Koha 2.2.7 has been released & is available at : http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.7.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 2.2.7 is more than 250,000 lines of code (see : http://bureau.paulpoulain.com/cvslog/) , contributed by about 50 different developers (46, +translators). The 2.2.7 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. ======== WARNINGS ======== * The librarian interface is tested only with Mozilla/Firefox. Should work (partially) with IE. OPAC should work fine with any browser. * during install, you may get some warnings during package dependency checkings. Something like : "Too late to run INIT block at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/ZOOM.pm line 37." or "Subroutine PDF::API2::Resource::Font::Postscript::O_RDONLY redefined at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Exporter.pm line 65." You can ignore them. KNOWN BUGS ********** Critical/blocking : * mySQL5.0 : Koha is NOT compatible with mySQL 5.0 We plan to add 5.0 compatibility in Koha 3. If you want to give a try to 2.2.7 with mySQL5, you can have a look at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1089, but it's untested & unofficial. * child card craziness, see http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1117 for details * Update child looses guarantor and address., see http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1065 for details * don't use spaces in currencies codes. Use USD, not US DOLLAR, for example. spaces breaks acquisition module. see bugs.koha.org for more information. Please report any problem in bugs.koha.org Apple users : it seems there is an annoying bug in Firefox, that you can have in librarian biblio search: only the first MARC field list is available and the others can't be opened. The problem is described and fixed at http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20051226091140372 ======= CHANGES ======= Changes 2.2.6 => 2.2.7 ********************** - NEW z3950 client (for quick cataloguing) : it's based on ZOOM, and DOES NOT REQUIRE a daemon on the server. It has 2 majors consequences : it should work well on MS-windows servers platforms and it's much easier to install : just install Koha, and you have it. Another improvement is that you can select the servers you want to query. And, last but not least, it should be a little bit faster for single server searches. - some packages dependancy during install where missing - biblios without any title will show "no title" as title, in the result list, making them clickables - for libraries with IndependantBranche=YES, the biblio can be deleted only if it has no items attached or the librarian is a superlibrarian. This prevent a librarian from deleting a biblio with existing items in another branch. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19