Koha-clms/misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_18_7.txt

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.18.7
26 May 2015
========================================================================
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 3.18.7 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.07.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 3.18.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Critical bugs fixed in 3.18.7
======================
Acquisitions
----------
6059 major Problem with changing quantity on uncertain prices list
14172 major Acq: Orders without items missing from 'Spent' list
Circulation
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13919 major Renewal possible with item level hold on item
14194 major Date due for on-site checkouts defaults to 00:00 for hh:mm
OPAC
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14016 major Due dates in OPAC show 0:00 when it should be 23:59
Packaging
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14055 critical Bug 13979 breaks package upgrades
14068 critical Bug 14055 breaks new package installs
Serials
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13109 major Serial failure for received and general viewing
System Administration
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6007 major Checking 'Display only used Tags/Subfields' on MARC framework page results in unusable output
Other bugs fixed in 3.18.7
======================
About
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14006 normal About.pl checks the wrong zebra index mode
Acquisitions
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10388 normal Acq edited items showing 'null's
10752 normal Impossible to add 2 identical suggestions, but without any explanation
10971 minor Hide EAN search option for MARC21 when 'ordering from subscription'
14018 minor Ordering from suggestion shows 'copy. year:2014'
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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14042 normal The authority type admin page manage its own pagination
14046 normal CheckIfIssuedToPatron fails if biblionumber != biblioitemnumber
Cataloging
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9742 normal Confirm overlay prompt always appears on creating record from Z39.50
10985 normal Unimarc: Authority summary does not work as expected
Circulation
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10423 normal Date not well formatted on 'print summary' from patron account
12135 normal Pending suggestions table width is wrong
13315 normal Add feedback for last item checked out to circulation.pl
13482 normal A race condition prevents item info from being available for ReserveSlip (hold notice) printing.
13982 normal Checkouts table not sorting on correct column
Course reserves
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13817 normal Edit links on course items may point to the wrong course!
Developer documentation
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14129 normal Templates.readme is outdated
Documentation
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14051 trivial Tiny adjustment of ReturnPathDefault pref description
Hold requests
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8474 minor Holds done by librarians cause silent errors in koha-error_log
I18N/L10N
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11576 minor Untranslatable "manage" in serials-collection
12192 minor Template toolkit code in HTML attributes is picked up into po-files
13423 trivial Unused code in serials-edit.tt and serials-recieve.tt
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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13984 normal CardnumberLength missing in sysprefs.sql
Label/patron card printing
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14122 minor Patron card: Software error when creating using borrower_number as parameter from URL
Lists
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11574 normal Clean up printing of lists in OPAC
OPAC
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13591 minor Rss sample templates have hardcoded urls
14075 minor Undefined value creates noisy warns in C4::AuthoritiesMarc
14065 trivial Typo in opac self registration form
Patrons
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13910 normal Prevent delete of one's own patron account
14077 trivial Remove unused AUTH_UPDATE_FAILED from moremember.tt
Reports
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4281 normal Reports dictionary limited to only 1 field
10976 normal The assistant for reports uses the wrong value for the list of item types
14008 normal Filters are not displayed on search for reports
Searching
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13516 minor Display issue for search results with items both checkout out and lost
Serials
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9139 normal Sending empty vendor or biblio when adding subscriptions gives wrong error
14022 normal Subscription form resets 'subscription length' to issues on editing
SIP2
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7904 normal SIP modules handling of @INC is confused
Staff Client
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10285 normal Error 500 in staff client displays old start page
13834 trivial News: Wording not consistent for Publication date / Creation date
System Administration
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11464 minor Saving preferences - Nothing to Save
Templates
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12253 normal MARCURLS not showing in OPAC basket
9878 minor Flag display is inconsistent between circulation.pl and memberentry.pl
14127 minor Typo in message preference form - "mesage"
10174 trivial Digest is confusing
14033 trivial Capitalization: confirmation message on deleting an authority type
14128 trivial Capitalization: Guided Reports - step 2 - Build A Report
Test Suite
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14204 normal Fix t/db_dependent/Labels/t_Batch.t failing test from Bug 12911
Tools
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6911 normal Log viewer should remember search terms
12911 minor Batch_id for new label batches can be assigned to several batches
14056 trivial Small punctuation error in description for deleting a holiday
New sysprefs in 3.18.7
======================
* CardnumberLength
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/3.18/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%)
* Chinese (China) (91%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
* Czech (99%)
* Danish (85%)
* English (New Zealand) (95%)
* French (98%)
* French (Canada) (93%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (100%)
* Italian (100%)
* Kurdish (62%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (58%)
* Polish (80%)
* Portuguese (98%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (89%)
* Slovak (99%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (80%)
* Turkish (100%)
* Vietnamese (89%)
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 3.18.7 is
Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
QA Team: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com>
Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Bug Wranglers: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@ptfs-europe.com>
Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli@cineca.it>
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>
Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.18.7:
* Universidad de El Salvador
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.7.
* Aleisha (2)
* Colin Campbell (2)
* Nick Clemens (2)
* Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
* Chris Cormack (2)
* Marcel de Rooy (1)
* Jonathan Druart (31)
* Katrin Fischer (4)
* Bernardo González Kriegel (5)
* Mason James (1)
* Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
* Owen Leonard (1)
* Kyle M Hall (8)
* Robin Sheat (3)
* Fridolin Somers (1)
* Mark Tompsett (1)
* Marc Véron (11)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 3.18.7
* ACPL (1)
* BSZ BW (4)
* BibLibre (31)
* ByWater-Solutions (8)
* Catalyst (5)
* KohaAloha (1)
* PTFS-Europe (2)
* Rijksmuseum (1)
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (10)
* jns.fi (1)
* koha-community.org (1)
* quecheelibrary.org (2)
* unidentified (3)
* veron.ch (11)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.18.7.
* Brendan Gallagher (1)
* Chris Cormack (77)
* Christopher Brannon (1)
* Frederic Demians (1)
* Hector Castro (4)
* Jonathan Druart (18)
* Josef Moravec (1)
* Katrin Fischer (51)
* Magnus Enger (1)
* Marc Veron (2)
* Marc Véron (13)
* Mark Tompsett (14)
* Mirko Tietgen (2)
* Nick (2)
* Nick Clemens (4)
* Nicolas Legrand (2)
* Owen Leonard (1)
* Tom Misilo (1)
* vagrant (1)
* Jason Burds (2)
* Tomas Cohen Arazi (78)
* Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (1)
* Kyle M Hall (12)
* Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (1)
* Andreas Hedström Mace (1)
* Marcel de Rooy (5)
* Eivin Giske Skaaren (2)
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 3.18.x.
The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on September 4, 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)
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 26 May 2015 00:16:34 Z #####