The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of 3.8.6. The latest release of the 3.8.x series. This release contains security fixes for XSS vulnerabilities and any people running 3.8.x are encouraged to upgrade. You can download the tarball from download.koha-community.org, for those using the packages the repository will be updated shortly. Please continue reading for the release notes. RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.6 22 Oct 2012 ======================================================================== 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 http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.8.6 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.06.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 3.8.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.8.6 ====================== 7589 blocker tinymce editor broken in .deb packages - in 'en' templates 3652 critical XSS vulnerabilities 8379 critical Encoding problem under Plack 8497 critical Strange behavior when modifying the 'timeout' system preference. Bugs fixed in 3.8.6 ====================== 4173 normal Statuses not appearing in the OPAC 6037 normal Invalid markup, missing breadcrumbs on Keyword to MARC Mapping page 7643 normal Can't upload and import zipped file of patron images 8175 normal items.materials check logs error or displays incorrectly in details.pl 8350 normal Searching for a 10 or 13 digit string (with a number in it) that does not exist in one's catalog will fail to affect SQL statement correctly in C4::Breeding 8581 normal Authority display doesn't like GND records 8617 normal Problem with display of comments waiting for moderation in OPAC 8629 normal update of statistics fields on fund selection in order creation/edition 8659 normal Inactive funds in neworderempty not disabled in IE/Opera 8680 normal Z39.50 searches for ISBN/ISSN problematic in the Acquistions Module 8700 normal RESERVESLIP fields not being replaced correctly 8702 normal System preferences search does not allow accented letters 8739 normal Partial Fine Payments Saving Amount Paid Incorrectly 8744 normal Thesaurus in authorities should not lock fields 8791 normal OPAC UNIMARC XSLT details : subject with subfield 3 8796 normal patron cards not starting on designated card 8810 normal Opac: Cart should display branchname instead of branchcode 8873 normal JavaScript error in Opac displaying tag cloud 7642 minor The number that appears when hovering over a tag in the tag cloud isn't the number of items with that tag 7873 minor Title sort in OPAC basket doesn't work 8441 minor Hide MODS export for UNIMARC 8583 minor Add a warning if a Z39.50 search is started from the "Edit biblio record" page 8711 minor alternating colors messed up on reports 8721 minor typo in AllowItemsOnHoldCheckout 8793 minor Fix materialTypeCode/typeOf008 icons for NORMARC XSLT 8863 minor When clearing a patron attribute, they are all cleared 8869 minor Duplicate member check doesn't disable submit button on bottom. 8764 trivial Template change "Authors" to "Additional authors" in OPAC 8772 trivial Uninitialized variable triggers error log entry in smart_rules.pl 8850 trivial Can't place hold on title with ILS-DI 8806 enhancement Debian packaging updates System requirements ====================== Important notes: * Perl 5.10 is required * Zebra is required Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/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 ====================== 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) (76%) * Danish (75%) * English (New Zealand) (100%) * English (USA) * French (100%) * French (Canada) (76%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (99%) * Greek (69%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (68%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (100%) * Spanish (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 ====================== 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 ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.6. 1 Joseph Alway 1 Ivan Brown 4 Jared Camins-Esakov 1 Frédérick Capovilla 1 David Cook 5 Chris Cormack 1 Jonathan Druart 1 Nicole Engard 1 Magnus Enger 1 Chris Hall 5 Kyle M Hall 1 Mason James 3 Owen Leonard 2 Julian Maurice 1 Maxime Pelletier 5 Paul Poulain 5 Fridolyn SOMERS 2 Adrien Saurat 2 Robin Sheat 3 Mark Tompsett 3 Marc Veron We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.6. 4 Jared Camins-Esakov 49 Chris Cormack 2 Frédéric Demians 2 Jonathan Druart 3 Magnus Enger 2 Katrin Fischer 6 Kyle M Hall 1 Mason James 4 Owen Leonard 1 Julian Maurice 2 Matthias Meusburger 2 Dobrica Pavlinusic 31 Paul Poulain 2 Mirko Tietgen 9 Marc Veron 2 wajasu 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 ====================== 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 3.8.5, which was released on September 22, 2012. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini