Koha 2.2.8 Released

12 March 2007

Koha 2.2.8 is a bug fix only release.

Koha 2.2.8 has been released & is available at : http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.8.tar.gz

RELEASE NOTES

Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe.

Koha 2.2.8 is more than 250,000 lines of code (see : http://bureau.paulpoulain.com/cvslog/) , contributed by about 50 different developers (46, +translators).

The 2.2.8 version of Koha is a mature product, with a lot of nice features. More than 100 libraries are registered as users on wiki.koha.org, and we are sure that at least 300 libraries use the software. There are 2 projects derived from Koha.

INSTALLER WARNING

During installation, you may get the 2 following lines in red : - Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux/ZOOM.pm line 37. - Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at Install.pm line 1677, line 1117. You can safely ignore them

CHANGES

Changes 2.2.7 => 2.2.8

Koha 2.2.8 is a bug fix only release.

(critical) a security hole has been fixed in the fines payement process : anyone was able to "pay" some fine, even without any permission, if it knows how the URL to call.
(major) when searching z3950 on a biblio MODIF, the result was an add. This was really a problem for z3950 query after an acquisition.
(major) there was some mixing between itemnotes & biblioitems notes, depending on your MARC structure (does not apply to everybody)
(major) Books will no longer be returned by transferbook, thus, breaking the loop. Transfer book should be used when transfering books from branch to branch. if a book is returned at a branch, transfer the book there. if a book is transfered to a branch, while its on loan, set holding to the new branch. Useful if a borrower moves branches, while borrowing books.
(major) when searching z3950 on title, only the 1st word of the title was searched.
(major) when recieving serials, the recieve date was not properly calculated. It seems the problem occurs only since 2007/01/01

datelastborrowed was not properly saved when issuing * some dependency checkings (during install) fixed
publisher code was not unicode compliant (applies only to unicode libraries)
for libraries with insecure=ON, a bug was sometimes rise
a normal librarian can't no more delete a "superlibrarian"
borrowers with a ' in their surname can be searched in members module
there was some bugs (and missing) links on acqui page for npl templates
biblios without isbn or issn can now be imported in the reservoir
(cosmetic) virtual shelves now go to opac-detail, not to opac-MARCdetail
(cosmetic) some dates are now shown as defined in the systempreferences
(cosmetic) some systempreferences were not on the proper place in system pref editing

Technical note for developpers : the 2.2.8 version is in a specific branch, called R_2-2-7-1. This is because rel_2_2 had some unstable improvements and we wanted to release a stable version quickly. The 2.2.9 will rely on rel_2_2 as usual.

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Copied from email by 2.2.x release manager Paul Poulian to Koha list by Russel Garlick. Original email dated Thu, 08 Mar 2007