[Koha] Koha 3.12.6 released

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 08:19:56 NZDT 2013


The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.6.

This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several
bugfixes.

Disclaimer: I apologize for the delay and the amount of patches that remain
to be included in the stable release. Preparing for attending KohaCon13
left me with no time to review the patches. Hopefully next release will
include all the delayed patches.

As always you can download the release from http://download.koha
-community.org

Please read more for the full release notes


RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.6
28 Oct 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 3.12.6 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.06.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 3.12.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 2 enhancements and 11 bugfixes.


Enhancements in 3.12.6
======================

Packaging
----------
8507 Koha-create should be updated to use DOM indexing for bib

Templates
----------
10349 Don't show empty Descriptions/Title notes tabs in OPAC and staff


Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.6
======================


Hold requests
----------
10272 critical CheckReserves returns not respecting ReservesControlBranch


Other bugs fixed in 3.12.6
======================


Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
8705 normal Software error on help of main page

MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
10324 trivial Editorial series do not display correctly in normal view
(UNIMARC / no XSLT)

OPAC
----------
10672 normal Add subtitle to display of checkouts, overdues, and holds on
the patron summary

Packaging
----------
10802 normal History.txt missing in packages

Templates
----------
10218 minor Add individual CSS classes for bibliographic information on
OPAC results and detail pages (UNIMARC)
 10721 minor Improve DataTables configuration on transfers to receive report
 10793 minor XSLT change 780/785 search queries to use ti,phr indexes like
other linking entries
 10609 trivial Use branch name rather than branch code in
serials-collection.pl

Test Suite
----------
10333 normal UT: Labels/t_Batch.t needs to create its own data

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
----------
10742 minor Simple search to z39.50 search keeps index


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/3.12/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 (89%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Chinese (China) (100%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  * Czech (100%)
  * Danish (99%)
  * English (New Zealand) (92%)
  * French (100%)
  * French (Canada) (97%)
  * German (99%)
  * German (Switzerland) (98%)
  * Greek (54%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Kurdish (78%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
  * Polish (63%)
  * Portuguese (99%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (92%)
  * Slovak (99%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Swedish (98%)
  * Turkish (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 3.12.6 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.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:       Vimal Kumar V.
  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 3.12.6:
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.6.
  *      4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1 Galen Charlton
  *      1 David Cook
  *      1 Jonathan Druart
  *      2 Kyle M Hall
  *      1 Janusz Kaczmarek
  *      3 Owen Leonard
  *      1 Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1 Mathieu Saby
  *      1 Mirko Tietgen

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.6
  *       3 ACPL
  *       2 BibLibre
  *       2 ByWater-Solutions
  *       1 Equinox
  *       1 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       1 abunchofthings.net
  *       5 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.6.
  *      16 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      13 Galen Charlton
  *       2 David Cook
  *       6 Chris Cormack
  *       9 Katrin Fischer
  *       1 Kyle M Hall
  *       1 Mason James
  *       2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       2 Srdjan
  *       2 Mirko Tietgen

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 3.12.x.

The last Koha release was 3.8.17, which was released on August 24, 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)

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