[Koha] [Koha-devel] Announcing Koha 3.00.00
Nicole Engard
nicole.engard at liblime.com
Mon Aug 11 11:06:23 NZST 2008
And just a reminder that the 3.0 manual is available to all at:
http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ and will continually be
updated as I get suggestions and notice new features.
---
Nicole C. Engard
Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
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http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00
> is now available. You can download from the usual location:
>
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig
>
> You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying
> the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5
> checksum:
>
> 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
>
> I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00
>
> The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree
> is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a
> statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the
> packaged release.
>
> This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent
> releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include
> any new features.
>
> New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond.
>
> A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla:
>
> http://bugs.koha.org
>
> The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are pasted in
> below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime
> soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joshua Ferraro
> Koha 3.0 Release Manager
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0
>
> ==============================================================================
> Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
> integrated library system.
>
> You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL:
>
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
>
> These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new
> Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to
> Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to
> the
> new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and
> finally,
> Known Issues with this version.
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3?
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
> text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of
> millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query
> languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see:
>
> http://indexdata.dk/zebra
>
> Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as
> relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy
> operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.
>
> Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling
> limits by availability and statuses.
>
> Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces.
>
> For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships
> with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed
> in the RDBMS.
>
> 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
> new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any
> platform.
>
> The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that
> can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision
> control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.
>
> 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
> retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
> (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and
> COinS/OpenURL
> (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
>
> Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
> (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.
>
> Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved
> in
> MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;
> and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new
> export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed
> through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a
> separate parsing function.
>
> To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes
> support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP
> libraries (http://openncip.org).
>
> There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle
> interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging
> clients.
> These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over
> bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services
>
> Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP
> and
> Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.
>
> Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker
> and
> Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich
> bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and
> comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the
> catalog.
> OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to
> provide
> an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and
> editions
> of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling
> for these services, to keep within subscription limits.
>
> 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the
> platform
> of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
> includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and
> runs
> under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.
>
> 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for
> multilingual
> libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left
> languages
> such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
>
> Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any
> UNICODE
> compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
> Zebra
> has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
>
> You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation
> tools,
> or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.
>
> 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
> template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of
> 100%
> valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section
> 508 and
> W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All
> Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.
>
> 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
> modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments,
> MARC
> staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
> dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and
> more!
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> REVISION CONTROL
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system
> called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including
> the
> Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see
> the Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> VERSION NUMBERING
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to
> Perl's:
>
> major.minor[.revision[.build]]
>
> * major: one digit
> * minor: two-digit
> * revision: two-digit
> * build: three-digit
>
> This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change
> or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number,
> and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the
> built-in
> updater.
>
> Koha 3.0 Release Schedule:
>
> This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over
> the beta release:
>
> * General Bugfixing (over 150 bugs fixed since RC1!)
> * Nomenclature cleanup
> * Additional translations
> * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog
>
> Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any
> new
> features.
>
> New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases.
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the
> Wiki
> at the following page:
>
> Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
>
> Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:
>
> Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> TEMPLATES
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned;
> there
> is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide
>
> Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their
> contributions!
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> TRANSLATIONS
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the
> following
> languages:
>
> OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),
> fr-FR (French)
> hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
> ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
> zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified
> Chinese in Taiwan)
>
> Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian),
> ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
> zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified
> Chinese in Taiwan)
>
> Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the
> following
> languages:
>
> OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI
> (Finnish)
> gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese),
> kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish),
> tet (Tetum)
>
> Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU
> (Hungarian),
> ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish),
>
> The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see
> http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about
> translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> DOCUMENTATION
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki
> (http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation
> contributions;
> please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> KNOWN ISSUES
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at
> the
> 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0
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