[Koha] Koha 2.2.5 roadmap

[KL Nasveschuk]

Hi,

The transition from 2.2.4 to upcoming 2.2.5: Hopefully not too bumpy a
road? I've never upgraded since I started with 2.2.4.


Kent N

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 12:07 +0100, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some news about 2.2.5 roadmap.
> It should be released as christmas gift, at the end of next week, or 
> maybe january, 2nd.
> French libraries are testing this version.
> It almost only fixes bugs.
> 
> Merry & holy christmas to everybody.
> 
> 
> Here the Release Notes of the future version :
> 
> BUGFIXES
> === ACQUISITION ===
> * suggestion/acquisition bugfixes :
> 	- 200 field is no more splitted in 2 parts
> 	- author is after title in UNIMARC (dirty solution, but mySQL has a 
> strange behaviour)
> 	- when the book is recieved, the suggestion is marked "available" and a 
> mail is sent
> * printing stylesheet dropped ALL <p> (hiding too many things in order 
> printing)
> 
> === CATALOGUING ===
> * Repeated subfield in authority were not being reported in the biblio 
> while cataloguing
> * when AuthoBarcode=ON and MARC=ON the barcode was not calculated 
> automatically. Now, the barcode will be calculated (and any manual entry 
> discarded during save)
> * adding a feature to enable reordering of subfields in MARC editor (can 
> be considered as a bug ? at least one of my libraries think that yes !)
> * when a note is added to items it was not stored into non MARC-DB
> * permission required to use a plugin was wrong. Changed to 
> "editcatalogue", more convenient.
> * if the last field was an authority, the authority report generated a 
> javascript error (going after array size)
> 
> === AUTHORITIES ===
> * fixing bug in summary (separator before subfield was in fact after)
> * fixing bug in authority order : authorities are not ordered 
> alphabetically instead of no order. Requires all the dataset to be 
> retrieved, but the benefits is important !
> * no need to do a search on an authority when the authority has no MARC 
> field (like EDITORS pseudo authority)
> 
> === SERIALS ===
> * Ordering bull-home better : by title
> 
> === CIRCULATION ===
> * minor bugfix : showing date in format from systempreferences
> 
> === REPORTS ===
> * Lot of bugfixes in borrower issues, catalogue issues, issues stats
> 
> === ALL ===
> * bugfixes in ldap auth (bugfixes from 2.2.4, 2.2.3 was not buggy)
> 	
> === OPAC ===
> * adding dashes in isbn in opac-detail.pl
> * translation bug ISSN translated to ISBN in french , very annoying 
> mistake ! + some other translations
> * ordering by acquisition date was buggy.
> 	
> IMPROVEMENTS
> 
> === ACQUISITION ===
> * added a menu & a screen to see late issues attached to a bookseller.
> 
> === CIRCULATION===
> * In overdue list, Added some filter features :
> - filter on borrower firstname, surname or cardnumber. **This can be 
> discussed and changed**
> - filter on borrowercategory
> - filter on itemtype
> - filter on branch
> - show all current issues.
> * Added a reserve management page in circulation module. It basically 
> displays all the reservations not cancelled.
> * Adding a systempreference to notice the library before departure of a 
> borrower. when borrower leaves the library in less than 
> 'NotifiyBorrowerDeparture', the circulation desk shows it.
> 
> === CATALOGUING ===
> * as the MARC editor begins to be really heavy, i've also added a 
> marc_hide systempref. It hides all marc features not requested by 
> libraries that want MARC but not too much. It hides MARC tag & subfield 
> code, reordering buttons as well as indicators. by default, hide_marc is off
> 
> === OPAC ===
> * by default, recent acquisitions are done on 30 days.
> * New systempreference : OpacPasswordChange if set to Yes (default) the 
> user can change it's password. If set to No, he can't. Useful for 
> libraries with LDAP auth, where the password is checked in LDAP, not in 
> Koha, thus Koha can't change it
> 
> === SERIALS ===
> * ordering lists by biblio title
> * when adding a subscription and searching a biblio, you can filter on 
> itemtype (useful as libraries usually have one or few itemtypes specific 
> for serials)
>