[Koha-announce] koha 2.2.7 is available for download

[Paul POULAIN]

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
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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.

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WARNINGS
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* 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
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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

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CHANGES
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Changes 2.2.6 => 2.2.7
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- 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.

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Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT
Consultants indépendants
en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)
Tel : 04 91 31 45 19