The Koha team is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.8.7, this is
a maintenance release.
IMPORTANT NOTE
If you are using DOM indexing, you must do a full reindex after
upgrading or you will into a lot of problems.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.8.7
22 Nov 2012
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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
Koha 3.8.7 can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-
Installation instructions can be found at:
http://wiki.koha-community.
OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 3.8.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Major fixes in 3.8.7
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Acquisitions
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7921 major Software error while placing order
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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9085 major Installer will not run with DEBUG set
Cataloging
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8665 critical DOM indexing fails to index some bib records
Circulation
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8253 critical fix fine doubling, when upgrading from 3.6 to 3.8 (or later)
8966 critical Koha::Calendar::is_holiday truncates the date
8213 major «Cancel All» button on holds over tab cancels both holds
over and holds waiting
8939 major Fines Charged During Grace Period
OPAC
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8953 critical opac-userupdate encoding issues
Searching
———-
8805 major Add a biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl for NORMARC
Templates
———-
3652 critical XSS vulnerabilities
Bugs fixed in 3.8.7
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About
———-
8910 minor silent warnings triggered in about.pl
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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8804 normal Quiet errors in the log from Auth.pm
Authentication
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8787 minor If OpacMaintenance is on the requested page is loaded
Cataloging
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8823 normal CatalogModuleRelink Creates Multiple Links between Bib and
Auth record ($9 RLIN)
8862 normal merge.pl contains untranslatable strings
Circulation
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8834 normal Call to C4::Context::preference fails to pass $self in
Circulation.pm
8841 normal Duedates set by Returnbeforeexpiry lack HH:MM
8234 minor Dates are not well sorted on Transfers to receive
8826 minor Initialization of hash triggers error log entries.
Documentation
———-
8568 minor Fix some errors in docs for scripts provided by the Debian packages
I18N/L10N
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8872 minor Improve encoding for xslt files, showmarc and opac-showmarc
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
———-
8749 trivial Missing Ubuntu library files in ubuntu.packages and
ubuntu.12.04.packages
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
———-
9058 normal Norwegian default for CalendarFirstDayOfWeek
OPAC
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8792 normal Babeltheque tab is useless
8888 normal question marks in series title facet links
8941 normal Make title display properly for NORMARC OPAC detail view
8973 normal HTML and URL escape missing in OPAC templates
8936 minor Search RSS feeds does not show there items when
subscribing in Firefox
8988 minor item status uses authorized value description for intranet
Reports
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8987 normal «New report button» broken
Searching
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8958 normal Facets are not fully UNIMARC compliant
Staff Client
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8996 normal In result page items with negative notforloan are available
System Administration
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4177 normal opaccloud missing from the system preferences interface
8907 minor Last updated date does not appear on currency edit form
8849 trivial Error log generated when not a demo system
Templates
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8898 minor Remove unused mainmenu include and related styles in the staff client
8912 minor Remove unused hold-menu.inc
translate.koha-community.org
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8968 normal JavaScript String not translatable
Enhancements in 3.8.7
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Lists
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7805 Exposing the new list permissions in opac and staff
