Koha 3.18.6 released

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Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world.

The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org and Koha 3.18.6 can be installed via packages, or downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.06.tar.gz

Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 3.18.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements and 65 bugfixes.

Table of contents

Enhancements in Koha 3.18.6

OPAC

  • OPAC: Display RSS icon on list of recent comments (bug 13826)

SIP2

  • SIP2 server should accept IPv6 connections (bug 13252)

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.18.6

Acquisitions

  • Budget planning refreshes funny (major – bug 4277)

Cataloging

  • Cannot fast catalog with fast cataloging permissions (major – bug 7561)

Circulation

  • Check in fails on master “Can’t bless non-reference at …/ItemType.pm Line 64” (critical – bug 13934)
  • Charge not showing fines (major – bug 9481)
  • Suspension days calculation doesn’t honour finesCalendar (major – bug 13909)

Label/patron card printing

  • Add item-level descriptions for Label Printing (major – bug 10773)

Notices

  • Multi transport types for issues and checkins (major – bug 12344)

OPAC

  • OPAC: Putting holds still possible by URL even if turned off by system preference (major – bug 13917)

Packaging

  • Packages uninstallable on Debian Jessie (major – bug 13979)

Tools

  • Staging MARC records for import fails (critical – bug 13938)
  • Can’t delete bibs in big batch delete (major – bug 8246)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.18.6

Acquisitions

  • Budget Search Doesn’t Work (normal – bug 3969)
  • The Basket manager is always the logged in user (normal – bug 7480)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • Update GNU licenses header in Koha files from GPL2 to GPL3 (normal – bug 9978)
  • Timeout on deleting patrons if too many patrons (normal – bug 13740)
  • C4::Ris does not manage correctly 660 and 661 – UNIMARC (normal – bug 13850)
  • ILS-DI function GetServices doesn’t work when the item/biblio is available for hold for specific patron (normal – bug 13939)
  • Warning “Use of the encoding pragma is deprecated” in misc/export_borrowers.pl (normal – bug 13975)

Authentication

  • User logged out on refresh after CAS authentication (normal – bug 12887)

Circulation

  • Manual fine/credit fail on superfluous characters ( e.g. ‘$’ ) (normal – bug 2542)
  • The date option for the overdue_notices cronjob is broken (normal – bug 11120)
  • Enable sort by title to ignore articles on circulation and patron detail pages (normal – bug 13069)
  • Checkouts table sorting is not honoring default sort preferences (normal – bug 13908)
  • Returns via backdating or SIP2 can create new fines with an amount outstanding of 0 (minor – bug 13841)
  • Argument “” isn’t numeric in numeric gt (>) in circulation.tt (trivial – bug 14014)

Course reserves

  • Editing and saving a course reserve displays the add item form (minor – bug 13818)

Documentation

  • Typographical error on columns_settings.tt (trivial – bug 13872)
  • Typo in help file (aqbudgets.tt) (trivial – bug 13878)

I18N/L10N

  • Acquisition wizard: some strings not translatable (normal – bug 13748)
  • \n in strings don’t translate well (normal – bug 13861)
  • Text input field values not translated (minor – bug 13794)
  • Hard to translate strings on patron search results page (minor – bug 13856)
  • Add a hint about collation to the “alphabet” syspref (trivial – bug 13686)

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • Fastadd framework has 2x 100$c, missing 100$a (normal – bug 13855)

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

  • Reimported records into Koha are imported only as DEFAULT frameworks, not what they were originally (normal – bug 10906)
  • Bulkmarcimport bombs if no match is found (normal – bug 13531)

Notices

  • SendAlerts function does not take care of “html” format or UTF-8 (normal – bug 12739)
  • Date comparisons in C4::Members::IssueSlip are broken (normal – bug 12847)

OPAC

  • Unhilight cuts off some strings (normal – bug 5844)
  • Cannot sort the results of a tag search (normal – bug 6950)
  • Return to cart after adding items to a list (normal – bug 7391)
  • Typing the ENTER key when submitting a tag from search results reloads the page (normal – bug 9120)
  • Opaccredits printing at top on printable version (minor – bug 12399)
  • Missing table header IDs on record holdings table in OPAC (minor – bug 13832)
  • Email input field for sharing lists is too small (trivial – bug 13857)

Packaging

  • Debian/build-git-snapshot should warn user if it fails (normal – bug 8050)
  • PID is created in /tmp/ instead of in /var/run/koha/… (trivial – bug 13896)

Searching

  • Transliterate rule for oe and ae (minor – bug 13981)

Serials

  • Full serial permission is needed to change sequence on a routing list (normal – bug 13890)
  • Date on routing list slip is not well formatted (minor – bug 13868)
  • Serials/subscription-history.pl calls GetBiblio incorrectly (minor – bug 13947)

SIP2

  • SIP2 does not send rental charge fee! (normal – bug 12820)
  • SelfCheck not setting flag when item requires transit (minor – bug 13803)

