Koha 3.18.3 Released
The Koha release team is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.18.3.
This is the latest release of the current stable branch of Koha, this is a security and bugfix release. We strongly recommend all 3.18.x users upgrade to this latest version.
Extra thanks in this release goes to Carlos Córdova, Larry Letelie, and BSZ-BW for reporting the security issues.
As always you can wait for a few hours 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 3.18.3
22 Jan 2015
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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 3.18.3 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.03.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 3.18.3 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 security fixes, 10 enhancements and 38 bugfixes.
Security fix in 3.18.3
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OPAC
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13510 Cross site scripting vector in OPAC lists
13609 Cross Site Scripting problem in OPAC authority search
Enhancements in 3.18.3
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Acquisitions
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10753 Creating suggestions for 'Any library' uses _ANY as branchcode
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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13570 Koha-conf.xml mentions win32
Cataloging
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13218 Usability enhancement for z39.50 search
Circulation
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13408 Tell librarians they may continue scanning while checkouts table is loading
Developer documentation
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12889 Improving documentation in C4::Members.pm
I18N/L10N
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13400 Untranslatable "Are you sure you want to delete this authority?"
Label/patron card printing
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13407 Remove methods which are included in the 0.36 release of PDF::Reuse
Packaging
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13571 Koha-conf.xml.in has fallen out of sync with koha-conf.xml
System Administration
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13436 Add more options to UsageStatsLibraryType
Test Suite
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13264 Full stack encoding tests (UTF-8)
Critical bugs fixed in 3.18.3
======================
Circulation
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11872 major Lost overdue items should not generate fines
12895 major Dropbox mode doesn't work correctly
Label/patron card printing
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13124 major Record titles with parentheses causing label weirdness
Tools
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13522 major Tools/viewlog.pl does not compile in older perls
Other bugs fixed in 3.18.3
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About
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13579 normal History file should be open using utf-8 encoding
Acquisitions
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13378 normal There is no way to search suggestions not linked to a fund
12059 minor Publisher code always empty on invoice
12565 minor Acq: Link to basket in breadcrumbs broken
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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12868 normal GetMemberDetails calls GetMemberAccountRecords incorrectly
13360 normal C4::Ris considers that hashes are ordered
Authentication
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1861 normal Unique patrons logins not (totally) enforced
Cataloging
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13416 trivial Typo in marc21_leader.pl position 5 (record status)
Circulation
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13290 minor Add better feedback for returns to the checkouts table
13537 minor Focus should move to barcode after renewing via checkouts table
I18N/L10N
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13341 normal Hard-coded "Preview" text in OPAC openlibrary.js
13357 normal Untranslatable strings on itemsearch.tt
13410 trivial Untranslatable "Change messaging preferences to default for this category?"
13422 trivial SCO: "Would you like to print a receipt" not translatable
13566 trivial Change translation for 'Rotating collection' in German web installer
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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13285 minor Updatedatabase throws an error if opacthemes is not set
MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
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13530 trivial Typo in bulkmarcimport
Notices
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12922 normal Do not DIE the advance_notices.pl -cronjob if "no letter of * type" is found
13504 normal The marker '----' is not removed for CHECKIN and CHECKOUT
OPAC
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12702 normal Suggestions still accessible in OPAC when deactivated
Patrons
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13458 normal Add new patron shows default / hardcoded patron categories after search
13502 normal A bug was introduced by 1861 - meaning borrowers sometimes cant be added
13526 minor Mandatory fields should not be able to be hidden in borrower self-registration
Reports
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13447 normal Runreport.pl html email fails
Templates
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8096 normal Card number twice on patron search results
13369 normal [Datatables] tr and td are not correctly highlighted
13459 normal Datatables paging slightly broken
13487 normal DataTables pagination needs some fixes
13564 minor Items search: rename Stock number to Inventory number
9958 trivial RoutingSerials description misleading
13017 trivial Login page image replacement technique fails when browser width exceeds 2000 pixels
Test Suite
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13453 minor Koha.t daily quote tests assume sample data
Tools
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13167 minor Stage MARC for Import hangs for biblio containing valid 979* ISBN-13
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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12823 minor Add some hints for Host, Database and SRU search fields mappings
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
Documentation
As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/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 (99%)
* Czech (99%)
* Danish (83%)
* French (95%)
* German (99%)
* Italian (99%)
* Kurdish (64%)
* Polish (82%)
* Portuguese (95%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (99%)
* Swedish (82%)
* Turkish (100%)
* Vietnamese (91%)
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 3.18.3 is
Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
QA Team: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com>
Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Bug Wranglers: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@ptfs-europe.com>
Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli@cineca.it>
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.18.3:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.3.
* Aleisha (1)
* Thomas (1)
* शंतनू (1)
* Rochelle (2)
* Liz (3)
* Colin Campbell (2)
* Tomás Cohen Arazi (10)
* David Cook (1)
* Chris Cormack (10)
* Frédéric Demians (1)
* Marcel de Rooy (3)
* Jonathan Druart (17)
* Katrin Fischer (5)
* Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
* Morag Hills (2)
* Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
* Owen Leonard (2)
* Kyle M Hall (9)
* Chris Nighswonger (2)
* Martin Renvoize (1)
* Robin Sheat (1)
* Emmanuele Somma (1)
* Zeno Tajoli (10)
* Lyon3 Team (1)
* Mark Tompsett (3)
* Marc Véron (5)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 3.18.3
* ACPL (2)
* BSZ BW (5)
* BibLibre (17)
* BigBallOfWax (5)
* ByWater-Solutions (9)
* Catalyst (6)
* Catalyst Open Source Academy (5)
* Cineca (10)
* Foundations (2)
* PTFS-Europe (3)
* Prosentient Systems (1)
* Rijksmuseum (3)
* Tamil (1)
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (11)
* Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)
* bancaditalia.it (1)
* jns.fi (1)
* unidentified (8)
* veron.ch (5)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.18.3.
* Abby (1)
* Chris (6)
* Chris Cormack (96)
* Christopher Brannon (2)
* Colin Campbell (1)
* Frederic Demians (2)
* Jonathan Druart (32)
* Katrin Fischer (47)
* Marc Veron (1)
* Marc Véron (3)
* Mark Tompsett (3)
* Martin Renvoize (11)
* Nick Clemens (4)
* Owen Leonard (6)
* Paola Rossi (3)
* Robin Sheat (1)
* Rochelle (1)
* Thomas (1)
* Manuel Cohen Arazi (1)
* Tomas Cohen Arazi (86)
* Kyle M Hall (16)
* Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (1)
* Marcel de Rooy (3)
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 3.18.x.
The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on September 4, 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)