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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.18.9
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21 Jul 2015
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Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package
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(ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes,
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volunteers, and support companies from around the world.
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The website for the Koha project is
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http://koha-community.org/
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Koha 3.18.9 can be downloaded from:
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http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.09.tar.gz
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Installation instructions can be found at:
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http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation
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OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
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Koha 3.18.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
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It includes 1 enhancements and 39 bugfixes.
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Enhancements in 3.18.9
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Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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4925 Remove Smithsonian as a delivered z39.50 target
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Critical bugs fixed in 3.18.9
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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8686 major Raise required version of URI::Escape to 3.31
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14467 major Security updates break some Koha plugins
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Circulation
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9942 major Circulation module cannot anonymise if anonymity user is not set up correctly.
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MARC Authority data support
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14453 major Kohaidx is missing for id in authority-koha-indexdefs.xml
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OPAC
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14524 major Result list RSS feed broken
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Reports
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14382 major Datepicker's dateFormat setting for reports is missing
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Searching
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10866 critical Books entered in malayalam language cannot to search
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Staff Client
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14440 major Get_template_and_user can not have an empty template_name
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14450 major Stricter template name rules cause itemsearch to stop working
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Other bugs fixed in 3.18.9
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Acquisitions
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11458 minor Confusing description for syspref gist
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Database
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13966 trivial Backport HEA to Koha 3.16 and/or 3.14
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Developer documentation
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14394 trivial Fix documentation of OpacHiddenItems
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14425 trivial Typographical error in C4::Context perldoc
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I18N/L10N
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11467 normal Untranslatable strings in opac-detail.tt
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13427 minor JQuery Timepicker is not translated on returns page
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14485 minor HTML comment disables translation in cataloguing/addbooks.tt
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Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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14422 minor Typographical error in updatedatabase.pl
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Label/patron card printing
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14366 minor Units doesn't get saved usefully for patroncards
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OPAC
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4137 normal OPACViewOthersSuggestions does not work
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14313 normal OPAC: Adding a comment makes result browser disappear
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11011 minor Rephrase "in keyword" in OPAC authority search
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14496 minor Improving opac-detail.pl performances
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Patrons
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10119 normal Calculation of fines on return needs to be documented
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14324 normal "Add Child" button missing on moremember.pl
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14403 trivial Remove unconditional warn from Koha::NorwegianPatronDB
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Searching
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14401 normal Zebra index configuration doesn't allow exact search for 'C.'
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13950 minor Sort Item search home library list by branch name
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Serials
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12616 normal Locale in subscriptions not preselecting correctly
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Staff Client
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14421 trivial Small error in example in SMS.pm
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System Administration
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8802 normal Library group records - category type reverts to "searchdomain" when editing group record
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14389 normal Editing a syspref in a textarea does not enable the Save button
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14215 minor Change the 'delimiter' syspref description to say it applies to more than just Reports
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14290 minor Add a table foot to circulation matrix
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Templates
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10172 normal Some links and blocks could be hidden when printing a record
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14135 minor Local Use syspref addition form missing variable type 'Free'
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14326 minor XSLT Syntax error in MARC21slimOPACResults.xsl
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13874 trivial Rotating collections and calendar are circ tools
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14356 trivial Improvements to the 'Transfers to receive' page (branchname, mailto link)
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Tools
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14001 normal Inventory has bad $_ references
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New sysprefs in 3.18.9
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System requirements
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Important notes:
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* Perl 5.10 is required
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* Zebra is required
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Documentation
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The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.The home page for Koha
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documentation is
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http://koha-community.org/documentation/
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As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
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Koha manual is available:
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http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/
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The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
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http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary
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Translations
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Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
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interface are available in this release for the following languages:
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* English (USA)
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Partial translations are available for various other languages.
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The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
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http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha
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for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
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list to volunteer:
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http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
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The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
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http://translate.koha-community.org/
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Release Team
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The release team for Koha 3.18.9 is
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Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
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Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
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Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
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QA Team: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
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Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
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Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
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Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
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Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com>
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Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
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Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
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Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
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Bug Wranglers: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@ptfs-europe.com>
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Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli@cineca.it>
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Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
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Release Maintainer (3.18.x): Liz Rea <wizzyrea@gmail.com>
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Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
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Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>
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Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
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Credits
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
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new features in Koha 3.18.9:
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* Universidad de El Salvador
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.9.
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* Aleisha (1)
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* Liz (1)
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* Barton Chittenden (1)
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* Nick Clemens (1)
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* David Cook (2)
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* Indranil Das Gupta (1)
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* Marcel de Rooy (1)
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* Jonathan Druart (8)
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* Magnus Enger (1)
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* Julian FIOL (1)
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* Katrin Fischer (10)
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* Eivin Giske Skaaren (1)
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* Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
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* Mason James (1)
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* Nicolas Legrand (1)
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* Kyle M Hall (2)
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* Liz Rea (9)
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* Winona Salesky (1)
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* Robin Sheat (1)
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* Fridolin Somers (4)
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* Mirko Tietgen (1)
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* Mark Tompsett (4)
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* Marc Véron (1)
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We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
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patches to Koha 3.18.9
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* BSZ BW (10)
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* BibLibre (10)
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* ByWater-Solutions (3)
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* Catalyst (2)
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* KohaAloha (1)
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* Prosentient Systems (2)
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* Rijksmuseum (1)
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* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
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* abunchofthings.net (1)
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* bugs.koha-community.org (1)
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* bulac.fr (1)
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* koha-community.org (2)
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* l2c2.co.in (1)
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* libriotech.no (1)
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* quecheelibrary.org (1)
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* unidentified (15)
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* veron.ch (1)
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* yahoo.no (1)
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We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
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for Koha 3.18.9.
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* Aleisha (1)
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* Amit Gupta (2)
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* Chris Cormack (47)
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* Jacek Ablewicz (1)
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* Jesse Weaver (1)
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* Jonathan Druart (29)
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* Josef Moravec (1)
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* Katrin Fischer (12)
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* Liz (14)
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* Liz Rea (32)
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* Marc Veron (1)
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* Marc Véron (3)
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* Mark Tompsett (7)
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* Mirko Tietgen (1)
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* Nick Clemens (5)
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* Tomas Cohen Arazi (50)
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* Hector Eduardo Castro Avalos (1)
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* Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (7)
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* Kyle M Hall (5)
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* Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (7)
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* Marcel de Rooy (4)
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* Jason Robb - SEKLS (jrobb@sekls.org) (1)
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We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
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please send a patch against these release notes to
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koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
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Revision control notes
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The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
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version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of
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git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git
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The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.18.x.
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The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on September 4, 2014.
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Bugs and feature requests
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Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
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tracker at
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http://bugs.koha-community.org/
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He rau ringa e oti ai.
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(Many hands finish the work)
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##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 21 Jul 2015 04:16:55 Z #####
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