[Koha-devel] Announcing Koha 3.00.00

Mon Aug 11 14:15:36 CEST 2008

Saskia,

As great as that sounds, it's not that easy.  Unfortunately the way the
manual was created it would take me an entire day to save every document as
a PDF.

My suggestion is that now that 3.0 is released, the community focuses all
it's energy on getting the new Koha.org site up and running with a
documentation module so that I can spend my entire day moving the manual
there which will allow everyone to print the PDFs they want.

---

Nicole C. Engard
Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
nce at liblime.com
AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard

http://liblime.com
http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Saskia Scheltjens <
S.Scheltjens at rijksmuseum.nl> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>
>
> We were delighted to start our working week today with this wonderfull
> news. Thanks to all of you for all the hard work!!
>
>
>
> We would like to start working on the final system preferences for our
> local test set-up. To do that, it would be a great help if someone could
> upload PDF's of *all* the manual documents *as they are now*. This would
> reflect the status of the English manual around the release of Koha 3.0
> stable.
>
>
>
> Regards from Amsterdam,
>
>  Saskia
>
>
>
>  Saskia Scheltjens,
> Library Co-ordinator - Rijksmuseum Research Library
>
> T +31 (0)20/6747259
>
> E s.scheltjens at rijksmuseum.nl
> IM saskiascheltjens (skypeid)
>
>
>
> W http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/wetenschap/bibliotheek?lang=en
> W http://library.rijksmuseum.nl/ (current OPAC)
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *Van:* Nicole Engard
> *Verzonden:* maandag 11 augustus 2008 01:06
> *Aan:* Joshua Ferraro
> *CC:* koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-translate at nongnu.org;
> koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> *Onderwerp:* [Koha-translate] Re: [Koha-devel] Announcing Koha 3.00.00
>
>
>
> And just a reminder that the 3.0 manual is available to all at:
> http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ and will continually be
> updated as I get suggestions and notice new features.
>
>
> ---
>
> Nicole C. Engard
> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
> nce at liblime.com
> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>
> http://liblime.com
> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>
>  On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00
> is now available. You can download from the usual location:
>
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig
>
> You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying
> the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5
> checksum:
>
> 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a  koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
>
> I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00
>
> The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree
> is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a
> statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the
> packaged release.
>
> This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent
> releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include
> any new features.
>
> New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond.
>
> A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla:
>
> http://bugs.koha.org
>
> The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are pasted in
> below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime
> soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joshua Ferraro
> Koha 3.0 Release Manager
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0
>
> ==============================================================================
> Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
> integrated library system.
>
> You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL:
>
> http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
>
> These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new
> Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to
> Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to
> the
> new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and
> finally,
> Known Issues with this version.
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3?
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
> text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of
> millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query
> languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see:
>
> http://indexdata.dk/zebra
>
> Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as
> relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy
> operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.
>
> Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling
> limits by availability and statuses.
>
> Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces.
>
> For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships
> with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed
> in the RDBMS.
>
> 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
> new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any
> platform.
>
> The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that
> can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision
> control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.
>
> 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
> retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
> (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and
> COinS/OpenURL
> (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
>
> Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
> (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.
>
> Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved
> in
> MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;
> and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new
> export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed
> through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a
> separate parsing function.
>
> To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes
> support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP
> libraries (http://openncip.org).
>
> There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle
> interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging
> clients.
> These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over
> bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services
>
> Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP
> and
> Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.
>
> Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker
> and
> Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich
> bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and
> comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the
> catalog.
> OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to
> provide
> an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and
> editions
> of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling
> for these services, to keep within subscription limits.
>
> 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the
> platform
> of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
> includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and
> runs
> under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.
>
> 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for
> multilingual
> libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left
> languages
> such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
>
> Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any
> UNICODE
> compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
> Zebra
> has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
>
> You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation
> tools,
> or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.
>
> 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
> template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of
> 100%
> valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section
> 508 and
> W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All
> Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.
>
> 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
> modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments,
> MARC
> staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
> dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and
> more!
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> REVISION CONTROL
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system
> called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including
> the
> Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see
> the Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> VERSION NUMBERING
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to
> Perl's:
>
> major.minor[.revision[.build]]
>
>  * major:    one digit
>  * minor:    two-digit
>  * revision: two-digit
>  * build:    three-digit
>
> This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change
> or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number,
> and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the
> built-in
> updater.
>
> Koha 3.0 Release Schedule:
>
> This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over
> the beta release:
>
>  * General Bugfixing (over 150 bugs fixed since RC1!)
>  * Nomenclature cleanup
>  * Additional translations
>  * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog
>
> Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any
> new
> features.
>
> New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases.
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the
> Wiki
> at the following page:
>
> Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
>
> Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:
>
> Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> TEMPLATES
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned;
> there
> is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide
>
> Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their
> contributions!
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> TRANSLATIONS
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the
> following
> languages:
>
> OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),
> fr-FR (French)
>   hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
>   ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
>   zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified
> Chinese in Taiwan)
>
> Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian),
>   ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
>   zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified
> Chinese in Taiwan)
>
> Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the
> following
> languages:
>
> OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI
> (Finnish)
>   gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese),
>   kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish),
>   tet (Tetum)
>
> Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU
> (Hungarian),
>   ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish),
>
> The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see
> http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about
> translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> DOCUMENTATION
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki
> (http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation
> contributions;
> please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> KNOWN ISSUES
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at
> the
> 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0
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