The Koha release team is happy to announce the release of Koha 3.6.5 This is a stable release and contains bugfixes as well as updated translations. You can download it at http://download.koha-community.org/ Go forth, download, and enjoy :) RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.5 24 May 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 3.6.5 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.05.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 3.6.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.5 ====================== 3916 critical Batch Modify tool overwrites dropdown fields - no option for "no change" 6488 critical opachiddenitems not working in master 7485 critical Cannot edit barcode on Fast Add 7513 critical MARC Import Hangs 7597 critical fines not recording the right info in the stats table 7631 critical Self checkout renewal fails because of reference to non-existent subroutine in sco-main.pl 7893 critical Missing build-dependency on libdatetime-format-dateparse-perl and libreadonly-perl 7924 critical Fix handling of command line arguments in koha-remove 7231 major ordering from staged file not using price 7272 major Fix for Bug 6328 causes user accounts to be frozen (SIP2) 7284 major Authority matching algorithm improvements 7454 major Sip renewal all response returns incorrect info 7482 major overdues report downloads without names 7581 major Holds not working in OPAC in singlebranchmode 7636 major error when trying to email cart when opacuserlogin set to don't allow 7838 major Add sort-string-utf.chr for Ukrainian and Russian Bugs fixed in 3.6.5 ====================== 1662 normal Is there a difference between Full and Simplified for Serials History 3216 normal UNIMARC author facets 4976 normal Status of item returned with process_koc.pl is empty in Intranet 5180 normal Autocomplete broken on overdues report 5373 normal fields listed on patron import do not match the csv file 5482 normal Translation problem in guided reports - Item field names 5657 normal biblio records update fails when updating multiple authorities linked with the same biblio 5749 normal The display of borrower adresses composed of streetnumber, streettype and address is broken 5841 normal Routing slip not displaying publication date 6125 normal Plugin for date acquired does not work on ACQ framework 6434 normal Many changes for Ukrainian and Russian sql-tables 6701 normal language on timeout system preference is wrong 7092 normal Complete-subfield searches TraceCompleteSubfields syspref not working correctly 7271 normal Revert getitems default sort to homebranch instead of holding branch 7445 normal Clicking on a tag gives "Language ... does not exist" 7493 normal Deleting a record with comments breaks 7537 normal Implement TraceCompleteSubfields, TraceSubjectSubdivisions and UseICU for NORMARC XSLT 7558 normal Serial issue note doubled up in full history 7579 normal Icons for authorized values/item types not showing in OPAC 7590 normal Cataloging authorities search result page is broken 7609 normal Improving links to find analytics and volumes when using UseControlnumber 7644 normal Invalid markup in staff client language chooser 7645 normal System preferences editor save button obscured by language chooser 7656 normal "undefined" pop-up message when putting hold on reference item 7665 normal Bibs with no ISBN's show broken images for covers when using Syndetics cover images. 7695 normal Boolean operator AND in XSLT gets translated 7699 normal Restricted until datepicker broken 7724 normal Tests requiring Zebra should be skipped if Zebra isn't set up 7727 normal NORMARC XSLT OPAC detail view shows double tabs 7749 normal Not all OKs on the start page are translatable 7766 normal C4/Auth.pm emits debug output to STDOUT 7780 normal fix translator tool verbosity 7824 normal [3.6 only] Typo in opac-userupdate.tt causes the first name to not show in the header 7837 normal nb-NO z3950servers.sql misses column names 7858 normal Missing packages from install_misc/ubuntu.packages 7885 normal Change filename of TransferLog suggested by packages to fit with logrotate 7886 normal C4/ShelfBrowser slow SQL performance 7940 normal Placing a hold on a single item from the staff cart causes errors 8020 normal Prepare debian packages for 3.8 release 4819 enhancement Add ID attribute to certain areas of OPAC so jquery can be used to hide them 7140 enhancement Add item type description on the catalogue search and detail screens 7143 enhancement Bug for tracking changes to the about page 7436 enhancement Set itemtypes.rentalcharge = 0 in sample data for nb-NO and de-DE 7617 enhancement Authority search results should optionally be sorted by system order 7700 enhancement Cart's more details view shows identity numbers 7734 enhancement NO_LIBRARY_SET should be translatable 7738 enhancement "Display more constraints" in subfield configuraton is not properly translatable 7746 enhancement In staff 'No public lists.' is not translatable 7758 enhancement Koha allowing LOST items to check out without alert 7760 enhancement Add ids and classes to every staff page to help with customizaton 7761 enhancement cleaning up empty declarations from staff-global.css 7876 enhancement Add ids to divs and spans with ids in opac-user.tt 7935 enhancement Introduce sys pref to control 'browse results' in OPAC New sysprefs in 3.6.5 ====================== * AutoCreateAuthorities * CatalogModuleRelink * LinkerKeepStale * LinkerModule * LinkerOptions * LinkerRelink * OpacBrowseResults * UseICU * dateformat System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.4: * Perl 5.10 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: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Danish * English (USA) * English (UK) * French (France) * German * Italian * Portuguese (Brazil) * Spanish 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: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger 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 libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.6: * Los Gatos Public Library * NEKLS * East Brunswick Public Library * Athens County Public Libraries * Horowhenua Library Trust * Halton Borough Council * South Taranaki District Council We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.5. 1 BibLibre 1 Gaetan Boisson 12 Jared Camins-Esakov 3 Colin Campbell 1 David 2 Stéphane Delaune 2 Frédéric Demians 1 Jonathan Druart 9 Magnus Enger 28 Katrin Fischer 1 Chris Hall 12 Kyle M Hall 3 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Janusz Kaczmarek 11 Owen Leonard 1 Sophie Meynieux 1 Chris Nighswonger 3 Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 Maxime Pelletier 6 Paul Poulain 1 MJ Ray 3 Liz Rea 2 Marcel de Rooy 3 Adrien Saurat 5 Robin Sheat 1 Zeno Tajoli 2 Serhij Dubyk {Сергій Дубик} 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 Koha 3.6.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.6.x. Koha 3.8.0 was released on April 23, 2012. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.10.0. 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 -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/