Koha 24.05.06 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 24.05.06.

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

As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org

Please continue reading for the details this release.

Koha 24.05.06 includes 5 enhancements, 251 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

• 37727 CVE-2024-24337 – Fix CSV formula injection – client side (DataTables)
• 38468 Staff interface detail page vulnerable to reflected XSS
• 38470 Subscription detail page vulnerable to reflected XSS

Bugfixes

About

Other bugs fixed

• 38517 Release team 25.05

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

• 38437 Modal does not appear on single order receive

Other bugs fixed

• 34159 Remove plan by AR_CANCELLATION choice in aqplan

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 35087 Discount rate should only allow valid input formats
  

  This fixes the vendor discount field so that it now only accepts values that will save correctly:
  – a decimal number in the format 0.0 (if a comma is entered, you are now prompted to enter a decimal point)
  – numbers with up to two digits before the decimal and up to three digits after the decimal, for example: 9, 99, -99, 99.9, 0.99, 99.99, 99.999

• 35823 When uploading a MARC file to a basket it is showing inactive funds without them being selected

• 36049 Rounding prices sometimes leads to incorrect results

  This fixes the values and totals shown for orders when rounding prices using the OrderPriceRounding system preference. Example: vendor price for an item is 18.90 and the discount is 5%, the total would show as 17.95 instead of 17.96.

  Sponsored by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• 37070 Incorrect barcode generation when adding orders to basket
• 37184 Special character encoding problem when importing MARC file from the acquisitions module
• 37246 Suggestions filter by fund displays inactive budgets

• 37265 Consideration of UniqueItemFields setting when receiving items in an order

  This fixes receiving orders so that values added to fields selected in the UniqueItemFields system preference are treated as unique when receiving items.

  Example of incorrect behavour that is fixed:

  • For the UniqueItemFields system preference, the Public note (itemnotes) is set as unique.
  • Multiple quantities of the same item are ordered.
  • When receiving the order, a note is added to the public note for the first copy of item received.
  • For the second copy of the item received, the public note from the first item was incorrectly added.

  Sponsored by kohawbibliotece.pl

• 37304 Created by filter in acquisitions advanced orders search always shows zero results
• 37854 Barcode fails when adding item during order receive (again)

• 37913 Remove more unreachable code in aqcontract.tt

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37914 Forms for budget planning filters and export should GET rather than POST

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 38271 Missing 008 field in bibliographic records created via EDIFACT
• 38297 The “New vendor” button needs a permissions guard
• 38303 Item’s replacement price not set to defaultreplacecost if 0.00

• 38325 Cannot delete invoice while viewing it

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 38329 Remove orphan confirm_deletion() in supplier.tt

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 38680 [24.05.x] copyno not copied over when set in MarcItemFieldsToOrder system preference

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

• 37056 CSRF error on login when user js contains a fetch of svc/report
• 37741 Koha errors on page (e.g. 404) cause incorrect CSRF errors

  This change prevents an error in a background call (e.g. a missing favicon.ico) from affecting the user’s session, which can lead to incorrect CSRF 403 errors during form POSTs. (The issue is prevented by stopping error pages from returning the CGISESSID cookie, which overwrites the CGISESSID cookie returned by the foreground page.)

• 37824 Replace webpack with rspack for fun and profit
• 38035 “sound” listed as an installed language
• 38495 Cannot cancel background job (CSRF)

Other bugs fixed

• 31581 Remove Zebra files for NORMARC
• 33188 Warning in Koha::Items->hidden_in_opac
• 35959 Inconsistent hierarchy during C3 merge of class ‘Koha::AuthorisedValue’ (and a few other modules)
• 36317 Koha::Biblio->host_items fails with search_ordered()
• 36873 Koha::Objects->delete should accept parameters and pass them through
• 36901 Add logging for uncaught exceptions in background job classes

  This fixes the logging of uncaught exceptions in background jobs. Some rare situations like DB connection drops can make jobs get marked as failure, but no information about the reasons was logged anywhere.

• 37155 Remove unnecessary unblessing of patron in CanItemBeReserved
• 37292 Add an index on expires column for oauth_access_tokens
  This adds a database index to the expires column for the ‘oauth_access_tokens’ table, making it easier for database administrators to purge older records.
• 37628 Remove get_opac_news_by_id
• 37672 V1/RecordSources.pm should use more helpers
• 37757 notice_email_address explodes if EmailFieldPrimary is not valid
• 37823 Remove unreachable code in aqcontract.tt
• 37865 Use of uninitialized value $op in string at circulation.pl
• 37981 Switch installer/step3.tt form from POST to GET
• 37982 Serial collection edit form can be GET
• 38000 Redundant code import in search.pl
• 38027 Clearing a flatpickr datetime causes errors

• 38200 Remove dead code to delete authorities in authorities/authorities.pl

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 38234 Remove unused vulnerable jszip library file

• 38257 Several functionalities broken in cart pop up

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

• 38274 Typo in Arabic language description

  This fixes the language description for Arabic (displayed in OPAC and the staff interface advanced search) – from “Arabic (لعربية)” to “Arabic (العربية)”.

