RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.13
23 May 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 3.8.13 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.13.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 3.8.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.


Highlights of 3.8.13
======================

Acquisitions
----------
	7228	major	can't order more than 1 when importing all from staged file
	9923	major	correction of a bug due to bz 7129

Staff Client
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	9591	blocker	Set Library changes after viewing Holds Queue >> reserves item

Tools
----------
	8264	major	local cover images not working in IE8


Bugs fixed in 3.8.13
======================

Cataloging
----------
	9019	minor	ILS-DI: GetRecords should return item fields in marcxml

I18N/L10N
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	9266	normal	Untranslated strings in tags moderation

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
----------
	42	normal	installer.pl could prompt user to send testing results in
	156	normal	in Install.pm the marc21 refers to /script/ instead of /scripts/
	9812	normal	Several files shouldn't be exposed or browseable through a URL

MARC Bibliographic data support
----------
	9804	trivial	Fix name for NORMARC biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml

OPAC
----------
	93	trivial	Minor HTML Template error

Patrons
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	22	normal	autoMemberNum doesn't work with Add Child
	33	normal	autoMemberNum set to 1 by default
	225	normal	Add member ignores parameters set in categories
	9484	minor	userid not generated consistently (different editing pages)

Staff Client
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	107	normal	templates for intranet are still in old includes/templates location
	8895	minor	Warning in systempreferences.pl: Use of uninitialized value in length...

Templates
----------
	9613	minor	items namespace missing in XSLT
	9957	trivial	Missing cancel link on subfield editing page


Enhancements in 3.8.13
======================


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New sysprefs in 3.8.13
======================



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/3.8.13/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 (100%)
  * Armenian (100%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
  * Danish (93%)
  * English (New Zealand) (100%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (76%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (99%)
  * Greek (95%)
  * 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 3.8.13 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 3.8.13:
  * Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.13.
  *      3	Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      1	Edmund Balnaves
  *      1	Stefano Bargioni
  *      1	D Ruth Bavousett
  *      1	David Cook
  *      4	Chris Cormack
  *      2	Christophe Croullebois
  *      1	Magnus Enger
  *      3	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Julian Maurice
  *      3	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      1	Adrien Saurat
  *      1	Marc Veron

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.13
  *       3 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       7 Biblibre                                                                                    
  *       2 BigBallOfWax                                                                          
  *       2 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       1 Libriotech                                                                                 
  *       2 Prosentient Systems
  *       1 pusc.it
  *       4 unidentified
  *       1 veron.ch

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.13.
  *      10 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       1 David Cook
  *      23 Chris Cormack
  *       1 Srikanth Dhondi
  *       2 Jonathan Druart
  *       1 Nicole C. Engard
  *       2 Magnus Enger
  *       9 Katrin Fischer
  *       4 Kyle M Hall
  *       1 Mason James
  *       1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       3 Owen Leonard
  *       2 Paul Poulain
  *       2 Marcel de Rooy
  *       3 Mathieu Saby
  *       1 Mirko Tietgen

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 23 May 2013 04:34:05 Z #####
