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+==============================================================================
+RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0.6
+==============================================================================
+Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
+integrated library system.
+
+You can obtain Koha 3.0.6 from the following URL:
+
+http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.06.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 3.00.06 is versioned 3.00.06.008. 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 3.0.6 Release :
+
+This release of Koha 3.0.6 includes 69 patches with bug fixes and translations:
+
+bug fixes
+bug #3348
+bug #3536
+bug #3894
+bug #4002
+bug #4004
+bug #4020
+bug #4021
+bug #4038
+bug #4043
+bug #4044
+bug #4049
+bug #4050
+bug #4052
+bug #4055
+bug #4075
+bug #4084
+Adds IndependentBranchPatrons system preferences for libraries which would not like to see patrons from other libraries
+Change the XSLT systempreference so that path can be provided
+Also adds CSV exports
+
+
+It adds 8 changes in database, which adds some new tables required for some partial features ports from 3.2 due to the previous release and updates languages tag for portuguese and updates Calendar SystemPreference.
+
+
+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 3.0.6 (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 3.0.6 (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), Hindi, Greek, Italian, Polish,
+ 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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