The Koha release team, in association with the many developers and
users who have had input, are happy to announce the release of Koha
version 3.8.10.
This is the latest stable release, please read below for the release
notes, and as always you can download from download.koha-community.org
or wait a couple of days for the packages to be updated.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.10
23 Feb 2013
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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 3.8.10 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.10.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 3.8.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.10
======================
Acquisitions
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9281 major Impossible to create an order from a staged file
OPAC
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9147 major OPAC hidden fields are not hidden in ISBD view
System Administration
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8401 critical Search term deleted from system preference content
Bugs fixed in 3.8.10
======================
Acquisitions
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9226 minor Wrong branch filter after suggestion creation
9268 trivial Scanning in barcode or ISBN in Acquisitions -> new order submits the form unexpectedly
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9546 normal MANIFEST.SKIP breaking regexp when running make manifest tardist
9552 normal BIB1 Relation "Greater Than" Attribute Not Mapped Properly in CCL.Properties
Cataloging
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9494 minor Library of Congress Z39.50 target seed data outdated
Circulation
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8079 normal opac not showing fines - says 'no'
Command-line Utilities
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9104 minor country in CSV in overdue_notices.pl
Hold requests
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9320 normal Pending reserves is showing reserves already waiting
Holidays
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9211 normal days_between wrong behaviour
I18N/L10N
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9493 minor confirmations for user holds in opac are not translatable
Notices
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9348 minor Format dates in HOLD notices consistently
9499 trivial --itemscontent= option is undocumented in advanced-notice.pl cronjob + default date should be date_due, not issuedate
OPAC
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9174 normal Item type image does not display for biblio-level itemtypes in list display in OPAC
9276 normal Display of biblio-level authorized values on OPAC search results broken
9329 minor Wrong message for already expired cards
9502 minor famfamfam: wrongly placed in package 3.8.8/9
Patrons
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9407 minor patrons search should match substrings
Searching
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7507 normal Audience Subtype limit on Advanced Search does not have all Audiences
9402 trivial useless letter "v" between 2 <option> tags
Serials
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9222 minor manual history reversed in subscription-detail.pl
9229 minor branch code instead of name in subscription-detail.pl
Staff Client
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9376 minor Problem with dateexpiry display in moremember.tt
System Administration
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9201 normal OAI-PMH mapping value cannot be 0
Templates
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9310 normal Patron image upload template corrections
9583 normal OPAC cart button display problem in Chromium
Tools
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9509 normal batchMod.pl does not ensure each barcode is unique
Enhancements in 3.8.10
======================
Cataloging
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9357 Missing 'c' option in LEADER_18 value builder
Templates
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9615 Combine staff home page images into single sprite
New sysprefs in 3.8.10
======================
System requirements
======================
Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
======================
As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now 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/3.8.10/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%)
* Basque (78%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (74%)
* Danish (74%)
* English (New Zealand) (100%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (76%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (69%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* 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
======================
The release team for Koha 3.8.10 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com>
QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Mason James <mason@kohaaloha.com>
Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.10:
* KEEP SOLUTIONS
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.10.
* 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 6 Chris Cormack
* 1 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Vitor FERNANDES
* 4 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 4 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Fred Pierre
* 1 MJ Ray
* 2 Liz Rea
* 5 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Adrien Saurat
* 1 Mirko Tietgen
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.10
* 4 ACPL
* 8 Biblibre
* 3 BigBallOfWax
* 4 ByWater-Solutions
* 1 C & P Bibliography
* 5 Catalyst
* 2 Equinox
* 2 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Software.coop
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 abunchofthings.net
* 1 keep.pt
* 1 smfpl.org
* 3 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.10.
* 32 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 6 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 36 Chris Cormack
* 2 Elliott Davis
* 17 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Nicole C. Engard
* 10 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 4 Mason James
* 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 6 Owen Leonard
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 1 Liz Rea
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Marc Veron
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.8.x.
The last Koha release was 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 2012.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
http://bugs.koha-community.org/
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