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+==============================================================================
+RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0
+==============================================================================
+Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
+integrated library system.
+
+You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL:
+
+http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.01.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
+new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally,
+Known Issues with this version.
+
+==============================================================================
+WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3?
+==============================================================================
+
+1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
+text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of
+millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query
+languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see:
+
+http://indexdata.dk/zebra
+
+Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as
+relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy
+operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.
+
+Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling
+limits by availability and statuses.
+
+Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces.
+
+For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships
+with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed
+in the RDBMS.
+
+2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
+new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform.
+
+The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that
+can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision
+control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.
+
+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://unapi.info/) and
+COinS/OpenURL
+(http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
+
+Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
+(http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.
+
+Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in
+MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;
+and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new
+export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed
+through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a
+separate parsing function.
+
+To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes
+support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP
+libraries (http://openncip.org).
+
+There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle
+interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients.
+These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over
+bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:
+
+http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services
+
+Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and
+Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.
+
+Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and
+Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich
+bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and
+comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the catalog.
+OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide
+an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions
+of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling
+for these services, to keep within subscription limits.
+
+4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform
+of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
+includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs
+under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.
+
+5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual
+libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages
+such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
+
+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.
+
+6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
+template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100%
+valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and
+W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All
+Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.
+
+7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
+modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC
+staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
+dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more!
+
+==============================================================================
+REVISION CONTROL
+==============================================================================
+
+With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system
+called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including the
+Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see
+the Wiki page:
+
+http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage
+
+==============================================================================
+VERSION NUMBERING
+==============================================================================
+
+With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to
+Perl's:
+
+major.minor[.revision[.build]]
+
+ * major: one digit
+ * minor: two-digit
+ * revision: two-digit
+ * build: three-digit
+
+This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change
+or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number,
+and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in
+updater.
+
+Koha 3.0.1 Release Schedule:
+
+This release of Koha 3.0.1 includes the following general improvements over
+the previous release:
+
+ * General Bugfixing (over 150 bugs fixed since RC1!)
+ Authorities :
+ Authorities structure edition
+ Authorities edition with diacritics
+ merging authorities
+ Adding failover when null string searched
+ Cataloguing :
+ When editing an item, clearing a field.
+ OPAC :
+ tags Management improved
+ shelves browsing improved
+ improved COInS Support
+ Improved RSS support
+ Boolean search on Advanced Search page (more options) Added
+ Deletion of private list fix
+ General Output :
+ Improving concistency of strings
+ markup corrections
+ Adding some untranslated strings to translation files.
+ More consistency in dates display
+ UNIMARC
+ Adds the creation date of biblios to frameworks in order to improve Rss support
+ You have to launch the script ./maintenance/UNIMARC_sync_date_created_with_marc_biblio.pl
+ 995$2 as lost items management.
+ If you had a previous installation of Koha without 995$2 linked to items.lost then
+ you have to launch the script ./maintenance/sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl
+ and rebuild indexes with rebuild_zebra.pl (see wiki.koha.org or rebuild_zebra.pl -h for documentation)
+ Fines fixes
+ Some sorting problems on patron names and libraries fixed
+ js and update of strings for better coherence
+ CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml is now required and not only CGI::Session
+ Adding better display of links on conformance with MARC standards
+ Fixing POD for correctness
+ Preparing for debian packaging
+ Adding more SIP2 functions
+ Adding some information on reports
+ UTF8 support improved
+ Failover improved
+ Many performance improvements under the hood
+ * Adding a Subject cloud
+ * better UNIMARC version 5 compliance
+ * Improving diacritics management in zebra
+ * Additional translations
+ * Improving Quality Assurance with test suite
+ * Adding a Renew All button to OPAC
+ * options added to overdue_notices script
+
+Subsequent releases will be bugfix releases, and won't include new
+features which would require some databas changes.
+
+New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases.
+
+==============================================================================
+UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA
+==============================================================================
+
+The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki
+at the following page:
+
+Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:
+
+http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
+
+Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:
+
+Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade
+
+==============================================================================
+TEMPLATES
+==============================================================================
+
+You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there
+is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:
+
+http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide
+
+Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their
+contributions!
+
+==============================================================================
+TRANSLATIONS
+==============================================================================
+
+Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following
+languages:
+
+OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), fr-FR (French)
+ hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
+ ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
+ zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
+
+Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian),
+ ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
+ zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
+
+Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following
+languages:
+
+OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish)
+ gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese),
+ kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish),
+ tet (Tetum)
+
+Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian),
+ ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish),
+
+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.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
+
+==============================================================================
+DOCUMENTATION
+==============================================================================
+
+User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki
+(http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions;
+please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:
+
+http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
+
+==============================================================================
+KNOWN ISSUES
+==============================================================================
+
+Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the
+3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page:
+
+http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0
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