• 38286 Koha::Biblio:hidden_in_opac does not need to fetch the items if OpacHiddenItemsHidesRecord is set

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

• 36822 When creating a new patron via LDAP or Shibboleth 0000-00-00 is inserted for invalid updated_on

Other bugs fixed

• 37104 Block AnonymousPatron from logging into anything

  This prevents the anonymous patron from logging into the OPAC and staff interface. (The anonymous patron used for anonymous suggestions and checkout history is set using the AnonymousPatron system preference.)

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

• 37964 Only show host items when system preference EasyAnalyticalRecords is enabled

• 38413 Batch operations from item search results fail when “select visible rows” and many items are selected

  This fixes an Apache web server error (“Request-URI Too Long – The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.”) when using item search and batch modification to edit many items (500+).

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Other bugs fixed

• 26929 Koha will only display the first 20 macros Advanced Editor

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 27769 Advanced editor shouldn’t break copying selected text with Ctrl+C
  

  This fixes a shortcut key clash introduced by bug 17179 – Advanced editor: Add keyboard shortcuts to repeat (duplicate) a field, and cut text. It updates the default Ctrl+C shortcut for ‘Copy line’ to ‘Ctrl+Alt+C’ so that it doesn’t clash with the system copy shortcut.

  This is only fixed for new installs, so if you are experiencing this issue with an existing Koha installation, you may wish to manually apply the new mapping.

• 36375 Inconsistencies in ContentWarningField display
• 36821 Authority type text for librarians and OPAC limited to 100 characters

• 36976 Warning ‘Argument “” isn’t numeric in numeric’ in log when merging bibliographic records

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

• 37293 MARC bibliographic framework text for librarians and OPAC limited to 100 characters

  This fixes the staff and OPAC description fields for the MARC bibliographic framework forms – it increases the number of characters that can be entered to 255. Previously, the tag description fields were limited to 100 characters and the subfield description fields to 80 characters, even though the database allows up to 255 characters.

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37403 Wrong progress quantity in job details when staging records with match check
• 37840 Wrong status in the Intranet detail page when the item type is not for loan
  

  This fixes the status shown for items on record details pages in the staff interface. When an item type was set as not for loan, the status for individual items was incorrectly shown as “Available”, instead of “Not for loan” (it was correctly shown as “Not for loan” in the OPAC).

  (This is related to the changes made in Koha 24.05 to use the API to display holdings information in the staff interface, and improve the performance for records with many items.)

• 37871 Remove extraneous 246 subfields from the title mappings (Elasticsearch, MARC21)
  This patch limits indexing of field 246 to $a, $b, $n, and $p in various title indexes.
  Previously, all 246 subfields were indexed, including non-title subfields such as $i (Display text), $g (Miscellaneous information), and linking subfields, making the title index very large and giving false results, especially when looking for duplicates in cataloging.

• 38030 stocknumberAV.pl fails with CSRF protection

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

• 38065 Auto control number (001) widget in advanced editor does not work under CSRF protection
• 38082 Advanced editor does not save the selected framework with new record
• 38158 Typo in inventory ‘Items has no “not for loan” status’
• 38162 Can’t delete a stock rotation

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

• 37540 Pseudonymization is preventing renewals from the patrons account page

Other bugs fixed

• 13945 Multiple dialogs for item that needs transferred and hold captured at checkin
  

  This fixes multiple dialog boxes from popping up when checking in an item that has a hold, but needs transferred.

  Example: If an item is checked in at library A, and the item needs transferred to library B, and there is a hold for pickup at library B, the librarian will see a dialog box for both the transfer and the hold.

• 37076 Incorrect needsconfirmation code RESERVED_WAITING
  This fixes an incorrect value used in the OPAC self-checkout code (this new feature was added to Koha 23.11 by Bug 30979 – Add ability for OPAC users to checkout to themselves).

  Because of the incorrect value in the code (RESERVED_WAITING instead of RESERVE_WAITING – the ‘D’ is incorrect), patrons could self check out an item on hold for another patron, instead of getting an error message “This item appears to be on hold for another patron, please return it to the desk”.

