Koha 18.11.01 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.01.

This is a maintenance release and contains 1 architectural enhancement and 35 bugfixes.

WARNING: Cache::Memory support has been removed as of this release as there were fundamental flaws in it’s operation and memcached has been recommended for some time. Now is a good time to ensure you’re memcached settings are all in order.

Koha 18.11.01 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21896] Add Koha::Account::reconcile_balance

Adds a business logic level routine for reconciling user account balances.

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21910] Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children
  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Authentication

  • [21973] CAS URL escaped twice, preventing login

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Circulation

  • [18805] Currently it is impossible to apply credits against debits in patron accounts

This patch adds an Apply Credits button to the accounts interface to allow a librarian to apply outstanding credits against outstanding debits.

  • [21065] Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

Hold requests

  • [21608] Arranging holds priority with dropdowns is faulty when there are waiting/intransit holds

I18N/L10N

  • [21895] Translations fail on upgrade to 18.11.00 (package installation)

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [22024] Update translated web installer files with new class splitting rules

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

OPAC

  • [21911] Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups
  • [21950] Searching with ‘accents’ breaks on navigating to the second page of results

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Reports

  • [21984] Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters
  • [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [20261] No result in some page in authority search opac and pro (ES)

Staff Client

  • [21405] Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES

Test Suite

  • [21956] Sysprefs not reset by regressions.t

Other bugs fixed

About

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

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21759] Avoid manually setting amountoutstanding in _FixAccountForLostAndReturned

This patch results in a proper offset always being recorded for auditing purposes when a user is refunded after returning a previously lost item.

  • [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t
  • [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered
  • [21969] Koha::Account->outstanding_* should look for debits/credits by checking ‘amount’

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

I18N/L10N

  • [21736] Localization widget messages are not translatable

MARC Authority data support

  • [21880] “Relationship information” disappears when accessing paginated results in authority searches

OPAC

  • [21947] Filtering order generates html in notes

Packaging

  • [21897] Typo in postinst affecting zebra configuration file installation

System Administration

  • [21961] Typo in permission keeps Did you mean? config from showing up

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

Tools

  • [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input
  • [22022] Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)

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 (93.2%)
  • Armenian (99.1%)
  • Basque (63.9%)
  • Chinese (China) (64.6%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (96.2%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (56.1%)
  • English (New Zealand) (89.2%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (84.7%)
  • French (95.2%)
  • French (Canada) (98.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (92.8%)
  • Greek (76.3%)
  • Hindi (94.6%)
  • Italian (91.5%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (96%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)
  • Polish (86.2%)
  • Portuguese (99.1%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)
  • Slovak (87.3%)
  • Spanish (93.2%)
  • Swedish (91.5%)
  • Turkish (97.9%)
  • Ukrainian (60.5%)
  • Vietnamese (53.9%)

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 18.11.01 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.01.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Nick Clemens (17)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Kyle Hall (3)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Koha translators (1)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.01

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • BSZ BW (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (20)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Independant Individuals (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijks Museum (4)
  • The City of Joensuu (1)
  • Theke Solutions (9)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Christopher Brannon (3)
  • Nick Clemens (66)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (16)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Kyle Hall (7)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (6)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Julian Maurice (5)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Martin Renvoize (93)
  • Marcel de Rooy (19)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (3)

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 18.11.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 20 Dec 2018 12:12:58.