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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0.2
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Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
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integrated library system.
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You can obtain Koha 3.0.2 from the following URL:
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http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.02.tar.gz
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These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new
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Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to
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Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the
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new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally,
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Known Issues with this version.
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WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3?
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1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
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text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of
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millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query
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languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see:
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http://indexdata.dk/zebra
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Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as
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relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy
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operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.
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Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling
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limits by availability and statuses.
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Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces.
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For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships
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with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed
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in the RDBMS.
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2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
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new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform.
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The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that
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can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision
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control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.
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3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
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retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
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(http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and
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COinS/OpenURL
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(http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
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Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
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(http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.
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Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in
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MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;
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and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new
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export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed
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through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a
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separate parsing function.
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To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes
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support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP
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libraries (http://openncip.org).
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There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle
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interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients.
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These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over
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bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:
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http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services
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Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and
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Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.
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Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and
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Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich
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bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and
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comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the catalog.
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OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide
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an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions
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of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling
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for these services, to keep within subscription limits.
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4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform
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of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
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includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs
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under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.
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5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual
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libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages
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such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
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Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE
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compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra
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has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
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You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools,
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or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.
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6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
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template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100%
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valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and
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W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All
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Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.
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7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
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modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC
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staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
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dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more!
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REVISION CONTROL
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With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system
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called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including the
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Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see
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the Wiki page:
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http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage
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VERSION NUMBERING
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With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to
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Perl's:
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major.minor[.revision[.build]]
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* major: one digit
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* minor: two-digit
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* revision: two-digit
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* build: three-digit
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This release of Koha 3.00.02 is versioned 3.00.02.012. Every database change
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or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number,
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and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in
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updater.
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Koha 3.0.2 Release :
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This release of Koha 3.0.2 includes the following general improvements over
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the previous release:
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xslt support for UNIMARC added
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UNIMARC support for search available items only and weight field
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better IE7 support for intranet
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Show Summary in opac results
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opac-browser
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Serial subscription report
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translations improved
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Complete list follows :
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Fixes Bug 3043: Followup.
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Bug 3245: advancedMARCeditor syspref not returning to cataloguing tab
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Bug 2266: Could not uncollapse a tag if you turn on advancedMARCeditor.
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BUG FIXING : opac-browser wouldnot display anything.
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Bug 3162 Fix only for [3.0.x]
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bug 2908 followup - use "list", not "shelf"
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(bug #3080) fix the acqui/spent.pl
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(bug #3079) show summary in opac results
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(bug #1578) fix a little error in code
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bug 988 followup - tweak wording
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bugfix stickyduedate more sticky - couple more forms in circulation.tmpl
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bugfix stickyduedate more sticky - also patron search in quick search block
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Bugfix 3176 - Browser selected languages are not use by OPAC
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(bug #3196) fix itemlost.pl
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Bug 1984 - added Javascript in the header to open, print, and close the slip window
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bug 1907 Partial fix: prevent bad records from truncating output.
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bug 3212: MARC21 bib leader plugin sets Leader/09 to 'a'
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bug 3211: fix XHTML validation errors in MAR21 bib leader plugin
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bug 3209: add 'p' (mixed materials) to MARC21 Leader/06 dropdown
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(bug #3198) fix serial receive with autobarcode
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Bug 3213 - UNIMARC/MARC21 selection
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Bug 3213 - Add UNIMARC XSLT stylesheet
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More fixes for Bug 2704, 440 Display Issues
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bug 3195 : Item Transfers and Holds disrupted.
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Revert "(bug #3025) multiple check-in of a multiple times reserved item go wrong"
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(bug #3190) allow right truncation in lot of records
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(bug #3174) show the member name in reports
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bug 2287: handle case where autoMemberNum is off
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Allow autogenerated cardnumbers again to solve http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2287
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(bug #3183) fix the SetMarcUnicodeFlag function
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Add system preference search to administration home page (Bug 3181)
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Bugfix 3199 - batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl failed due to missing argument [3.0.x]
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Bug 2944 fix courtesy of Amr Denni
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(bug #3197) Subfield code box was not present on new subfield tab in Admin/Authority
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Bug 3081 - The category code in the patron personal details page in opac showed the category code and not the description. This patch makes the description appear instead. Looking at both opac-userupdate.pl and opac-userupdate.tmpl, the actual value of this text box is not retrieved for any purpose.
