Koha 3.2 Update
Galen Charlton, Release Manager for 3.2, LibLime
Paul Poulain, Release Manger for 2.x, BibLibre

Goals
• Koha 3.2 is an ambitious release
• New acquisitions module
• Holdings support
• Many circulation improvements
• Improving stability

RFCs
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2

RFCs continued
• Not all RFCs will be implemented for 3.2
• Some were just proposals
• Others didn’t end up being sponsored
• Tempis fugit

Big features
• New acquisitions module
• Developed by BibLibre
• In production one of their customers
• BibLibre working to submit patches for
3.2
• Review and testing period

Big features
• Holdings structure
• Introduces “summary” records to Koha
• LibLime developing; sponsored by
WALDO
• Entering testing by WALDO

WALDO circulation
features
• Proxy patrons
• Fines thresholds
• Callslips
• Recalls
• Hourly loans
• Email checkout slips

Other circulation
features
• Calculate fines in days debarred
• BibLibre - patch submited and available in
3.0.1, will make its way to 3.2 soon
• Introducing Alloy Computing
• Place hold on multiple items

Circulation continued
• Additional hold request improvements
sponsored by NEKLS
• Course Reserves - Integration with
ReservesDirect

OPAC enhancements
• Support for enhanced content providers
• Syndetics
• LibraryThing (coming)
• Babelthèque
• Tag multiple items

Cataloging
• ‡biblios.net integration
• Improved browse indexes
• ISBN13 normalization (sponsored by PISD)
• Item bulk status change
• BibLibre working on this
• LibLime also working on global change

Cataloging
• Brief records
• Record maintenance
• Deleted records

Serials
• General improvements to serials display
and prediction pattern management
• More control over display of recently
checked in issues (WALDO)

Administration
• Improved system preferences editor
• All together now: thanks, Jesse!

Reporting
• Improvements to guided reports

Miscellaneous
• Granular permissions (new acquisitions
module already implements some of these)
• Internet Explorer compatibility
improvements (WALDO)
• Improvements to overdue report (PISD)
• Improved OAI-PMH server (Tamil)
• URL checker (Tamil)

More
• There will be at least one cool new thing
from coming from the KohaCon
development meeting this weekend

Timeline
• Remember what I said about ambitious?
• I’ll be discussing precise timelines with the
developers ... but production release of
Koha 3.2 will most likely be late summer or
early autumn
• 3.1 release for testing in early summer

Thanks!
• Galen Charlton
• Paul Poulain