Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Koha-2.2.6 Released

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 2.2.6 has been released & is available at :
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.6.tar.gz



Changes:
Many bugs in Acquisitions have been fixed, and online help has been added. Serial items can now be created on the fly. There is a new option to include book covers, description, and reviews for items from Amazon.com.

BUGFIXES

=== ACQUISITION ===
* Acquisition has been deeply investigated & tested. should work
fine. (there was complex problems depending on prices rebates, VAT
charging,...)

=== CATALOGUE ===
* Major bugfixes in encoding handling for MARC21 : there was bugs
using the MARC21 indicators for character encoding. They should have been
fixed for now, and koha 2.2.6 handles MARC21 with unicode correctly.

=== CATALOGUING ===
* result page display was incorrect when searching a biblio before
adding a new one.
* no more saving of an empty field in the DB
* Fix for splitting up fixed fields containing | in them causing
* An item that is on loan can't be deleted anymore.

=== CIRCULATION ===
* minor bugfix : Adding 0 before days and months in order to make
date comparison work.

=== MEMBERS ===
* fixed a but to be able to modify an Institution.

=== PARAMETERS ===
* adding page facility in book funds.

Homepage:
http://www.koha.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/
Changelog:
http://www.koha.org/about-koha/news/nr1161090735.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/?root=koha
Bug tracker:
http://bugs.koha.org
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/
Demo site:
http://koha.org/showcase/

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