RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.3
20 Jul 2012
========================================================================

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 3.8.3 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.03.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 3.8.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Highlights of 3.8.3
======================

5981	blocker		OPAC: Add limits to search history
7619	blocker		3M self checkout don't work in France
8154	blocker		The export today's checked in barcodes generated file is always empty
8267	blocker		Overdue notices not working
5644	critical	dropbox mode doesn't set the correct date
7818	critical	support DOM mode for Zebra indexing of bibliographic records
8289	critical	Upgrading from 2.2 does not work anymore
5327	major		Unit tests required for all C4 modules
7848	major		Issues data missing from circulation notices
8229	major		Tabs in marc subfield structure is not shown correctly
8315	major		fix 'C4::Output 3.02' errors in Koha
8356	major		moveitem.tt and linkitem.tt have cataloging typo
8384	major		Some Perl scripts do not compile


Bugs fixed in 3.8.3
======================

3280	normal		opac/opac-sendbasket.pl security leaky
6394	normal		purchase order has french hard coded in
6634	normal		manager_id not populated when paying fines
6720	normal		Saved authorities always show as 'Default'
6939	normal		DefaultClassificationSource not used in 942$2
7299	normal		ILSDI HoldItem service does't set the itemnumber in reserves table
8043	normal		today's checkouts are in Previous checkouts in circulation.pl
8152	normal		Clicking cancel on edit suggestion redirect to the suggestion detail
8224	normal		aqplan.pl and aqbudgets: authorized values doesn't appear in planning list
8255	normal		Local cover images should be cacheable
8282	normal		Bug in modules list in about.pl
8311	normal		Mis-scoped function call in C4::Auth
8375	normal		Common diacritics not shown correctly when exporting batch label to PDF
8383	normal		Need test to check that Perl files will compile
8386	normal		Error in duplicate detection message for authorities
8398	normal		Missing image file in staff global css
6855	minor	bullet point showing in wrong place on error message
7630	minor	Warning on moremember.pl about param without key
7642	minor	The number that appears when hovering over a tag in the tag cloud isn't the number of items with that tag
8006	minor	Loading offline circulation does not anonymize
8191	minor	New value for 8 position in coded data field 100 in unimarc
8194	minor	Layout problem on subscription add when showing manual history
8217	minor	Focus on search box in Detail page (staff search)
8232	minor	Comments in OPAC contain untranslatable javascript messages
8235	minor	Packaging scripts get upset with non-Debian perl modules
8242	minor	Permission for "change password" button in members toolbar should be "borrowers" instead of "staffaccess"
8272	minor	OPAC : date expiration format
8288	minor	showmarc.tt should not include full doc-head-close.inc
8314	minor	Missing MARCISBNS param in opac-detail.pl
8335	minor	Missing Icon PR.png or typo in MARC21slim2OPACDetail.xsl
6350	trivial	Bug for tracking updates to the history file
7143	trivial	Bug for tracking changes to the about page
7367	trivial	General OPAC typo omnibus
7368	trivial	General staff client typo omnibus
7994	trivial	Syntax error in yaml (syspref) files
8313	trivial	add ASHS to 'Koha team' page, for sponsorship of the 'star-ratings' feature
8323	trivial	User created lists not sorting properly
7286	enhancement	Introduce rebuild_zebra_sliced.zsh to recursively rebuild zebra & be error proof
8216	enhancement	Enable critic tests on SIP modules
8223	enhancement	Properly format SQL query in C4::Bookseller::GetBookSeller


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/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:

  * Arabic (100%)
  * Armenian (80%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Danish (75%)
  * English (New Zealand) (78%)
  * English (USA)
  * French (100%)
  * French (Canada) (67%)
  * German (100%)
  * Greek (69%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (68%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
  * Spanish (87%)

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 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 individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.3.
     3	Alex Arnaud
     6	Jared Camins-Esakov
     3	Colin Campbell
    10	Galen Charlton
     1	David Cook
    11	Chris Cormack
     2	Frédéric Demians
     3	Jonathan Druart
     2	Katrin Fischer
     1	Chris Hall
     5	Kyle M Hall
     2	Claire Hernandez
     2	Mason James
     5	Owen Leonard
     1	Frère Sébastien Marie
     1	Julian Maurice
     2	Matthias Meusburger
     1	Sophie Meynieux
     1	Dobrica Pavlinusic
     1	Maxime Pelletier
     4	Paul Poulain
     3	Marcel de Rooy
     2	Robin Sheat
     1	Lyon3 Team
     1	Mirko Tietgen
     2	Mark Tompsett
     1	Duncan Tyler
     2	Marc Veron
     1	Stacey Walker
     1	wajasu


We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.8.3.

      1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
     17 Jared Camins-Esakov
     10 Galen Charlton
     82 Chris Cormack
      1 Frédéric Demians
      1 Jonathan Druart
      3 Nicole C. Engard
     10 Katrin Fischer
      4 Kyle M Hall
      1 Mason James
      2 Owen Leonard
      1 Julian Maurice
      1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
     62 Paul Poulain
      1 Liz Rea
      2 Martin Renvoize
      3 Marcel de Rooy
      1 Robin Sheat
      1 Delaye Stephane
      5 Marc Veron
      2 Stacey Walker
      1 wajasu

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 3.8.2, which was released on June 22, 2012.

Bugs and feature requests
======================

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at

    http://bugs.koha-community.org/


Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini 
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 20 Jul 2012 21:25:14 Z #####