Staff Client

  • Gracefully handle errors when item in staff client cart has been deleted (normal – bug 3873)
  • Show local cover images in the biblio details page in the intranet. (minor – bug 11982)
  • Uninitialized value $src in /tools/viewlog.pl (trivial – bug 13991)

System Administration

  • System preference search doesn’t work for search terms starting with * (trivial – bug 10131)

Templates

  • In quotes.tt line 14 the use of \” break the translation (normal – bug 13768)
  • Fix item search result list – obsolete “by” and display of publication date for MARC21 (normal – bug 13859)
  • Datatables paging for cities and search history pages is broken (normal – bug 13863)
  • Replace the acronym HTML tag with abbr (minor – bug 12291)
  • Wrong capitalization on guided reports page (trivial – bug 13869)

Tools

  • Items don’t display when viewing staged records (normal – bug 6520)
  • Batch item deletion — doesn’t need Use default values section (normal – bug 10887)

Web services

  • SVC bib bad encoding (normal – bug 13801)

New system preferences in Koha 3.18.6

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18.6/en/

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (99%)
  • Armenian (99%)
  • Chinese (China) (91%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98%)
  • Czech (99%)
  • Danish (85%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95%)
  • French (98%)
  • French (Canada) (89%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Kurdish (62%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (59%)
  • Polish (80%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (89%)
  • Slovak (100%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (80%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (89%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer

The most up-to-date translations can be found at http://translate.koha-community.org

Release Team

The release team for Koha 3.18.6 is

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi<tomascohen@gmail.com>
  • Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard<nengard@gmail.com>
  • Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel<bgkriegel@gmail.com>
  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer<katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de>

    • QA Team:

    • Galen Charlton<gmc@esilibrary.com>
    • Jonathan Druart<jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
    • Brendan Gallagher<brendan@bywatersolutions.com>
    • Kyle Hall<kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
    • Julian Maurice<julian.maurice@biblibre.com>
    • Paul Poulain<paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
    • Martin Renvoize<martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
    • Marcel de Rooy<m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
  • Bug Wranglers:
    • Alex Sassmannshausen<alex.sassmannshausen@ptfs-europe.com>
    • Zeno Tajoli<z.tajoli@cineca.it>
  • Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat<robin@catalyst.net.nz>
  • Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Galen Charlton<gmc@esilibrary.com>
  • Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers<fridolin.somers@biblibre.com>
  • Release Maintainer (3.12.x): Kyle Hall<kyle@bywatersolutions.com>

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.18.6:

  • Universidad de El Salvador
  • Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.6:

  • Abby (1)
  • “ByWater (1)
  • mxbeaulieu (1)
  • Thomas (3)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (1)
  • Maxime Beaulieu (2)
  • Colin Campbell (3)
  • Frédérick Capovilla (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • David Cook (2)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Christophe Croullebois (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (34)
  • Hector Eduardo Castro Avalos (2)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (9)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
  • Attila Kinali (1)
  • Rafal Kopaczka (1)
  • Matthias Meusburger (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (6)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Dobrica Pavlinusic (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (3)
  • Viktor Sarge (1)
  • Robin Sheat (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Marc Véron (4)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.6:

  • BSZ BW (9)
  • BibLibre (37)
  • BigBallOfWax (2)
  • ByWater-Solutions (6)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Libeo (1)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Oslo Public Library (3)
  • PTFS-Europe (4)
  • Prosentient Systems (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (3)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (7)
  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • biblos.pk.edu.pl (1)
  • bywatersolutions.com” (1)
  • kinali.ch (1)
  • poczta.onet.pl (1)
  • regionhalland.se (1)
  • rot13.org (2)
  • unidentified (8)
  • veron.ch (4)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.18.6:

  • Attila Kinali (1)
  • Brendan Gallagher (8)
  • Chris Cormack (95)
  • Chris Nighswonger (1)
  • Cindy Ames (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Frederic Demians (2)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (1)
  • Jen DeMuth (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (14)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (39)
  • Luce Barbey (1)
  • Magnus Enger (2)
  • Marc Veron (9)
  • Marc Véron (10)
  • Mark Tompsett (8)
  • Martin Renvoize (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (3)
  • Nick (3)
  • Nick Clemens (1)
  • Nicole Engard (3)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Paola Rossi (2)
  • Robin Sheat (1)
  • Sean McGarvey (1)
  • Sophie Meynieux (1)
  • Thomas Misilo (1)
  • Koha Team AMU (2)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (91)
  • Hector Eduardo Castro Avalos (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (37)
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (2)
  • Koha Team Lyon 3 (1)
  • Andreas Hedström Mace (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (6)
  • Signed-off-by for the Follow Up: Marc Veron (1)

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.

Revision control notes

The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.18.x.

The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on September 4, 2014.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Apr 2015 21:23:04 Z #####