The Koha community is proud to release Koha version 3.8.3. This is a bugfix release, and contains a number of important fixes You can obtain Koha 3.8.3 from the http://download.koha-community.org site. Debian packages will be available from the http://debian.koha-community.org shortly also. Please read the release notes below for more information RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.3 22 Jul 2012 NZST ======================================================================== 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 3.8.3 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.03.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 3.8.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.8.3 ====================== 5981 blocker OPAC: Add limits to search history 7619 blocker 3M self checkout don't work in France 8154 blocker The export today's checked in barcodes generated file is always empty 8267 blocker Overdue notices not working 5644 critical dropbox mode doesn't set the correct date 7818 critical support DOM mode for Zebra indexing of bibliographic records 8289 critical Upgrading from 2.2 does not work anymore 5327 major Unit tests required for all C4 modules 7848 major Issues data missing from circulation notices 8229 major Tabs in marc subfield structure is not shown correctly 8315 major fix 'C4::Output 3.02' errors in Koha 8356 major moveitem.tt and linkitem.tt have cataloging typo 8384 major Some Perl scripts do not compile Bugs fixed in 3.8.3 ====================== 3280 normal opac/opac-sendbasket.pl security leaky 6394 normal purchase order has french hard coded in 6634 normal manager_id not populated when paying fines 6720 normal Saved authorities always show as 'Default' 6939 normal DefaultClassificationSource not used in 942$2 7299 normal ILSDI HoldItem service does't set the itemnumber in reserves table 8043 normal today's checkouts are in Previous checkouts in circulation.pl 8152 normal Clicking cancel on edit suggestion redirect to the suggestion detail 8224 normal aqplan.pl and aqbudgets: authorized values doesn't appear in planning list 8255 normal Local cover images should be cacheable 8282 normal Bug in modules list in about.pl 8311 normal Mis-scoped function call in C4::Auth 8375 normal Common diacritics not shown correctly when exporting batch label to PDF 8383 normal Need test to check that Perl files will compile 8386 normal Error in duplicate detection message for authorities 8398 normal Missing image file in staff global css 6855 minor bullet point showing in wrong place on error message 7630 minor Warning on moremember.pl about param without key 7642 minor The number that appears when hovering over a tag in the tag cloud isn't the number of items with that tag 8006 minor Loading offline circulation does not anonymize 8191 minor New value for 8 position in coded data field 100 in unimarc 8194 minor Layout problem on subscription add when showing manual history 8217 minor Focus on search box in Detail page (staff search) 8232 minor Comments in OPAC contain untranslatable javascript messages 8235 minor Packaging scripts get upset with non-Debian perl modules 8242 minor Permission for "change password" button in members toolbar should be "borrowers" instead of "staffaccess" 8272 minor OPAC : date expiration format 8288 minor showmarc.tt should not include full doc-head-close.inc 8314 minor Missing MARCISBNS param in opac-detail.pl 8335 minor Missing Icon PR.png or typo in MARC21slim2OPACDetail.xsl 6350 trivial Bug for tracking updates to the history file 7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page 7367 trivial General OPAC typo omnibus 7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus 7994 trivial Syntax error in yaml (syspref) files 8313 trivial add ASHS to 'Koha team' page, for sponsorship of the 'star-ratings' feature 8323 trivial User created lists not sorting properly 7286 enhancement Introduce rebuild_zebra_sliced.zsh to recursively rebuild zebra & be error proof 8216 enhancement Enable critic tests on SIP modules 8223 enhancement Properly format SQL query in C4::Bookseller::GetBookSeller 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/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: * Arabic (100%) * Armenian (80%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%) * Danish (75%) * English (New Zealand) (78%) * English (USA) * French (100%) * French (Canada) (67%) * German (100%) * Greek (69%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian Bokmål (68%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (90%) * Spanish (87%) 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 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 individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.3. 3 Alex Arnaud 6 Jared Camins-Esakov 3 Colin Campbell 10 Galen Charlton 1 David Cook 11 Chris Cormack 2 Frédéric Demians 3 Jonathan Druart 2 Katrin Fischer 1 Chris Hall 5 Kyle M Hall 2 Claire Hernandez 2 Mason James 5 Owen Leonard 1 Frère Sébastien Marie 1 Julian Maurice 2 Matthias Meusburger 1 Sophie Meynieux 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 Maxime Pelletier 4 Paul Poulain 3 Marcel de Rooy 2 Robin Sheat 1 Lyon3 Team 1 Mirko Tietgen 2 Mark Tompsett 1 Duncan Tyler 2 Marc Veron 1 Stacey Walker 1 wajasu We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.3. 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi 17 Jared Camins-Esakov 10 Galen Charlton 82 Chris Cormack 1 Frédéric Demians 1 Jonathan Druart 3 Nicole C. Engard 10 Katrin Fischer 4 Kyle M Hall 1 Mason James 2 Owen Leonard 1 Julian Maurice 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic 62 Paul Poulain 1 Liz Rea 2 Martin Renvoize 3 Marcel de Rooy 1 Robin Sheat 1 Delaye Stephane 5 Marc Veron 2 Stacey Walker 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 3.8.2, which was released on June 22, 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