• 37271 Recall status should be ‘requested’ in overdue_recalls.pl

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

• 37396 Batch checkout does not checkout items if OverduesBlockCirc set to ask for confirmation
• 37424 Batch checkout silently fails if item contains materials specified (952$3)
  

  This fixes the batch checkout when an item has a 952$3 value (Materials specified (bound volume or other part)). The text for the 952$3 was not displayed on the batch check out screen, it would silently fail, and then not check out the item to the patron (with no warning given). (This requires setting these system preferences CircConfirmItemParts, BatchCheckouts, BatchCheckoutsValidCategories (all).)

• 37444 Can’t filter holds to pull by pickup location
• 37505 Statistical patrons don’t display information about item status if item wasn’t checked out

• 37524 Pressing “Renew all” redirects user to “Export data” tool if one of the items is not renewable

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

• 37794 Fix form that POSTs without an op in Holds to pull

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37836 Prevent submitting empty barcodes in self check-in
• 37983 “Search a patron” box no longer has auto focus
• 38012 Remove ispermanent from returns.tt and branchtransfers.tt
• 38097 Add class to “Item was not checked out” message in checkin table
• 38117 “Item was not checked in” should not always show

Command-line Utilities

Critical bugs fixed

• 36435 Prevent warnings from interrupting koha-run-backups when deleting old backup files

  Sponsored by Catalyst

• 37075 Message queue processor will fail to send any message unless letter_code is passed

Other bugs fixed

• 14565 koha-run-backups does not backup an instance called demo

  This removes a hard-coded exclusion for backups of instances named “demo”.

• 18273 bulkmarcimport.pl inserts authority duplicates
  This fixes the misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl script when importing authority records so that the “–match” option works as expected, and no duplicates are created. Previously, this option was not working for authority records and duplicate records were being created even when there was a match.
• 35466 bulkmarcimport needs a parameter to skip indexing
  This patch adds a new option to skip indexing to bulkmarcimport: --skip_indexing
  It also fixes a bug where authorities were being indexed multiple times during import.
• 37038 koha-elasticsearch creates a file named 0
• 37550 bulkmarcimport.pl dies when adding items throws an exception
• 37709 bulkmarcimport.pl should die when the file cannot be opened
• 37787 Undocument koha-worker –queue elastic_index
  This fixes the documentation for the koha-worker script. It removes the elastic_index queue from the script, as this is now handled by koha-es-indexer (added by bug 33108 to Koha 23.05.00 and backported to 22.11.06).
• 37790 Prevent indexing and holds queue updates when running update_localuse_from_statistics.pl
• 38173 Fix description of koha-dump –exclude-indexes
• 38237 Add logging to erm_run_harvester cronjob
• 38249 koha-list help typo about elastic

Course reserves

Other bugs fixed

• 37838 Remove button broken on second page of course reserves item results

  Sponsored by Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Database

Other bugs fixed

• 38522 Increase length of erm_argreements.license_info

  This fixes the ERM agreements license information field (ERM > Agreements) so that more than 80 characters can be entered. It is now a medium text field, which allows entering up to 16,777,215 characters.

ERM

Critical bugs fixed

• 37526 Handle redirects in SUSHI requests

Other bugs fixed

• 34920 ERM breaks if an ERM authorized value is missing a description
• 37008 “Help” link on ERM pages is not translatable
• 37275 Remove parenthesis from Select user button in ERM
• 37277 Identifiers need a space between the ISBN (Print) and ISBN (Online) in ERM

  This fixes the display of identifiers for local titles so that are on separate lines, instead of joined together on the same line.

• 37395 Cannot hide columns in ERM tables
• 37491 Remove duplicate asset import from KBART template
• 38128 Agreement/license user selection not limited to users with ERM module permissions
• 38177 ERM – HoldingsIQ pagination does not work

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

• 37263 Creating default article request fees is not working

  This fixes adding and deleting values for ‘Default article request fees’, so this works as expected (Administration > Circulation and fine rules > Default article request fees (when ArticleRequests enabled)). (This is related to the CSRF changes added in Koha 24.05 to improve form security.)

Hold requests

Other bugs fixed

• 35771 Unselecting titles when making multi-hold does not have any effect
  

  This fixes placing multiple holds for a patron from search results in the staff interface:
  – The place holds page has checkboxes for unselecting some of the listed items – unselecting an item did not work and holds were placed on all items where a hold could be placed.
  – Unselected items without a pickup location generated a 500 error.

