Koha 2.2.8 Released

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