Wednesday, June 25, 2008

KOHA 3.0.0 released (open-source integrated library system)

Koha 3 released(open-source integrated library system).You can obtain Koha 3.0 RC1 from the following URL:http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz

These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information aboutthe new Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process,pointers to Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, abrief introduction to the new Templates, a call to Translation andDocumentation writers, and finally, Known Issues with this version.What's New in Koha 3?1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purposestructured text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports largedata sets (tens of millions of records) and includes support forSRU, Z39.50 and several query languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For moreinformation about Zebra, please see: http://indexdata.dk/zebraKoha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports featuressuch as relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming,use of fuzzy operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.