Koha 3.20.5 Released

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The Koha community are proud to announce the release of Koha 3.20.5 (powered by Orijin and Nigerian Hospitality)

This release is a bugfix release and contains no new features. As always you can download the tarball from download.koha-community.org or wait a little while for the packages to be released.

Please continue reading for the release notes

Release notes for Koha 3.20.5

27 Oct 2015

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 3.20.5 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.20.05.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 3.20.5 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Table of contents

New features in Koha 3.20.5

Enhancements in Koha 3.20.5

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.20.5

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • SMSSendUsername and SMSSendPassword are not listed in the system preferences (major – bug 14820)
  • Tests fail if launched after 23:00 (major – bug 15029)

Authentication

  • Koha still allows spaces at the end, beginning or as your password (major – bug 14509)

Circulation

  • [3.20.X] Test failure from Bug 14470 (critical – bug 14884)
  • Don’t set permanent_location to CART or PROC (major – bug 14811)

Notices

  • Changing the Library for a notice duplicates the notice instead of updating it (major – bug 14141)

Serials

  • Barcode yymm0001 does not work when receiving serials (major – bug 15042)

Tools

  • Batch modification of checked out and lost items checks them in (critical – bug 12311)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.20.5

Acquisitions

  • Acq planning filter and export always use default active period (normal – bug 14653)
  • Fix missing display of help page in contract management (trivial – bug 14929)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • A date is not correctly filled in default values from batch mod [was Remove C4::Dates from tools/batchMod.pl] (normal – bug 14950)
  • Make the date formatting template side – moremember.pl (normal – bug 14990)
  • Koha-shell raises ” no job control in shell” error (normal – bug 15012)

Circulation

  • Renewal due date won’t take specified time into account (normal – bug 11298)
  • Keyboard shortcuts don’t work after setting CircAutocompl to “Don’t try” (normal – bug 14880)

Command-line Utilities

  • Misc/batchRebuildItemsTables.pl has hard coded record length limit of 99999 bytes. (trivial – bug 14858)

Developer documentation

  • Typo in GetItemsForInventory POD (trivial – bug 15027)

Lists

  • Viewing lists fails silently when not having correct permisison (normal – bug 14528)

Notices

  • Expiration date for holds based onReservesMaxPickUpDelay should not require ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelay (minor – bug 14937)

OPAC

  • Encoding issues when exporting in RIS (normal – bug 14832)
  • Opac-topissues.pl sort is broken (minor – bug 14940)

Patrons

  • Cannot search for patrons using second surname/firstname (normal – bug 14871)
  • Renew a patron does not redirect to the correct module (normal – bug 14910)

Searching

  • Accession date comparison does not work in advanced search (normal – bug 14861)
  • 608$9 defined twice in UNIMARC biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml (minor – bug 14154)

Templates

  • Help could not be displayed in the correct language (normal – bug 14812)
  • Table header broken at detail.tt (trivial – bug 14966)

New system preferences in Koha 3.20.5

  • SMSSendPassword
  • SMSSendUsername

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/3.20.5/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 (100%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Chinese (China) (87%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (98%)
  • Danish (83%)
  • English (New Zealand) (96%)
  • Finnish (87%)
  • French (95%)
  • French (Canada) (90%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (63%)
  • Kurdish (60%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (62%)
  • Persian (70%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (98%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (92%)
  • Slovak (98%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (89%)
  • Turkish (99%)
  • Vietnamese (85%)

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 3.20.5 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.20.5:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.5:

  • Barton Chittenden (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (19)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
  • Rafal Kopaczka (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Robin Sheat (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Lari Taskula (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Marc Véron (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.5:

  • BibLibre (4)
  • ByWater-Solutions (2)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (19)
  • libriotech.no (1)
  • poczta.onet.pl (1)
  • student.uef.fi (1)
  • unidentified (1)
  • veron.ch (2)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.20.5:

  • Amit Gupta (1)
  • Barton Chittenden (1)
  • Chris Cormack (34)
  • Frederic Demians (2)
  • Hector Castro (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (15)
  • Joonas Kylmälä (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Karl Holton (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (15)
  • Magnus Enger (4)
  • Marc Véron (7)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Robin Sheat (1)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (34)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)

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 3.20.x.

The last Koha release was 3.16.9, which was released on March 29, 2015.

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)

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