[Koha] ding, ding, the bell rings => koha 1.9.0 is born !

[paul POULAIN]

The koha 1.9.0 is born a few minuts agos.
His parents, the koha-team, are very proud of this almost-stable children.
Please go to see the baby at : 
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=138050

Changes:
Release notes :
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* dozens of bugfixes. The MARC acquisition part is now completly stable, 
and used in production in France since december.
* Templating almost ended. Translations now avaible : french (almost 
finished), chinese, spanish, and polish
* Circulation now works.
* non ISO-5589-1 support (for chinese and polish)
* improvements in marc import in breeding farm.
* first draft of search in MARC-DB
* librarian interface demo avaible at http://demo.koha-fr.org. Please 
note that by default this site should be in FRENCH. If you modify 
parameters, don't forget to put fr again in systemprefs !
This release is fairly stable, and the translation process is now on the 
road in french, polish, spanish and chinese !
The MARC management is really stable now, and the remaining bugs are 
located in circulation and members management.

KNOWN LIMITS :
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Install it from scratch :
* upgrading from 1.3.3 is IMPOSSIBLE, due to DB diffs.
* upgrading from 1.2.x is UNTESTED.

ROADMAP :
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Next version
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The next version should be called 1.9.1. It will be release at end of 
february, and will add :
* z39.50 in acquisition (cataloguing).
* acquisition and cataloguing will be better separated, as discussed in 
koha mailing lists. Cataloguing will be possible in MARC or non-MARC, 
while acquisition will be possible through bookseller or directly
* complete MARC search
* completed MARC export

It will be the LAST VERSION WITH NEW FEATURES. FEATURE FREEZE WILL OCCUR 
with 1.9.1 !
After 1.9.1, we should go to 2.0RC1 a few days/weeks after !

Future releases :
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* z39.50 in search to reserve books from other libraries
* Serials
* Reports rewrite

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)