• 36970 (Bug 34160 follow-up) Barcode should be html filtered, not uri filtered in holds queue view
  This fixes the display of barcodes with spaces in the holds queue. Barcodes are now displayed correctly with a space, rather than with ‘%20’.
• 38186 Cancelling a hold from the holds over tab shouldn’t trigger “return to home” transfer on a lost item

• 38239 Incorrect number of items to pull in holds to pull report with partially filled holds

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

Holidays

Critical bugs fixed

• 38357 When adding new holidays Koha sometimes copies same holidays to other librarys

I18N/L10N

Critical bugs fixed

• 36171 Extraction of Template Toolkit directive as translatable string causes patron view error in several languages

  This fixes the extraction of strings that were causing translation errors. Template Tookit tags that contained HTML tags were split and treated as text that could be translated, instead of a Template Toolkit tag.

Other bugs fixed

• 35769 Untranslatable strings when placing holds in staff
  

  This fixes some strings that were not made available for translating for holds in the staff interface.

• 37257 Copy in OPAC datatable untranslatable

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37814 Wrong use of ‘__()’ in .tt files

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 38085 Untranslatable options in OPACAuthorIdentifiersAndInformation
• 38138 Main contact method in hold pop-up untranslatable

ILL

Other bugs fixed

• 37178 Column “comments” in ILL requests table gives error on sorting, paging cannot be changed
• 37194 Improve link from unconfigured ILL module

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Other bugs fixed

• 38385 DB updates not displayed properly on the UI

Label/patron card printing

Other bugs fixed

• 37206 Removing an item from a label batch should be a CSRF-protected POST operation

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37863 Patron card batches don’t detect when the patron is already in the list

Lists

Other bugs fixed

• 38020 Fix ‘delete list’ button to have same formatting as ‘edit list’
  

  This fixes the items in the ‘Edit’ menu for lists in the staff interface so that the options (Edit list, Delete list) are correctly left aligned. Previously, ‘Delete list’ was indented.

• 38251 “Remove selected items” button not removing single item in OPAC lists

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

MARC Authority data support

Critical bugs fixed

• 37235 Download single authority results in 500 error

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

Other bugs fixed

• 37252 Saving an authority record as MADS (XML) fails

  This fixes the saving of authority records in MADS format in the staff interface (Authorities > search results > authority details > Save > MADS (XML)). Before this fix, the downloaded records had a zero file size and were empty.

MARC Bibliographic data support

Other bugs fixed

• 28075 Add missing UNIMARC value for coded data 135a

  This updates the UNIMARC 135$a subfield to add missing values.

• 34346 Adding duplicate tag to a framework should give user readable message
• 37357 Authorised values in control fields cause Javascript errors

Notices

Critical bugs fixed

• 38089 Fix incorrect regular expression from bug 33478 and move styles to head

Other bugs fixed

• 32575 gather_print_notices.pl sends attachment as body of email or poorly named txt file

  This fixes emails generated by the misc/cronjobs/gather_print_notices.pl script. It adds empty text to the body of the email, so that the HTML file with the print notices is correctly attached to the email, and can be correctly printed. Because of the way the notices were being sent, and the way that different email clients handle different types of attachments, the notices were sometimes inserted into the body of the email or attached as poorly named text files.

• 37642 Generated letter should use https in header
  This updates http links to W3C standards used in notice headers to https links.

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

• 22223 Item url double-encode when parameter is an encoded URL

• 24690 Make OPACPopupAuthorsSearch work with search terms containing parenthesis

  This fixes the OPAC so that when OPACPopupAuthorsSearch is enabled, author names not linked to an authority record that have parenthesis (for example, Criterion Collection (Firm)) correctly return results. Previously, author names with parenthesis did not return search results.

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 35126 Remove the use of event attributes from when adding records to lists in the OPAC
• 36557 Improve logic and display of OPAC cart, tag, and lists controls
  

  This fixes errors in the way features are displayed in OPAC result lists so that controls for holds, tags, lists, and so on, are shown or hidden according to system preferences.

  It converts the Cart/Lists dropdown to separate buttons, making the display logic simpler and making the interface more consistent with updates to the staff interface search results.

• 36950 Improve placement of catalog concern banner in the OPAC
• 37057 OPACShowUnusedAuthorities displays unused authorities regardless
  This fixes authority searching in the OPAC. Using the OPACShowUnusedAuthorities system preference now works as expected when using Zebra and Elasticsearch search engines:
  – if set to “Show”, unused authorities are shown in the search results
  – if set to “Don’t show”, unused authorities are not shown in the search results.
  A regression was causing unused authorities to show in the search results when the system preference was set to “Don’t show”.

