Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
integrated library system.
+You can obtain Koha 3.0 Alpha from the following URL:
+
+http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-alpha.tar.gz
+
These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new
Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to
Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the
3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
-(http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/)
-and COinS/OpenURL
+(http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and
+COinS/OpenURL
(http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages
such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
-Koha's indexe engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing _any_ UNICODE
-script, and utilize the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
+Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE
+compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra
+has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools,
or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.
* General Bugfixing (everyone)
* New API for item management (gmcharlt)
* MARC21 Authorities (gmcharlt)
- * I18N/L10N, BiDi, lang detection (kados)
+ * Improved I18N/L10N, lang detection (kados)
* OPAC Templates re-design (oleonard)
* Documentation and Translations (everyone)