[Koha] Koha 3.10.7 released

Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel bgkriegel at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 08:57:43 NZST 2013


The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.10.7,
this is a stable release and contains many bugfixes. The packages are
available at debian.koha-community.org or you can download the tarball
from download.koha-community.org

This is my first release as 3.10.x release maintainer, also my first
as translation manager, I hope all translations on the other
releases behaves well.

Thanks to all developers and testers who contributed to this release.

Please read more for the full release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.7
22 jun 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 3.10.7 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.07.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 3.10.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 5 enhancements and 33 bugfixes.


Enhancements in 3.10.7
======================

OPAC
----------
6399 Tooltip for tags that says 'separate by comma'

Packaging
----------
10367 Allow packages to work on debian wheezy

Staff Client
----------
9507 Some code used to prevent form from being unexpectedly submitted is
duplicated

Templates
----------
10015 UniqueItemFields could have link to database documentation
10036 Adding header search to additem page


Critical bugs fixed in 3.10.7
======================


Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
10293 blocker Bug 9930 needs to be reverted for 3.10.x

Circulation
----------
10262 critical Fine calculation at checkin not respecting CircControl
10120 major Fine recalculation on return needs to be a system preference

Hold requests
----------
10166 major Can't place holds on multiple titles if one or more are
un-holdable

translate.koha-community.org
----------
10413 major Odd space character brakes translation


Other bugs fixed in 3.10.7
======================


Acquisitions
----------
9824 normal Hide basket with no expected items in basket list by bookseller
10313 normal Selecting an invoice from the historic orders page does not
take you to that invoice
10381 normal Hide basket links should be improved

Cataloging
----------
10178 trivial Typos in plugins for 006 and 008 in MARC21

Circulation
----------
10288 trivial Tiny typo on "Pending offline circulation actions"

Command-line Utilities
----------
10326 minor Bulkmarcimport.pl turns off  CataloguingLog sys pref

I18N/L10N
----------
10083 normal In Transit string doesn't get translated in the staff interface
10214 normal Malformed syspref.po file

OPAC
----------
10292 normal XSLT files always taken from 'prog' theme for English
10359 minor CCSR theme should apply jqTransform after OpacUserJS

Packaging
----------
10094 normal Koha-list should have an --disabled option
10146 normal Koha-stop-zebra error handling
10157 normal Koha-email-enable error handling
10159 normal Koha-rebuild-zebra error handling
10259 normal Koha-*-zebra scripts are expected to run without warnings if
no instance name passed

Patrons
----------
10184 trivial Circulation History reverses sort order

Staff Client
----------
10310 normal Prevent submit form pressing enter should be improved
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus

Templates
----------
10249 normal Untranslatable strings in Javascript on OPAC detail page
10218 minor In OPAC XSLT search results, add class to 'online access'
10284 minor Missing spaces between label and content in XSLT view for
785/780
10186 trivial Typo in subscription-add.tt (years vs year)
10191 trivial 2 option tags are not closed in unimarc_field_115a.tt and
unimarc_field_116.tt
10193 trivial Copies should be holdings as label for items on MARC view
10307 trivial Z39.50 server search tab shows z390.50
10350 trivial Capitalization: Home Library column in staff detail items
table

Test Suite
----------
10296 minor UT: db schemas are useless

Tools
----------
9300 normal Filtering export.pl by accession date does not work


New sysprefs in 3.10.7
======================

  * CalculateFinesOnReturn
  * DisplayIconsXSLT
  * HighlightOwnItemsOnOPAC
  * HighlightOwnItemsOnOPACWhich
  * TimeFormat
  * UniqueItemFields
  * UseKohaPlugins


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, English and Spanish versions
of the Koha manual are available:

    http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10/en/
    http://es.koha-community.org/manual/3.10/es/

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 (100%)
  * Chinese (China) (92%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (98%)
  * French (95%)
  * French (Canada) (66%)
  * German (97%)
  * German (Switzerland) (94%)
  * Greek (60%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
  * Portuguese (97%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * 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 3.10.7 is

  Release Manager:       Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
  Installation Documentation Managers:
                         Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux at ecp.fr>
                         Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com>
  Translation Manager:   Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel at gmail.com>
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer at bsz-bw.de>
  QA Team:               Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
                         Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy at rijksmuseum.nl>,
                         Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart at biblibre.com>,
                         Brendan Gallagher <brendan at bywatersolutions.com>
                         Kyle Hall <kyle at bywatersolutions.com>
                         Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com>
                         Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no>
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz>
  Live CD Manager:       Nguyen Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102 at yahoo.com>
  VM Manager:            Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux at ecp.fr>

  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall <chrish at catalyst.net.nz>
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <
bgkriegel at gmail.com>
  Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>


Credits
======================

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.7:
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.7.
  *      5 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      2 Colin Campbell
  *      1 Galen Charlton
  *      1 Chris Cormack
  *      1 Frédéric Demians
  *      4 Jonathan Druart
  *      1 Magnus Enger
  *      3 Katrin Fischer
  *      1 Connor Fraser
  *      2 Kyle M Hall
  *      1 Janusz Kaczmarek
  *      5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      9 Owen Leonard
  *      4 Marcel de Rooy
  *      1 Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      2 Mathieu Saby
  *      1 Robin Sheat
  *      1 Lyon3 Team
  *      1 Jesse Weaver

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.7
  *       9 ACPL

  *       3 BSZ BW

  *       5 BibLibre

  *       1 BigBallOfWax

  *       2 ByWater-Solutions

  *       1 C & P Bibliography

  *       1 Catalyst

  *       1 Equinox

  *       1 Libriotech

  *       2 PTFS-Europe

  *       4 Rijksmuseum

  *       1 Tamil

  *       1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
  *       2 Université Rennes 2
  *      12 unidentified
  *       1 yahoo.com

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.7.
  *       1 Pierre Angot
  *      30 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       1 Gaetan Boisson
  *      19 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      35 Galen Charlton
  *       1 Mickey Coalwell
  *       2 David Cook
  *      10 Chris Cormack
  *      14 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Frederic Durand
  *       2 Nicole C. Engard
  *       6 Katrin Fischer
  *       2 Kyle M Hall
  *      46 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       4 Owen Leonard
  *       1 Julian Maurice
  *       9 Marcel de Rooy
  *       5 Robin Sheat
  *       3 Mirko Tietgen
  *       3 Cedric Vita
  *       1 George Williams

We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently 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 this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is release-3.10.7.

The last Koha release was 3.12.0, which was released on May 19, 2013.


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)

--
Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
bgkriegel at gmail.com


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