RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.14
23 Jun 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 3.8.14 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.14.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 3.8.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


It includes 0 features, 3 enhancements and 27 bugfixes.


New features in 3.8.14
======================


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Enhancements in 3.8.14
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Staff Client
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	9507	Some code used to prevent form from being unexpectedly submitted is duplicated

Templates
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	10015	UniqueItemFields could have link to database documentation
	10036	Adding header search to additem page


Critical bugs fixed in 3.8.14
======================


Hold requests
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	10166	major	Can't place holds on multiple titles if one or more are un-holdable

translate.koha-community.org
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	10413	major	Odd space character brakes translation


Other bugs fixed in 3.8.14
======================


Acquisitions
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	9824	normal	Hide basket with no expected items in basket list by bookseller
	10381	normal	Hide basket links should be improved

Cataloging
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	9358	normal	Fixed field plugins for MARC21 should be updated for MARC21 update #15
	10178	trivial	Typos in plugins for 006 and 008 in MARC21

Circulation
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	10288	trivial	Tiny typo on "Pending offline circulation actions"

Command-line Utilities
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	10326	minor	Bulkmarcimport.pl turns off  CataloguingLog sys pref

I18N/L10N
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	6709	normal	Marc21_field_006.xml and marc21_field_008.xml can't be translated.
	10083	normal	In Transit string doesn't get translated in the staff interface

Packaging
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	10094	normal	Koha-list should have an --disabled option
	10144	normal	Koha-start-zebra error handling
	10146	normal	Koha-stop-zebra error handling
	10149	normal	Koha-restart-zebra error handling
	10157	normal	Koha-email-enable error handling
	10159	normal	Koha-rebuild-zebra error handling
	10259	normal	Koha-*-zebra scripts are expected to run without warnings if no instance name passed

Patrons
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	10184	trivial	Circulation History reverses sort order

Staff Client
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	10310	normal	Prevent submit form pressing enter should be improved
	7368	trivial	General staff client typo omnibus

Templates
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	10249	normal	Untranslatable strings in Javascript on OPAC detail page
	10284	minor	Missing spaces between label and content in XSLT view for 785/780
	10186	trivial	Typo in subscription-add.tt (years vs year)
	10191	trivial	2 option tags are not closed in unimarc_field_115a.tt and unimarc_field_116.tt
	10193	trivial	Copies should be holdings as label for items on MARC view
	10350	trivial	Capitalization: Home Library column in staff detail items table

Test Suite
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	10296	minor	UT: db schemas are useless


New sysprefs in 3.8.14
======================



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/3.8/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 (97%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (97%)
  * French (97%)
  * French (Canada) (74%)
  * German (97%)
  * German (Switzerland) (96%)
  * Greek (92%)
  * Italian (97%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (65%)
  * Portuguese (97%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Turkish (97%)


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 3.8.14 is

  Release Manager:       Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
  Installation Documentation Managers:
                         Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>
                         Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
  Translation Manager:   Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
  QA Manager:            Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
  QA Team:               Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
                         Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
                         Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>,
                         Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
                         Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
                         Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
                         Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
  Bug Wranglers:         Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>
  Packaging Manager:     Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
  Live CD Manager:       Nguyen Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102@yahoo.com>
  VM Manager:            Samuel Desseaux <samuel.desseaux@ecp.fr>

  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall <chrish@catalyst.net.nz>
  Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
  Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>


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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.14:
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.14.
  *      7	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1	Colin Campbell
  *      1	Chris Cormack
  *      4	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Magnus Enger
  *      3	Katrin Fischer
  *      1	Connor Fraser
  *      1	Chris Hall
  *      1	Janusz Kaczmarek
  *      4	Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *      6	Owen Leonard
  *      3	Marcel de Rooy
  *      1	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      2	Mathieu Saby
  *      1	Lyon3 Team

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.14
  *       6 ACPL
  *       3 BSZ BW
  *       5 BibLibre
  *       1 Catalyst
  *       1 Libriotech
  *       1 PTFS-Europe
  *       3 Rijksmuseum
  *       1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
  *       2 Université Rennes 2
  *      13 unidentified
  *       1 yahoo.com

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.14.
  *       1 Pierre Angot
  *      18 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *       1 Gaetan Boisson
  *      21 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      22 Galen Charlton
  *       1 David Cook
  *      12 Chris Cormack
  *       8 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Frederic Durand
  *       1 Nicole C. Engard
  *       7 Katrin Fischer
  *      23 Chris Hall
  *       2 Kyle M Hall
  *       2 Mason James
  *      30 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       4 Owen Leonard
  *       8 Marcel de Rooy
  *       5 Robin Sheat
  *       1 Mirko Tietgen
  *       1 Cedric Vita

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 3.8.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/


He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)

