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Koha 3.0.5 Released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0.5

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Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source integrated library system.

7 You can obtain Koha 3.0.5 from the following URL: Download Koha 3.05
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.

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18 WHAT’S NEW IN KOHA 3?

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. 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

33 limits by availability and statuses.

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35 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.

New installer – based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the

42 new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform.

44 The installer comes complete with a Developer’s Toolkit target (‘dev’) that

45 can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision

46 control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.

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48 3. Standard APIs – Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and

49 retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50

50 (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and

51 COinS/OpenURL

52 (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).

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54 Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch

55 (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon’s A9.

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57 Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in

58 MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;

59 and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new

60 export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed

61 through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a

62 separate parsing function.

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64 To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes

65 support for 3M’s Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP

66 libraries (http://openncip.org).

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68 There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle

69 interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients.

70 These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over

71 bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:

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73 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services

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75 Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication – easy integration with LDAP and

76 Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.

78 Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and

79 Taylor’s Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich

80 bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and

81 comments from users, as well as point to ‘Similar Items’ within the catalog.

82 OCLC’s xISBN, and LibraryThing’s ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide

83 an ‘Editions’ tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions

84 of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling

85 for these services, to keep within subscription limits.

86

87 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic – Run Koha on the platform

88 of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also

89 includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs

90 under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.

92 5. Multi-lingual support – Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual

93 libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages

94 such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).

96 Koha’s index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE

97 compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra

98 has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.

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100 You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools,

101 or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.

103 6. New templates – Koha’s staff and patron interfaces are developed with a

104 template system that’s easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100%

105 valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and

106 W3C’s WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All

107 Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.

109 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing

110 modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC

111 staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data

112 dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more!

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115 REVISION CONTROL

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118 With Koha 3, we’ve started using a new distributed revision control system

119 called Git; it’s the same system in use by many other projects, including the

120 Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see

121 the Wiki page:

123 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage

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126 VERSION NUMBERING

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129 With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to Perl’s:major.minor[.revision[.build]] * major: one digit

135 * minor: two-digit

136 * revision: two-digit

137 * build: three-digit

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139 This release of Koha 3.00.05 is versioned 3.00.05.03. Every database change

140 or significant enough code change requires an update to the ‘build’ number,

141 and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in

142 updater.

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144 Koha 3.0.5 Release :

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146 This release of Koha 3.0.5 includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations:

147

148 Bug 3730: Portuguese code was incorrect

149 Bug 3824: Item modif doesn’t select default value in combo list

150 Bug 3863 AmazonReviews not showing up

151 MT2432 : Do not show “place hold” link when there’s no items

152 (bug #3173) revert non-working code

153 (bug #3898) Followup : fixing Hold Policies implementation

154 3.0.x : intranet results Removing missing features

155 Dates : dates without beginning 0 are considered valid

156 (bug #3819) variable name typo

157 (bug #3819) still fixing holds policies

158 Bug 3827: Impossible to set a subfield mandatory in biblio framework

159 Bug 3784: Don’t fail on opac-detail.pl with invalid biblionumber

160 MT 2415 : tablesorter for shelves

161 (bug #3823) on hold items in opac

162 MT 2360 : Adds address, city and zipcode to overdues csv export

163 (bug #3348) another order receive fix

164 (bug #3825) improve waiting holds

165 (bug #3826) improve modrequest.pl

166 MT 2110 : adds title, due date and issue date to csv overdues export

167 Bug 3818 Allow 10 characters in bookfund id input

168 Bug 3806 – Holidays improperly sorted by date

169 Bug 3805 Suppress display of basket level invoice no

170 Bug 3805 Suppress basket invoice number display

171 (bug #3801) fix itemtype administration

172 Bug 3800 – Misplaced IF was causing the no permission message never to be displayed

173 Bug 3813: SIP2, Bad Patron Information Response to Message 64

174 (bug #3816) differenciate reserved and on loan items

175 (bug #3819) hold policies implementation

176 (bug #3819) hold policies doesn’t work

177 (bug #3822) fix returning document in transfert

178 (bug #3798) fix changing request branch

179 Removing es-VE at request of translators

180 [3.0.x][followup](bug #3348) orderreceive problems

181 Bug 3754: Follow-up patch

182 (bug #3791) overduerules and numeric categorycodes

183 (bug #3786) fix items edition menu

184 (MT 1970) fix javascript

185 (bug #3783) fix marcurls

186 (bug #3734) Fix previous patch of isbd view

187 [followup](bug #3779) fix tmpl_if

188 [followup](bug #3760) delete some warn

189 (bug #3760) fix and improve some reports

190 (bug #3761) fix virtualshelf ordering

191 (bug #3762) fix warnings in GetCoinsBiblio

192 (bug #3771) delete multiple holds

193 (bug #3772) show place hold button in isbd view

194 [followup](bug #3550) fix opensearch with subtitle

195 (bug #3778) GetBranchesLoop and searchMyLibraryFirst

196 (bug #3779) overdues csv fix

197 Subscription add Updating Online Help file

198 Translation fix : opac-recentacquisitions

199 Adding Support for $9 and $3 on authority hierarchy

200 Followup : d31ac1 reintroducing submit buttons

201 [followup] (bug #3710) all itemtypes if none selected

202 (recent acquisitions)

203 (bug #3734) another isbd view for opac

204 (bug #3754) fix language choose

205 Fixing translation stopped on acqui-search-result.tmpl

206 Admin/categorie.pl _get_bref_messaging_pref missing

207 (bug #3745) fix deletion of borrowers rights detection

208 [3.0.x](bug #3753) returning a document always needs transfert

209 Updating INSTALL.ubuntu

210 Fix 3741 : Amazon cover image not displayed

211 (bug #3558) fix build_browser_and_cloud

212 Bug Fixing : holds management Adding GetBranchItemRule

213 followup TransformhtmltoXML

214 Fix normal opac view

215 Followup bfffa5 TransformHTMLToXML bug fix

216 Reintroducing submit buttons in translations

217 Bug Fix MT2104 : Edit authorities problem on multiple field

218 (bug #3281) change the way to parse item’s summary

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220 This release is bugfix only release, and doesnot include new

221 features.

