Tag: Koha

Koha 3.0.5 Released

Koha 3.0.5 was released a couple of days ago. It is a stable release of the 3.0.x tree and includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations:

The full release notes are here.

Due to the fact the Release Maintainer does not have access to the download.koha.org site (don’t ask) it is hosted at the koha-fr.org site until someone at Liblime puts it in the right place.

If you are familiar with git you can upgrade that way

git fetch
git reset v3.00.05
export KOHA_CONF=/path/to/koha-conf.xml
export PERL5LIB=/path/to/src
perl installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
cd misc/translation
install-code.pl yourlanguage

Taking a break

I am currently feeling really disheartened and disappointed in the reaction of many libraries to the situation with Koha and the proprietary Liblime fork.

So I am stepping back, I am not going to comment on it, and try to not even think about it for the next month or so. I feel I have said my piece, and feel like I have not been listened to, which is fine, but it signals that there is little point continuing.

So I wish you all a merry whatever you celebrate, and a happy new year. I’ll get to bugfixing and coding 🙂

Maps of libraries using a FOSS ILS

David Friggens has done some neat work making up maps of libraries running a FOSS ILS. They aren’t exhaustive drawing data from libwebcats, which has a great list, but has some missing. If you notice your library is not on these maps head over to http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ and add it there.

Here are the maps

Academic Libraries

Public Libraries

Special/Corporate Libraries

As a nice offset for the ridiculous anti FLOSS FUD coming out of SirsiDynix

So I’m sure most of you are aware that SirsiDynix had a paper leaked on wikileaks (their official line now is that it was never meant to be private anyway, which directly contradicts what a lot of people had been told).

I don’t want to devote much space to it, since others have done so already in a much more eloquent manner than I could. But a good round up of the situation is on the code4lib wiki.

In direct contrast to fear riddled, fact lacking scare mongering I saw this nice writeup on a koha workshop in Malawi. This is the kind of thing that Free Software allows, and to my mind a story of people being enabled to help themselves wipes out all the FUD profit hungry corporates can throw at the FLOSS community.

Unsung Koha Heroes – 16

Pierrick Le Gall

Pierrick was only in the Koha community for a short period of time but he made a lasting impression. With 22 patches to his name and 2021 lines of code changed he made a worthy contribution to development.

He also served as Translation Manager and briefly as QA Manager before the company he worked for stopped Koha work. The contribs.koha.org site is also run on software he wrote.

Koha 3.0.4

Thanks to a huge amount of work from Henri Damien Laurent, and all the other developers Koha 3.0.4 has been released. This is a bugfix release on the stable tree.

You can download the release from http://koha-fr.org/content/diffusion-koha-version-304

From the release notes

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 3.00.04 is versioned 3.00.04.019. 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 3.0.4 Release :

This release of Koha 3.0.4 includes 634 patches with bug fixes :

Acquisitions
Budgets were managed on receiveddate and not on orderdate

Search
Auto_Truncation is managed in zebra
ccl query
Results display improved : adding better display for subtitles
Updating Amazon support

Circulation
holdings support improved and holding queues
Branch transfer limits added
better use of CircControl and HomeOrHoldingBranch system preferences

UNIMARC Support
xsl stylesheets for unimarc

Authentication
Better support for LDAP connections

OPAC
Privacy : name on suggestions removed and replaced by library name
basket and shelves improvements

Overall improvements
Much work on better XHTML compliance
Some work on sorting lists
Improving translatability of all the strings (xsl and js)

There is also a list of bugs fixed, the list is too long to repeat here, but it is in the Release notes in the tarball, or in git.

UPDATED

Changed link to where the correct tarball lives