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+RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.9 - 16 May 2011
+========================================================================
+
+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 3.2.9 can be downloaded from:
+
+    http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz
+
+Installation instructions can be found at:
+
+    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation
+
+IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING 3.2.x EOL
+========================================================================
+With the release of 3.4.0, the 3.2.x branch is nearing its EOL.
+After 3.2.10 or 04/15/2011, a motion will be made at the August 2011
+general IRC meeting to officially announce EOL for the 3.2.x branch.
+Please keep this in mind when planning new deployments and upgrades to
+existing systems.
+
+Highlights of 3.2.9
+======================
+
+NOTE: This release is a security release. It is strongly recommended that users apply
+this upgrade immediately to production systems. If you are installing a new system, please
+use this version rather than earlier versions.
+
+System Requirements
+======================
+
+    Changes since 3.0:
+
+    * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8.
+    * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies.
+      Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of
+      any new modules to install during upgrade.
+
+Upgrades
+======================
+
+The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly
+from 3.0.x.  In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different.
+During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping
+that contains a record of how budgets were mapped.  It is strongly
+recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review
+the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x.
+
+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, several translations of the
+Koha manual are available:
+
+English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/
+Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/
+French:  http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/
+
+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:
+
+  * Chinese
+  * Danish
+  * English (New Zealand)
+  * English (USA)
+  * French (France)
+  * French (Canada)
+  * German
+  * Greek
+  * Hindi
+  * Italian
+  * Norwegian
+  * Portuguese
+  * Spanish
+  * Turkish
+
+Partial translations are available for various other languages.
+
+The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
+
+    http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html
+
+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 3.2 is
+
+Release Manager:        Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com>
+Documentation Manager:  Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
+Translation Manager:    Chris Cormack <chris@bigallofwax.co.nz>
+Release Maintainer (3.0.x):
+                        Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com>
+Release Maintainer (3.2.x):
+                        Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
+
+Credits
+======================
+
+We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.9:
+
+Alex Arnaud
+Jared Camins-Esakov
+Colin Campbell
+Frédérick Capovilla
+Galen Charlton
+Tomas Cohen
+Chris Cormack
+Christophe Croullebois
+Marcel de Rooy
+Stéphane Delaune
+Frédéric Demians
+Ricardo Dias
+Jonathan Druart
+Frederic Durand
+Nicole Engard
+Magnus Enger
+Katrin Fischer
+Srdjan Jankovic
+Koustubha Kale
+koha-preprod@sys-tech.net
+Henri-Damien Laurent
+Owen Leonard
+Matthias Meusburger
+Sophie Meynieux
+Chris Nighswonger
+Paul Poulain
+root@lists.nekls.org
+Robin Sheat
+Ian Walls
+
+We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed,
+please send patch against these release notes to
+koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
+
+The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.6 Release Team and all
+who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well
+over 680 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes
+possible the release of 3.2.9 on its announced schedule.
+
+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 Koha 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix
+releases) is 3.2.x.
+
+The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0.
+
+Bugs and feature requests
+======================
+
+Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
+tracker at
+
+    http://bugs.koha-community.org/
+
+Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.