222 It adds 3 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.

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225 Note that Windows is not supported for this version as there are blockers.

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227 Note that this version is still supporting only MySQL.

228 Support for PostgreSQL is still very experimental.

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230 New features which have deep impact on code will be available in Koha 3.2

231 and subsequent releases.

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234 UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA

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237 The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki

238 at the following page:

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240 Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:

241

242 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30

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244 Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:

245

246 Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade

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249 TEMPLATES

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252 You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there

253 is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:

254

255 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide

256

257 Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their

258 contributions!

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261 TRANSLATIONS

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264 Koha 3.0.5 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following

265 languages:

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267 OPAC: ar-Arab (Arabic), da-DK (Danish), de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),

268 en-NZ (New Zealand English), fr-FR (French),

269 hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), nn-NO – Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),

270 nl-NL (Dutch), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),

271 ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)

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273

274 Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), fr-FR (French), en (English),

275 es-ES (Spanish), it-IT (Italian), uk-UA (Ukranian),

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278 Additionally, Koha 3.0.5 (this release) has partial translations for the following

279 languages:

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281 OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish)

282 gl (Galician), he-Hebr (Hebrew), hr-HR (Croatian), hu-HU (Hungarian), id-ID (Indonesian),

283 ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), lo-Laoo (Laoo),

284 mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), sv-SE (Swedish),

285 tet (Tetum), zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)

286

287 Staff Client: ar-Arab (Arabic), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian),

288 hy-Armn (Armenian), ja-Japn (Japanese), nn-NO – Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),

289 pt-PT (Portuguese), ru-RU (Russian), tr-TR (Turkish), Hindi, Greek, Italian, Polish,

290 zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)

291

292 The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see

293 http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about

294 translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:

295

296 http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate

297

298 You can find latest uptodate translations on Pootle : http://translate.koha.org/languages/

299 You can also ask for translation rights if you need.

300 Thank you for your patience and your work, translators.

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303 DOCUMENTATION

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306 User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki

307 (http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions;

308 please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:

309

310 http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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313 KNOWN ISSUES

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316 Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the

317 3.0 RM’s QA notes Wiki page:

318

319 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0

Makerere University Business School

Makerere University business School is a public institution located in the Nakawa  division of Kampala city.  The University enrolls over 3,000 students at its main campus and three and offers programs in more than 20 undergraduate and 10 graduate areas.  It is nationally recognized for pioneering Business related courses.;

About Makerere University Business library

Makerere University  Business School Library supports the research needs of  University students, staff, and faculty with a collection  print and electronic books, multimedia resources, and subscription databases that provide 24/7 access to  online full text journals.  Reciprocal borrowing agreements with several nearby colleges and universities, as well as library participation in the Ugandan libraries.This enables students to take advantage of the extensive research resources in all fields of study.

Digitalization Process at Makerere University Business School

The University’s adoption to digitalization process is gradual, however the Koha training exercise has already taken place at Mubs Campus.The two weeks training  covered all the Library  and Some MIS staff at Mubs. The Library training was effected by Sparklink Systems Uganda.However the next tasks would include data migration of more than 300,000 items,more training services till the library staff can take off on thier own

After installation,the catalog will be a web-based interface and maintained by the library’s technology staff.  The library can then adapt the system to the needs of patrons.  When the software is altered, the resulting change can be redistributed for free for other members of the system’s consortium to benefit from.

Kabale University chooses Koha

Overview
Inaugurated in 2001, Kabale University stands on a hill commanding a magnificent view. Most of the structures at the campus are of colonial nature, but still in sound shape. Currently the student population is still low and the facilities are under-utilised.
The university was founded to fill the education gap in southwestern Uganda. The university’s immediate mandate is to serve the people of Kigezi, which comprises Kabale, Kanungu, Kisoro and Rukungiri districts.

Studies in Environmental Sciences, Land use Management, Languages, Development Studies, Science and Technology-related programmes are identified as key to this region.
The University housed on 52 hectares of land at Kikungiri hill, Kabale district which local government donated the land on top of that James Musinguzi Garuga, a prominent businessman in Kampala offered the university 400 acres in Kanungu district.
The university is licensed and gazetted by the National Council of Higher Education and has embarked on academic programmes that respond to the needs of the region, while taking into account the requirements of a global knowledge-based society.

<font color='blue'Nkozi University Choses Koha

Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) whose main Campus is located at Nkozi 82 kms west of Kampala, the Capital of Uganda, on the Kampala-Masaka road, was started in October 1993 with 84 students and two academic Departments, namely the Institute of Ethics and Development Studies and the Faculty of Business Administration and Management.

To date, the total enrolment of students is over two-thousand (2,000), of whom eight hundred and fifty are full-time residents on campus, while the rest are following distance-learning programmes and part-time programmes at the University Kampala-Campus at the Uganda Catholic Management and Training Institute – Rubaga. Students of UMU come from all over the world. The university also host students for field work and research from Europe and USA. This international atmosphere offers a good study experience to the students and staff as well as an opportunity for a rich cultural exchange.

Nkumba University

Nkumba University is one of the few private chartered universities in Uganda. It achieved this coveted status on 16th February 2007 based on its robust and attractive programmes

Parliament library Of Uganda already uses Koha