Koha-clms/misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_20_3.txt

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.20.3
23 Aug 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 3.20.3 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.20.03.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 3.20.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release and contains 1 security fix.
Security fixes in 3.20.3
======================
OPAC
----------
14566 critical patronimage.pl perm issue
Critical bugs fixed in 3.20.3
======================
Acquisitions
----------
8684 major Duplicate check for creating items on order broken
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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10961 critical Error in GetMarcBiblio can cause severe data loss
Cataloging
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14660 major Cataloguing plugins for generating inventory numbers are broken
Lists
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14517 major Private lists browsing broken in translated staff interface
Searching
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14456 major EmbedSeeFromHeadings record filter shouldn't process MARC holding fields
SIP2
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14644 critical SIP2 terminal authentication via telnet transport broken
Tools
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14592 major Export data bad encoding
Other bugs fixed in 3.20.3
======================
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
----------
14494 normal Terribly slow checkout caused by DateTime->new in far future
Cataloging
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14387 normal Merge reference selection has no effect when merging authorities.
Circulation
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13663 normal Offline circ permission issue
14534 minor Stop overdue_notices.pl from issuing the warning: Use of uninitialized value $borrowernumber
14487 trivial Warns from returns.pl during checkin
Documentation
----------
14545 trivial Typo in help file for 3.20 (stage-marc-import.tt)
14547 trivial Typo in help file for 3.20 (basket.tt)
14548 trivial Typo in help file for 3.20 (batch_record_modification.tt)
OPAC
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11693 normal Default emailing preferences not loaded for self registering patron
Patrons
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14569 trivial Typo for borrowers
Self checkout
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14404 normal Checkouts default sort order for Self Checkout (SCO) confusing for patrons
Tools
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14445 minor Noisy warns in Notices (letter.tt) module
New sysprefs in 3.20.3
======================
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/3.20/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 (99%)
* Chinese (China) (87%)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
* Czech (98%)
* Danish (83%)
* English (New Zealand) (97%)
* French (95%)
* French (Canada) (90%)
* German (100%)
* German (Switzerland) (100%)
* Italian (99%)
* Kurdish (60%)
* Norwegian Bokmål (61%)
* Polish (97%)
* Portuguese (98%)
* Portuguese (Brazil) (85%)
* Slovak (97%)
* Spanish (100%)
* Swedish (90%)
* Turkish (97%)
* Vietnamese (85%)
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 3.20.3 is
Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>
Documentation Manager: Nicole C. Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com>
QA Team: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Brendan Gallagher <brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
Kyle Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>
Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.18.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>
Credits
======================
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.20.3:
* Universidad de El Salvador
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.3.
* mxbeaulieu (1)
* Aleisha (2)
* Jacek Ablewicz (1)
* Alex Arnaud (1)
* Hector Castro (3)
* Galen Charlton (1)
* Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
* Chris Cormack (1)
* Indranil Das Gupta (2)
* Stéphane Delaune (1)
* Frédéric Demians (1)
* Marcel de Rooy (4)
* Jonathan Druart (8)
* Katrin Fischer (2)
* Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
* Ulrich Kleiber (1)
* Kyle M Hall (2)
* Mark Tompsett (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 3.20.3
* BSZ BW (3)
* BibLibre (4)
* ByWater-Solutions (2)
* Catalyst (1)
* Equinox (1)
* Rijksmuseum (4)
* Solutions inLibro inc (1)
* Tamil (1)
* Theke Solutions (1)
* Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
* biblos.pk.edu.pl (1)
* bugs.koha-community.org (3)
* koha-community.org (3)
* unidentified (8)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.20.3.
* Aleisha (2)
* Amit Gupta (2)
* Chris Cormack (34)
* Colin Campbell (1)
* Galen Charlton (1)
* Hector Castro (1)
* Jonathan Druart (17)
* Josef Moravec (2)
* Katrin Fischer (8)
* Marc Véron (1)
* Mark Tompsett (4)
* Nick Clemens (4)
* Tomas Cohen Arazi (34)
* Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (3)
* Kyle M Hall (11)
* Marcel de Rooy (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 3.20.x.
The last Koha release was 3.16.9, which was released on March 29, 2015.
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)
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