[Koha] Koha 3.8.2 Released
Chris Cormack
chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Fri Jun 22 10:04:19 NZST 2012
The Koha community is proud to release Koha version 3.8.2. This is a
bugfix release, and contains a large number of fixes.
You can obtain Koha 3.8.2 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 3.8.2
21 Jun 2012
========================================================================
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 3.8.2 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.02.tar.gz
Installation instructions can be found:
in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 3.8.2 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.8.2
======================
8140 blocker Error when exporting label xml
8247 blocker adding basket doesn't save basket name, internal or vendor note
7329 critical The "undo import into catalog" command deletes items
onloan without checking
8056 critical CircAutoPrintQuickSlip set to clear doesn't work
8062 critical Cart email broken for non english templates
8135 critical Services Directory and itemrecorddisplay.pl File Missing
After Install
8144 critical 775 tag in the MARC record causes display issue
5327 major Unit tests required for all C4 modules
7112 major Having two prices in 020$c causes basket creation to fail
from staged marc import
8057 major Error when adding a patron with email address
8082 major The: IssuingInProcess configuration setting is working in reverse.
8145 major opac-tags.pl fails when DEBUG is set
8182 major Problem with overdue fine calculations after upgrade
8201 major can't change receive date
Bugs fixed in 3.8.2
======================
3638 normal Status of hold not changed when item checked in via SIP2 Interface
4330 normal Copyright statements out of date
4838 normal Repeated authority headings break biblio record data entry form
5795 normal Missing ReservesControlBranch system pref in database installer
6858 normal Adds staticfines.pl for static fines processing
7127 normal Templates must be valid XHTML
7178 normal Improve order item creation
7586 normal Search: Language restriction does NOT show expected
results (no items shown)
7599 normal Cart JavaScript contains untranslatable English strings
7810 normal C4/Auth.pm - on plack restart session is undefined
7872 normal C4::Items should use C4::Koha methods instead of
duplicating SQL queries
7951 normal Suspending holds needs a system preference
7952 normal PDF::Reuse under plack writes to console STDOUT instead to browser
7961 normal Local cover images should support CSV link files
8005 normal Lost item is not anonymized when checked in
8111 normal Language chooser display problem in self-checkout
8116 normal z3950 empty search causes silent warning in koha-error_log
8124 normal Hide option to download results of items with no checkouts report
8129 normal quick slips issuing does not work
8136 normal Changes the expected lenght of 100$a in rebuild_zebra.pl
8160 normal Link to cataloging appears for users without cataloging permission
8161 normal Cataloging home page should be accessible to users with
permission to edit catalog or edit items
8171 normal Improper escaping of quotes during z39.50 queries leads
to broken html
8176 normal $sqlwhere is undefined in C4::Serials in GetSubscriptions
8184 normal Duplicate budget page lacks heading and breadcrumbs
8197 normal Software error when you have cleaned cookies in your
browser and try to past the url to opac-topissues.pl
8226 normal 'OpacFooter' markup/css improvements
5312 minor XHTML correction in authority summary
6141 minor html glitches causing problems to translator
7815 minor Order pickup library list by name rather than by code
7948 minor Printing transfer slip loses barcode field focus
8009 minor Item descriptive data not populated on pay.pl
8014 minor On the patron entry form hide "restricted until" field if
"Restricted: No" is checked
8040 minor a menu misnamed in budgets
8119 minor Show hint when disabling active currency checkbox
8122 minor Add a link to new library group creation from empty groups message
8139 minor Fix the CSS for the recent comments to prevent leftmenu
overlapping it.
8150 minor Patron circulation history has a fossil navagation bar
8166 minor Adding new currencies & exchange rates if not fill any
field it save blank record
8195 minor The selected link in include menus must be bold
8217 minor Focus on search box in Detail page (staff search)
3521 trivial Items table in catalogue/detail.pl and
cataloguing/additem.pl is sorted nonsensically
6267 trivial custom http user-agent in check-url.pl (fix for
books.google.com 401 error)
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus
8222 trivial The zip code field is mandatory by default
6684 enhancement koha-remove should check the number of arguments it gets
7444 enhancement Use T::T date plugin to display dates omnibus
7788 enhancement Tiny problems with calling GetShelf
7847 enhancement OPAC search dies with plack
7926 enhancement Acq search results show empty parenthesis for orders
without basket group
7941 enhancement Fix version numbers in modules and set up a system to
keep them up to date
8080 enhancement login and password is pre-filled by the browser when
creating a new patron
8107 enhancement Disabled buttons not distinguishable from enabled buttons.
8138 enhancement Add 773$t field to xslt
8178 enhancement circ/circulation.pl under plack duplicates checkout rows
New system preferences in 3.8.2
=================================
* ReservesControlBranch
* SuspendHoldsIntranet
* SuspendHoldsOpac
System requirements
======================
Changes since 3.6:
* No new system requirements
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:
the following languages:
* Chinese -Taiwan- (100%, OPAC 100%)
* German (100%, OPAC 100%)
* Italian (100%, OPAC 100%)
* French (99%, OPAC 100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (90%, OPAC 100%)
* Spanish (87%, OPAC 100%)
* English -nz- (78%, OPAC 100%)
* Arabic (76%, OPAC 100%)
* Danish (75%, OPAC 100%)
* Greek (69%, OPAC 100%)
* French -canada- (68%, OPAC 70%)
* Armenian (68%, OPAC 100%)
* Norwegian (67%, OPAC 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 is
Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic at tamil.fr>
QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal at gmail.com>
QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy at rijksmuseum.nl>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart at biblibre.com>
Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
======================
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to
Koha 3.8.2.
1 D Ruth Bavousett
1 Jared Camins-Esakov
4 Colin Campbell
20 Chris Cormack
4 Christophe Croullebois
1 Stéphane Delaune
4 Frédéric Demians
4 Jonathan Druart
3 Katrin Fischer
2 Amit Gupta
10 Kyle M Hall
2 Mason James
2 Srdjan Jankovic
1 Piotr Kowalski
12 Owen Leonard
2 Julian Maurice
1 Matthias Meusburger
3 Sophie Meynieux
7 Dobrica Pavlinusic
6 Paul Poulain
1 Liz Rea
3 Marcel de Rooy
1 Fridolyn SOMERS
1 Adrien Saurat
2 Robin Sheat
1 Simon Story
1 Marc Veron
1 Ian Walls
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to
koha-patches at 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 Koha 3.8.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix
releases) is 3.8.x.
The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.10.0.
Bugs and feature requests
======================
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at
http://bugs.koha-community.org/
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