Koha 19.11.01 release
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.01
23 Dec 2019
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.11.01.
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 my first release as the 19.11.XX release maintainer.
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 19.11.01 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 19.11.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 30 bugfixes.
System requirements
Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
deployment:
- Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5
- Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1 (MySQL 8.0 support is experimental)
- Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1 (MariaDB 10.3 support is experimental)
Additional notes:
- Perl 5.10 is required
- Zebra or Elasticsearch is required
Critical bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [24243] Bad characters in MARC cause internal server error when searching catalog
Circulation
- [24138] suspension miscalculated when Suspension charging interval bigger than 1 and Max. suspension duration is defined
Command-line Utilities
- [24164] Patron emailer cronjob is not generating unique content for notices
Fines and fees
- [24177] Internal Server error when clicking cash register (Report)
Hold requests
- [24168] Errors with use of CanItemBeReserved return value
Notices
- [24268] advance_notices.pl dies on undefined letter
REST API
- [24191] Sorting doesn’t use to_model
Sponsored by ByWater Solutions
SIP2
- [24175] Cannot cancel holds – wrong parameter passed for itemnumber
Searching
- [23970] itemsearch – publication date not taken into account if not used in the first field
Other bugs fixed
About
- [24136] Add libraries (sponsors) to the about page
Acquisitions
- [24033] Fix column labelling on basket summary page (ecost)
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [24106] In returns.pl, don’t search for item if no barcode is provided
Cataloging
- [23800] Batch modification tool orders items by barcode incremental by default (regression to 17.11)
- [24090] Subfield text in red when mandatory in record edition
MARC Bibliographic data support
- [17831] Remove non-existing bibliosubject.subject mapping from frameworks
OPAC
- [23785] Software error Can’t call method “get_coins” on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 692.
Reports
- [13806] No input sanitization where creating Reports subgroup
Searching – Elasticsearch
- [24128] Add alias for biblionumber => local-number
Staff Client
- [23246] Record detail page jumps into the ‘images’ tab if no holdings
Sponsored by American Numismatics Society
- [23987] batchMod.pl provides a link back to the record after the record is deleted
System Administration
- [24170] sysprefs search result does not have a consistent order
Templates
- [24053] Typo in FinePaymentAutoPopup description
- [24056] Capitalization: Cash Register ID on cash register management page
- [24057] Hea is not an acronym
- [24126] Article requests tab appears twice on patron’s checkout screen
- [24230] intranet_js plugin hook is after body end tag
Test Suite
- [24144] regressions.t tests have not been updated after bug 23836
- [24145] Auth.t is failing because of wrong mocked ->param
- [24199] t/Auth_with_shibboleth.t is failing randomly
Tools
- [24124] Cannot select authorities in batch deletion tool in Chrome
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 (100%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Basque (57%)
- Chinese (China) (57.5%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)
- Czech (92%)
- Danish (50.1%)
- English (New Zealand) (80%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (75.9%)
- French (94.9%)
- French (Canada) (95.4%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (82.5%)
- Greek (70.6%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (86.7%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (85.2%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (54.3%)
- Polish (79.3%)
- Portuguese (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
- Slovak (80.8%)
- Spanish (98.2%)
- Swedish (85.2%)
- Turkish (93.4%)
- Ukrainian (70%)
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 19.11.01 is
- Release Manager: Martin Renvoize
- Release Manager assistants:
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Nick Clemens
- QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
- QA Team:
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Alex Arnaud
- Nick Clemens
- Jonathan Druart
- Kyle Hall
- Julian Maurice
- Josef Moravec
- Marcel de Rooy
- Topic Experts:
- REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
- SIP2 — Kyle Hall
- UI Design — Owen Leonard
- Elasticsearch — Alex Arnaud
- ILS-DI — Arthur Suzuki
- Authentication — Martin Renvoize
- Bug Wranglers:
- Michal Denár
- Indranil Das Gupta
- Jon Knight
- Lisette Scheer
- Arthur Suzuki
- Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
- Documentation Manager: David Nind
- Documentation Team:
- Andy Boze
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Translation Managers:
- Indranil Das Gupta
- Bernardo González Kriegel
- Release Maintainers:
-
- 19.11 — Joy Nelson
- 19.05 — Lucas Gass
- 18.11 — Hayley Mapley
Credits
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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 19.11.01:
- American Numismatics Society
- ByWater Solutions
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.01.
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
- Nick Clemens (8)
- Jonathan Druart (15)
- Katrin Fischer (1)
- Kyle Hall (1)
- Owen Leonard (4)
- Josef Moravec (1)
- Joy Nelson (2)
- Martin Renvoize (2)
- Marcel de Rooy (2)
- Lisette Scheer (3)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Koha Translators (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.11.01
- ACPL (4)
- BibLibre (2)
- BSZ BW (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (11)
- Independant Individuals (4)
- Koha Community Developers (15)
- PTFS-Europe (2)
- Rijks Museum (2)
- Theke Solutions (6)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
- Hugo Agud (2)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
- Cori Lynn Arnold (1)
- Bob Bennhoff (1)
- Jonathan Druart (15)
- Katrin Fischer (8)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
- Lucas Gass (1)
- Kyle Hall (1)
- Joonas Kylmälä (5)
- Nicolas Legrand (1)
- Owen Leonard (3)
- Kelly McElligott (1)
- Josef Moravec (3)
- Joy Nelson (45)
- Séverine Queune (3)
- Liz Rea (4)
- Martin Renvoize (44)
- Marcel de Rooy (15)
- Maryse Simard (2)
- George Williams (3)
- Jessica Zairo (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 19.11.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 23 Dec 2019 20:10:00.