Koha 18.05.09 release

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.09

22 Feb 2019

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 18.05.09 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancements, 62 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21912] Koha::Objects->search lacks tests

Circulation

  • [18816] Make CataloguingLog work in production by preventing circulation from spamming the log

Templates

  • [20569] Improve description of CheckPrevCheckout system preference

A simple string patch that clarifies the intention of the CheckPrevCheckout system preference options.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [22282] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF

Circulation

  • [21491] When ‘Default lost item fee refund on return policy’ is unset it says no but acts as if ‘yes’

Hold requests

  • [21495] Regression in hold override functionality

OPAC

  • [22085] UNIMARC default XSLT broken by Bug 14716

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [21441] System information gives reference to a non-existant table

Acquisitions

  • [20865] Remove space before : on order receive filters

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19816] output_pref must implement ‘dateonly’ for dateformat => rfc3339
  • [19920] changepassword is exported from C4::Members but has been removed
  • [21170] Warnings in MARCdetail.pl – isn’t numeric in numeric eq (==)
  • [21478] Koha::Hold->suspend_hold allows suspending in transit holds
  • [21907] Error from mainpage when Article requests enabled and either IndependentBranches or IndependentBranchesPatronModifications is enabled
  • [22006] Koha::Account::Line->item should return undef if no item linked
  • [22097] CataloguingLog should be suppressed for item branch transfers
  • [22124] Update cataloguing plugin system to not generate type parameter in script tag
  • [22125] branches.pickup_location should be flagged as boolean

Cataloging

  • [20491] Use “Date due” in table header of item table
  • [22122] Make sequence of Z39.50 search options match in acq and cataloguing
  • [22242] Javascript error in value builder cased by Select2

Circulation

  • [17347] ‘Renew’ tab should ignore whitespace at begining and end of barcode
  • [21877] Show authorized value description for withdrawn in checkout
  • [22054] Display a nicer error message when trying to renew an on-site checkout from renew page
  • [22083] Typo in circulation_batch_checkouts.tt
  • [22111] Correctly format fines when placing holds (maxoutstanding warning)
  • [22119] Add price formatting in circulation
  • [22120] Add price formatting to patron summary print
  • [22203] Holds modal no longer links to patron

Developer documentation

  • [21290] POD of ModItem mentions MARC for items

Holidays

  • [21885] Improve date selection on calendar for selecting the end date on a range

ILL

  • [22101] ILL requests missing in menu on advanced search page

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [11922] Add SHOW_BCODE patron attribute for Norwegian web installer
  • [22095] Dead link in web installer

MARC Authority data support

  • [19994] use Modern::Perl in Authorities perl scripts

Notices

  • [21829] Date displays as a datetime in notices

OPAC

  • [21192] Borrower Fields on OPAC’s Personal Details Screen Use Self Register Field Options Incorrectly
  • [21808] Field 711 is not handled correctly in showAuthor XSLT for relator term or code
  • [22118] Format hold fee when placing holds in OPAC
  • [22207] Course reserves page does not have unique body id

Patrons

  • [20165] Capitalization: Street Address should be Street address in patron search options
  • [21930] Typo in the manage_circ_rules_from_any_libraries description
  • [22149] Grammar fix in the manage_circ_rules_from_any_libraries description

Reports

  • [20274] itemtypes.plugin report: not handling item-level_itypes syspref
  • [20679] Remove ‘rows per page’ from reports print layout
  • [22082] Ambiguous column in patron stats
  • [22278] Newly created report group is not selected after saving an SQL report

Searching

  • [14716] Correctly URI-encode URLs in XSLT result lists and detail pages
  • [18909] Enable the maximum zebra records size to be specified per instance

Serials

  • [16231] Correct permission handling in subscription edit menu

System Administration

  • [7403] Remove warning from CataloguingLog system preference
  • [15110] Improve decreaseHighHolds system preference description
  • [21637] Capitalization: EasyAnalyticalRecords syspref option “Don’t Display” should be “Don’t display”
  • [21855] Remove mention of deprecated delete_unverified_opac_registrations.pl cronjob
  • [21926] Enhance OAI-PMH:archiveID system preference description

Templates

  • [21840] Fix some typos in the templates
  • [21866] Rephrase “Warning: This report was written for an older version of Koha” to refer to plugins
  • [22113] Add price formatting on item lost report
  • [22236] Translation should generate tags with consistent attribute order

Test Suite

  • [22107] Avoid deleting data in some tests
  • [22254] t/db_dependent/Koha/Patrons.t contains a DateTime math error

Tools

  • [20634] Inventory form has 2 identical labels “Library:”
  • [22011] Typo in Item Batch Modification
  • [22036] Tidy up tags/review script
  • [22136] Import patrons notes hides a note because the syspref isn’t referenced correctly

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 (99.7%)
  • Armenian (99.8%)
  • Basque (72.5%)
  • Chinese (China) (77%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98.7%)
  • Czech (92.4%)
  • Danish (63.6%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95.5%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (92.4%)
  • French (98.7%)
  • French (Canada) (94%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (98.3%)
  • Greek (80.5%)
  • Hindi (99.8%)
  • Italian (97.3%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (67.5%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.2%)
  • Persian (52.9%)
  • Polish (93.6%)
  • Portuguese (99.8%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.4%)
  • Slovak (95.7%)
  • Spanish (98.6%)
  • Swedish (93.8%)
  • Turkish (99.8%)
  • Vietnamese (65.1%)

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 18.05.09 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.09.

  • Ethan Amohia (3)
  • Jasmine Amohia (9)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (15)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (7)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Lucas Gass (10)
  • Kyle Hall (4)
  • helene hickey (6)
  • Mackey Johnstone (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Jack Kelliher (2)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Olivia Lu (4)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Josef Moravec (2)
  • Liz Rea (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (5)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.09

  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • BSZ BW (7)
  • ByWater-Solutions (19)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Independant Individuals (10)
  • Koha Community Developers (7)
  • PTFS-Europe (2)
  • Rijks Museum (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • stacmail.net (2)
  • The City of Joensuu (1)
  • Theke Solutions (15)
  • Wellington East Girls’ College (9)
  • wgc.school.nz (6)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Jasmine Amohia (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (16)
  • Mika�l Olangcay Brisebois (1)
  • Mikael Olangcay Brisebois (3)
  • Nick Clemens (80)
  • Frédéric Demians (1)
  • Michal Denar (1)
  • Devinim (2)
  • Charles Farmer (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (41)
  • Lucas Gass (60)
  • Kyle Hall (13)
  • helene hickey (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Jack Kelliher (1)
  • Rhonda Kuiper (1)
  • Owen Leonard (13)
  • Olivia Lu (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (26)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (1)
  • Josef Moravec (8)
  • David Nind (16)
  • Liz Rea (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (92)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Maryse Simard (3)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (10)

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 rmain1805.

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 22 Feb 2019 12:43:27.