• 37158 OPAC recalls history table not responsive

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37629 Link to news are broken
• 37679 Dublin Core export option broken
• 37684 Direct links to expired news are broken

• 37827 Switch OPAC download list form from POST to GET

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37853 Returning to your account at the end of changing your password in the OPAC doesn’t need to POST a form

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37887 OPAC password recovery needs to use a cud- op while POSTing new password

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37931 Wrong OPAC facet item types label
• 38100 Items with damaged status are shown in OPAC results as “Not available” even with AllowHoldsOnDamagedItems
• 38132 Add data-isbn to shelfbrowser images

• 38231 Adjust CSS for search result controls in the OPAC

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 38362 Printing lists only prints the ten first results in the OPAC
  

  This fixes printing lists in the OPAC so that all the items are printed, instead of only the first 10.

• 38463 Unnecessary CSRF token in OPAC authority search

  This fixes the OPAC authority search result URL so that it no longer includes the CSRF token, and makes the URL more readable. (This is related to the CSRF changes added in Koha 24.05 to improve form security.)

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

• 37892 Patron category ‘can be a guarantee’ means that same category cannot be a guarantor

Other bugs fixed

• 30397 Duplicate ’20’ option in dropdown ‘Show entries’ menu
  

  This fixes the options for the number of entries to show for patron search results in the staff interface – 20 was listed twice.

• 30648 Title is lost in holds history when bibliographic record is deleted
• 34610 ProtectSuperlibrarianPrivileges, not ProtectSuperlibrarian
  This fixes the hover message when attempting to grant the superlibrarian permission (Access to all librarian functions) to a patron. It changes the message to use the correct system preference name “The system preference ProtectSuperlibrarianPrivileges is enabled”, instead of “..ProtectSuperlibrarian…”.

  (The message appears over the tick box next to the permission name if the patron attempting to set the permissions is not a super librarian, and the ProtectSuperlibrarianPrivileges is set to “Allow only superlibrarians” – only super librarians can give other staff patrons superlibrarian access.)

• 35508 Update borrowers.updated_on when modifying a patron’s attribute
  This patch causes the patron field “Updated on” to behave as expected and be updated when a patron attribute is changed.
  Before this patch, if while editing a patron only the value of a patron attribute was changed, the patron’s updated_on date would not be updated.
• 35987 See highlighted items below link broken
• 37365 Bad redirect when adding a patron message from members/files.pl
  This fixes a redirect when adding a patron message straight after uploading a patron file (when EnableBorrowerFiles is enabled). Before this fix, an error message “Patron not found. Return to search” was displayed if you added a message straight after you finished uploading a file (the “Add message” option on other pages worked as expected).
• 37368 Patron searches break when surname and firstname are set to NULL
  This fixes an error when searching for patrons in the staff interface (for both the search in the header and the sidebar). If you have a patron without a last name or first name, and search using a space, the search did not complete and generated a browser console error.

• 37528 Using borrowerRelationship while guarantor relationship is unchecked from BorrowerMandatoryField results in error

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

• 37562 Duplicate patron check when user cannot see patron leads to a blank popup
• 38005 500 error on self registration when patron attribute is set as mandatory
• 38109 Patron category types are not sorted when entering/editing patrons
• 38112 Description of patrons search no longer displayed

• 38188 Fix populating borrowernumberslist from patron_search_selections

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

Plugin architecture

Critical bugs fixed

• 37872 ILL module has issues when plugins are disabled (enable_plugins = 0)

  This fixes an issue when plugins are not enabled and the ILL module is enabled. This caused an error on the About Koha > System information section.
  This also fixes a page error shown when accessing the ILL module with enable_plugins = 0 in koha-conf.xml.

REST API

Other bugs fixed

• 37032 REST API: Unable to call item info via holds endpoint

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

• 37535 Adding a debit via API will show the patron as the librarian that caused the debit
• 37687 API query operators list doesn’t match documentation
  

  This restores “-not_in” so that it is now listed as a valid operator for filtering API responses.

• 38390 Add ‘subscriptions+count’ embed to vendors endpoint

  Sponsored by PTFS Europe and ByWater Solutions

Reports

Other bugs fixed

• 37108 Cash register statistics wizard is wrongly sorting payment by home library of the manager

• 37987 Downloading SQL report in .tab format is slow

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

• 23426 Empty AV field returned in ‘patron info’ in addition to those requested

  This fixes SIP2 responses to remove the empty AV field in patron information responses, when fine information is requested. It also:
  – adds the active currency as part of the response (BH)
  – fixes the number of items in the response which are specified in BP and BQ, when other items as fine items are requested.

• 37582 SIP2 responses can contain newlines when a patron has multiple debarments

• 38284 handle_patron_status dies if patron not found

  This fixes patron status SIP2 request responses if the request has an invalid or empty card number or PIN, and options are set for the TrackLastPatronActivityTriggers system preference. The SIP request was silently dying.

