Koha 23.05.08 released

Posted on Posted in 23.05, release, security

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:

Koha 23.05.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

  • Koha Wiki
  • OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 23.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 38 bugfixes and 1 security bugfix.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

  • 34893 ILS-DI can return the wrong patron for AuthenticatePatron

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

  • 35309 Remove DT’s fnSetFilteringDelay
  • 35405 MarcAuthorities: Use of uninitialized value $tag in hash element at MARC/Record.pm line 202.
  • 35491 Reverting waiting status for holds is not logged
  • 35629 Redundant code in includes/patron-search.inc

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

  • 33847 Database update replaces undefined rules with defaults rather than the value that would be used

Other bugs fixed

  • 35310 Current renewals ‘view’ link doesnt work if renewals correspond to an item no longer checked out

    This fixes the current renewals information (shown under the statuses section) on the item page for records in the staff interface so that:
    1. The current renewals row is only now shown if there are current renewals for the item (previously it was shown for all items, even if they had no renewals).
    2. It only shows the number of current renewals for the current check out (previously the number shown would include all renewals, including for previous check-outs).

  • 35587 Items lose their lost status when check-in triggers a transfer even though BlockReturnOfLostItems is enabled

    Sponsored by Pymble Ladies’ College

  • 35600 Prevent checkouts table to flicker

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35489 Holds on items with no barcode are missing an input for itemnumber

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

  • 34900 The translation of the string “The ” should depend on context
  • 35567 Host-item in “Show analytics” link can be translated

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Other bugs fixed

  • 35698 Wrong bug number in db_revs/220600084.pl

Lists

Other bugs fixed

  • 35547 When using “Add to a list” button with more than 10 lists, “staff only” does not show up

Notices

Other bugs fixed

  • 30287 Notices using HTML render differently in notices.pl

    This fixes notice previews for patrons in the staff interface (Patrons > [Patron account] > Notices), where HTML is used in the email notices. For example, previously if
    s were used then the preview would match the email sent, however, using

    s would add extra lines in the preview.

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

  • 35488 Placing a hold on the OPAC takes the user to their account page, but does not activate the holds tab
  • 35492 Suspending/unsuspending a hold on the OPAC takes the user to their account page, but does not activate the holds tab
  • 35495 Cancelling a hold on the OPAC takes the user to their account page, but does not activate the holds tab
  • 35496 Placing an article request on the OPAC takes the user to their account page, but does not activate the article request tab

Packaging

Other bugs fixed

  • 35713 Remove debian/docs/LEEME.Debian

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

  • 25835 Include overdue report (under circulation module) as a staff permission
  • 35493 Housebound roles show as a collapsed field option when checked in CollapseFieldsPatronAddForm, even if housebound is off

Plugin architecture

Other bugs fixed

  • 35070 Koha plugins implementing “background_jobs” hook can’t provide view template

REST API

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35204 REST API: POST endpoint /auth/password/validation dies on patron with expired password
  • 35658 Typo in /patrons/:patron_id/holds

Other bugs fixed

  • 32551 API requests don’t carry language related information

Reports

Other bugs fixed

  • 35498 SQL auto-complete should not prevent use of tab for spacing

Searching – Zebra

Other bugs fixed

  • 35455 ICU does not strip = when indexing/searching

    This change fixes an issue with Zebra ICU searching where titles with colons aren’t properly searchable, especially when used with Analytics.

    A full re-index of Zebra is needed for this change to take effect.

Serials

Other bugs fixed

  • 28012 Error on saving new numbering pattern

    This fixes the serials new numbering pattern input form so that the name and numbering formula fields are marked as required. Before this, there was no indication that these fields were required and error trace messages were displayed if these were not completed – saving a new pattern or editing an existing pattern would also silently fail.

    NOTE: Making the description field optional will be fixed in bug 31297. Until this is done, a value needs to be entered into this field – even though it doesn’t indicate that it is required.

  • 31297 Cannot add new subscription patterns from edit subscription page

Staff interface

Other bugs fixed

  • 35619 Change password form in patron account has misaligned validation errors

System Administration

Other bugs fixed

  • 31694 MARC overlay rules presets don’t change anything if presets are translated
  • 34644 Add clarifying text to sysprefs to indicate that MarcFieldsToOrder is a fallback to MarcItemFieldsToOrder

    This updates the descriptions for system preferences MarcFieldsToOrder and MarcItemFieldsToOrder.

Templates

Other bugs fixed

  • 35557 LoadResultsCovers is not used (staff)

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

  • 35598 selenium/authentication_2fa.t is still failing randomly

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35696 Transit status not properly updated for items advanced in Stock Rotation tool

Other bugs fixed

  • 35579 marcrecord2csv searches authorised values inefficiently

    This significantly improves the speed of downloading large lists in CSV format. (It adds a get_descriptions_by_marc_field” method which caches AuthorisedValue descriptions when searched by MARC field, which is used when exporting MARC to CSV.)

  • 35588 marcrecord2csv retrieves authorised values incorrectly for fields
    This fixes the CSV export of records so that authorized values are exported correctly. It ensures that the authorized value descriptions looked up are for the correct field/subfield designated in the CSV profile. Example: If the 942$s (Serial record flag) for a record has a value of “1”, it was previously exported as “Yes” even though it wasn’t an authorized value.

translate.koha-community.org

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35428 gulp po tasks do not clean temporary files

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

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

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

Release Team

The release team for Koha 23.05.08 is

  • Release Manager:

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 23.05.08

– Pymble Ladies’ College

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.08

– Aleisha Amohia (1)
– Pedro Amorim (5)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
– Matt Blenkinsop (3)
– Kevin Carnes (2)
– Nick Clemens (4)
– David Cook (5)
– Jonathan Druart (6)
– Katrin Fischer (4)
– Lucas Gass (8)
– Victor Grousset (1)
– Kyle M Hall (8)
– Andrew Fuerste Henry (1)
– Joonas Kylmälä (2)
– Owen Leonard (4)
– Julian Maurice (6)
– David Nind (2)
– Martin Renvoize (5)
– Marcel de Rooy (1)
– Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
– Shi Yao Wang (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 23.05.08

– Athens County Public Libraries (4)
– BibLibre (6)
– Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (4)
– ByWater-Solutions (20)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
– David Nind (2)
– dubcolib.org (1)
– Independant Individuals (2)
– Koha Community Developers (7)
– Prosentient Systems (5)
– PTFS-Europe (13)
– Rijksmuseum (1)
– Solutions inLibro inc (2)
– Theke Solutions (5)
– ub.lu.se (2)

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

– Pedro Amorim (1)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (12)
– Kevin Carnes (1)
– Nick Clemens (5)
– Jonathan Druart (5)
– Esther (1)
– Katrin Fischer (64)
– Andrew Fuerste-Henry (4)
– Lucas Gass (72)
– Victor Grousset (12)
– Kyle M Hall (1)
– Jan Kissig (4)
– Emily Lamancusa (2)
– Owen Leonard (3)
– Mikko Liimatainen (1)
– Julian Maurice (9)
– Kelly McElligott (1)
– David Nind (33)
– Martin Renvoize (9)
– Marcel de Rooy (7)
– sabrina (1)
– Fridolin Somers (66)

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

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is (HEAD detached from 1030b6f971).

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at:

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

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 24 Jan 2024 18:03:45.