From 671c2f565f5b27c42d788c9345fcdd1e038241ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Cohen Arazi Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:50:40 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes for 3.12.8 release Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi --- misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_8.txt | 441 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 441 insertions(+) create mode 100644 misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_8.txt diff --git a/misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_8.txt b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..57cc770d8f --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_3_12_8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,441 @@ +RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.12.8 +24 Dec 2013 +======================================================================== + +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 3.12.8 can be downloaded from: + + http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.08.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 3.12.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release. + + +It includes 16 enhancements and 47 bugfixes. + + +Enhancements in 3.12.8 +====================== + +Architecture, internals, and plumbing +---------- + 11058 Compile time warning issued by C4/Record.pm + +Authentication +---------- + 11146 Show a go back link on no permission page + +Circulation +---------- + 10785 Dropbox should be book drop + +OPAC +---------- + 10750 Correct capitalization on suggestion form in OPAC + 10776 Subscription notification screen has awkward wording + 11098 Label in Opac - topics on facets not easily css selectable + 11105 Label - opac - places on facets not easily css selectable + +Serials +---------- + 10809 Use template branches plugin in serials search + +Staff Client +---------- + 11099 Label in Staff Client - series on facets not easily css selectable + 11102 Label in Staff Client - places on facets not easily css selectable + +Templates +---------- + 7484 Keeping typed values when searching for authorities + 9294 Move JavaScript out of circulation template + 10850 Give Quick spine label template page its own id + 11106 Label item type facet in staff client + 11107 Label in staff client - authors on facets not easily accessible + +Test Suite +---------- + 11100 Label in staff client - Topics on facets not easily css selectable + + +Critical bugs fixed in 3.12.8 +====================== + + +Acquisitions +---------- + 11322 critical Suggestion "notes" field should be sanitized or escaped + +Architecture, internals, and plumbing +---------- + 10843 major Print a slip can cause an error + +Hold requests +---------- + 10243 major Holds queue is making transfer requests that contradict the branch holds policy + +I18N/L10N +---------- + 10935 major CSV for basket and basketgroup are broken when translated + +OPAC +---------- + 8368 critical List email broken for non english templates + 11307 critical Potential XSS attack vector in opac rss feed + 11341 critical XSS attack vector in facets in OPAC - prog theme + + +Other bugs fixed in 3.12.8 +====================== + + +About +---------- + 7143 trivial Bug for tracking changes to the about page + +Acquisitions +---------- + 11059 normal Not possible to sort staged dates in metric format + 11108 normal Undoing receiving does not appear to work (but actually does) + 9374 minor In baskets, prices between 0 and 1 are displayed in red + 10535 minor By default sort funds by name + 10705 trivial Shipment cost should be 'shipping' + +Architecture, internals, and plumbing +---------- + 11015 normal Copyright headers are missing in some packages + 11061 normal Koha::Calendar::_mock_init is unused + 11077 trivial Correct silent warnings in C4/Auth.pm + +Cataloging +---------- + 10982 normal Link to IFLA UNIMARC documentation in Cataloging + 11070 minor Typo in UNIMARC 115a plugin + 11034 trivial BiblioAutoLink has incorrect return in addbiblio.pl + +Circulation +---------- + 10884 normal Circulation table: odd behavior on checkboxes + 10954 minor Payment receipt does not display the payment made + +Command-line Utilities +---------- + 9192 normal UNIMARC_sync_date_created_with_marc_biblio.pl field creation + +Database +---------- + 11275 normal Make deleteditems.materials of type text + 10889 trivial Wrong description for a column of biblio table in kohastructure.sql + +Label printing +---------- + 11222 normal A regression on label-item-search.pl done by Bug 9239 + +MARC Authority data support +---------- + 10335 minor UNIMARC authorities search doesn't display properly information on parallel form + 10905 minor Author tracings incorrect when UseAuthoritiesForTracings is turned on + +MARC Bibliographic data support +---------- + 6201 normal BibTeX export does not incude MARC21 main entry + +OPAC +---------- + 10283 normal Hide "many items" on second tab when using OpacSeparateHoldings + 11183 normal Warnings in opac + 11242 minor Fix opac-MARCdetail.pl bizarre ordering of data and noisy warnings + 10829 trivial Browse across pages breaks for authority searches + +Patrons +---------- + 11002 normal Mandatory fields are not translatable + 11125 minor Remove Problematic Logic from Patron Messaging Preferences Form + +Searching +---------- + 10271 minor An index containing ns or nb does not work + +Serials +---------- + 3934 normal Move test prediction pattern button + +SIP2 +---------- + 10445 normal SIP Server doesn't respect maxoutstanding system preference + +Staff Client +---------- + 9218 normal Intranet cart email broken for non english templates + 11003 normal JS error on the cart page + +System Administration +---------- + 7491 normal Description for item-level_itypes is misleading + 10038 trivial Doubled 'default' entry when creating a new authority type + +Templates +---------- + 11097 normal Hide duplicate patron button if logged in user lacks CAN_user_borrowers permission + +Test Suite +---------- + 10298 normal T::lib::Mocks tries to deal with syspref but doesn not manage to + +Tools +---------- + 10996 normal Cannot exclude numeric subfields on export + 11245 normal Typo in modborrowers.tt javascript string + 11086 trivial Koha Tools Upload Patron Images text description change + +Web services +---------- + 10974 normal OAI-PMH Resumption Tokens Do Not Handle Time + + +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/3.12/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 (89%) + * Armenian (100%) + * Chinese (China) (99%) + * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%) + * Czech (99%) + * Danish (99%) + * English (New Zealand) (91%) + * French (99%) + * French (Canada) (97%) + * German (100%) + * German (Switzerland) (99%) + * Greek (54%) + * Italian (99%) + * Kurdish (78%) + * Norwegian Bokmål (63%) + * Polish (99%) + * Portuguese (100%) + * Portuguese (Brazil) (91%) + * Slovak (99%) + * Spanish (99%) + * Swedish (97%) + * Turkish (99%) + + +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 3.12.8 is + + Release Manager: Jared Camins-Esakov + Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard + Installation Documentation Managers: + Samuel Desseaux + Mason James + Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel + QA Manager: Katrin Fischer + QA Team: Chris Cormack + Marcel de Rooy + Jonathan Druart + Brendan Gallagher + Kyle Hall + Mason James + Paul Poulain + Bug Wranglers: Magnus Enger + Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat + Live CD Manager: Vimal Kumar V. + VM Manager: Samuel Desseaux + + Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Hall + Release Maintainer (3.10.x): Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel + Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Tomás Cohen Arazi + Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers + +Credits +====================== + +We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored +new features in Koha 3.12.8: + * Universidad Nacional de Cordoba + +We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.8. + * 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi + * 1 Blou + * 3 Colin Campbell + * 13 Galen Charlton + * 1 Katherine Chisholm + * 1 David Cook + * 7 Chris Cormack + * 2 Frédéric Demians + * 14 Jonathan Druart + * 1 Rachel Dustin + * 3 Katrin Fischer + * 6 Kyle M Hall + * 1 Gab Hikaka + * 2 Srdjan Jankovic + * 1 Janusz Kaczmarek + * 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel + * 2 Ketan Kulkarni + * 4 Owen Leonard + * 1 Andrew Lockett + * 1 Sophie Meynieux + * 1 Jonet Moore + * 1 Liz Rea + * 1 Martin Renvoize + * 2 Marcel de Rooy + * 9 Fridolyn SOMERS + * 1 Mathieu Saby + * 1 Zeno Tajoli + * 1 Lyon3 Team + * 1 Mark Tompsett + * 1 Sue Tunnicliff + * 1 raewyn adams + +We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.12.8 + * 4 ACPL + * 3 BSZ BW + * 24 BibLibre + * 3 BigBallOfWax + * 6 ByWater-Solutions + * 7 Catalyst + * 13 Equinox + * 4 PTFS-Europe + * 1 Prosentient Systems + * 2 Rijksmuseum + * 2 Tamil + * 1 Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 + * 1 Université Rennes 2 + * 1 bopdhb.govt.nz + * 2 carvingit.com + * 1 cineca.it + * 1 inlibro.com + * 2 massey.ac.nz + * 1 mpdc.govt.nz + * 1 tpk.govt.nz + * 9 unidentified + +We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches +for Koha 3.12.8. + * 2 Koha Team Amu + * 1 Pierre Angot + * 90 Tomas Cohen Arazi + * 2 Petter Goksoyr Asen + * 1 Heather Braum + * 1 Jared Camins-Esakov + * 90 Galen Charlton + * 3 David Cook + * 7 Chris Cormack + * 16 Jonathan Druart + * 1 Dani Elder + * 31 Katrin Fischer + * 5 Brendan Gallagher + * 21 Kyle M Hall + * 1 Mason James + * 10 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel + * 13 Owen Leonard + * 2 Julian Maurice + * 1 Joy Nelson + * 2 David Noe + * 3 Paul Poulain + * 1 Campbell Reid-Tait + * 1 Martin Renvoize + * 3 Marcel de Rooy + * 7 Paola Rossi + * 22 Fridolin SOMERS + * 1 Garming Sam + * 1 Robin Sheat + * 3 Srdjan + * 4 Mark Tompsett + * 2 Ed Veal + * 2 Cedric Vita + * 1 KohaCon13 demo + +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 3.12.x. + +The last Koha release was 3.12.7, which was released on November 22, 2013. + + +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) + +##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 24 Dec 2013 12:43:45 Z ##### -- 2.39.5