RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.9
22 Jan 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 3.8.9 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.09.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 3.8.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


Highlights of 3.8.9
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	9126	critical	Receiving orders create too much items

Tools
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	9065	major	Upload local cover image permission implementation error


Bugs fixed in 3.8.9
======================

About
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	7143	trivial	Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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	9292	minor	Remove dead code related to 'publictype'

I18N/L10N
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	6574	normal	js error in en-GB template breaks circulation toolbar
	9140	normal	Untranslatable strings in item circulation history
	9141	normal	Untranslatable strings on "pay an amount..." page

Notices
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	8299	normal	overdue_notice.pl shows warning messages

OPAC
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	9102	normal	[SECURITY] We should set httponly on our session cookie
	9158	minor	Correcting whitespace around display of series 440 marc fields
	9309	minor	"OPACurlOpenInNewWindow" isn't respected for 856$u links shown in OPAC when not using XSLT

Reports
----------
	9182	trivial	Saved reports list : wrong sortable columns

Searching
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	8984	normal	Zebra does not index some fields in UNIMARC biblio records

Staff Client
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	9335	minor	Message Log Popups don't disappear?

Templates
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	9284	normal	JavaScript should conform to coding guidelines recommended by JSHint
	9278	minor	Remove unused OPAC CSS file sanop.css

Test Suite
----------
	8924	minor	Some modules erroneously skipped by 00-load

Tools
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	8977	normal	printoverdues.sh call an uninitialized variable


Enhancements in 3.8.9
======================

OPAC
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	8712	We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug

Templates
----------
	9169	Wrap relator code in <span> to allow for CSS customization


New sysprefs in 3.8.9
======================



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/3.8.9/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 (99%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Basque (75%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
  * Danish (74%)
  * English (New Zealand) (99%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (76%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (99%)
  * Greek (69%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
  * 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 3.8.9 is

  Release Manager:       Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
  Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
  Translation Manager:   Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
  QA Manager:            Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com>
  QA team:               Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
                         Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
			 Mason James <mason@kohaaloha.com>
  Bug Wranglers:         Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger

  Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
  Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
  Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>


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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.8.9:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9.
  *      2	D Ruth Bavousett
  *      1	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      3	Chris Cormack
  *      1	Stéphane Delaune
  *      1	Srikanth Dhondi
  *      1	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Chris Hall
  *      1	Kyle M Hall
  *      1	Mason James
  *      5	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Julian Maurice
  *      1	Liz Rea
  *      1	Martin Renvoize
  *      1	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Mathieu Saby
  *      1	Adrien Saurat
  *      1	Robin Sheat

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9
  *       5 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       5 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       1 ByWater-Solutions                                                                   
  *       1 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       7 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 KohaAloha                                                                                  
  *       1 PTFS-Europe                                                                              
  *       1 Université Rennes 2
  *       2 unidentified

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.9.
  *      21 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       2 Galen Charlton
  *      23 Chris Cormack
  *       2 Elliott Davis
  *      13 Jonathan Druart
  *       4 Katrin Fischer
  *       9 Kyle M Hall
  *       4 Owen Leonard
  *       4 Paul Poulain
  *       1 Liz Rea
  *       1 Zeno Tajoli
  *       1 Marc Veron

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
======================

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/


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##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jan 2013 22:11:48 Z #####
