The koha 1.9.0 is born a few minuts agos. His parents, the koha-team, are very proud of this almost-stable children. Please go to see the baby at : http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=138050 Changes: Release notes : ============ * dozens of bugfixes. The MARC acquisition part is now completly stable, and used in production in France since december. * Templating almost ended. Translations now avaible : french (almost finished), chinese, spanish, and polish * Circulation now works. * non ISO-5589-1 support (for chinese and polish) * improvements in marc import in breeding farm. * first draft of search in MARC-DB * librarian interface demo avaible at http://demo.koha-fr.org. Please note that by default this site should be in FRENCH. If you modify parameters, don't forget to put fr again in systemprefs ! This release is fairly stable, and the translation process is now on the road in french, polish, spanish and chinese ! The MARC management is really stable now, and the remaining bugs are located in circulation and members management. KNOWN LIMITS : ============= Install it from scratch : * upgrading from 1.3.3 is IMPOSSIBLE, due to DB diffs. * upgrading from 1.2.x is UNTESTED. ROADMAP : ======== Next version ------------------ The next version should be called 1.9.1. It will be release at end of february, and will add : * z39.50 in acquisition (cataloguing). * acquisition and cataloguing will be better separated, as discussed in koha mailing lists. Cataloguing will be possible in MARC or non-MARC, while acquisition will be possible through bookseller or directly * complete MARC search * completed MARC export It will be the LAST VERSION WITH NEW FEATURES. FEATURE FREEZE WILL OCCUR with 1.9.1 ! After 1.9.1, we should go to 2.0RC1 a few days/weeks after ! Future releases : ----------------------- * z39.50 in search to reserve books from other libraries * Serials * Reports rewrite -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)