<p>The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.13.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and
enhancements.</p>
<p>As always you can download the release from:</p>
<p>http://download.koha-community.org</p>
<p>This is my first release as the 3.12.x release maintainer.
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.</p>
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.13
23 Jun 2014
========================================================================
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 3.12.13 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.13.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 3.12.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 8 enhancements and 51 bugfixes.
Enhancements in 3.12.13
======================
Acquisitions
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10789 Excessive and often incorrect use of finish in C4::Acquisitions
11459 [Signed-Off] OrderPdfFormat pref description could be more verbose
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11730 C4::Charset call C4::Context without use it
11957 Sample_only_param_tables.sql is not usable
Hold requests
----------
11138 Auto-unsuspend holds not in default cronjobs
Staff Client
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11772 Show warning on About page:System information if no active currency is defined
Templates
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11272 Copy submit button on inventory
Tools
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11785 Use validation plugin when uploading local cover images
Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.13
======================
Acquisitions
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11675 major Budget amount is not checked if a parent exist
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11493 critical Batch Item Modification not handling unicode characters
10611 major C4::Context->dbh checks if the DB is still running
11779 major Unexpected change in logged in branch when changing overdue notice triggers
I18N/L10N
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11290 major Members-home.pl displays badly if using non english templates and have a utf8 char in categorycode description
Patrons
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11352 critical Batch Patron Deletion/Anonmyzation deletes more than warning states it will delete
Other bugs fixed in 3.12.13
======================
Acquisitions
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11644 normal Cannot update fund if total is equal to amount unallocated
11471 minor Basket groups display 0 0
11845 minor Set overlay and import status translatable in addorderiso2709.tt
11939 minor Sample of currencies with a working active value
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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11687 normal Statecollection.pl is unused
11757 minor Dependency on POE is not longer necessary
11799 trivial Housekeeping: Remove _biblionumber_sth from VirtualShelves.pm
11803 trivial Consistent use of $dbh in _koha_modify_item
Cataloging
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9114 minor Exported MARC frameworks encoding should be UTF-8
Circulation
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11756 normal Hold ratios report sorting incorrectly
Hold requests
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11531 normal Cannot add new libraries to the transport cost if previously used.
I18N/L10N
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11731 normal Typo "tranports" in installation
11363 minor Label printer profile units are not translatable
11366 minor Acq basket group "No group" untranslatable
11973 minor Fix Armenian language description
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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10580 normal Remove NoZebra reference from Makefile.pl
10729 normal Support phrases-icu.xml in install and upgrade
Lists
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10714 minor Redirect to list contents view upon save after initiating edit from list contents view
MARC Authority data support
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10691 normal 5xx not properly linked by authid in authority search result list
MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
11695 normal Typo: "Tree-character alphabetic code"
11762 normal Sequence of MARC21 245 subfields different on XSLT result list and detail page
Notices
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8168 minor Ersatz CSV header in attachment of overdue notices sent to administrator
OPAC
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11647 normal Subscribe to email notification for serials needs user login
11809 normal OPAC patron details form shouldn't show 'Clear date' if field is required
11476 minor Opac self registration title pull down offers 2 empty options
11522 minor Self registration formatting
11329 trivial Check for marc record in opac-showmarc
Patrons
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11707 normal Additional attributes broken for category code with space
Reports
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11704 normal Wrong headers in {opac|intranet}/svc/report
11833 normal Filtering on saved report subgroup doesn't work
10777 minor Runreport.pl allows for sending html reports via email, but mimetype is wrong
Searching
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11796 normal Results with 6 facets have missing facet
Self checkout
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11773 normal Crash 'undefined value as a HASH' in sco-main.pl
Serials
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10837 normal Exporting serial claims does not work if no notice defined
System Administration
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11513 minor Warnings in Patron categories
Templates
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10751 normal Title should be mandatory for creating suggestions in staff
11819 normal Don't show catalog edit menu if user has no edit permissions
11821 normal Staff client catalog: delete menu items greyed out without explanation
11877 normal Eliminate use of deprecated jQuery .live() method
11832 minor JavaScript error on staff client place hold screen if record has no items
11554 trivial Capitalization fix in patron account on fines tab
11608 trivial Don't need the word 'library' on funds
11918 trivial Typo on authorized value page
11935 trivial Capitalization: OPAC prog theme, checkouts tab
Test Suite
----------
11934 trivial Replace given by if-else in Circulation_issuingrules.t
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 (88%)
* Armenian (99%)
* Chinese (China) (99%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (99%)
* Danish (99%)
* English (New Zealand) (91%)
* French (99%)
* French (Canada) (97%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (99%)
* Greek (54%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (77%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
* Polish (99%)
* Portuguese (100%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (96%)
* 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 3.12.13 is
Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Installation Documentation Manager: Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
Translation Manager: Ruth Bavousett <druthb@bywatersolutions.com>
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
QA Team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
Elliott Davis <elliott@bywatersolutions.com>,
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>,
Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>,
Chris Hall
Mirko Tietgen
Marc Veron
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Live CD Manager: Vimal Kumar V.
Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Liz Rea <lrea@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.12.13:
* Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg), Germany
* Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.13.
* 1 Jacek Ablewicz
* 1 Roman Amor
* 5 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Daniel Barker
* 1 Colin Campbell
* 10 Galen Charlton
* 2 Chris Cormack
* 1 Stéphane Delaune
* 10 Jonathan Druart
* 3 Nicole Engard
* 5 Kyle M Hall
* 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 1 Nicolas Legrand
* 13 Owen Leonard
* 2 Jesse Maseto
* 1 Holger Meißner
* 2 Sophie Meynieux
* 1 Francesca Moore
* 1 Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
* 2 Liz Rea
* 5 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 A. Sassmannshausen
* 3 Fridolin Somers
* 1 Zeno Tajoli
* 1 Mark Tompsett
* 2 Marc Véron
We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.13
* 13 ACPL
* 1 BSZ BW
* 16 BibLibre
* 1 BigBallOfWax
* 10 ByWater-Solutions
* 3 Catalyst
* 10 Equinox
* 2 PTFS-Europe
* 5 Rijksmuseum
* 1 biblos.pk.edu.pl
* 1 bulac.fr
* 1 cineca.it
* 11 unidentified
* 2 veron.ch
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.12.13.
* 1 Aleisha
* 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
* 1 Nathalie CHATILLON
* 2 Jared Camins-Esakov
* 69 Galen Charlton
* 20 Chris Cormack
* 30 Jonathan Druart
* 2 Magnus Enger
* 2 Aurelie Fichot
* 29 Katrin Fischer
* 80 Kyle M Hall
* 5 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
* 5 Owen Leonard
* 1 Sean McGarvey
* 1 Holger Meissner
* 1 Holger Meißner
* 1 Paul Poulain
* 2 Martin Renvoize
* 7 Marcel de Rooy
* 1 Paola Rossi
* 65 Fridolin Somers
* 9 Mark Tompsett
* 9 Marc Véron
* 1 Jesse Weaver
* 2 remy juliette
* 2 wajasu
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
======================
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 (no branch).
The last Koha release was 3.16.0, which was released on June 22, 2014.
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)