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Permalink Reply by Basavaraj on August 4, 2011 at 18:19

hi 

Koha 3.4.0 is a major feature release.

New features in 3.4.0

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  ACQUISITIONS:

    * Can filter budgets by active status and date on the acquisitions

      homepage

    * Freetext field added to specify one-off delivery addresses/comments

    * Can create multiple orders from a staged MARC file

    * New cronjob to delete old suggestions

    * Warning when ordering from an external source when a catalogue

      record already exists

    * Currency can be set when ordering

  ADMINISTRATION

    * Many additional granular permissions are added

    * Ability to replace the favicon from within the admin interface

    * Ability to import and export MARC frameworks

    * Separate field for library state/province

    * WYSIWYG editor for Koha News

    * Ability to add news items to slips

    * Label batch edit interface allows entry of items by scanning

      barcodes

    * Can choose the MARC framework when importing records

  CATALOGING

    * NORMARC support added

    * Edits to Authority records are now logged

    * 005 field updated when a Biblio or Authority record is edited

    * Added edit record/edit items to the search result if logged in

      user has cataloguing privileges

    * Add support of record linking by record control number in $w

    * 006/008 plugins much improved

  CIRCULATION

    * Callnumbers are displayed when an item is checked in

    * Waiting holds now show the date they were marked waiting

    * Show guarantees checkouts when checking out to a guarantor and vice versa

    * Show holds waiting for a patron on check in

    * New report wizard for Holds

    * Syspref to disable the ability for borrowers to choose their

      pickup library for holds

    * Self Checkout supports login

    * Ability to set 'hard' due dates, which will not allow items to

      be checked out past that

    * Printed receipts can now include the library phone, address and

      other fields

    * Fast Add framework at circulation

    * Ability to define due dates in the past

    * Checkin page now lists fines owed by patron

    * Preferences for defining the fine level when a staff

      override is needed

    * Search to Hold feature

  OPAC

    * New system preference added to allow the librarians to hide

      items from the OPAC.  See docs/opac/OpacHiddenItems.txt for

      more information.

    * Authority display improved in OPAC

    * Allow the patron to choose which library they wish to make a

      purchase suggestion for

    * Added the ability to hide the name of a reviewer/commenter in

      the OPAC

    * CSS/HTML and other UI improvements

    * Lists respect the XSLT bibliograhic display preferences

    * Truncation of facets now controllable by a system preference

    * Can use 856$u to store an image URI which Koha can then display in the OPAC

    * User can renew multiple items at once

    * A new librarian-controlled column added to the 'My Summary' page on the OPAC

    * Recent comments view for the OPAC (allow users to see recently reviewed items)

    * Feature to make the OPAC private (allow only logged in users to search/view items)

    * Ability to edit what displays when no results are found

    * Privacy feature allowing the user to specify when their reading

      (or circulation) records are anonymised

    * opacstylesheet can link to a url anywhere, not just a local file

  PATRONS

    * Separate field for state/province

    * Ability to duplicate a Patron

    * Print overdue and hold notices for patrons without email addresses

  REPORTS

    * Run a report immediately after creation

    * The list of saved reports has pagination and can be sorted

    * SQL formatting improvements when viewing a report

    * Parameters can be set in guided reports

  SEARCHING

    * NoZebra mode is officially deprecated.

    * Added shelf location to the indexes

    * Added a search link for analytics to serial records

    * Subjects can now search complete subfields

    * MARC21 tag 751 (geographical entry) is now searchable

    * UNIMARC EAN/UPC/Music fields added to the indices

    * usecontrolnumber syspref allows you to link the 78X fields to

      other names of the same serial

  SERIALS

    * 50 bugs fixed in serials management 5508

  STAFF INTERFACE

    * Enumchron added to the biblio detail page

    * Improvements to suggestion management

    * Can use 856$u to store an image URI which Koha can then display in

      the staff interface.

    * Cart is emptied when a user logs out

    * IntranetUserCSS preference added to allow styling of staff interface

  INTERFACE

    * New icon set for itemtypes (Nimes)

    * LibLime kids iconset resized to consistent size

    * Seshat itemtype iconset added (Naropa College)

    * CSS classes added to the XSLT results to enable styling

  INTERNATIONALIZTION

    * New initialization SQL files for Norwegian

  INTERNALS, PACKAGING AND PERFORMANCE

    * Koha now uses Template::Toolkit rather than HTML::Template::Pro

    * Improvements to test case coverage

    * .packages file for Ubuntu Maverick

    * Testing using Test::Perl::Critic

    * CGI::Session can now be stored in Memcached

    * mod_deflate added to save bandwidth

    * Move items out of biblioitems

  COMMAND LINE UTILITIES

    * Script to update all items and biblio

    * Script to set and get system preferences from the command line

basu dpl

 

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Permalink Reply by Sushant on August 4, 2011 at 20:03

Where is the link to installation guide to Koha 3.4 on Ubuntu

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Permalink Reply by Vimal Kumar V. on August 5, 2011 at 17:03

We cant tell you its benefits within few words.

As a librarian you must use your information grabbing skills for this purpose.

Everything regarding Koha Home page

See the site www.koha-community.org

 

 

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