The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of 3.6.8. This is a maintenance release, and contains a lot of useful bug fixes.
You can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org packages will be available shortly at http://debian.koha-community.org
Please read more for the release notes.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.8
22 Aug 2012
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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 3.6.8 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.08.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 3.6.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Highlights of 3.6.8
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7329 critical The "undo import into catalog" command deletes items onloan without checking
7834 critical order search at the top of acq does nothing
8289 critical Upgrading from 2.2 does not work anymore
2505 major enable Perl warnings in all modules and scripts
8315 major fix 'C4::Output 3.02' errors in Koha
Bugs fixed in 3.6.8
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4838 normal Repeated authority headings break biblio record data entry form
6634 normal manager_id not populated when paying fines
6720 normal Saved authorities always show as 'Default'
7586 normal Search: Language restriction does NOT show expected results (no items shown)
7807 normal GetSuggestionFromBiblionumber takes only one parameter
7886 normal C4/ShelfBrowser slow SQL performance
7900 normal Link to vendor from subscription details is broken
7952 normal PDF::Reuse under plack writes to console STDOUT instead to browser
8136 normal Changes the expected lenght of 100$a in rebuild_zebra.pl
8171 normal Improper escaping of quotes during z39.50 queries leads to broken html
8197 normal Software error when you have cleaned cookies in your browser and try to past the url to opac-topissues.pl
8226 normal 'OpacFooter' markup/css improvements
8282 normal Bug in modules list in about.pl
5312 minor XHTML correction in authority summary
6141 minor html glitches causing problems to translator
6679 minor Fixing code so it passes basic Perl::Critic tests
7815 minor Order pickup library list by name rather than by code
8009 minor Item descriptive data not populated on pay.pl
8166 minor Adding new currencies & exchange rates if not fill any field it save blank record
8191 minor New value for 8 position in coded data field 100 in unimarc
8232 minor Comments in OPAC contain untranslatable javascript messages
6350 trivial Bug for tracking updates to the history file
7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
7367 trivial General OPAC typo omnibus
7368 trivial General staff client typo omnibus
7994 trivial Syntax error in yaml (syspref) files
8222 trivial The zip code field is mandatory by default
8138 enhancement Add 773$t field to xslt
8216 enhancement Enable critic tests on SIP modules
New sysprefs in 3.6.8
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* BorrowerMandatoryField
System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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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/3.6/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:
* Arabic (51%)
* Chinese (China) (96%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Danish (100%)
* English (New Zealand) (100%)
* English (USA)
* English (United Kingdom) (64%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (95%)
* German (100%)
* Greek (94%)
* Italian (100%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (62%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Tetun (52%)
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
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The release team for Koha 3.6 is
Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel de Rooy, Paul Poulain, Mason James
Past Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Credits
======================
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.8.
1 D Ruth Bavousett
3 Jared Camins-Esakov
3 Colin Campbell
4 Chris Cormack
1 Christophe Croullebois
2 Frédéric Demians
1 Jonathan Druart
3 Katrin Fischer
1 Amit Gupta
1 Kyle M Hall
2 Claire Hernandez
2 Mason James
1 Srdjan Jankovic
1 Owen Leonard
1 Julian Maurice
1 Matthias Meusburger
4 Sophie Meynieux
3 Dobrica Pavlinusic
1 Maxime Pelletier
4 Paul Poulain
3 Marcel de Rooy
1 Fridolyn SOMERS
1 Robin Sheat
1 Marc Veron
2 christophe croullebois
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.6.8.
51 Jared Camins-Esakov
1 François Charbonnier
41 Chris Cormack
2 Michael Davis
5 Katrin Fischer
1 Marijana Glavica
3 Kyle M Hall
1 Owen Leonard
1 Sophie Meynieux
31 Paul Poulain
2 Martin Renvoize
3 Marcel de Rooy
1 Robin Sheat
2 Marc Veron
1 Stacey Walker
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to
koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
Revision control notes
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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 3.6.x.
The last Koha release was 3.8.2, which was released on June 22, 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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