The Koha release team, in association with the multitude of Koha libraries, librarians, support companies, developers and users, are proud to announce the release of the latest stable release of the 3.8.x branch, 3.8.11. This maintenance release contains code from 12 people from 9 different organisations, making it once again a great example of international and inter company collaboration. Making the official and community supported Koha live up to its’ promise of no single vendor lock in. As always you can download the tarball at download.koha-community.org, or wait for a day or 2 until the packages at debian.koha-community.org are updated. Please read below for the release notes RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.11 22 Mar 2013 ======================================================================== 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 3.8.11 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.11.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 3.8.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Major fixes of 3.8.11 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 4266 major encumbrance and expenditure not used in code Cataloging ---------- 7253 major fast cataloging not always checking out Searching ---------- 8620 critical Barcode searching not working correctly Bugs fixed in 3.8.11 ====================== Cataloging ---------- 9377 normal itemtype in duplicate biblio search 9207 minor Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records Circulation ---------- 8054 normal can hit submit twice when paying fines 8682 normal quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips Documentation ---------- 9267 normal Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken MARC Bibliographic record staging/import ---------- 5333 normal Undefined value stops import from z39.50 OPAC ---------- 9585 minor Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail Packaging ---------- 9784 minor koha-shell missing from koha-common man page Staff Client ---------- 9663 normal Individual bibliographic record "Save" option requires export permission 9658 trivial Breadcrumb wrong on reports dictionary System Administration ---------- 7596 normal System preferences editor JavaScript contains untranslatable English string Templates ---------- 9695 normal Use alphabet system preference on page used to browse patrons for patron card batches 9385 minor patron add labels right aligned in chrome 9545 minor Fix Import Marc Bibliographic Framework Text Label 9586 minor Remove $ENV{DEBUG} info from Member Template 9651 minor When deleting a fund, button is wrongly labelled with 'Delete this budget' Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers ---------- 9520 minor Update default LOC Z39.50 target Enhancements in 3.8.11 ====================== Templates ---------- 9650 Show message if there are no notices 9765 Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc New sysprefs in 3.8.11 ====================== 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/3.8.11/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: * English (USA) * Arabic (99%) * Armenian (99%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%) * Danish (74%) * English (New Zealand) (99%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (76%) * German (99%) * German (Switzerland) (99%) * Greek (74%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (67%) * Portuguese (100%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) * Slovak (100%) * 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 ====================== The release team for Koha 3.8.11 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 libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.8.11: We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11. * 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 D Ruth Bavousett * 2 Jared Camins-Esakov * 2 David Cook * 3 Chris Cormack * 1 Jonathan Druart * 1 Kyle M Hall * 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 7 Owen Leonard * 3 Liz Rea * 3 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Mathieu Saby We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.11 * 7 ACPL * 4 Biblibre * 2 BigBallOfWax * 1 ByWater-Solutions * 2 C & P Bibliography * 4 Catalyst * 2 Prosentient Systems * 1 Université Rennes 2 * 5 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.11. * 24 Jared Camins-Esakov * 3 Galen Charlton * 2 David Cook * 26 Chris Cormack * 2 Elliott Davis * 14 Jonathan Druart * 1 Jonathan Druarth * 2 Nicole C. Engard * 4 Katrin Fischer * 5 Kyle M Hall * 3 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 2 Owen Leonard * 1 Liz Rea * 1 Martin Renvoize * 3 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Robin Sheat * 2 koha.aixmarseille 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 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 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