RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.12
29 Jul 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 3.6.12 can be downloaded from:

    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.12.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 3.6.12 is a security release.

This release includes a fix for a security bug where manipulation of the cookie
used for retaining OPAC search history for anonymous sessions could
theoretically result in the execution of arbitrary code on a Koha webserver.
Further details on the security issue can be found at:
 
     http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10657.


It also includes 3 enhancements and 12 bugfixes.


Enhancements in 3.6.12
======================

OPAC
----------
	8712	We should use WAI-ARIA guidelines to help with accessibility -OMNIBUS bug

Packaging
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	8878	Koha-shell: a command to make using koha commands easier

Templates
----------
	9169	Wrap relator code in <span> to allow for CSS customization


Critical bugs fixed in 3.6.12
======================


System Administration
----------
	8401	critical	Search term deleted from system preference content


Other bugs fixed in 3.6.12
======================


About
----------
	7143	trivial	Bug for tracking changes to the about page

I18N/L10N
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	6574	normal	Js error in en-GB template breaks circulation toolbar
	9140	normal	Untranslatable strings in item circulation history
	9141	normal	Untranslatable strings on "pay an amount..." page

OPAC
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	9158	minor	Correcting whitespace around display of series 440 marc fields
	9309	minor	"OPACurlOpenInNewWindow" isn't respected for 856$u links shown in OPAC when not using XSLT

Staff Client
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	8481	normal	Items table is showing in opac-MARCdetail.pl but not in MARCdetail.pl
	9335	minor	Message Log Popups don't disappear?

Templates
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	9278	minor	Remove unused OPAC CSS file sanop.css

Test Suite
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	8924	minor	Some modules erroneously skipped by 00-load

Tools
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	8977	normal	Printoverdues.sh call an uninitialized variable


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/3.6/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:


  * English (USA)
  * Basque (86%)
  * Chinese (China) (95%)
  * Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  * Danish (100%)
  * English (New Zealand) (100%)
  * English (United Kingdom) (63%)
  * French (99%)
  * French (Canada) (94%)
  * German (100%)
  * German (Switzerland) (82%)
  * Greek (93%)
  * Italian (100%)
  * Norwegian Bokmål (62%)
  * Portuguese (Brazil) (98%)
  * Slovak (100%)
  * Spanish (100%)
  * Tetun (53%)
  * Turkish (69%)


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 3.6.12 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>
Release Maintainer (3.6.x):
                        Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>

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

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.6.12:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.12.
  *      2	Jared Camins-Esakov
  *      3	Galen Charlton
  *      1	Chris Cormack
  *      1	Stéphane Delaune
  *      1	Srikanth Dhondi
  *      1	Jonathan Druart
  *      1	Chris Hall
  *      4	Owen Leonard
  *      1	Fred Pierre
  *      3	Liz Rea
  *      1	Martin Renvoize
  *      1	Fridolyn SOMERS
  *      2	Robin Sheat

We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.12
  *       4 ACPL                                                                                          
  *       3 BibLibre                                                                                    
  *       2 C & P Bibliography                                                                    
  *       8 Catalyst                                                                                 
  *       3 Equinox                                                                                   
  *       1 PTFS-Europe                                                                              
  *       1 smfpl.org

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha 3.6.12.
  *       1 Tomas Cohen Arazi
  *      19 Jared Camins-Esakov
  *       4 Galen Charlton
  *      18 Chris Cormack
  *       1 Elliott Davis
  *       8 Jonathan Druart
  *       2 Katrin Fischer
  *       6 Kyle M Hall
  *       1 Mason James
  *       1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
  *       3 Owen Leonard
  *       3 Paul Poulain
  *      17 Liz Rea
  *       1 Marcel de Rooy
  *       1 Marc Veron

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 3.6.x.

The last Koha release was 3.12.3, which was released on July 29, 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 29 Jul 2013 13:54:13 Z #####
