Koha 18.05.04 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.04.

This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes, along with some behind the scenes enhancements to allow plugin developers to support a wider range of Koha releases.

This is my fourth release as the 18.05.XX maintainer and I would like to thank everyone involved in this release.

Koha 18.05.04 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.04 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 new features, 3 enhancements, 27 bugfixes.

New features

REST api

  • [21116] Add API routes through plugins

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21202] C4::Items – Remove GetItemsByBiblioitemnumber

REST api

  • [21334] Add bibliographic content type definitions

Staff Client

  • [13406] Authority MARC display impossible to style via CSS

Critical bugs fixed

Circulation

  • [21231] BlockReturnofLostItems does not prevent lost items being found

Patrons

  • [21068] Remove NorwegianPatronDB related code

Templates

  • [13692] Series link is only using 800a instead of 800t

Web services

  • [21199] Patron’s attributes are displayed on GetPatronInfo’s ILSDI output regardless opac_display

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Acquisitions

  • [21288] Slowness in acquisition caused by GetInvoices
  • [21356] Missing space in parcel.tt

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19991] use Modern::Perl in OPAC perl scripts
  • [21207] C4::Overdues::GetItems is not used

Authentication

  • [13779] sessionID declared twice in C4::Auth::checkauth()

Circulation

  • [21168] Error on circ/returns.pl after deleting checked-in item

Database

  • [20777] Remove unused field accountlines.dispute

Label/patron card printing

  • [20765] Search for items by acqdate does not work in label batch

OPAC

  • [20994] Fix capitalization on OPAC result list “Save to Lists”
  • [21127] Remove jqTransform jQuery plugin from the OPAC

Packaging

  • [21267] X_FORWARDED_PROTO header should be set in apache

Patrons

  • [21096] Garbled username on intranet login page

Staff Client

  • [21248] Fix COinS carp in MARC details page on unknown record

System Administration

  • [19179] Email option for SMSSendDriver is not documented as a valid setting

Templates

  • [21139] The floating toolbars have some issues
  • [21285] Select2 broken on high dpi screens

Test Suite

  • [20776] Add Selenium::Remote::Driver to dependencies
  • [21262] Do not format numbers for editing if too big
  • [21355] GetDailyQuotes.t is fragile
  • [21360] IssueSlip.t is failing if run at 23:59

Tools

  • [20564] Error 500 displays when uploading patron images with a zipped file

Web services

  • [21235] Remove services_throttle if not required for ThingISBN

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 (100%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (73.4%)
  • Chinese (China) (77.9%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (93.3%)
  • Danish (64.3%)
  • English (New Zealand) (96.8%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (93.6%)
  • French (99.9%)
  • French (Canada) (94.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.7%)
  • Greek (80.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (98.1%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (66.4%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (71.1%)
  • Persian (53.4%)
  • Polish (94.8%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (83.8%)
  • Slovak (95.6%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (94.9%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (65.8%)

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 18.05.04 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.05.04:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.04.

  • Nick Clemens (7)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (10)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Charlotte Cordwell (2)
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (9)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (2)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (9)
  • Jane Sandberg (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Koha translators (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.04

  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (2)
  • BSZ BW (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (9)
  • ByWater-Solutions (7)
  • bywatersolutiosn.com (2)
  • joensuu.fi (2)
  • linnbenton.edu (2)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (9)
  • Rijksmuseum (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (10)
  • unidentified (2)

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

  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • ‘s avatarMarcel de Rooy (1)
  • Christopher Brannon (1)
  • Nick Clemens (43)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (12)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Michal Denar (1)
  • Michal Denar (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (12)
  • Katrin Fischer (6)
  • Brendan Gallagher (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Ulrich Kleiber (1)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Josef Moravec’s avatarJosef Moravec (1)
  • Wm. Nick Clemens’s avatarNick Clemens (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (55)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (1)
  • Jane Sandberg (2)
  • Maryse Simard (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • John Sterbenz (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (8)
  • George Williams (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 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 24 Sep 2018 13:10:19.