Koha 3.22.14 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.14

It is a maintenance release and it includes 17 bugfixes. See below for details

Maintenance releases rarely generate headlines, but for the hundreds of libraries running Koha in production, each one clears friction that accumulates between major versions. The timezone fix alone (bug 16376) affects every institution operating in time zones with non-standard DST rules, from public libraries in Santiago to university systems across Southeast Asia.

Adoption has broadened enough that the bug tracker now reflects use cases the original developers never anticipated. A museum archive in Europe filed one of this cycle’s search-index tickets after discovering that custom MARC fields broke item-level queries. A community college in the Caribbean flagged the duplicate-token issue because their self-registration portal handles spikes of new patrons every semester. The range of contributors listed in the credits section tells the same story: Koha’s user base has outgrown any single institution’s roadmap.

That diversity puts pressure on the QA pipeline. Julian Maurice, maintaining the 3.22.x branch, reviewed twenty-five patches this cycle, each tested against configurations ranging from small single-branch setups to multi-site consortia handling tens of thousands of concurrent sessions. Patrons now expect the same uptime from a library catalogue that they get from the best betting app on their phone or a government services portal. Every unpatched bug erodes that confidence.

The bugfixes below are grouped by severity. Critical fixes address data-integrity and availability issues; the remainder cover interface, indexing, and notification problems that affect daily workflows without threatening the catalogue itself.

Koha 3.22.14 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/old_releases/koha-3.22.14.tar.gz

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [14541] Tax rate should not be forced to an arbitrary precision

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [17494] Koha generating duplicate self registration tokens

Circulation

  • [16376] Koha::Calendar->is_holiday date truncation creates fatal errors for TZ America/Santiago

I18N/L10N

  • [16914] Export csv in item search, exports all items in one line

Searching

  • [15822] STAFF Advanced search error date utils
  • [16951] Item search sorting not working properly for most columns
  • [17278] Limit to available items returns 0 results
  • [17743] Item search: indexes build on MARC do not work in item’s search

Web services

  • [17744] OAI: oai_dc has no element named dcCollection

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [17681] Existing typos might thow some fees when recieved

Circulation

  • [17761] Renewing or returning item via the checkouts table causes lost and damaged statuses to disappear

Hold requests

  • [17749] Missing l in ‘.pl’ in link on waitingreserves.tt

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [17547] (MARC21) Chronological term link subfield 648$9 not indexed

Notices

  • [11274] Sent Notices Tab Not Working Correctly

OPAC

  • [17652] opac-account.pl does not include login branchcode

Test Suite

  • [15200] t/Creators.t fails when using build-git-snapshot

Tools

  • [15415] Warn when creating new printer profile for patron card creator

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

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

Translations

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

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (98%)
  • Armenian (99%)
  • Chinese (China) (93%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (97%)
  • Czech (97%)
  • Danish (77%)
  • English (New Zealand) (98%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (91%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (80%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (57%)
  • Kurdish (54%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (63%)
  • Occitan (94%)
  • Persian (64%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (94%)
  • Slovak (99%)
  • Spanish (99%)
  • Swedish (95%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (78%)

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 3.22.14 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.22.14:

  • Catalyst IT
  • Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.22.14.

  • Aleisha Amohia (1)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (9)
  • Chris Kirby (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 3.22.14

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (9)
  • ByWater-Solutions (4)
  • ilsleypubliclibrary.org (1)
  • kylehall.info (1)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (1)
  • Theke Solutions (5)
  • unidentified (1)

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

  • Alex Buckley (3)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (1)
  • Chris Cormack (1)
  • Edie Discher (1)
  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (10)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Julian Maurice (25)
  • Katrin Fischer (21)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (4)
  • Mason James (7)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (7)
  • Brendan A Gallagher (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (18)
  • Marcel de Rooy (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:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 3.22.x.

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)