Koha 18.11.06 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.06

This is a bugfix/maintenance release and it includes 50 bugfixes.

Koha 18.11.06 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [22713] Replacement price removed when receiving if using MarcItemFieldstoOrder
  • [22908] Modsuggestion will generate a notice even if the modification failed

Authentication

  • [22717] Google OAuth auto registration error

Circulation

  • [22896] Item to be transferred at checkin clears overridden due date

Course reserves

  • [22899] Cannot view course details

Fines and fees

  • [22724] Staff without writeoff permissions have access to ‘Write off selected’ button on Pay Fines tab

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Hold requests

  • [22895] [18.11] cannot place item level holds

OPAC

  • [11853] Cannot clear date of birth via OPAC patron update
  • [22420] Tag cloud feature broken
  • [22881] Trying to clear search history via the navbar X doesn’t clear any searches

Reports

  • [22357] Every run of runreport.pl with –store-results creates a new row in saved reports

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [22705] Change default value of Elasticsearch cxn_pool to ‘Static’

Serials

  • [22812] Cannot add new subscription with strict SQL modes turned on

System Administration

  • [22847] Specific circ rule by patron category is displaying the default (or not displaying)

Templates

  • [22904] Untranslatable strings in members-menu.js

Test Suite

  • [22836] Tests catching XSS vulnerabilities in pagination are not correct

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [22225] Tax hints and prices on orderreceive.pl may not match
  • [22791] Calculation differs on aqui-home/spent and ordered.pl
  • [22907] Cannot add new suggestion with strict SQL modes turned on

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [7862] Warns when creating a new notice

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

  • [21036] Fix a bunch of older warnings
  • [22813] searchResults queries the Koha::Patron object inside two nested loops

Cataloging

  • [21709] Addbiblio shows clickable tag editor icons which do nothing
  • [22886] Missing space between fields from Keyword to MARC mapping in cataloguing search

Command-line Utilities

  • [20537] Warnings in overdue_notices.pl

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

  • [22875] Documentation misleading for import_patrons command line script

Database

  • [22782] Schema change for SocialData

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [21651] Force insert of notices related tables during the install process
  • [22527] Web installer links to wrong database manual when database user doesn’t have required privileges

Sponsored by Hypernova Oy

Label/patron card printing

  • [22878] Cannot add a patron card layout with mysql strict mode on

MARC Authority data support

  • [21450] link_bibs_to_authorities.pl is caching searches without the auth type

OPAC

  • [22816] OPAC detail holdings table doesn’t fill it’s container

Patrons

  • [20514] Searching for a patrons using the address option doesn’t work with streetnumber
  • [22781] Fields on patron search results should be html/json filtered

SIP2

  • [15221] SIP server always sets the alert flag when item not returned

Searching

  • [22010] RecordedBooks and OverDrive should check preferences over passing variables
  • [22787] Mapping missing for ů to u in word-phrase-utf-chr
  • [22901] On item search authorised values select disappears on conditional change

Staff Client

  • [17698] Make patron notes show up on staff dashboard

RMNOTE – REMOVE FROM RELEASE NOTES – 18.11 FEATURE

  • [22914] Add holds column to batch item delete to fix show/hide columns behaviour

System Administration

  • [22965] Typo in Classification Sources description on Admin homepage (admin-home.tt)

Templates

  • [22800] No need to raw filter the mandatory fields var (OPAC suggestions)
  • [22932] GetLatestSerials should not return formatted date

Test Suite

  • [21671] Koha/Patron/Modifications.t is failing randomly
  • [22433] SIP/Transaction.t is failing randomly
  • [22453] TestBuilder should generate now() using the current timezone
  • [22808] Move Cache.t to db_dependent
  • [22917] Circulation.t fails if tests are ran slowly
  • [22930] Make TestBuilder more strict about wrong arguments

Tools

  • [21831] Marc modification templates move all action moves only one field

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 (98.6%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (63.6%)
  • Chinese (China) (64%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)
  • Czech (93.6%)
  • Danish (55.4%)
  • English (New Zealand) (88.3%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (84.5%)
  • French (98.3%)
  • French (Canada) (99.7%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (91.8%)
  • Greek (78.7%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (93.8%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (94.9%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (59.6%)
  • Polish (86.8%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.5%)
  • Slovak (90.3%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (90.9%)
  • Turkish (98.4%)
  • Ukrainian (62.2%)
  • Vietnamese (54.7%)

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 18.11.06 is

  • Release Manager: Nick Clemens
  • Release Manager assistants:
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Jonathan Druart
  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
  • QA Team:
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Alex Arnaud
    • Chris Cormack
    • Jonathan Druart
    • Kyle Hall
    • Julian Maurice
    • Josef Moravec
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Marcel de Rooy
  • Topic Experts:
    • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • SIP2 — Colin Campbell
    • EDI — Colin Campbell
    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Elasticsearch — Ere Maijala
  • Bug Wranglers:
    • Indranil Das Gupta
    • Jon Knight
    • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
  • Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose

  • Documentation Team:

    • David Nind
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Managers:

    • Indranil Das Gupta
    • Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
  • Release Maintainers:
    • 18.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 18.05 — Jesse Maseto
    • 18.11 — Martin Renvoize
    • 17.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • Release Maintainer assistants:
    • 18.05 — Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.11.06:

  • Catalyst IT
  • Hypernova Oy
  • Northeast Kansas Library System, NEKLS (http://nekls.org/)

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.06.

  • Aleisha Amohia (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Henry Bolshaw (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (16)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (40)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Hayley Mapley (2)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Liz Rea (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (9)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.06

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (3)
  • BibLibre (2)
  • BSZ BW (2)
  • ByWater-Solutions (17)
  • Catalyst (2)
  • Independant Individuals (5)
  • Koha Community Developers (40)
  • parliament.uk (1)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (10)
  • Rijks Museum (5)
  • Theke Solutions (3)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Arthur Bousquet (1)
  • Claudio (1)
  • Nick Clemens (84)
  • Chris Cormack (7)
  • Michal Denar (10)
  • Jonathan Druart (11)
  • Bouzid Fergani (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (31)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Frank Hansen (1)
  • Jon Knight (1)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Hayley Mapley (4)
  • Josef Moravec (2)
  • Liz Rea (32)
  • Martin Renvoize (104)
  • Marcel de Rooy (22)
  • Lisette Scheer (1)
  • Maryse Simard (4)
  • Bin Wen (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 18.11.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 31 May 2019 06:51:51.