RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.12

23 Jun 2020

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.05.12.

This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.

This is my first release as the 19.05.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. And in particular to those who helped me on the community IRC channel to solve the various issues and confusions that I encountered for my first release ever.

As always you can download the release from:

https://download.koha-community.org

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.05.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 30 bugfixes.

System requirements

• Debian 8 (Jessie) is not supported anymore
• MySQL 5.5 is not supported anymore

Koha is tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for deployment:

• Debian 9 (Stretch) with MariaDB 10.1 (MariaDB 10.3 support is experimental)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) with MariaDB 10.1

Additional notes:

• Perl >= 5.14 is required and 5.24 or 5.26 are recommended
• Zebra or Elasticsearch is required

Enhancements

Test Suite

• [23994] AdditionalFields.t is failing randomly (U18)

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [25473] Can’t add order from MARC file, save button does nothing
• [25563] Cannot submit “add order from MARC file” form after alert
• [25677] Checkbox options for EDI accounts cannot be enabled

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [25634] koha-foreach exits too early if any command has non-zero status

Circulation

• [25184] Items with a negative notforloan status should not be captured for holds
  

  New system preference: TrapHoldsOnOrder defaults to enabled.

• [25531] Patron may not be debarred if backdated return

Command-line Utilities

• [25538] koha-shell should pass –login to sudo if no command

Fines and fees

• [25526] Using Write Off Selected will not allow for a different amount to be written off

MARC Authority data support

• [25653] Authorities search does not retain selection

OPAC

• [17842] Broken diacritics on records exported as MARC from cart
• [25492] Your Account Menu button does nothing on mobile devices

SIP2

• [23403] SIP2 lends to wrong patron if cardnumber is missing

Searching

• [24458] Search results don’t use Koha::Filter::MARC::ViewPolicy

System Administration

• [25617] Error on about page when TimeFormat preference is set to 12hr

Tools

• [25557] Column config table in acquisitions order does not match the acq table in baskets

Other bugs fixed

About

• [25506] Perl undef warning on the “About Koha” page

Acquisitions

• [25507] PDF order print for German 2-pages is broken
• [25545] Invoice page – Adjustments are not included in the Total + adjustments + shipment cost (Column tax. inc.)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [25535] Hold API mapping maps cancellationdate to cancelation_date, but it should be cancellation_date

Circulation

• [24413] MarkLostItemsAsReturned functionality does not lift restrictions caused by long overdues

I18N/L10N

• [25517] Koha.mo not found on package installations / Translations not working

MARC Authority data support

• [25428] Escaped HTML shows in authority detail view when subfield is a link

MARC Bibliographic data support

• [25701] Facets display in random order

OPAC

• [24854] Remove IDreamBooks integration
• [25597] Javascript errors in self-checkout printslip.pl preventing printing

Patrons

• [25452] Alternate email contact not displayed

Staff Client

• [25521] NewItemsDefaultLocation description should not mention cart_to_shelf.pl

Test Suite

• [23825] Object.t is failing – Exception not caught
• [24062] Circulation tests fail randomly if patron category type is ‘X’
• [24881] Circulation.t still fails if tests are ran slowly

Documentation

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

• Koha Documentation

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

• Koha Manual

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

• Koha Git Repository

Translations

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

• Arabic (98.7%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)
• Basque (59.3%)
• Chinese (China) (59.8%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (99.5%)
• Czech (92.8%)
• Danish (52.1%)
• English (New Zealand) (82.8%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (79.1%)
• French (98.5%)
• French (Canada) (99.2%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (85.8%)
• Greek (73.6%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (90.2%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (88.5%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (56%)
• Polish (82.8%)
• Portuguese (99.9%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)
• Slovak (86.7%)
• Spanish (99.9%)
• Swedish (88%)
• Turkish (99.7%)
• Ukrainian (73.8%)
• Vietnamese (50.8%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

• Koha Translation Info

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

• Koha Translate List

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

• Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 19.05.12 is

• Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Joonas Kylmälä
  • Josef Moravec
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Nick Clemens
  • Kyle Hall
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Matthias Meusburger
• Topic Experts:
  • Elasticsearch — Frédéric Demians
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • Accounts — Martin Renvoize
  • CAS/Shibboleth — Matthias Meusburger
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Michal Denár
  • Holly Cooper
  • Henry Bolshaw
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
• Packaging Manager: Mason James
• Documentation Managers:
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • David Nind
• Documentation Team:
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Donna Bachowski
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
  • Kelly McElligott
  • Jessica Zairo
  • Chris Cormack
  • Henry Bolshaw
  • Jon Drucker
• Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
• Release Maintainers:
  • 20.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 19.11 — Aleisha Amohia
  • 19.05 — Victor Grousset
• Release Maintainer mentors:
  • 19.11 — Hayley Mapley
  • 19.05 — Martin Renvoize

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.12.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
• Nick Clemens (5)
• David Cook (3)
• Jonathan Druart (22)
• Katrin Fischer (2)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
• Lucas Gass (2)
• Victor Grousset (3)
• Kyle Hall (3)
• Owen Leonard (3)
• Julian Maurice (1)
• Joy Nelson (1)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (2)
• Slava Shishkin (1)
• Koha Translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.05.12

• Athens County Public Libraries (3)
• BibLibre (1)
• Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2)
• ByWater-Solutions (12)
• Independant Individuals (1)
• Koha Community Developers (25)
• Prosentient Systems (3)
• PTFS-Europe (1)
• Rijks Museum (2)
• Theke Solutions (2)

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

• Aleisha Amohia (27)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
• Alex Arnaud (3)
• Nick Clemens (9)
• Holly Cooper (1)
• Jonathan Druart (14)
• Bouzid Fergani (1)
• Katrin Fischer (16)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
• Lucas Gass (17)
• Claire Gravely (1)
• Victor Grousset (60)
• Kyle Hall (2)
• Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
• Julian Maurice (5)
• Joy Nelson (11)
• David Nind (4)
• Martin Renvoize (30)
• Marcel de Rooy (4)
• Andreas Roussos (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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 19.05.x.

Bugs and feature requests

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

• Koha Bugzilla

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

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jun 2020 23:44:46.