Koha 18.05.07 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.07

20 Dec 2018

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.07.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and
enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:

http://download.koha-community.org

This is our first release as the 18.05.X release maintainers.
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

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 18.05.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [10306] Koha to MARC mappings (Part 1): Allow multiple mappings per kohafield (for say 260/RDA 264)

This patchset adds the ability to map several MARC fields to a single Koha field. The first existing mapped field will be saved into the database. This allows for flexibility in a system using RDA and AACR2 records where some store the publication data in the 260 fields and others in the 264.

  • [19933] Move C4::Members::patronflags to the Koha namespace – part 1

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21853] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF with Perl > 5.24.1

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21869] Bad update statement loses values for MarkLostItemsAsReturned
  • [21910] Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children
  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Cataloging

  • [21774] Cloned item subfields disappear when editing an item

Circulation

  • [21796] Patron Restriction do not restrict checkouts if patron also has a fee/fine on their account

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

Notices

  • [21529] Fix display of HTML tags in print notices

OPAC

  • [21911] Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [20261] No result in some page in authority search opac and pro (ES)

Staff Client

  • [21405] Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES

Test Suite

  • [21567] WebService:ILS related tests fail during package build

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21867] Replace remaining document.element.onchange calls in marc_modification_templates.js
  • [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered

Circulation

  • [18677] issue_id is not added to accountlines for lost item fees
  • [20598] Accruing fines not closed out by longoverdue.pl if WhenLostForgiveFine is not enabled

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

Lists

  • [21874] Encoding broken in list and cart email subjects

MARC Authority data support

  • [21644] UNIMARC XSLT display of 210 in intranet

Packaging

  • [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/18.05.x)

Patrons

  • [21649] Add child button in the staff client is no longer automatically populating the parent address

Reports

  • [21837] Overdues report shoudln’t set homebranchfilter as holdingbranchfilter

System Administration

  • [21730] PA_CLASS missing from list of authorized values categories
  • [21815] Rephrase HidePersonalPatronDetailOnCirculation a little bit

Tools

  • [21819] Marc modification templates action always checks Regexp checkbox
  • [21854] Patron category is not showing during batch modification
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (98.8%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (72.6%)
  • Chinese (China) (77.1%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (63.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (92.5%)
  • French (98.9%)
  • French (Canada) (94.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (98.5%)
  • Greek (80.4%)
  • Hindi (98.8%)
  • Italian (97.4%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (67.7%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
  • Persian (53%)
  • Polish (93.8%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.6%)
  • Slovak (94.5%)
  • Spanish (98.8%)
  • Swedish (94%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (65.2%)

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 18.05.07 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.07.

  • Nick Clemens (12)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (4)
  • Kyle Hall (6)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (7)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.07

  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • BibLibre (3)
  • BSZ BW (4)
  • ByWater-Solutions (21)
  • bywatersolution.com (7)
  • Independant Individuals (5)
  • Koha Community Developers (8)
  • Lucass-MacBook-Pro.local (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijks Museum (8)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Nick Clemens (47)
  • Michal Denar (3)
  • Devinim (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (5)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Lucas Gass (5)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (31)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (25)
  • Marcel de Rooy (35)
  • Andreas Roussos (5)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)

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 18.05.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)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 20 Dec 2018 20:20:05.