[Koha] Koha 3.12.4 released

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Sat Aug 24 12:34:33 NZST 2013


The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.4.

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

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 3.12.4
23 Aug 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 3.12.4 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.04.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 3.12.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 4 enhancements and 30 bugfixes.


Enhancements in 3.12.4
======================

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
10206 Add Koha TT Plugin

I18N/L10N
----------
5766 Add configuration for excluding articles from jQuery table sorter

Templates
----------
10197 Add CSS classes to patron info list in patron account
10516 Improve titles, breadcrumbs, and confirmation messages for Z39.50
server adds and updates


Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.4
======================


Circulation
----------
10663 critical Holds never block renewals

Hold requests
----------
10597 major Search to hold button broken on record details

Templates
----------
10541 major Enable cross-browser AJAX in additem.js


Other bugs fixed in 3.12.4
======================


About
----------
7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
10669 trivial LiveDVD manager for 3.12 missing in about page

Acquisitions
----------
7598 normal Acquisitions JavaScript contains untranslatable English strings

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
10515 normal The prototype for GetBranchCategory and GetBranchCategories is
not consistent
10643 normal Inappropriate uses of $sth->finish() in C4::ClassSource.pm

Circulation
----------
7019 normal Circulation History Sort Order Wrong
9362 normal Wrong query in GetUpcomingDueIssues (Circulation.pm)
10362 normal On return with reserve or transfer the alerts are not shown

I18N/L10N
----------
10576 normal Untranslatable strings in additem.js
10745 normal More fun on translation bug with XSLT subfieldSelect parameters

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
10712 normal Some values not saved in koha install log

Notices
----------
10127 normal Printoverdues.sh should tar only pdf files
10664 normal Software error in overdue_notices.pl if there is no active
currency
10559 minor Noisy statement handle still active warnings when generating
notices

OPAC
----------
2774 normal Path to theme is hard-coded in many places
10552 normal Several preferences missing from OPAC login page
10553 normal Public lists not available from OPAC login page
10595 normal OpacTopissue page still accessible when system preference is
turned off
10463 minor Quote of the day feature not selecting random quotes

Searching
----------
9801 normal Location facet shows even if no locations
10578 normal Escaping CGI breaks results sort feature (librarian's
interface)

Serials
----------
10563 normal Link to edit subscription from 'check expiraton' page is broken
10621 normal Subscription alert emails have wrong from-address
10457 minor Export selected items data doesn't work when using checkall
checkbox

Test Suite
----------
10644 normal C4::ClassSource.pm needs unit tests
10666 minor Daily quotes tests are failing

Web services
----------
10549 trivial ILS-DI should not use ISO-8851-9 encoding


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 (99%)
  * Chinese (China) (60%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Czech (99%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (92%)
  * French (97%)
  * French (Canada) (98%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (98%)
  * Greek (55%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Kurdish (78%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
  * Portuguese (91%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Swedish (89%)
  * 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 3.12.4 is

  Release Manager:       Jared Camins-Esakov
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
  Installation Documentation Managers:
                         Samuel Desseaux
                         Mason James
  Translation Manager:   Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer
  QA Team:               Chris Cormack
                         Marcel de Rooy ,
                         Jonathan Druart ,
                         Brendan Gallagher
                         Kyle Hall
                         Mason James
                         Paul Poulain
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat
  Live CD Manager:       Nguyen Quoc Uy
  VM Manager:            Samuel Desseaux

  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.12.4:
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.4.
  *      4 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1 Colin Campbell
  *      9 Galen Charlton
  *      3 David Cook
  *      1 Jonathan Druart
  *      1 Nicole Engard
  *      3 Katrin Fischer
  *      4 Kyle M Hall
  *      1 Janusz Kaczmarek
  *      1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      8 Owen Leonard
  *      2 Sophie Meynieux
  *      1 Marcel de Rooy
  *      4 Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      3 Mirko Tietgen
  *      1 Kenza Zaki
  *      1 root

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.4
  *       8 ACPL
  *       3 BSZ BW
  *       8 BibLibre
  *       5 ByWater-Solutions
  *       9 Equinox
  *       1 PTFS-Europe
  *       3 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 Rijksmuseum
  *       3 abunchofthings.net
  *       1 kenza-VirtualBox
  *       6 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.4.
  *      48 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       1 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      49 Galen Charlton
  *      10 Chris Cormack
  *       8 Jonathan Druart
  *      13 Katrin Fischer
  *      11 Kyle M Hall
  *       2 Owen Leonard
  *       4 Liz Rea
  *       7 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Mathieu Saby
  *      13 Srdjan

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 3.8.14, which was released on June 23, 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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