The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.15.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from
http://download.koha-community.org
This release contains translation updates for both 3.8.14 and 3.8.15,
thank you very much bgkriegel and everyone who helped.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.15
23 Jul 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 3.8.15 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.15.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 3.8.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 0 features, 1 enhancements and 11 bugfixes.
New features in 3.8.15
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Enhancements in 3.8.15
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9370 Use Library::CallNumber::LC when splitting LC call numbers for spine labels
Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.15
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OPAC
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10590 critical In opac-topissues limit param is not protected
Templates
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766 major Use of CGI::scrolling_list prevents customization in template
Other bugs fixed in 3.8.15
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Documentation
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10425 minor Help page missing for Local Use preferences
Notices
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10439 normal Cannot modify the notice's library
OPAC
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9541 normal Opac-user doesn't load correct CSS for multiple branches
Packaging
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10379 minor Koha-rebuild-zebra gets noisy if no instances are defined
Patrons
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10297 minor Categorycode and branchcode should be required when adding patrons
Staff Client
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6281 normal Bug in LCC sort routine
Templates
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10464 minor Patron search on placing a hold doesn't use jqueryui.autocomplete
10466 minor Lists: Use "size" as names/hash keys leads to an unexpected results when using Template::Toolkit (name of a virtual method there)
Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
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10458 trivial Remove obsolete Z3950 module and test
New sysprefs in 3.8.15
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System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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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/3.8/en/
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary
Translations
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Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
* English (USA)
* Arabic (97%)
* Armenian (97%)
* Chinese (China) (63%)
* Danish (100%)
* English (New Zealand) (97%)
* French (97%)
* French (Canada) (74%)
* German (97%)
* German (Switzerland) (96%)
* Greek (92%)
* Italian (97%)
* Kurdish (93%)
* Maori (67%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
* Portuguese (97%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (99%)
* Turkish (99%)
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
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The release team for Koha 3.8.15 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Installation Documentation Managers:
Samuel Desseaux
Mason James
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team: Chris Cormack
Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart ,
Brendan Gallagher
Kyle Hall
Mason James
Paul Poulain
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
Live CD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy
VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi
Credits
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.15:
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.15.
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 7 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 1 Marcel de Rooy
* 2 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 2 Robin Sheat
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.15
* 1 ACPL
* 4 BibLibre
* 1 ByWater-Solutions
* 2 Catalyst
* 7 Equinox
* 1 Libriotech
* 1 PTFS-Europe
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Rijksmuseum
* 3 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.15.
* 19 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 29 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 8 Chris Cormack
* 4 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 4 Katrin Fischer
* 20 Chris Hall
* 8 Kyle M Hall
* 20 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Owen Leonard
* 2 Marcel de Rooy
* 2 Robin Sheat
* 1 Srdjan
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
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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
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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)
