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Re: [Koha-devel] How to upgrade to Koha 3.8.7 or 3.10 ?
by Vimal Kumar V. 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Dear Chris, Thank you for the information. Its nice both tarball and packages release at the same time. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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How to upgrade to Koha 3.8.7 or 3.10 ?
by Vimal Kumar V. 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Dear Friends, I installed Koha based on Ubuntu packages. How can I upgrade to the latest versions, 3.8.7 or 3.10 ? I tried the following commands, sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade But nothing happened. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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3 BLO bugs to go for 3.10...
by Paul Poulain 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi koha-devel, There are 3 bugs open that are BLOckers: 9122 Writing off fees broken 9052 YUI assets installed in the wrong place by packages 8770 amount does not equal amountoutstanding on a fine with no payments or credits I can't reproduce 9122 nor 8770, and have no idea how to fix 9052 I'll release 3.10.0 tomorrow (in about 20 hours from now), so, if one of you can reproduce & hopefully send a patch, that would be great ! Note that there are also 38 CRIticals that could also be confirmed and fixed -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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release process started for 3.10.0
by Paul Poulain 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello, Frederic sent me a pull request for translation, a last minute blocker has been fixed (bug 9122), bug 9018 has been fixed too, I just started the release process. stay tuned ;-) -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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changes in koha-commits & koha-bugs hooks ?
by Paul Poulain 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello koha-devel, Jared just spotted that koha-bugs & koha-commit mailing lists are not distributing anything since yesterday (nov, 21th), 4PM (french time, GMT+1) We had a look at the server distributing the mails, and no mail arrived for being distributed since this date. Did someone change something to hooks that send mails to those mailing lists, because it seems does not come from mailman. -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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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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