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(bug #3193) fix the comtd value in acqui-home.pl
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Bug 3157: IE compatibility for label display
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(bug #2750) Cannot return to another branch if the independantbranch option is set as ON
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bug 2687 followup: Increase maxlength attribute to support 64 characters
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Bug 3177 - haspermission offers bogus option
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bug 3141: use quoted printable encoding in cart/list emails
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bug 2908 followup - use "list", not "shelf"
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Corrected: fix for Bug 3112, Emailed list contains too much whitespace
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(bug #3187) authority search pagination doesn't work
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(bug #3058) show items that are excluded of loan in search results
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(bug #3057) mandatory subfield edition
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(bug #3053) extract ISBD view generator, and permit to display valuecode in ISBD view
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(bug #3051) bad support of pagination in auth_finder
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(bug #3025) multiple check-in of a multiple times reserved item go wrong
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(bug #3011) csv export doesn't fill all the fields
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(bug #2939) delete a warning
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(bug #2938) add a serials subscriptions report
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(bug #2908) adding send shelf by e-mail feature
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Bug fix to OPAC shelf browsing query statement
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Adding warnings, fixing a bug that meant the title of an item that had a fine was never printed
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Bug #2974 Adding category code to BorrowerMandatoryField produced a "The following fields are mandatory: categorycode"
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(bug #3174) fill borrower number, and show author and creation date in saved reports
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minPasswordLength not returning user back to systempreferences.pl?tab=Patrons. Incorrect reference MinPasswordLength fixed. Could not find bug report.
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Bug 3126: remove comma for IE7
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Bug 2505 adding warnings to opac-authorities-home and fixing warnings generated
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Bugs 2822, 2551, 3163 fixes to XSLT
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(bug #2750) Cannot return to another branch if the independantbranch option is set as ON
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(bug #2961) change the workflow of the new issue
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bug 2915 followup - small efficiency improvement
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Bug 3114 - IE7 spacing needs width: 100% to avoid line collapse.
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bug 3161: don't display blank language chooser
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bug 2505: fix more warnings in opac-search.pl
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Bug 2505 Adding use warnings, and fixing the warnings generated
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Bug 2776 : emailPurchaseSuggestions syspref deprecated
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BUG-3160: fixes 'itemlost' check on item return.
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bug 3159: allow editing child patron that has no valid guarantor
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bug 2505 followup: restored correct item type image display
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Bug 2505: adding warnings to opac-detail.pl
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Bug 3152 OPAC reading history column headers don't line up with text
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Bug 3128 - followup and correction
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Bug 3128: IE7 tweak
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bug 1546 - replacing REPLACE statements
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Bug 3118: Remove comment that perturbs IE
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IE bugs 3124 and 3115: z3950 search and guided_reports
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Fix for Bug 3119: Add due date to the patron circulation history window
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Fix for Bug 1877, Link to patron record from manage suggestions
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Bug #3101 - Changed the Print and Confirm button
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Bug 2847 - Added url escaping for categorie.tmpl
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Bug 2847 - Fix html escaping in categorie.tmpl (more needed)
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Fix Bug #2925
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Partial fix for Bug #3139
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Modification on Bug # 3102 - "Location" instead of "Localization"
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Update for bug 1545 allowing for the title to be edited
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Change typo Localisation to Localization for Bug # 3102
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Bug 3013 Fix for 007 value builder to include all material types
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Allowing users to edit saved sql in guided reports. Bug 1545
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Bug 3132: Reformatting guarantor entry based on C vs. P patron types
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Bug 3133 - correct typos
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Removing duplicate email form field. Fixes Bug 3010.
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bug 2958: fix search results navigation for CCL, CQL, and PQF queries
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bug 3100: increase width of alternate postal code
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Multi-bug fix - SetMarcUnicodeFlag for records coming from Koha
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bug: unescaped single-quote in french sys. prefs. sql file
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bug 3110 - Move Serial Preferences to Serials Tab
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bug 3049: display correct due date of renewed loans
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Bug 2919 -- fix value_builder plugins for dateaccessioned, barcode
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Partial fix for Bug 2655, "Items waiting on the hold shelf display as 'Available' in OPAC"
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Bug 3090 - Add perldoc details
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Fix for Bug 3095, Add to lists page doesn't redirect with no javascript
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Another try at fixing Bug 2949.
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Bug 3066 - Overhaul guided reports
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Corrected: Hiding renew link in the OPAC for items which cannot be renewed. Fixes bug 3083.
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(bug #3084) in baskets, change the isbn of column
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Adding details to OPAC search results RSS, described in Bug 2973.
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bug 3088: fix crash in opac-ISBDdetail.pl
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Bug #3071 - Z39.50 search result highlights are mixed
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BUG-1503: fixes broken matching for 'hidden' values.
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(bug #3063) fix unimarc 4xx plugin with cloned field
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Bug #3036 Avoid command-line installer blocking on opensolaris plateform
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Minor bug fix Documentation update : 3039
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Hiding labels for add to list options when user isn't logged in or options don't exist. Fixes Bug 3043.
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quietens a noisy debug pop-up, when debugging
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Bug 2958 - notforloan (8008) is a numeric field.
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Second patch to address LL Bug 367 Titles without ISBNs display "no cover image available" while titles with ISBNS that don't match a Syndetics cover display nothing
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Fix for LL bug 367 Titles without ISBNs display "no cover image available"
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Bug Fix : weight field was broken in UNIMARC
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bug 3028: remove reservefix.pl cronjob
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Correcting delete patron button to use TMPL_VAR instead of DOM query. Fixes Bug 3014, Can't delete restricted patron from circulation screen.
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Fix for Bug 3015: Check-in screen displays branch name inconsistently
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Bug 2617: Add strict (and warnings), partial fix.
