Hi, we are very happy to announce Koha3.0.1 Beta has been released on http://download.koha.org/ Its name is koha-3.00.01.005.tar.gz You can download file and signatures You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 checksum: f1a4b57bc9fddf3c7f020b861dd1a61e koha-3.00.01.005.tar.gz I will also tag this in Git as "version 3.00.01-beta" v3.00.01.005 You can dowload and test for one week, then it will become official release. If you encounter bugs during that period, please feel free to file a bug on : http://bugs.koha.org The bug will be adressed as quickly as possible. An extract of release notes is pasted below Cheers -- Henri-Damien LAURENT Release Maintainer Koha 3.0.1 Beta Release : This release of Koha 3.0.1 includes the following general improvements over the previous release: * General Bugfixing Authorities : Authorities structure edition Authorities edition with diacritics merging authorities Adding failover when null string searched Cataloguing : When editing an item, clearing a field. OPAC : tags Management improved shelves browsing improved improved COInS Support Improved RSS support Boolean search on Advanced Search page (more options) Added Deletion of private list fix General Output : Improving concistency of strings markup corrections Adding some untranslated strings to translation files. More consistency in dates display UNIMARC Adds the creation date of biblios to frameworks in order to improve Rss support You have to launch the script ./maintenance/UNIMARC_sync_date_created_with_marc_biblio.pl 995$2 as lost items management. If you had a previous installation of Koha without 995$2 linked to items.lost then you have to launch the script ./maintenance/sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl and rebuild indexes with rebuild_zebra.pl (see wiki.koha.org or rebuild_zebra.pl -h for documentation) Fines fixes Some sorting problems on patron names and libraries fixed js and update of strings for better coherence CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml is now required and not only CGI::Session Adding better display of links on conformance with MARC standards Fixing POD for correctness Preparing for debian packaging Adding more SIP2 functions Adding some information on reports UTF8 support improved Failover improved Many performance improvements under the hood * Adding a Subject cloud * better UNIMARC version 5 compliance * Improving diacritics management in zebra * Additional translations * Improving Quality Assurance with test suite * Adding a Renew All button to OPAC * options added to overdue_notices script Subsequent releases will be bugfix releases, and won't include new features which would require some databas changes. Koha 3.0.x Release Schedule : we plan to issue bugfix only releases on a 2 month base from now on. So Next releases should be beginning of April, June, August, October, December. Note that Windows is not supported for this version as there are blockers. Note that this version is still supporting only MySQL. Support for PostgreSQL is still very experimental. New features which have deep impact on code will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. ============================================================================== TRANSLATIONS ============================================================================== Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following languages: OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), fr-FR (French) hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following languages: OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish) gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), tet (Tetum) Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian), ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate Note that I chose to release even though some words are still missing. I apologize to translators. I had proclaimed string freeze, but some strings were still untranslated. In fact, they were not included in po files, which they are now. Po files are all updated on Pootle. Very few changes were added though so you you donot have much work and if you can complete by next Thursday, official release will provide full translations. Thank you for your patience and your work, translators.