November 2012 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Koha 3.8.7 released
by Chris Cormack 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

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 ======================================================================== 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 http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.8.7 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.07.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation 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 ====================== Acquisitions ---------- 7921 major Software error while placing order Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 9085 major Installer will not run with DEBUG set Cataloging ---------- 8665 critical DOM indexing fails to index some bib records Circulation ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ====================== About ---------- 8910 minor silent warnings triggered in about.pl Architecture, internals, and plumbing ---------- 8804 normal Quiet errors in the log from Auth.pm Authentication ---------- 8787 minor If OpacMaintenance is on the requested page is loaded Cataloging ---------- 8823 normal CatalogModuleRelink Creates Multiple Links between Bib and Auth record ($9 RLIN) 8862 normal merge.pl contains untranslatable strings Circulation ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- 8987 normal "New report button" broken Searching ---------- 8958 normal Facets are not fully UNIMARC compliant Staff Client ---------- 8996 normal In result page items with negative notforloan are available System Administration ---------- 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 ---------- 8898 minor Remove unused mainmenu include and related styles in the staff client 8912 minor Remove unused hold-menu.inc translate.koha-community.org ---------- 8968 normal JavaScript String not translatable Enhancements in 3.8.7 ====================== Lists ---------- 7805 Exposing the new list permissions in opac and staff System requirements ====================== Important notes: * Perl 5.10 is required * Zebra is required Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8.7/en/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * English (USA) * Arabic (99%) * Armenian (100%) * Basque (76%) * Chinese (Taiwan) (76%) * Danish (75%) * English (New Zealand) (100%) * French (100%) * French (Canada) (76%) * German (100%) * German (Switzerland) (99%) * Greek (68%) * Italian (100%) * Norwegian BokmÃ¥l (68%) * Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) * Slovak (100%) * Spanish (100%) * Turkish (100%) Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.8.7 is Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal(a)gmail.com> QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl>, Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart(a)biblibre.com> Mason James <mason(a)kohaaloha.com> Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com> Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Credits ====================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.8.7: We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.7. * 3 Jared Camins-Esakov * 1 Colin Campbell * 2 Chris Cormack * 1 FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians * 2 Jonathan Druart * 4 Magnus Enger * 3 Kyle M Hall * 1 Mason James * 4 Owen Leonard * 1 Chris Nighswonger * 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic * 1 Maxime Pelletier * 2 Paul Poulain * 6 Marcel de Rooy * 5 Fridolyn SOMERS * 1 Mathieu Saby * 1 Adrien Saurat * 1 Lyon3 Team * 1 Mirko Tietgen * 5 Mark Tompsett * 1 Robert Williams We thank the following companies who contributed patches to Koha 3.8.7 * 4 ACPL * 1 Amigos Library Services * 10 Biblibre * 3 ByWater-Solutions * 3 C & P Bibliography * 2 Catalyst * 1 Foundations * 1 KohaAloha * 1 Libeo * 4 Libriotech * 1 PTFS-Europe * 6 Rijksmuseum * 1 Tamil * 1 UniversitÃ© Jean Moulin Lyon 3 * 1 UniversitÃ© Rennes 2 * 1 abunchofthings.net * 1 rot13.org * 5 unidentified We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.8.7. * 2 Tomas Cohen Arazi * 19 Jared Camins-Esakov * 50 Chris Cormack * 2 Elliott Davis * 3 FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians * 1 Katrin Fischer * 6 Kyle M Hall * 5 Owen Leonard * 1 Julian Maurice * 3 Melia Meggs * 26 Paul Poulain * 2 Mirko Tietgen * 2 Marc Veron * 3 wajasu We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.8.x. The last Koha release was 3.8.6, which was released on October 22, 2012. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini

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Testing Idea
by Travis Elliott Davis 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

I have been exploring the idea of automated UI testing for awhile now and have come up with a few different solutions. My top two picks currently are: WWW::Mechanize in conjunction with HTTP::Recorder, or the FOSS project Selenium. Both ideas have merit in my opinion but my favorite is Selenium. Reasons Why: Selenium has a FF plugin which makes recording tests cases and suites easy as pie Selenium has a new "web driver" which makes testing more dynamic pages possible. For a more detailed explanation see http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html You can still perform headless testing. However, it is slightly more difficult to do with Selenium than with WWW::Mechanize. Selenium will write Perl test scripts for you, right from the FF plugin. I'm sure there are more reasons than the ones listed above but I would just like to get the conversation going. The other thing that Selenium would allow us to do is automate our bug and enhancement testing. For example, when you submit a patch you may also submit a selenium test so that whoever is testing your patch may replay your test on their development environment. Obviously there are some cases where this would be more helpful than others (I'm thinking of varying search results) but it is a start. Please let me know your thoughts. I encourage you to visit the Selenium website and test drive Selenium for yourself. Also, please note that the FF plugin on the FF add ons page seems to be out of date so try getting the XPI from the Selenium site. Best Regards, Elliott Davis

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test
by Paul Poulain 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

-- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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Bug 9018 - Problem install your languages on 3.10.x
by Zeno Tajoli 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi to all, with bug 9018 could be difficult to install your language if you use git sources. In my opinion for 3.10.0 we need to create 'empty' xx-XX-opac-ccsr.po files. In fact now you need to follow a quit complex path to install a new language if you use git version. At least in tarball we need the 'empty' xx-XX-opac-ccsr.po files. For git a README is enough. In my opinion we can use this problem to create a new git tree wtih only .po files. In the develop of 3.12.x we can delete the .po file and place only a README in /misc/translator/po. We we create tarball and package we can union the two git trees. For git users only a README in the dir. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Dott. Zeno Tajoli Dipartimento CILEA z.tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcineca.it fax +39 02 2135520 CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario

