Koha Community Newsletter: October 2012

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October 2012

Volume 3, Issue 10
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
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Table of Contents

Koha Development

Koha 3.8.6 Released
by Chris Cormack

The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of Koha 3.8.6.

This release contains security fixes for XSS vulnerabilities. Everyone running 3.8.x is encouraged to upgrade.

You can download the release here.

Packages will be available here soon.

Release notes are here.

Koha 3.6.10 Released
by Jared Camins-Esakov

The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of Koha 3.6.10.

This is a maintenance and security release and contains a lot of useful bug fixes, as well as fixing several serious security vulnerabilities. Everyone running an earlier version of Koha 3.6 is strongly encouraged to update to 3.6.10.

You can download the release here.

Release notes are here.

Koha 3.10 String Freeze

In preparation for the release of 3.10, Release Manager Paul Poulain has declared a string freeze.

Koha Statistics

Chris Cormack, Koha Community statistics wizard, has posted statistics for
Koha 3.6.9, Koha 3.6.10, Koha 3.8.5, and Koha 3.8.6.

Koha 3.12 Roles

The Koha community has elected the following people into roles for the 3.12 release:

  • Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov (USA)
  • Translations Manager: D Ruth Bavousett (USA)
  • Documentation Manager: Nicole C. Engard (USA)
  • Database Documentation Manager: Nicole C. Engard (USA)
  • Installation Documentation Manager: Mason James (New Zealand)
  • Quality Assurance Manager: Katrin Fischer (Germany)
  • Quality Assurance Team: Marcel De Rooy (Netherlands), Jonathan Druart (France), Mason James (New Zealand), Paul Poulain (France), Elliott Davis (USA)
  • Release Maintainer 3.8.x: Chris Cormack (New Zealand)
  • Release Maintainer 3.10.x: Chris Cormack (New Zealand)
  • Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat (New Zealand)
  • Live CD/DVD Manager: Vimal Kumar Vazhappally (India)
  • Bug Wranglers: Marc Véron (Switzerland), Chris Hall (New Zealand), Magnus Enger (Norway), Mirko Tietgen (Germany)

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

  • Liberty Lake Municipal Library (USA) (via ByWater Solutions)
  • Little Elm Public Library (USA) (via ByWater Solutions)
  • Preston Library at the Virginia Military Institute (USA) (via ByWater Solutions)

Community Gossip

Liz Rea has accepted a position with CatalystIT and will be moving with her husband Thatcher and son Soren to New Zealand. As a result, Northeast Kansas Library System is seeking to hire a systems administrator.

Henri-Damien Laurent will be leaving BibLibre at the end of the year.

Paul Poulain is exploring organizing a hackfest in Marseilles in 2013, perhaps in March.

Magnus Enger reports that the Hylte Public Library has become Sweden’s first public library to implement Koha.

Nicole Engard gave a presentation on open source trends and issues at the Internet Librarian 2012 conference.

Elliott Davis posted an overview of match points used in importing MARC records.

Elliott also posted an account of his effort to rewrite the Koha calendar.

Ryan Terrenal of the National Library of the Philippines reports: “We are still in the building stage of the Koha community in the Philippines. We have installed 297 computers with Koha 2.29 running on Fedora Linux. We are promoting it to anyone interested in using the Koha ILS. Our long term goal is to make Koha ILS the standard library system here in the Philippines. We are hoping that we can work together for this project. We also have Kultura Link running on Koha Version 3.41.”

Support Provider News

BibLibre has contributed a new module called opac to the open-source drupal project.

BibLibre has posted an overview of their efforts to rebase their development for inclusion in the community master.

ByWater Solutions is now offering Canadian-based Koha hosting services. More info is here.

Past Koha Events

October General IRC Meeting

The October general IRC meeting was held on 10 October 2012.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Upcoming Koha Events

November General IRC Meeting

The November general IRC meeting will be held on 7 November 2012 at 02:00 UTC.

The agenda and other information is here.

Melbourne Koha Users Group Meeting

Irma Birchall reports that the second Melbourne Koha Users Group Meeting will be held on Thursday, 15 November, 1730-1930, followed by dinner.

Oslo Get to Know Koha Day

Magnus Enger reports that Libriotech is doing a “Get to know Koha” day in Oslo on 7 November. There is room for 20 attendees, and so far both small and large academic as well as public libraries have signed up. The programme is here.