The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.18. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes. As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.14 23 Jun 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 3.8.14 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.14.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 3.8.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 0 features, 3 enhancements and 27 bugfixes. New features in 3.8.14 ====================== ---------- Enhancements in 3.8.14 ====================== Staff Client ---------- 9507 Some code used to prevent form from being unexpectedly submitted is duplicated Templates ---------- 10015 UniqueItemFields could have link to database documentation 10036 Adding header search to additem page Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.14 ====================== Hold requests ---------- 10166 major Can't place holds on multiple titles if one or more are un-holdable translate.koha-community.org ---------- 10413 major Odd space character brakes translation Other bugs fixed in 3.8.14 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 9824 normal Hide basket with no expected items in basket list by bookseller 10381 normal Hide basket links should be improved Cataloging ---------- 9358 normal Fixed field plugins for MARC21 should be updated for MARC21 update #15 10178 trivial Typos in plugins for 006 and 008 in MARC21 Circulation ---------- 10288 trivial Tiny typo on "Pending offline circulation actions" Command-line Utilities ---------- 10326 minor Bulkmarcimport.pl turns off CataloguingLog sys pref I18N/L10N ---------- 6709 normal Marc21_field_006.xml and marc21_field_008.xml can't be translated. 10083 normal In Transit string doesn't get translated in the staff interface Packaging ---------- 10094 normal Koha-list should have an --disabled option 10144 normal Koha-start-zebra error handling 10146 normal Koha-stop-zebra error handling 10149 normal Koha-restart-zebra error handling 10157 normal Koha-email-enable error handling 10159 normal Koha-rebuild-zebra error handling 10259 normal Koha-*-zebra scripts are expected to run without warnings if no instance name passed Patrons ---------- 10184 trivial Circulation History reverses sort order Staff Client ---------- 10310 normal Prevent submit form pressing enter should be improved 7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus Templates ---------- 10249 normal Untranslatable strings in Javascript on OPAC detail page 10284 minor Missing spaces between label and content in XSLT view for 785/780 10186 trivial Typo in subscription-add.tt (years vs year) 10191 trivial 2 option tags are not closed in unimarc_field_115a.tt and unimarc_field_116.tt 10193 trivial Copies should be holdings as label for items on MARC view 10350 trivial Capitalization: Home Library column in staff detail items table Test Suite ---------- 10296 minor UT: db schemas are useless New sysprefs in 3.8.14 ====================== System requirements ====================== Important notes: * Perl 5.10 is required * Zebra is required Documentation ====================== The Koha manual is 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: * English (USA) * Arabic (97%) * Armenian (97%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%) * Danish (100%) * English (New Zealand) (97%) * French (97%) * French (Canada) (74%) * German (97%) * German (Switzerland) (96%) * Greek (92%) * Italian (97%) * Norwegian Bokmål (65%) * Portuguese (97%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%) * Slovak (100%) * Spanish (100%) * Turkish (97%) 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 3.8.14 is Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com> Installation Documentation Managers: Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr> Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com> Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com> QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de> QA Team: Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>, Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>, Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com> Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com> Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com> Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no> Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> Live CD Manager: Nguyen Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102@yahoo.com> VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr> Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall <chrish@catalyst.net.nz> Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com> Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> Credits ====================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.8.14: * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.14. * 7 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Colin Campbell * 1 Chris Cormack * 4 Jonathan Druart * 1 Magnus Enger * 3 Katrin Fischer * 1 Connor Fraser * 1 Chris Hall * 1 Janusz Kaczmarek * 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 6 Owen Leonard * 3 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Fridolyn SOMERS * 2 Mathieu Saby * 1 Lyon3 Team We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.14 * 6 ACPL * 3 BSZ BW * 5 BibLibre * 1 Catalyst * 1 Libriotech * 1 PTFS-Europe * 3 Rijksmuseum * 1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 * 2 Université Rennes 2 * 13 unidentified * 1 yahoo.com We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.14. * 1 Pierre Angot * 18 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Gaetan Boisson * 21 Jared Camins-Esakov * 22 Galen Charlton * 1 David Cook * 12 Chris Cormack * 8 Jonathan Druart * 1 Frederic Durand * 1 Nicole C. Engard * 7 Katrin Fischer * 23 Chris Hall * 2 Kyle M Hall * 2 Mason James * 30 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 4 Owen Leonard * 8 Marcel de Rooy * 5 Robin Sheat * 1 Mirko Tietgen * 1 Cedric Vita We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently 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/ He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)