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+RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0.5
+==============================================================================
+Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
+integrated library system.
+
+You can obtain Koha 3.0.5 from the following URL:
+
+http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.05.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 3.00.05 is versioned 3.00.05.01. 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 3.0.5 Release :
+
+This release of Koha 3.0.5 includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations:
+
+Bug 3824: Item modif doesn't select default value in combo list
+Bug 3863 AmazonReviews not showing up
+MT2432 : Do not show "place hold" link when there's no items
+(bug #3173) revert non-working code
+(bug #3898) Followup : fixing Hold Policies implementation
+3.0.x : intranet results Removing missing features
+Dates : dates without beginning 0 are considered valid
+(bug #3819) variable name typo
+(bug #3819) still fixing holds policies
+Bug 3827: Impossible to set a subfield mandatory in biblio framework
+Bug 3784: Don't fail on opac-detail.pl with invalid biblionumber
+MT 2415 : tablesorter for shelves
+(bug #3823) on hold items in opac
+MT 2360 : Adds address, city and zipcode to overdues csv export
+(bug #3348) another order receive fix
+(bug #3825) improve waiting holds
+(bug #3826) improve modrequest.pl
+MT 2110 : adds title, due date and issue date to csv overdues export
+Bug 3818 Allow 10 characters in bookfund id input
+Bug 3806 - Holidays improperly sorted by date
+Bug 3805 Suppress display of basket level invoice no
+Bug 3805 Suppress basket invoice number display
+(bug #3801) fix itemtype administration
+Bug 3800 - Misplaced IF was causing the no permission message never to be displayed
+Bug 3813: SIP2, Bad Patron Information Response to Message 64
+(bug #3816) differenciate reserved and on loan items
+(bug #3819) hold policies implementation
+(bug #3819) hold policies doesn't work
+(bug #3822) fix returning document in transfert
+(bug #3798) fix changing request branch
+Removing es-VE at request of translators
+[3.0.x][followup](bug #3348) orderreceive problems
+Bug 3754: Follow-up patch
+(bug #3791) overduerules and numeric categorycodes
+(bug #3786) fix items edition menu
+(MT 1970) fix javascript
+(bug #3783) fix marcurls
+(bug #3734) Fix previous patch of isbd view
+[followup](bug #3779) fix tmpl_if
+[followup](bug #3760) delete some warn
+(bug #3760) fix and improve some reports
+(bug #3761) fix virtualshelf ordering
+(bug #3762) fix warnings in GetCoinsBiblio
+(bug #3771) delete multiple holds
+(bug #3772) show place hold button in isbd view
+[followup](bug #3550) fix opensearch with subtitle
+(bug #3778) GetBranchesLoop and searchMyLibraryFirst
+(bug #3779) overdues csv fix
+Subscription add Updating Online Help file
+Translation fix : opac-recentacquisitions
+Adding Support for $9 and $3 on authority hierarchy
+Followup : d31ac1 reintroducing submit buttons
+[followup] (bug #3710) all itemtypes if none selected
+(recent acquisitions)
+(bug #3734) another isbd view for opac
+(bug #3754) fix language choose
+Fixing translation stopped on acqui-search-result.tmpl
+Admin/categorie.pl _get_bref_messaging_pref missing
+(bug #3745) fix deletion of borrowers rights detection
+[3.0.x](bug #3753) returning a document always needs transfert
+Updating INSTALL.ubuntu
+Fix 3741 : Amazon cover image not displayed
+(bug #3558) fix build_browser_and_cloud
+Bug Fixing : holds management Adding GetBranchItemRule
+followup TransformhtmltoXML
+Fix normal opac view
+Followup bfffa5 TransformHTMLToXML bug fix
+Reintroducing submit buttons in translations
+Bug Fix MT2104 : Edit authorities problem on multiple field
+(bug #3281) change the way to parse item's summary
+
+This release is bugfix only release, and doesnot include new
+features.
+It adds 1 changes in database, which is few new tables required for some partial features ports from 3.2 due to the previous release.
+
+
+Note that Windows is not supported for this version as there are blockers.
+
+Note that this version is still supporting only MySQL.
+Support for PostgreSQL is still very experimental.
+
+New features which have deep impact on code 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 3.0.5 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following
+languages:
+
+OPAC: ar-Arab (Arabic), da-DK (Danish), de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),
+ en-NZ (New Zealand English), fr-FR (French),
+ hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
+ nl-NL (Dutch), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
+ ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
+
+
+Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), fr-FR (French), en (English),
+ es-ES (Spanish), it-IT (Italian), uk-UA (Ukranian),
+
+
+Additionally, Koha 3.0.5 (this release) has partial translations for the following
+languages:
+
+OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish)
+ gl (Galician), he-Hebr (Hebrew), hr-HR (Croatian), hu-HU (Hungarian), id-ID (Indonesian),
+ ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), lo-Laoo (Laoo),
+ mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), sv-SE (Swedish),
+ tet (Tetum), zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
+
+Staff Client: ar-Arab (Arabic), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian),
+ hy-Armn (Armenian), ja-Japn (Japanese), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
+ pt-PT (Portuguese), ru-RU (Russian), tr-TR (Turkish),
+ zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
+
+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.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
+
+You can find latest uptodate translations on Pootle : http://translate.koha.org/languages/
+You can also ask for translation rights if you need.
+Thank you for your patience and your work, translators.
+
+==============================================================================
+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.koha.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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