[Koha] Koha 3.10.4 released

Sat Mar 23 12:08:25 NZDT 2013

The Koha release team, in association with the multitude of Koha
libraries, librarians, support companies, developers and users, are
proud to announce the release of the latest stable release of the
3.10.x branch, 3.10.4.

This maintenance release contains code from 15 people from 12
different organisations, making it once again a great example of
international and inter company collaboration. Making the official and
community supported Koha live up to its’ promise of no single vendor
lock in.

As always you can download the tarball at download.koha-community.org,
or wait for a day or 2 until the packages at debian.koha-community.org
are updated.

Please read below for the release notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.10.4
22 Mar 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 3.10.4 can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.10.04.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 3.10.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Major fixes in 3.10.4
======================

Acquisitions
----------
4266 major encumbrance and expenditure not used in code
8853 major clicking basketgroup name in closed basketgroups reopens it

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
9574 critical serials/subscription-add.pl does not work right under Plack

Cataloging
----------
7253 major fast cataloging not always checking out

Command-line Utilities
----------
9656 major fines.pl creating a log file should be optional

Packaging
----------
9256 critical Search is broken for 3.10 package-installs when
marcflavour != marc21

Searching
----------
8620 critical Barcode searching not working correctly
9395 major Problem with callnumber and standard number search in OPAC
and Staff Client
9620 major IncludeSeeFromInSearches ON and data in $9 subfields can
break indexing

Templates
----------
9570 major view plain not working in ccsr

Bugs fixed in 3.10.4
======================

Cataloging
----------
9377 normal itemtype in duplicate biblio search
9207 minor Improve z39.50 speed slowdowns for sites with many records

Circulation
----------
8054 normal can hit submit twice when paying fines
8682 normal quick slip: renewals do not appear on quick slips

Documentation
----------
9267 normal Ubuntu 12.04 install docs broken

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
----------
5333 normal Undefined value stops import from z39.50

OPAC
----------
9585 minor Fix spelling mistake in default tab conditional for opac-detail

Packaging
----------
9784 minor koha-shell missing from koha-common man page

Staff Client
----------
9663 normal Individual bibliographic record "Save" option requires
export permission
9658 trivial Breadcrumb wrong on reports dictionary

System Administration
----------
7596 normal System preferences editor JavaScript contains
untranslatable English string

Templates
----------
9695 normal Use alphabet system preference on page used to browse
patrons for patron card batches
9385 minor patron add labels right aligned in chrome
9545 minor Fix Import Marc Bibliographic Framework Text Label
9586 minor Remove $ENV{DEBUG} info from Member Template
9651 minor When deleting a fund, button is wrongly labelled with
'Delete this budget'
9655 trivial Capitalization wrong on 'Close and Print' button in basket groups

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
----------
9520 minor Update default LOC Z39.50 target

Enhancements in 3.10.4
======================

Templates
----------
9650 Show message if there are no notices
9765 Remove unused include file: budgetperiods-admin.inc

New sysprefs in 3.10.4
======================

* OPACNumbersPreferPhrase
* IntranetNumbersPreferPhrase

System requirements
======================

Important notes:

* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required

Documentation
======================

As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now 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/3.10.4/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) (93%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Danish (79%)
* English (New Zealand) (99%)
* French (98%)
* French (Canada) (68%)
* German (99%)
* German (Switzerland) (97%)
* Greek (62%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
* Slovak (100%)
* Spanish (100%)
* 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 3.10.4 is

Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
Translation Manager: D Ruth Bavousett
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer ,
QA Team: Marcel de Rooy ,
Jonathan Druart ,
Mason James ,
Elliott Davis
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger ,
Marc Véron ,
Chris Hall ,
Mirko Tietgen <5p4m at gmx.de>
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
Packaging Assistant: Mason James

Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.10.4:
* KEEP SOLUTIONS

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.4.
* 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 D Ruth Bavousett
* 3 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 2 David Cook
* 4 Chris Cormack
* 2 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Magnus Enger
* 1 Vitor FERNANDES
* 1 Katrin Fischer
* 1 Kyle M Hall
* 3 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 8 Owen Leonard
* 3 Liz Rea
* 3 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 2 Mathieu Saby

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.10.4
* 8 ACPL
* 1 BSZ BW
* 5 Biblibre
* 2 BigBallOfWax
* 1 ByWater-Solutions
* 3 C & P Bibliography
* 5 Catalyst
* 1 Libriotech
* 2 Prosentient Systems
* 2 Université Rennes 2
* 1 keep.pt
* 6 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.10.4.
* 33 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 3 Galen Charlton
* 2 David Cook
* 35 Chris Cormack
* 5 Elliott Davis
* 16 Jonathan Druart
* 1 Jonathan Druarth
* 3 Nicole C. Engard
* 9 Katrin Fischer
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 6 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 4 Owen Leonard
* 1 Liz Rea
* 1 Martin Renvoize
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Robin Sheat
* 1 Mirko Tietgen
* 2 koha.aixmarseille

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 2012.

Bugs and feature requests
======================

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at

http://bugs.koha-community.org/

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