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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.9
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22 Jan 2013
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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 3.8.9 can be downloaded from:
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http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.09.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 3.8.9 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
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Highlights of 3.8.9
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Acquisitions
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9126 critical Receiving orders create too much items
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Tools
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9065 major Upload local cover image permission implementation error
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Bugs fixed in 3.8.9
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About
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7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page
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Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9292 minor Remove dead code related to 'publictype'
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I18N/L10N
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6574 normal js error in en-GB template breaks circulation toolbar
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9140 normal Untranslatable strings in item circulation history
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9141 normal Untranslatable strings on "pay an amount..." page
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Notices
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8299 normal overdue_notice.pl shows warning messages
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OPAC
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9102 normal [SECURITY] We should set httponly on our session cookie
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9158 minor Correcting whitespace around display of series 440 marc fields
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9309 minor "OPACurlOpenInNewWindow" isn't respected for 856$u links shown in OPAC when not using XSLT
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Reports
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9182 trivial Saved reports list : wrong sortable columns
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Searching
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8984 normal Zebra does not index some fields in UNIMARC biblio records
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Staff Client
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9335 minor Message Log Popups don't disappear?
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Templates
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9284 normal JavaScript should conform to coding guidelines recommended by JSHint
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9278 minor Remove unused OPAC CSS file sanop.css
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Test Suite
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8924 minor Some modules erroneously skipped by 00-load
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Tools
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8977 normal printoverdues.sh call an uninitialized variable
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Enhancements in 3.8.9
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OPAC
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8712 We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug
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Templates
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9169 Wrap relator code in <span> to allow for CSS customization
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New sysprefs in 3.8.9
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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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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/3.8.9/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 (75%)
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* Chinese (Taiwan) (75%)
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* Danish (74%)
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* English (New Zealand) (99%)
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* French (99%)
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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 (69%)
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* Italian (100%)
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* Norwegian Bokmål (67%)
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* Portuguese (100%)
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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 3.8.9 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 3.8.9:
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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9.
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* 2 D Ruth Bavousett
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* 1 Jared Camins-Esakov
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* 3 Chris Cormack
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* 1 Stéphane Delaune
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* 1 Srikanth Dhondi
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* 1 Jonathan Druart
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* 1 Chris Hall
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* 1 Kyle M Hall
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* 1 Mason James
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* 5 Owen Leonard
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* 1 Julian Maurice
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* 1 Liz Rea
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* 1 Martin Renvoize
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* 1 Fridolyn SOMERS
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* 1 Mathieu Saby
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* 1 Adrien Saurat
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* 1 Robin Sheat
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We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.9
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* 5 ACPL
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* 5 Biblibre
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* 1 ByWater-Solutions
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* 1 C & P Bibliography
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* 7 Catalyst
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* 1 KohaAloha
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* 1 PTFS-Europe
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* 1 Université Rennes 2
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* 2 unidentified
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We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
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for Koha 3.8.9.
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* 21 Jared Camins-Esakov
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* 2 Galen Charlton
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* 23 Chris Cormack
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* 2 Elliott Davis
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* 13 Jonathan Druart
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* 4 Katrin Fischer
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* 9 Kyle M Hall
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* 4 Owen Leonard
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* 4 Paul Poulain
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* 1 Liz Rea
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* 1 Zeno Tajoli
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* 1 Marc Veron
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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 3.6.11, which was released on December 27, 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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##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jan 2013 22:11:48 Z #####
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