Koha 3.8.4 released
The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of 3.8.4. This is a maintenance release, and contains a lot of useful bug fixes.
You can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org packages will be available shortly at http://debian.koha-community.org
Please read more for the release notes.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.4
22 Aug 2012
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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 3.8.4 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.04.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 3.8.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.4
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7943 blocker Untranslatable strings in OPAC's authority search
8486 blocker Critical error in Koha::Calendar::days_between calculation
8162 critical packaging scripts create user incorrectly
8251 critical Patrons are systematically debarred at checkin
8439 critical Printing basketgroup does not work on plack
8520 critical Authorities display incorrectly in staff results
8576 critical Software error on authority edition when using merge
8172 major Missing dereference marker for buildQuery parameter in addbooks.pl
8329 major GetLostItems in C4::Items.pm has a SELECT *
8414 major Intranet header toplinks display white rather than blue in < IE8
8448 major Holds Awaiting Pickup : Cancelling a hold on a waiting item with multiple holds displays a blank screen instead of a warning prompt
8503 major Software error n edit items with EasyAnalyticalRecords
8513 major OPAC detail page broken with XSLT
8547 major Enabling star ratings causes javascript errors that cause IE to have a boo boo
8572 major Attempting to view an invalid authority in the OPAC gives an error instead of 404
Bugs fixed in 3.8.4
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3383 normal Item due reminder digests - cannot display title information
6617 normal table of contents not printing right if entered right
7628 normal Required format is not enforced for Patron Categories
8391 normal Cannot view reading record through staff client
8419 normal Suspended holds appear on the daily holds queue
8434 normal Notice generation fails for Advanced Notices, Item Due, and Overdues when run in shell (due to error in Letters.pm)
8455 normal Check ins processed through "Check Out" tab of the Patron Record ignore Circulation System Preferences
8458 normal $stemmed_operand in C4::Search _build_stemmed_operand is not initialized.
8514 normal Display of patron results changed display order
8522 normal Markup errors cause problems with customized CSS
8532 normal Old/iffy data causes error checking out
8550 normal Z39.50 searches for ISBN/ISSN problematic
8573 normal Translation difficult in picture-upload.tt due to nested sentence in if/foreach/if/elsif - construction
8575 normal Number of items expected is wrong
8586 normal Small bug in die if no mapping in framework for biblioitems.biblioitemnumber
8590 normal checked out from missing on patron detail
3701 minor If the ReturnToShelvingCart syspref is on, and something needs to go in transit, the shelving cart setting is overriding the transit.
8062 minor Cart email broken for non english templates
8322 minor Removing space between end of marc data and fullstops
8351 minor fix wording when undoing an import
8357 minor UNIMARCslim2OPACDetail.xsl, title without class and too links to views
8392 minor Memberentry is not enforcing birthdate restrictions
8421 minor patron images fail when barcode for patron has a +
8422 minor Fix impossible warning in circulation.pl when OverduesBlockCirc set to Block
8440 minor Dates does not appear in suggestions management
8470 minor remove depreciated H:T:P test file
8476 minor Little bug in OPAC XSLT on OPACURLOpenInNewWindow
8518 minor Self checkout does not display debt amount if syspref AllowFineOverride is set to allow
8556 minor "Mark seen and continue" not translatable in inventory.tt
6655 trivial Sorting order of serial issues in OPAC
7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
7367 trivial General OPAC typo omnibus
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus
8453 trivial need spaces after radio buttons on inventory
8544 trivial Make RSS icon styleable
7153 enhancement Show Open Library as Search Target in "More Searches" in OPAC detail page
8204 enhancement Authority viewer in OPAC ugly, unfriendly, and mostly useless
New sysprefs in 3.8.4
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* OPACSearchForTitleIn
System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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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/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:
* Arabic (100%)
* Armenian (100%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Danish (75%)
* English (New Zealand) (96%)
* English (USA)
* French (100%)
* French (Canada) (69%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (100%)
* Greek (69%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (68%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Spanish (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
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The release team for Koha 3.8 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
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.4.
1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
1 D Ruth Bavousett
10 Jared Camins-Esakov
2 Colin Campbell
5 David Cook
4 Chris Cormack
1 Elliott Davis
1 Frédéric Demians
2 Jonathan Druart
2 Nicole Engard
1 Magnus Enger
1 Chris Hall
4 Kyle M Hall
1 Mason James
2 Owen Leonard
1 Julian Maurice
1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
1 Meenakshi R
2 Marcel de Rooy
8 Fridolyn SOMERS
5 Robin Sheat
3 Mark Tompsett
4 Marc Veron
1 Savitra sirohi
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.4.
1 Joseph Alway
1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
7 Jared Camins-Esakov
1 David Cook
68 Chris Cormack
1 Elliott Davis
2 Frédéric Demians
7 Jonathan Druart
2 Nicole C. Engard
5 Katrin Fischer
5 Kyle M Hall
9 Owen Leonard
1 Julian Maurice
1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
28 Paul Poulain
1 Marcel de Rooy
1 Zeno Tajoli
3 Mirko Tietgen
3 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
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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 3.8.3, which was released on July 22, 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/
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