  Sponsored by PTFS Europe

• 38344 Don’t send “Thank you !” as screen message

  This fixes a typo in a SIP output message – “Thank you !” should be “Thank you!” (note the space before the exclamation mark).

Searching

Other bugs fixed

• 37167 Fix mapping call number searches to Z39.50
  

  This fixes how the Z39.50 search form is populated when using the Z39.50/SRU search option, from advanced search results in the staff interface where a “Call number” search is made. It now autofills the searched for value in the “Dewey” field instead of the “Title” field.

  (Even though the field is labelled “Dewey”, it also searches for Library of Congress call numbers in the 050 tag. Note that there are other issues with the search form, the labels used, and what is actually searched for – there are separate bugs for these).

• 37244 Selecting home library or holding library facet changes library dropdown
• 37249 Item search column filtering broken
• 37333 Search filters using OR are not correctly grouped

• 37369 Item search column filtering can’t use descriptions

  Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

• 37998 Tabs and backslashes in the data break item search display

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

Searching – Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

• 33348 Show authority heading use with Elasticsearch

  This fixes the ShowHeadingUse system preference so that it now works with Elasticsearch. When enabled, this option adds a new column to authority search results in the staff interface – it lists what the heading can be used for (based on the values in the MARC entry for 008/14-16), for example:
  ✔ Main/Added Entry
  ✔ Subject
  x Series Title

  (This feature was originally added to Koha 22.05.00 by bug 29990, but only worked with the Zebra search engine.)

  Sponsored by Education Services Australia SCIS

• 37319 Move mappings for 752ad (MARC21) and 210a/214a (UNIMARC) to pl index

• 37446 Home/holding library facets missing user friendly label

  This fixes the facet labels for holdingbranch and homebranch to ensure they say “Holding libraries” or “Home libraries” when Elasticsearch is enabled.

  Sponsored by Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand

• 37857 Unable to select type “Geo point” or “Call number” when adding a search field

  This fixes the “Type” dropdown list when configuring search fields. It adds two missing options – Call number, and Geo point (Administration > Catalog > Search engine configuration (Elasticsearch) > Search fields > Type column options).

• 38416 Failover to MARCXML if cannot roundtrip USMARC when indexing

Self checkout

Other bugs fixed

• 37027 Some dataTable controls in SCO seem unnecessary
• 37525 Self checkout: “Return this item” doesn’t show up in scan confirmation screen despite SCOAllowCheckin being allowed
• 38041 Not all self checkout errors behave the same

Serials

Critical bugs fixed

• 38378 Serial frequency deletion is broken

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Other bugs fixed

• 29818 Cannot save subscription frequency without display order

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

• 37916 Plugin search and install regression
• 38118 Removed empty columns on holdings table on details page are not restored when new items loaded

Other bugs fixed

• 37065 Bookings tab should filter out expired bookings by default

  This fixes the list of bookings for items so that only current bookings are listed, and excludes expired bookings. There is now a link, “Show expired”, to display all bookings.

• 37213 Improve breadcrumbs in rotating collections
  This fixes the breadcrumbs for rotating collections and makes them more consistent with other breadcrumbs (Tools > Rotating collections > New collection).
• 37233 Library URL broken in the libraries table
  This fixes the URL link for a library in the staff interface (Administration > Basic parameters > Libraries) so that it works as expected. The link was not correctly formatted and it generated a 404 page not found error.
• 37393 Bundle items don’t show their host in the staff interface
  This fixes the item status for an item in a bundle, shown in the staff interface’s holdings table. If an item is part of a bundle, the item status should show as “Not for loan (Added to bundle). In bundle: [Title and link to record it is bundled with]”. It was not showing the “In bundle: […]” text and link to the bundled item.

  (Note: This fixes the staff interface, the OPAC correctly shows the text and link. To use the bundle feature:
  1) For a record’s leader, set position “7- Bibliographic level” to “c- Collection”.
  2) Use the “Manage bundle” action for the record’s item, and add items to the bundle.)

• 37928 “Upload image” item not correctly styled
• 37954 Unable to hide barcode column in holdings table
  This fixes hiding the barcode column on the staff interface for a record’s holdings table. You can now turn on or off hiding the barcode by default, and select the display of the barcode column using the ‘Columns’ setting.
• 38071 “Clear filter” on catalogue details page always disabled
  The fixes the global “Clear filter” for tables in the staff interface so that you can now clear the filter. It was previously greyed out, and you needed to refresh the page to clear the filter.
• 38130 Cannot filter items on library name
• 38146 Last seen date is missing the time in the item holdings table
• 38240 Filtering resulting in no result will hide filters

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

• 38328 Cannot delete ILL batch statuses

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Other bugs fixed

• 35257 Only admin start page uses “circulation desks”
  

  This changes the Koha administration page title for “Circulation desks” to “Desks” for consistency – all other areas such as the sidebar, page titles, and breadcrumbs all use just “Desks”. It also updates the UseCirculationDesks system preference description.

