Sorry about that, managed to feed the wrong release announcements to my mail client. 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 3.8.18 23 Sep 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 3.8.18 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.18.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 3.8.18 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 0 features, 2 enhancements and 18 bugfixes. New features in 3.8.18 ====================== ---------- Enhancements in 3.8.18 ====================== MARC Bibliographic data support ---------- 5858 Update default MARC21 framework to Update No. 16 (April 2013) Templates ---------- 10516 Improve titles, breadcrumbs, and confirmation messages for Z39.50 server adds and updates Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.18 ====================== Templates ---------- 10541 major Enable cross-browser AJAX in additem.js Other bugs fixed in 3.8.18 ====================== About ---------- 7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page Acquisitions ---------- 4907 normal Suggestions "organize by" menu doesn't reflect current choice 7598 normal Acquisitions JavaScript contains untranslatable English strings Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 10643 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::ClassSource.pm Cataloging ---------- 9353 minor Missing subfields on MARC21 frameworks Circulation ---------- 9362 normal Wrong query in GetUpcomingDueIssues (Circulation.pm) Notices ---------- 10559 minor Noisy statement handle still active warnings when generating notices OPAC ---------- 10553 normal Public lists not available from OPAC login page 10595 normal OpacTopissue page still accessible when system preference is turned off Patrons ---------- 10507 trivial Typo when warning about creating duplicate patron attribute Searching ---------- 9801 normal Location facet shows even if no locations Serials ---------- 10621 normal Subscription alert emails have wrong from-address 10457 minor Export selected items data doesn't work when using checkall checkbox Templates ---------- 10189 trivial French values in cataloging plugins for unimarc 128b and 128c fields 10346 trivial "Add multiple copies" should be labelled "Add multiple items" Test Suite ---------- 10644 normal C4::ClassSource.pm needs unit tests Web services ---------- 10549 trivial ILS-DI should not use ISO-8851-9 encoding New sysprefs in 3.8.18 ====================== 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 (84%) * Armenian (84%) * Chinese (China) (56%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%) * Czech (98%) * Danish (87%) * English (New Zealand) (84%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (65%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (83%) * Greek (80%) * Italian (100%) * Kurdish (83%) * Maori (58%) * Norwegian Bokmål (57%) * Portuguese (100%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (84%) * Slovak (87%) * 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 3.8.18 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 3.8.18: We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.18. * 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Colin Campbell * 5 Galen Charlton * 3 David Cook * 2 Katrin Fischer * 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 5 Owen Leonard * 1 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Mathieu Saby * 3 Mirko Tietgen * 1 Kenza Zaki * 1 root We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.18 * 5 ACPL * 2 BSZ BW * 2 BibLibre * 5 Equinox * 1 PTFS-Europe * 3 Prosentient Systems * 1 Rijksmuseum * 1 Université Rennes 2 * 3 abunchofthings.net * 1 kenza-VirtualBox * 5 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.18. * 26 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 2 Jared Camins-Esakov * 27 Galen Charlton * 3 Chris Cormack * 6 Jonathan Druart * 7 Katrin Fischer * 28 Chris Hall * 10 Kyle M Hall * 1 Mason James * 28 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 2 Owen Leonard * 3 Liz Rea * 4 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Mathieu Saby * 5 Srdjan * 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 3.8.14, which was released on June 23, 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) ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 Sep 2013 09:08:16 Z #####