The Koha release team, in association with the many developers and users who have had input, are happy to announce the release of Koha version 3.8.10. This is the latest stable release, please read below for the release notes, and as always you can download from download.koha-community.org or wait a couple of days for the packages to be updated. RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.10 23 Feb 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 3.8.10 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.10.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 3.8.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.8.10 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 9281 major Impossible to create an order from a staged file OPAC ---------- 9147 major OPAC hidden fields are not hidden in ISBD view System Administration ---------- 8401 critical Search term deleted from system preference content Bugs fixed in 3.8.10 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 9226 minor Wrong branch filter after suggestion creation 9268 trivial Scanning in barcode or ISBN in Acquisitions -> new order submits the form unexpectedly Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 9546 normal MANIFEST.SKIP breaking regexp when running make manifest tardist 9552 normal BIB1 Relation "Greater Than" Attribute Not Mapped Properly in CCL.Properties Cataloging ---------- 9494 minor Library of Congress Z39.50 target seed data outdated Circulation ---------- 8079 normal opac not showing fines - says 'no' Command-line Utilities ---------- 9104 minor country in CSV in overdue_notices.pl Hold requests ---------- 9320 normal Pending reserves is showing reserves already waiting Holidays ---------- 9211 normal days_between wrong behaviour I18N/L10N ---------- 9493 minor confirmations for user holds in opac are not translatable Notices ---------- 9348 minor Format dates in HOLD notices consistently 9499 trivial --itemscontent= option is undocumented in advanced-notice.pl cronjob + default date should be date_due, not issuedate OPAC ---------- 9174 normal Item type image does not display for biblio-level itemtypes in list display in OPAC 9276 normal Display of biblio-level authorized values on OPAC search results broken 9329 minor Wrong message for already expired cards 9502 minor famfamfam: wrongly placed in package 3.8.8/9 Patrons ---------- 9407 minor patrons search should match substrings Searching ---------- 7507 normal Audience Subtype limit on Advanced Search does not have all Audiences 9402 trivial useless letter "v" between 2 <option> tags Serials ---------- 9222 minor manual history reversed in subscription-detail.pl 9229 minor branch code instead of name in subscription-detail.pl Staff Client ---------- 9376 minor Problem with dateexpiry display in moremember.tt System Administration ---------- 9201 normal OAI-PMH mapping value cannot be 0 Templates ---------- 9310 normal Patron image upload template corrections 9583 normal OPAC cart button display problem in Chromium Tools ---------- 9509 normal batchMod.pl does not ensure each barcode is unique Enhancements in 3.8.10 ====================== Cataloging ---------- 9357 Missing 'c' option in LEADER_18 value builder Templates ---------- 9615 Combine staff home page images into single sprite New sysprefs in 3.8.10 ====================== 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/3.8.10/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 (99%) * Armenian (100%) * Basque (78%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (74%) * Danish (74%) * English (New Zealand) (100%) * French (99%) * French (Canada) (76%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (99%) * Greek (69%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (67%) * Portuguese (100%) * 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 3.8.10 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 3.8.10: * KEEP SOLUTIONS * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.10. * 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Jared Camins-Esakov * 2 Galen Charlton * 2 David Cook * 6 Chris Cormack * 1 Jonathan Druart * 1 Vitor FERNANDES * 4 Kyle M Hall * 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 4 Owen Leonard * 1 Sophie Meynieux * 1 Fred Pierre * 1 MJ Ray * 2 Liz Rea * 5 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Mathieu Saby * 1 Adrien Saurat * 1 Mirko Tietgen We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.10 * 4 ACPL * 8 Biblibre * 3 BigBallOfWax * 4 ByWater-Solutions * 1 C & P Bibliography * 5 Catalyst * 2 Equinox * 2 Prosentient Systems * 1 Software.coop * 1 Université Rennes 2 * 1 abunchofthings.net * 1 keep.pt * 1 smfpl.org * 3 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.10. * 32 Jared Camins-Esakov * 6 Galen Charlton * 1 David Cook * 36 Chris Cormack * 2 Elliott Davis * 17 Jonathan Druart * 1 Nicole C. Engard * 10 Katrin Fischer * 5 Kyle M Hall * 4 Mason James * 4 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 6 Owen Leonard * 1 Paul Poulain * 1 Liz Rea * 2 Marcel de Rooy * 1 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Marc Veron 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