• Josef Moravec (1)
• Katrin Fischer (9)
• Larry Baerveldt (3)
• Magnus Enger (2)
• Marc Veron (2)
• Marc Véron (2)
• Mason James (32)
• Mirko Tietgen (2)
• Robin Sheat (2)
• Tomas Cohen Arazi (6)
• Nicole C. Engard (1)
• Kyle M Hall (5)
• Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (1)

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)

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