The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.12, 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 3.8.12 23 Apr 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 3.8.12 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.12.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 3.8.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Major fixes in 3.8.12 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 7018 critical need all acq permissions to search Cataloging ---------- 8860 critical can't merge if you don't have fast cataloging permissions 9908 major OCLC Connexion Desktop Client Doesn't Work Circulation ---------- 9953 major When OpacMaintenance breaks lifting debarment Installation and upgrade (command-line installer) ---------- 8780 major Lower dependency version for DateTime::TimeZone Notices ---------- 8378 major <fine> syntax not working on overdues anymore Searching ---------- 9050 major rebuild_zebra should use the adelete action so it doesn't fail when deleting a record not in the index 9341 major Problem with UNIMARC authors facets Tools ---------- 9535 major Patron card creator "Remove duplicates" function doesn't work Other bugs fixed in 3.8.12 ========================== About ---------- 9956 trivial Add missing translators to the about page Acquisitions ---------- 7875 trivial Pending suggestion link (the numbers) from staff client home directs to accepted suggestions instead of pending Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 7379 normal copynumber is displayed 'as is' when linked to autorised values 9609 trivial Rebuild zebra reports double numbers for exported records with -z option Command-line Utilities ---------- 9885 normal Passwords generated by command line scripts are weak Hold requests ---------- 9786 normal [3.8.X] Holds to pull showing items not available I18N/L10N ---------- 7938 normal The -v option to the translate script is not documented Installation and upgrade (command-line installer) ---------- 8742 trivial Example uses perl 5.8 in Makefile.PL Installation and upgrade (web-based installer) ---------- 9863 trivial 'import' button in web installer should read 'Import' MARC Bibliographic data support ---------- 9274 normal Software error in bibtex export OPAC ---------- 9502 minor [3.8.X] famfamfam: wrongly placed in package 3.8.8/9 Packaging ---------- 8816 normal add WARNING to debian/control file, to not manually edit 9802 minor Add test case to verify package man pages are well formatted Patrons ---------- 9002 normal Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form Searching ---------- 9419 minor The highlight feature can cause a browser freeze Self checkout ---------- 9748 minor noitemlinks not being enforced Serials ---------- 9947 minor Creating item for received serial prefills enumchron subfield SIP2 ---------- 9838 trivial SIP tests : fix in 04patron_status.t Staff Client ---------- 9726 minor XISBN service throttle not initialized Templates ---------- 9945 normal Pretty icon display in authorised values configuration 5648 minor icons clumping together 8737 minor Incorrect icon at login in staff client 9571 minor Fix width for textareas in Edit Item screen 9781 minor [3.6.X/3.8.x] Fix dynarch calendar positioning in IE Tools ---------- 8861 minor Undefined variables in batchMod.pl trigger error logs 9954 minor CSV profile encoding not selected on editing translate.koha-community.org ---------- 8942 normal Translation process breaks javascript in calendar.inc Enhancements in 3.8.12 ====================== ---------- New sysprefs in 3.8.12 ====================== * UNIMARCAuthorsFacetsSeparator 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/3.8.12/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 (100%) * Armenian (99%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%) * Danish (74%) * English (New Zealand) (99%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (76%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (99%) * Greek (95%) * Italian (99%) * Norwegian Bokmål (67%) * Portuguese (99%) * 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 3.8.12 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 3.8.12: * KEEP SOLUTIONS We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12. * 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Jared Camins-Esakov * 3 David Cook * 8 Chris Cormack * 2 Jonathan Druart * 1 Vitor FERNANDES * 2 Kyle M Hall * 2 Peter Crellan Kelly * 1 Owen Leonard * 1 Chris Nighswonger * 4 Dobrica Pavlinusic * 1 Karam Qubsi * 1 Thatcher Rea * 1 Marcel de Rooy * 9 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Mathieu Saby * 2 Adrien Saurat * 1 Robin Sheat * 1 Will Stokes * 4 Mark Tompsett * 1 Aaron Wells * 1 Jen Zajac * 1 “ByWater We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.12 * 1 ACPL * 13 Biblibre * 6 BigBallOfWax * 3 ByWater-Solutions * 1 C & P Bibliography * 8 Catalyst * 1 Foundations * 3 Prosentient Systems * 1 Rijksmuseum * 1 Université Rennes 2 * 1 bywatersolutions.com” * 1 keep.pt * 4 rot13.org * 6 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.12. * 4 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 29 Jared Camins-Esakov * 2 Galen Charlton * 45 Chris Cormack * 10 Jonathan Druart * 1 Frédéric Durand * 3 Magnus Enger * 13 Katrin Fischer * 8 Kyle M Hall * 4 Mason James * 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 10 Owen Leonard * 1 Sophie Meynieux * 1 Chris Nighswonger * 1 Paul Poulain * 1 MJ Ray * 1 Liz Rea * 4 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Robin Sheat * 1 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 3.6.11, 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