The Koha community is proud to release Koha version 3.06.08.000. This is a bugfix release, and contains a number of important fixes You can obtain Koha 3.06.08.000 from the http://download.koha-community.org site. Debian packages will be available from the http://debian.koha-community.org shortly also. Please read the release notes below for more information RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.8 22 Aug 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 3.6.8 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.08.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 3.6.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.8 ====================== 7329 critical The "undo import into catalog" command deletes items onloan without checking 7834 critical order search at the top of acq does nothing 8289 critical Upgrading from 2.2 does not work anymore 2505 major enable Perl warnings in all modules and scripts 8315 major fix 'C4::Output 3.02' errors in Koha Bugs fixed in 3.6.8 ====================== 4838 normal Repeated authority headings break biblio record data entry form 6634 normal manager_id not populated when paying fines 6720 normal Saved authorities always show as 'Default' 7586 normal Search: Language restriction does NOT show expected results (no items shown) 7807 normal GetSuggestionFromBiblionumber takes only one parameter 7886 normal C4/ShelfBrowser slow SQL performance 7900 normal Link to vendor from subscription details is broken 7952 normal PDF::Reuse under plack writes to console STDOUT instead to browser 8136 normal Changes the expected lenght of 100$a in rebuild_zebra.pl 8171 normal Improper escaping of quotes during z39.50 queries leads to broken html 8197 normal Software error when you have cleaned cookies in your browser and try to past the url to opac-topissues.pl 8226 normal 'OpacFooter' markup/css improvements 8282 normal Bug in modules list in about.pl 5312 minor XHTML correction in authority summary 6141 minor html glitches causing problems to translator 6679 minor Fixing code so it passes basic Perl::Critic tests 7815 minor Order pickup library list by name rather than by code 8009 minor Item descriptive data not populated on pay.pl 8166 minor Adding new currencies & exchange rates if not fill any field it save blank record 8191 minor New value for 8 position in coded data field 100 in unimarc 8232 minor Comments in OPAC contain untranslatable javascript messages 6350 trivial Bug for tracking updates to the history file 7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page 7367 trivial General OPAC typo omnibus 7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus 7994 trivial Syntax error in yaml (syspref) files 8222 trivial The zip code field is mandatory by default 8138 enhancement Add 773$t field to xslt 8216 enhancement Enable critic tests on SIP modules New sysprefs in 3.6.8 ====================== * BorrowerMandatoryField 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/3.6/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 (51%) * Chinese (China) (96%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%) * Danish (100%) * English (New Zealand) (100%) * English (USA) * English (United Kingdom) (64%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (95%) * German (100%) * Greek (94%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (62%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) * Spanish (100%) * Tetun (52%) 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 3.6 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com> Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel de Rooy, Paul Poulain, Mason James Past Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com> Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.8. 1 D Ruth Bavousett 5 Jared Camins-Esakov 3 Colin Campbell 4 Chris Cormack 1 Christophe Croullebois 2 Frédéric Demians 1 Jonathan Druart 3 Katrin Fischer 1 Amit Gupta 1 Kyle M Hall 2 Claire Hernandez 2 Mason James 1 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Owen Leonard 1 Julian Maurice 1 Matthias Meusburger 4 Sophie Meynieux 3 Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 Maxime Pelletier 4 Paul Poulain 3 Marcel de Rooy 1 Fridolyn SOMERS 1 Robin Sheat 1 Marc Veron 2 christophe croullebois We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.6.8. 51 Jared Camins-Esakov 1 François Charbonnier 41 Chris Cormack 2 Michael Davis 5 Katrin Fischer 1 Marijana Glavica 3 Kyle M Hall 1 Owen Leonard 1 Sophie Meynieux 31 Paul Poulain 2 Martin Renvoize 3 Marcel de Rooy 1 Robin Sheat 2 Marc Veron 1 Stacey Walker 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 3.6.x. The last Koha release was 3.8.2, which was released on June 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