[Koha] Koha 3.10.9 released

[Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel]

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.10.9.
This is a security release.

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


RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.9
28 jul 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 3.10.9 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.09.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 3.10.9 is a security release.

This release includes a fix for a security bug where manipulation of the
cookie
used for retaining OPAC search history for anonymous sessions could
theoretically result in the execution of arbitrary code on a Koha webserver.
Further details on the security issue can be found at:

    http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10657.


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/3.10/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 (97%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Chinese (China) (64%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (97%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (98%)
  * French (95%)
  * French (Canada) (66%)
  * German (98%)
  * German (Switzerland) (94%)
  * Greek (60%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Kurdish (94%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
  * Portuguese (97%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
  * Slovak (99%)
  * 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 3.10.9 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 3.10.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.9.
  *      3 Galen Charlton

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.9
  *       3 Equinox


We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.9.
  *       1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       4 Galen Charlton
  *       5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel

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 3.10.x.

The last Koha release was 3.12.2, which was released on July 22, 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