The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.18.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from
http://download.koha-community.org
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.18
23 Sep 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 3.8.18 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.18.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 3.8.18 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 0 features, 2 enhancements and 18 bugfixes.
New features in 3.8.18
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Enhancements in 3.8.18
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MARC Bibliographic data support
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5858 Update default MARC21 framework to Update No. 16 (April 2013)
Templates
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10516 Improve titles, breadcrumbs, and confirmation messages for Z39.50 server adds and updates
Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.18
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Templates
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10541 major Enable cross-browser AJAX in additem.js
Other bugs fixed in 3.8.18
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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4907 normal Suggestions "organize by" menu doesn't reflect current choice
7598 normal Acquisitions JavaScript contains untranslatable English strings
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10643 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::ClassSource.pm
Cataloging
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9353 minor Missing subfields on MARC21 frameworks
Circulation
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9362 normal Wrong query in GetUpcomingDueIssues (Circulation.pm)
Notices
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10559 minor Noisy statement handle still active warnings when generating notices
OPAC
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10553 normal Public lists not available from OPAC login page
10595 normal OpacTopissue page still accessible when system preference is turned off
Patrons
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10507 trivial Typo when warning about creating duplicate patron attribute
Searching
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9801 normal Location facet shows even if no locations
Serials
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10621 normal Subscription alert emails have wrong from-address
10457 minor Export selected items data doesn't work when using checkall checkbox
Templates
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10189 trivial French values in cataloging plugins for unimarc 128b and 128c fields
10346 trivial "Add multiple copies" should be labelled "Add multiple items"
Test Suite
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10644 normal C4::ClassSource.pm needs unit tests
Web services
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10549 trivial ILS-DI should not use ISO-8851-9 encoding
New sysprefs in 3.8.18
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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 (84%)
* Armenian (84%)
* Chinese (China) (56%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (98%)
* Danish (87%)
* English (New Zealand) (84%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (65%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (83%)
* Greek (80%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (83%)
* Maori (58%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (57%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (84%)
* Slovak (87%)
* 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
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The release team for Koha 3.8.18 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 3.8.18:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.18.
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 5 Galen Charlton
* 3 David Cook
* 2 Katrin Fischer
* 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 5 Owen Leonard
* 1 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 3 Mirko Tietgen
* 1 Kenza Zaki
* 1 root
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.18
* 5 ACPL
* 2 BSZ BW
* 2 BibLibre
* 5 Equinox
* 1 PTFS-Europe
* 3 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Rijksmuseum
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 3 abunchofthings.net
* 1 kenza-VirtualBox
* 5 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.18.
* 26 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 27 Galen Charlton
* 3 Chris Cormack
* 6 Jonathan Druart
* 7 Katrin Fischer
* 28 Chris Hall
* 10 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Mason James
* 28 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 3 Liz Rea
* 4 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 5 Srdjan
* 1 Cedric Vita
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 3.8.14, which was released on June 23, 2013.
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)