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(bug #2863) add the borrowers branchcodes in suggestion list
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(bug #2811)[3.2] fix opac-renew.pl part
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bug 2904: fix display of URLs in UNIMARC
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corrected patch for bug 2951
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bug 2772: bad image location
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Bug 2883 - longoverdue cronjob fails to implement required functionality.
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Kohabug 2500 Fiction Call Number Splitting Enhancement/Bugfix
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bug 2924 fixed rebuild_zebra.pl to work when export is skipped
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bug 1546 - REPLACE statements
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Fix for Bug 2984, Error when generating CSV output from "Generate labels for Batch" button
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bug 2870, fixes non-populating of guarantor fields
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Formatting changes for OPAC xslt and staff client catalog detail pages. Fixes Bug 2704, 440 Display Issues.
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bug 2856 followup: remove unconditional warn
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Bug 2868: fixing typo in NoZebraIndexes setting in sysprefs
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bug 2860: allow setting of a syspref value to '0'
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bug 2505: turn on warnings in admin/systemprefernces.pl
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bug 2867 [1/2]: Move basic editing to main system preferences screen
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bug 2505: enable warnings for opac/sco/sco-main.pl
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bug 2857: fix UTF-8 conversion issues in web services
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bug 2613: allow web self-check to accept patron ID
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Some minor markup corrections to opac authorities pages. Some fixes to address Bug 2620.
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Fixing a couple of bugs in the package
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Revert "Fix the guided report export, bad check of errors(bug #2672)"
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(bug #1758) change the position of GetCOinSBiblio()
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(bug #2948) change the aqbudgetid column type
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(bug #2938)[follow previous] Add new report in menus
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(bug #2933) change popup names containing space chars
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(bug #2929) permit to define "fine days" in issuing rules
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(bug #2915) C4::Biblio::DelBiblio delete the serials
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(bug #2856) Activate the duplicate patrons detection and check birthdate only if one is set
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Fix the guided report export, bad check of errors(bug #2672)
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bug 2540: allow download of report
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(bug #2881) preselect default sorting
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(bug #2996) update unimarc 105 plugin to the actual norm
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(bug #2961) be xhtml valid
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bug 2986: tweak authtype index for MARC21 (GRS-1)
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(bug #3004) fix the opac authority search
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(bug #2998) fix search sorting containing "="
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(bug #2996) fix and improve 100 and 105 unimarc plugins
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(bug #2995) Set a default encoding for e-mails
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bug 2992: don't display MARC codes in search results
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(bug #2978) fix differents bugs in marc editor
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bug itemtype icons interfere with location text
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bug 2971: Fixed leak by removing drop shadow instead of hiding it.
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Bug 2968 - SIP ACS_STATUS message (98) misreported config.
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URLs checker enhancement (bug #2959)
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(bug #2962) escape searchbox, and change the search from tag clouds
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(bug #2961) add a button to add manually the next issue
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bug 2126: reduce round-off errors in fine balance
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(bug #2957) import Date_to_Days
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(bug #2956) fix 4xx plugin pagination
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This release is bugfix only release, and doesnot include new
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features which would require some database changes.
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It does add some databases changes though but only to FIX bugs.
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Note that Windows is not supported for this version as there are blockers.
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Note that this version is still supporting only MySQL.
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Support for PostgreSQL is still very experimental.
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New features which have deep impact on code will be available in Koha 3.2
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and subsequent releases.
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UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA
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The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki
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at the following page:
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Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:
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http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
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Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:
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Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade
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TEMPLATES
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You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there
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is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:
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http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide
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Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their
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contributions!
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TRANSLATIONS
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Koha 3.0.2 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following
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languages:
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OPAC: ar-Arab (Arabic), da-DK (Danish), de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),
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en-NZ (New Zealand English), fr-FR (French),
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hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
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nl-NL (Dutch), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
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ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
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Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), fr-FR (French), en (English),
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es-ES (Spanish), it-IT (Italian), uk-UA (Ukranian),
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Additionally, Koha 3.0.2 (this release) has partial translations for the following
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languages:
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OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish)
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gl (Galician), he-Hebr (Hebrew), hr-HR (Croatian), hu-HU (Hungarian), id-ID (Indonesian),
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ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), lo-Laoo (Laoo),
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mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), pt-PT (Portuguese), sv-SE (Swedish),
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tet (Tetum), zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
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Staff Client: ar-Arab (Arabic), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian),
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hy-Armn (Armenian), ja-Japn (Japanese), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
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ru-RU (Russian), tr-TR (Turkish),
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zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
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The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see
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http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about
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translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
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http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
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Note that I chose to release even though some words are still missing.
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I apologize to translators.
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I had proclaimed string freeze, but some strings were still untranslated.
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You can find latest uptodate translations on Pootle : http://translate.koha.org/languages/
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You can also ask for translation rights if you need.
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Thank you for your patience and your work, translators.
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DOCUMENTATION
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User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki
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(http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions;
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please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:
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http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
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KNOWN ISSUES
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Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the
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3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page:
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http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0
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