RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.11
26 Dec 2012
========================================================================

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 3.6.11 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.11.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 3.6.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Highlights of 3.6.11
======================

9135	blocker		updatedatabase.pl fails when DEBUG is set
8953	critical	opac-userupdate encoding issues
9106	critical	Filtering list of uncertain price list by owner empties order information
5801	major		C4::Circulation::_GetCircControlBranch should not be used in opac-reserve.pl
7921	major		Software error while placing order


Bugs fixed in 3.6.11
======================

4177	normal		opaccloud missing from the system preferences interface
5521	normal		item edit form appears if no items found
7129	normal		actual cost showing too many zeros
8792	normal		Babeltheque tab is useless
8804	normal		Quiet errors in the log from Auth.pm
8862	normal		merge.pl contains untranslatable strings
8954	normal		Languages list in advanced search always in english
8973	normal		HTML and URL escape missing in OPAC templates
9024	normal		Add additional sample data to German installer
9073	normal		Download option from the cart should match the menu button in lists
9123	normal		Authorities search ordered by authid does not work
8234	minor	Dates are not well sorted on Transfers to receive
8787	minor	If OpacMaintenance is on the requested page is loaded
8820	minor	Don't show orders table if there are no orders
8910	minor	silent warnings triggered in about.pl
8936	minor	Search RSS  feeds does not show there items when subscribing in Firefox
8946	minor	Wrong label and missing values in UNIMARC coded fields advanced search
8983	minor	Typo error in UNIMARCslim2OPACResults.xsl
9137	enhancement	Focus when editing/adding new itemtypes/authorised values


System requirements
======================

    Important notes:
    
    * Perl 5.10 is required
    * Zebra is required


Documentation
======================

As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now 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/3.6/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:

  * Basque (86%)
  * Chinese (China) (95%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (100%)
  * English (USA)
  * English (United Kingdom) (63%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (94%)
  * German (100%)
  * Greek (93%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (62%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (98%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (99%)
  * Tetun (52%)

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 3.6 is

Release Manager:        Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
Documentation Manager:  Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Translation Manager:    Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr>
QA Manager:             Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Bug Wranglers:          MJ Ray, Marcel de Rooy, Paul Poulain, Mason James

Past Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
                        Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Past Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
                        Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
			Liz Rea <liz@catalyst.net.nz>

Credits
======================


We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.11.
     1	Jared Camins-Esakov
     2	Liz Rea
     2	Jonathan Druart
     2	Katrin Fischer
     2	Kyle M Hall
     8	Owen Leonard
     1	Dobrica Pavlinusic
     1	Paul Poulain
     4	Fridolyn SOMERS
     2	Mathieu Saby
     1	Adrien Saurat
     2	Mirko Tietgen
     1	Mark Tompsett


We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.6.11.

     15 Jared Camins-Esakov
     15 Liz Rea
     28 Chris Cormack
      1 Frédéric Demians
      1 Jonathan Druart
      1 Nicole C. Engard
      7 Katrin Fischer
      5 Kyle M Hall
      1 Mason James
      3 Melia Meggs
     12 Paul Poulain
      1 Marcel de Rooy
      3 Mirko Tietgen
      3 Marc Veron

We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertantly 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 3.6.x.

The last Koha release was 3.6.10, which was released on 2012-10-23.

Bugs and feature requests
======================

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at

    http://bugs.koha-community.org/


Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini 
##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 26 Dec 2012 20:55:18 Z #####
