The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.1. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes. As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org Please read below for the full release notes RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.1 22 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 3.12.1 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.01.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 3.12.1 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 9 enhancements and 32 bugfixes. Enhancements in 3.12.1 ====================== Cataloging ---------- 7892 On staged marc record management open in tab OPAC ---------- 6399 Tooltip for tags that says 'separate by comma' 8600 Remove search terms in advanced search Packaging ---------- 10367 Allow packages to work on debian wheezy Staff Client ---------- 9507 Some code used to prevent form from being unexpectedly submitted is duplicated Templates ---------- 9508 The dateformat variable is not standardized in template files 10015 UniqueItemFields could have link to database documentation 10036 Adding header search to additem page 10221 Hold expiration doesn't show on patron's list of holds Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.1 ====================== Circulation ---------- 10262 critical Fine calculation at checkin not respecting CircControl 10120 major Fine recalculation on return needs to be a system preference Hold requests ---------- 10311 major Holds queue ignores item-level holds where only one items exists translate.koha-community.org ---------- 10413 major Odd space character brakes translation Other bugs fixed in 3.12.1 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 10313 normal Selecting an invoice from the historic orders page does not take you to that invoice 10381 normal Hide basket links should be improved Cataloging ---------- 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 Documentation ---------- 10250 minor Typos in help/reports/guided_reports.tt 10251 minor Typos in help/members/member-flags.tt OPAC ---------- 2774 normal Path to theme is hard-coded in many places 10292 normal XSLT files always taken from 'prog' theme for English 10359 minor CCSR theme should apply jqTransform after OpacUserJS 10354 trivial Don't show optgroup Libraries when no search groups are defined 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 10261 normal Link to patron files missing from circ-menu.tt 10218 minor In OPAC XSLT search results, add class to 'online access' 10284 minor Missing spaces between label and content in XSLT view for 785/780 10406 minor Remove obsolete CSS related to YUI autocomplete 10420 minor Standardize spelling of "authorized" 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 10307 trivial Z39.50 server search tab shows z390.50 10350 trivial Capitalization: Home Library column in staff detail items table Test Suite ---------- 10290 normal UT: VirtualShelves.t needs to create its own data 10296 minor UT: db schemas are useless Tools ---------- 9300 normal Filtering export.pl by accession date does not work New sysprefs in 3.12.1 ====================== * CalculateFinesOnReturn 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/3.12/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 (90%) * Armenian (98%) * Chinese (China) (84%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (93%) * Danish (100%) * English (New Zealand) (94%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (61%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (93%) * Greek (56%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (64%) * Portuguese (92%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (91%) * 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 3.12.1 is Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.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 3.12.1: * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.1. * 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Jared Camins-Esakov * 2 Colin Campbell * 1 Frédérick Capovilla * 2 Galen Charlton * 1 Chris Cormack * 6 Jonathan Druart * 2 Nicole Engard * 1 Magnus Enger * 3 Katrin Fischer * 1 Connor Fraser * 2 Kyle M Hall * 1 Janusz Kaczmarek * 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 13 Owen Leonard * 1 Paul Poulain * 3 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Fridolyn SOMERS * 2 Mathieu Saby * 1 Robin Sheat * 1 Jesse Weaver We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.1 * 13 ACPL * 3 BSZ BW * 8 BibLibre * 1 BigBallOfWax * 4 ByWater-Solutions * 1 C & P Bibliography * 1 Catalyst * 2 Equinox * 1 Libeo * 1 Libriotech * 2 PTFS-Europe * 3 Rijksmuseum * 2 Université Rennes 2 * 7 unidentified * 1 yahoo.com We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.12.1. * 1 Pierre Angot * 46 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 2 Jared Camins-Esakov * 51 Galen Charlton * 1 Mickey Coalwell * 2 David Cook * 13 Chris Cormack * 16 Jonathan Druart * 1 Frederic Durand * 5 Nicole C. Engard * 4 Katrin Fischer * 5 Kyle M Hall * 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 3 Owen Leonard * 1 Julian Maurice * 1 Paul Poulain * 9 Marcel de Rooy * 2 Srdjan * 3 Mirko Tietgen * 3 Cedric Vita * 2 George Williams 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 3.12.x. The last Koha release was 3.12.0, which was released on May 19, 2013. 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)