The much anticipated Kete 1.2 release is now available.

Kete 1.2 is now available and massively improves on Kete 1.1.  As usual, to grab the code see the downloads page for details or browse the code online at http://github.com/kete/kete/.

An in-depth list of features and issues resolved can be found at http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/260-kete-12-features including guides on their use. Here are some highlights:

• Smarter Extended Fields - Kete now supports richer ways of customizing your content forms and item display. Add a google map for your users to pinpoint location, give them a selection of predefined choices to choose the value from including hierarchical choices, describe the type of relationships between items and your site’s topics.
• Baskets for everyone - site administrators can elect to allow users to create their own baskets for their stuff. They can simplify basket forms to be quick to fill out and prevent users from changing things they shouldn’t.
• Use images to put faces to names - users can designate their uploaded images as portraits of themselves.  They can also use their existing gravatar (global avatar) if they like.
• More fun with images and uploaded files - thumbnails of images related for topics in latest topics display, result pages, and RSS feeds to give better illustration of what an item is about. Support for hosting podcasts. Harvesting of embedded metadata from uploaded files such as a geotag of where an image was taken.
• Privacy features refinements - new and refined tools to make it easier to take advantage of Kete’s privacy controls. Great for things like intranets and extranets.
• The beginnings of cross site integration - basket administrators may now display entries from RSS feeds on basket homepages.  This is nifty for showing off the latest books in your Koha 3 catalogue, for example.

This site and Kete Horowhenua have been upgraded to use Kete 1.2.

Joann Ransom writes to the Koha mailing list:

Kete 1.2 contains the first functionality to allow the beginnings of integration with Koha 3 (along with other ILS that provide RSS feeds for their catalogs) and 1.3 and 1.4 will contain more extensive ways tie to tie-in to a libraries other online resources like Koha

I’m a big Kete fan and would love to see more US Libraries using it in their communities. It ties in nicely with my genealogy passion