The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.3.
This is a maintenance release and contains important security fixes. It also contains some bugfixes and enhancements.
As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.3
28 Jul 2013
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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 3.12.3 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.03.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 3.12.3 is a bugfix/maintenance 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.
It also includes 2 enhancements and 15 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.3
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Acquisitions
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10514 Add item link on acquisitions add item is too small
Staff Client
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10356 Adding date published to catalogue detail page
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.3
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Reports
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6898 major Circulation librarians can't run overdues without reports permissions
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.3
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Acquisitions
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10504 normal C4::Acquisition::ModOrderItem is unused
10556 normal Deliverytime is not inserted on adding a supplier
10258 minor Remove erroneous call to haspermission in basket.pl
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10527 normal C4::Branch::get_branch_code_from_name is useless
Cataloging
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9770 minor C4::ClassSortRoutine::Dewey can pad the wrong part of a call number internally
10448 minor Changing framework when cataloguing clears all fields
Templates
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10170 minor Non translatable strings in manage-marc-import (actions and table values)
10422 minor Remove references to unused and non-existent wizard.css
10189 trivial French values in cataloging plugins for unimarc 128b and 128c fields
Test Suite
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10274 normal UT: Acquisition.t needs to create its own data
10275 normal UT: OrderFromSubscription.t needs to create its own data
10499 normal UT: VirtualShelves.t needs a database transaction
10575 normal UT: GetOrdersByBiblionumber.t needs a database transaction
System requirements
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Important notes:
* Perl 5.10 is required
* Zebra is required
Documentation
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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
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Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
* English (USA)
* Arabic (90%)
* Armenian (99%)
* Chinese (China) (61%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (90%)
* Czech (59%)
* Danish (100%)
* English (New Zealand) (93%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (99%)
* German (99%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (55%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (92%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (64%)
* Portuguese (92%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Slovak (100%)
* 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
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The release team for Koha 3.12.3 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
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.3.
* 7 Galen Charlton
* 1 David Cook
* 1 Chris Cormack
* 7 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Jason Etheridge
* 1 Chris Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 2 Owen Leonard
* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
* 1 Mathieu Saby
* 1 Adrien Saurat
* 2 Kenza Zaki
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.3
* 2 ACPL
* 11 BibLibre
* 1 BigBallOfWax
* 1 Catalyst
* 9 Equinox
* 1 Prosentient Systems
* 1 Université Rennes 2
* 1 unidentified
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.3.
* 28 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 32 Galen Charlton
* 8 Chris Cormack
* 3 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Jason Etheridge
* 14 Katrin Fischer
* 7 Kyle M Hall
* 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Liz Rea
* 3 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Paola Rossi
* 2 Srdjan
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently 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 3.12.x.
The last Koha release was 3.12.2, which was released on July 22, 2013.
Bugs and feature requests
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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)