1 RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.9 - 16 May 2011
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4 Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package
5 (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes,
6 volunteers, and support companies from around the world.
7 The website for the Koha project is
9 http://koha-community.org/
11 Koha 3.2.9 can be downloaded from:
13 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz
15 Installation instructions can be found at:
17 http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation
19 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING 3.2.x EOL
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21 With the release of 3.4.0, the 3.2.x branch is nearing its EOL.
22 After 3.2.10 or 04/15/2011, a motion will be made at the August 2011
23 general IRC meeting to officially announce EOL for the 3.2.x branch.
24 Please keep this in mind when planning new deployments and upgrades to
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30 NOTE: This release is a security release. It is strongly recommended that users apply
31 this upgrade immediately to production systems. If you are installing a new system, please
32 use this version rather than earlier versions.
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39 * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8.
40 * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies.
41 Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of
42 any new modules to install during upgrade.
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47 The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly
48 from 3.0.x. In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different.
49 During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping
50 that contains a record of how budgets were mapped. It is strongly
51 recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review
52 the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x.
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57 As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The
58 home page for Koha documentation is
60 http://koha-community.org/documentation/
62 As of the date of these release notes, several translations of the
63 Koha manual are available:
65 English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/
66 Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/
67 French: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/
69 The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
71 http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary
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76 Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
77 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
81 * English (New Zealand)
94 Partial translations are available for various other languages.
96 The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
98 http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html
100 for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
103 http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
105 The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
107 http://translate.koha-community.org/
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112 The release team for Koha 3.2 is
114 Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com>
115 Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
116 Translation Manager: Chris Cormack <chris@bigallofwax.co.nz>
117 Release Maintainer (3.0.x):
118 Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com>
119 Release Maintainer (3.2.x):
120 Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
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125 We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.9:
134 Christophe Croullebois
146 koha-preprod@sys-tech.net
157 We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
158 please send patch against these release notes to
159 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
161 The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.6 Release Team and all
162 who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well
163 over 680 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes
164 possible the release of 3.2.9 on its announced schedule.
166 Revision control notes
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169 The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
170 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of
172 git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git
174 The branch for Koha 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix
177 The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0.
179 Bugs and feature requests
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182 Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
185 http://bugs.koha-community.org/
187 Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.