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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.7
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22 Nov 2012
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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 3.8.7 can be downloaded from:
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http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.07.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 3.8.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
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Major fixes in 3.8.7
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Acquisitions
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7921 major Software error while placing order
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9085 major Installer will not run with DEBUG set
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Cataloging
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8665 critical DOM indexing fails to index some bib records
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Circulation
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8253 critical fix fine doubling, when upgrading from 3.6 to 3.8 (or later)
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8966 critical Koha::Calendar::is_holiday truncates the date
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8213 major "Cancel All" button on holds over tab cancels both holds over and holds waiting
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8939 major Fines Charged During Grace Period
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OPAC
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8953 critical opac-userupdate encoding issues
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Searching
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8805 major Add a biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl for NORMARC
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Templates
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3652 critical XSS vulnerabilities
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Bugs fixed in 3.8.7
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About
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8910 minor silent warnings triggered in about.pl
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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8804 normal Quiet errors in the log from Auth.pm
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Authentication
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8787 minor If OpacMaintenance is on the requested page is loaded
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Cataloging
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8823 normal CatalogModuleRelink Creates Multiple Links between Bib and Auth record ($9 RLIN)
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8862 normal merge.pl contains untranslatable strings
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Circulation
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8834 normal Call to C4::Context::preference fails to pass $self in Circulation.pm
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8841 normal Duedates set by Returnbeforeexpiry lack HH:MM
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8234 minor Dates are not well sorted on Transfers to receive
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8826 minor Initialization of hash triggers error log entries.
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Documentation
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8568 minor Fix some errors in docs for scripts provided by the Debian packages
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I18N/L10N
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8872 minor Improve encoding for xslt files, showmarc and opac-showmarc
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Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
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8749 trivial Missing Ubuntu library files in ubuntu.packages and ubuntu.12.04.packages
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Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
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9058 normal Norwegian default for CalendarFirstDayOfWeek
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OPAC
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8792 normal Babeltheque tab is useless
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8888 normal question marks in series title facet links
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8941 normal Make title display properly for NORMARC OPAC detail view
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8973 normal HTML and URL escape missing in OPAC templates
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8936 minor Search RSS feeds does not show there items when subscribing in Firefox
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8988 minor item status uses authorized value description for intranet
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Reports
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8987 normal "New report button" broken
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Searching
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8958 normal Facets are not fully UNIMARC compliant
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Staff Client
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8996 normal In result page items with negative notforloan are available
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System Administration
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4177 normal opaccloud missing from the system preferences interface
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8907 minor Last updated date does not appear on currency edit form
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8849 trivial Error log generated when not a demo system
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Templates
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8898 minor Remove unused mainmenu include and related styles in the staff client
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8912 minor Remove unused hold-menu.inc
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translate.koha-community.org
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8968 normal JavaScript String not translatable
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Enhancements in 3.8.7
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Lists
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7805 Exposing the new list permissions in opac and staff
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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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As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The
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home page for Koha 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/3.8.7/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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* Arabic (99%)
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* Armenian (100%)
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* Basque (76%)
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* Chinese (Taiwan) (76%)
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* Danish (75%)
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* English (New Zealand) (100%)
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* French (100%)
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* French (Canada) (76%)
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* German (100%)
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* German (Switzerland) (99%)
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* Greek (68%)
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* Italian (100%)
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* Norwegian Bokmål (68%)
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* Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
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* Slovak (100%)
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* Spanish (100%)
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* Turkish (100%)
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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 3.8.7 is
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Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
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Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
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Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
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QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com>
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QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>,
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Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
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Mason James <mason@kohaaloha.com>
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Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger
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Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
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Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
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Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
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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 3.8.7:
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.7.
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* 3 Jared Camins-Esakov
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* 1 Colin Campbell
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* 2 Chris Cormack
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* 1 Frédéric Demians
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* 2 Jonathan Druart
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* 4 Magnus Enger
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* 3 Kyle M Hall
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* 1 Mason James
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* 4 Owen Leonard
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* 1 Chris Nighswonger
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* 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic
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* 1 Maxime Pelletier
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* 2 Paul Poulain
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* 6 Marcel de Rooy
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* 5 Fridolyn SOMERS
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* 1 Mathieu Saby
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* 1 Adrien Saurat
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* 1 Lyon3 Team
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* 1 Mirko Tietgen
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* 5 Mark Tompsett
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* 1 Robert Williams
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We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.7
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* 4 ACPL
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* 1 Amigos Library Services
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* 10 Biblibre
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* 3 ByWater-Solutions
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* 3 C & P Bibliography
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* 2 Catalyst
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* 1 Foundations
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* 1 KohaAloha
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* 1 Libeo
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* 4 Libriotech
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* 1 PTFS-Europe
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* 6 Rijksmuseum
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* 1 Tamil
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* 1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
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* 1 Université Rennes 2
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* 1 abunchofthings.net
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* 1 rot13.org
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* 5 unidentified
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We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
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for Koha 3.8.7.
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* 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi
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* 19 Jared Camins-Esakov
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* 50 Chris Cormack
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* 2 Elliott Davis
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* 3 Frédéric Demians
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* 1 Katrin Fischer
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* 6 Kyle M Hall
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* 5 Owen Leonard
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* 1 Julian Maurice
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* 3 Melia Meggs
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* 26 Paul Poulain
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* 2 Mirko Tietgen
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* 2 Marc Veron
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* 3 wajasu
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We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.8.x.
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The last Koha release was 3.8.6, which was released on October 22, 2012.
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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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Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini
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