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DB dependent tests vs. sample data
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

When writing some db dependent tests for bugs 8800, 9074 and 9078 I noticed that we have inconsistent data in the localized SQL files. Such inconsistency might be a problem, or not depending on what premises we agree on. As I see it, it is difficult to maintain consistency as different common use cases may require different sample data. Also, for testing purposes we might need (like i do on this bugs) special holidays set for my test cases, but maybe our users rely on the sample data for filling the DB with some good defaults... So, my questions are: 1) Do we expect our unit tests go ok with ANY localised data set? 2) Do we need a special set of data for testing purposes (from the dev POV)? As for (1) remember the Holidays.t db dependent tests, that need to cover all the use cases and might not be a good default for a new library. Also Circulation db dependent tests shoud need bad end-user defaults. Regards To+

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Shall we develope preference "IndependentBranches" or add preference "Limit staff search"?
by Quoc Uy 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

When IndependentBranches is ON, the staff can search for result all libraries. (We have a Limit OPAC search in their own branch only, but don't have Limit STAFF search). And when staff open a item belongs to another branch, they still can change it, change record, item and status... Far more than this, they can see patrons, who place hold or borrowed this item, and by this way, they can access to these patrons, and still can change their password, upload another picture... Please remember that, staff can't search patrons, check in-out for patrons belong to another libraries, when IndependentBranches is ON, but by above way, they can find some patrons and can access their profile.This is not Independedent at all. We can solve this problem, make totally Independent Branches, if we can add a preference like "Limit Staff search on their own library, where they are registed." In relations, i want to talk about "Refine your search", where we can choose branch library, where results belong to. So maybe it's not hard to make a preference like that. More than this, i checked out, in Koha 4.12 (Koha.org) they added this feature. So i hope someone can do it. I specially thank Waylon Robertson <wrobertson1981(a)yahoo.co.nz> for paying attention and help.

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ldap / uid
by Samuel Desseaux 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi, I've a technical question about ldap. My connexion with the ldap is enabled. The mapping is correct but we would like to use "SupannAliasLogin" instead of "uid". Why? Our uid is like this [year of entry in the school]+supannAliasLogin example:2012desseauxs 2012:year of entry in the school desseauxs:SupannAliasLogin I don't know how to do and i i have to change the principal name Actually, we have the following configuration <ldapserver id="ldapserver" listenref="ldapserver"> <hostname>*******</hostname> <base>ou=people,dc=ecp,dc=fr</base> <user>cn=syncrepl,ou=applications,dc=ecp,dc=fr</user> <pass>******</pass> <replicate>1</replicate> <update>1</update> <auth_by_bind>1</auth_by_bind> <principal_name>uid=%s,ou=people,dc=ecp,dc=fr</principal_name> <mapping> <firstname is="givenname"></firstname> <surname is="sn"></surname> <address is="">Ecole Centrale Paris</address> <city is="">Chatenay-Malabry</city> <zipcode is="">92290</zipcode> <branchcode is="">ECAM</branchcode> <userid is="uid"></userid> <password is="userpassword"></password> <cardnumber is="ecpbadgenumber"></cardnumber> <email is="mail"></email> <categorycode is="supannetudiplome">employee</categorycode> <phone is="telephonenumber">903-566-7654</phone> <dateenrolled is="">2012-09-01</dateenrolled> <dateexpiry is="">2013-09-01</dateexpiry> </mapping> </ldapserver> Many thanks samuel

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Time for releases : works related to Drupal => First koha-restful
by Claire Hernandez 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hello, Time for release for Drupac team too after 4 scrum sprints of 2 weeks. Just wanted to tell you, I put a first tag (simply some notes and documentation) on "koha-restful" module : http://git.biblibre.com/?p=koha-restful;a=tag;h=refs/tags/1.0-alpha1 The purpose of this module is to provide REST services for Koha (we worked with 3.8.5 version) because Ilsdi wasn't suffisant and we did this technical choice (not ncip or other). You can use it, share it, send us patches and what you want. Feedback is welcomed. We should release other Drupal things soon (Opac module for example: http://drupal.org/project/opacor koha_connector). Claire.

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Encumbrance and Expenditure in Acquisition manual
by Mathieu Saby 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hello In http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10/en/acqadmin.html#funds I read : "Encumbrance ?? Expenditure ??" Could somebody tell me if these 2 features are working ? And what are they supposed to do ? M. Saby -- Mathieu Saby Service d'Informatique Documentaire Service Commun de Documentation Université Rennes 2 Téléphone : 02 99 14 12 65 Courriel : mathieu.saby(a)univ-rennes2.fr

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Koha 3.10 nicely formatted enhancements description
by Paul Poulain 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hi translators, My plan with the 3.10 is to publish the version, the release notes, and a nicely formatted document with all enhancements. I made a lot of work on our release note tool last week. They'll generate the release notes in txt and html format. I've retrieved the enhancements from the html, put them in a LibreOffice document, made some nice formatting (using colors/style of koha-community.org website), added screenshots,... In case one of you would like to translate this document to his own language, here it is ! PS: I'll take care of translation to french (unless someone want it ;-) ) -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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