The koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.8.15. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes. As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org This release contains translation updates for both 3.8.14 and 3.8.15, thank you very much bgkriegel and everyone who helped. RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.15 23 Jul 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 3.8.15 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.15.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 3.8.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 0 features, 1 enhancements and 11 bugfixes. New features in 3.8.15 ====================== ---------- Enhancements in 3.8.15 ====================== Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 9370 Use Library::CallNumber::LC when splitting LC call numbers for spine labels Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.15 ====================== OPAC ---------- 10590 critical In opac-topissues limit param is not protected Templates ---------- 766 major Use of CGI::scrolling_list prevents customization in template Other bugs fixed in 3.8.15 ====================== Documentation ---------- 10425 minor Help page missing for Local Use preferences Notices ---------- 10439 normal Cannot modify the notice's library OPAC ---------- 9541 normal Opac-user doesn't load correct CSS for multiple branches Packaging ---------- 10379 minor Koha-rebuild-zebra gets noisy if no instances are defined Patrons ---------- 10297 minor Categorycode and branchcode should be required when adding patrons Staff Client ---------- 6281 normal Bug in LCC sort routine Templates ---------- 10464 minor Patron search on placing a hold doesn't use jqueryui.autocomplete 10466 minor Lists: Use "size" as names/hash keys leads to an unexpected results when using Template::Toolkit (name of a virtual method there) Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers ---------- 10458 trivial Remove obsolete Z3950 module and test New sysprefs in 3.8.15 ====================== 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 (97%) * Armenian (97%) * Chinese (China) (63%) * Danish (100%) * English (New Zealand) (97%) * French (97%) * French (Canada) (74%) * German (97%) * German (Switzerland) (96%) * Greek (92%) * Italian (97%) * Kurdish (93%) * Maori (67%) * Norwegian Bokmål (65%) * Portuguese (97%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%) * Slovak (100%) * Spanish (99%) * Turkish (99%) 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 3.8.15 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 3.8.15: * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.15. * 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 1 Colin Campbell * 7 Galen Charlton * 1 David Cook * 2 Jonathan Druart * 1 Magnus Enger * 1 Kyle M Hall * 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 1 Owen Leonard * 1 Marcel de Rooy * 2 Fridolyn SOMERS * 2 Robin Sheat We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.15 * 1 ACPL * 4 BibLibre * 1 ByWater-Solutions * 2 Catalyst * 7 Equinox * 1 Libriotech * 1 PTFS-Europe * 1 Prosentient Systems * 1 Rijksmuseum * 3 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.15. * 19 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 29 Galen Charlton * 1 David Cook * 8 Chris Cormack * 4 Jonathan Druart * 1 Magnus Enger * 4 Katrin Fischer * 20 Chris Hall * 8 Kyle M Hall * 20 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel * 1 Owen Leonard * 2 Marcel de Rooy * 2 Robin Sheat * 1 Srdjan 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 3.6.11, 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/ He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work) ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 Jul 2013 07:53:50 Z #####