• 37209 Improve record overlay rules validation and styling
  This fixes the validation for the record overlay rules page (in line with the coding guidelines):
  – the ‘Tag’ field is marked as required if you add or edit a rule and leave it empty
  – pressing enter now saves a new or edited rule

• 37229 Table configuration listings for course reserves incorrect

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37329 Typo: authorised value in patron attribute types
• 37404 Typo in intranetreadinghistory description
• 37606 Framework export module should escape double quotes

• 37766 Fix forms that POST without an op in MARC bibliographic frameworks

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 37905 Correctly fix the “last hour” filter on the job list

• 38309 Cannot delete additional fields

  This fixes deleting additional fields (Administration – Additional parameters > Additional fields) – deleting fields now works as expected. Previously, attempting to delete a field would generate a blank page and the field was not deleted. (This is related to the CSRF changes added in Koha 24.05 to improve form security.)

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Templates

Other bugs fixed

• 35232 Misspelled ID breaks label on patron lists form
• 35238 Incorrect label markup in patron card creator printer profile edit form

  This fixes an accessibility issue in the HTML markup for the patron card creator printer profile edit form.

• 35239 Missing form field ids in batch patron modification template

  This fixes the batch patron modification edit form labels so that they all have IDs, and the input box now receive the focus when clicking on the label (this includes patron attribute fields, but excludes date fields). This is an accessibility improvement. Before this, you had to click in the input box to add a value.

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 36905 Terminology: home locations / home collections

  This removes the unnecessary word “home” from several aria-labels in OPAC search facets. For example, “Show more home locations” was changed to “Show more locations”. (Note that there is no visible change to the OPAC.)

• 37231 (Bug 34940 follow-up) Highlight logged-in library in facets does not work with ES

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

• 37242 Don’t use the term branch in cash register administration

• 37264 Fix delete button on staff interface’s suggestion detail page

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37595 Double HTML escaped ampersand in pagination bar

• 37848 “Run with template” options need formatting

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37977 Fix some issues with labels in inventory form

  Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

• 38476 Use anchor tag for DataTables configure button

  This fixes the “Configure” button for tables, so that you can now right-click and open the table settings in a new tab.

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

• 36919 t/db_dependent/Koha/Object.t produces warnings
• 36935 BackgroundJob/ImportKBARTFile.t generates warnings

  This removes unnecessary warning messages generated in the log files if the import of KBART files in the ERM module are successful (EOF – End of data in parsing input stream). It also adds error handling tests to the test suite.

• 36936 api/v1/bookings.t generates warnings
• 36944 Auth.t should not fail when AutoLocation is enabled
• 37283 t/db_dependent/selenium/authentication.t is failing
• 37289 t/db_dependent/api/v1/authorised_values.t is failing under specific circumstances
• 37490 Add test to detect when yarn.lock is not updated
• 37620 Fix randomly failing tests for cypress/integration/InfiniteScrollSelect_spec.ts
• 37963 Improve error handling and testing of ERM eUsage SUSHI
• 38322 Wrong comment in t/db_dependent/api/v1/erm_users.t
  This fixes ERM user tests in t/db_dependent/api/v1/erm_users.t. It was not correctly testing the permissions for listing users. It was supposed to check that two users were returned, but only one was returned.
• 38513 Fix Biblio.t for Koha_Main_My8 test configuration
• 38526 Auth_with_* tests fail randomly

Tools

Other bugs fixed

• 36132 Allow users to delete multiple patron lists at once on any page

  This fixes patron lists so that when there are more than 20 lists, the lists on the next pages can be deleted. Previously, you were only able to delete the lists on the first page.

• 37243 Tag moderation actions should be in the last column

  Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

• 37326 Batch modification should decode barcodes when using a barcode file

• 37580 Unique holiday descriptions are not editable

  Sponsored by Westlake Porter Public Library

• 37730 Batch patron modification table horizontal scroll causes headers to mismatch

  This fixes the table for the batch patron modification tool (Tools > Patrons and circulation > Batch patron modification). When you scrolled down the page so that table header rows are “sticky”, and then scrolled to the right, the table header columns were fixed instead of changing to match the column contents.

• 37965 Fix regression of convert_urls setting in TinyMCE which causes unexpected URL rewriting
• 38266 Incorrect attribute disabled in patron batch modification
• 38275 Unable to delete patron card creator images
  This fixes deleting images when using the patron card creator’s image manager. You could not delete images, and received an error message “WARNING: An unsupported operation was attempted. Please have your system administrator check the error log for details.” (This is related to the CSRF changes added in Koha 24.05 to improve form security.)

Web services

Critical bugs fixed

• 36560 ILS-DI API POSTS cause CSRF errors

  This change creates an anti-CSRF exception so that the ILS-DI API will work without a CSRF token. Libraries are reminded that they should be careful when configuring the ILS-DI:AuthorizedIPs system preference for access to the ILS-DI API.

Other bugs fixed

• 35442 Script migration_tools/build_oai_sets.pl is missing ORDER BY
• 38131 ILS-DI documentation still shows renewals instead of renewals_count
• 38233 ILS-DI GetRecords should filter out items hidden in OPAC and use OPAC MARCXML

  This updates the ILS-DI GetRecords service to use the OPAC version of the MARCXML and filter items based on their OPAC visibility. For example, if OpacHiddenItems includes “withdrawn: [1]” (hide items with a withdrawn status of 1) and hidelostitems is set to “Don’t show”, then an ILS_DI request for a record will not show items with a withdrawn status = 1 (Withdrawn). Previously, there was no way to hide hidden items from the ILS-DI request.

Enhancements

Database

Enhancements

• 31143 We should attempt to fix/identify all cases where ‘0000-00-00’ may still remain in the database

  This enhancement:

  1. Updates the misc/maintenance/search_for_data_inconsistencies.pl script so that it identifies any date fields that have 0000-00-00 values.

  2. Adds a new script misc/maintenance/fix_invalid_dates.pl that fixes any date fields that have ‘0000-00-00’ values (for example: dateofbirth) by updating them to ‘NULL’.

  Patron, item, and other date fields with a value of ‘000-00-00’ can cause errors. This includes:
  – API errors
  – stopping the patron autocomplete search working
  – generating a 500 internal server error:
  . for normal patron searching
  . when displaying item data in the holdings table

ERM

Enhancements

• 37856 Some SUSHI providers require the platform parameter

  This enhancement adds a new “platform” field to ERM’s usage data providers, allowing the harvest of SUSHI usage data from providers that require this parameter.

MARC Bibliographic data support

Enhancements

• 37114 Update MARC21 default framework to Update 38 (June 2024)

  This enhancement updates the default MARC21 bibliographic framework for new installations to reflect the changes from Update 38 (June 2024).

  NOTES:
  – For existing installations, manually updating the default and other frameworks with the changes is required.
  – For new installations, only the default framework is updated. Manually updating other frameworks with the changes is required.

SIP2

Enhancements

• 37087 Add support for TCP keepalive to SIP server

  This change adds 3 new configuration options to the SIPconfig.xml. These are custom_tcp_keepalive, custom_tcp_keepalive_time, and custom_tcp_keepalive_intvl. Usage is documented in C4/SIP/SIPServer.pm. They are used to control TCP keepalives for the SIP server. Configuration of these parameters is essential for running a SIP server in Microsoft Azure.

Templates

Enhancements

• 33925 Improve translation of title tags: Serials
  

  This enhancement updates the templates for the serials pages to allow title tags to be more easily translated. It also updates some templates to add consistency for the page title, breadcrumb navigation, and page headers, and to add the “page-section”

  where it was lacking.

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, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

• Armenian (hy_ARMN) (58%)

• Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (98%)
• Chinese (Traditional) (92%)
• English (100%)
• English (USA)
• French (55%)
• German (69%)
• Greek (78%)
• Hindi (72%)

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:

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 24.05.06 is

• Release Manager: Katrin Fischer

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart

• QA Manager: Martin Renvoize

• QA Team:

  • Victor Grousset
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Emily Lamancusa
  • David Cook
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Julian Maurice
  • Baptiste Wojtowski
  • Paul Derscheid
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Laura Escamilla
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Nick Clemens
  • Lucas Gass
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Matt Blenkinsop
  • Pedro Amorim
  • Brendan Lawlor
  • Thomas Klausner

• Security Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Michaela Sieber
  • Jacob O’Mara
  • Jake Deery

• Packaging Manager: Mason James

• Documentation Manager: Philip Orr

• Documentation Team:

  • Aude Charillon
  • David Nind
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose

• Wiki curators:

  • George Williams
  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Martin Renvoize

• Release Maintainers:

  • 24.11 — Paul Derscheid
  • 24.05 — Wainui Witika-Park
  • 23.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 22.11 — Laura Escamilla

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 24.05.06

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.06

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 24.05.06

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

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@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 main branch of:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 24.05.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 06 Jan 2025 05:02:40.