Koha 18.11.02 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.02.

This is a maintenance release and contains 4 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.

Koha 18.11.02 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

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

Authentication

  • [21547] Use set_password in opac-passwd and remove sub goodkey

Architectural enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

I18N/L10N

  • [21789] Example usage of I18N Template::Toolkit plugin

Test Suite

  • [21817] Mock userenv should be a t::lib::Mocks method

Test suite enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21605] Cannot create EDI account

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers

Circulation

  • [21915] Add a way to automatically reconcile balance for patrons

Sponsored by ByWater Solutions

In the past, if a patron had any credit existing on their account (newly added, or pre-existing), if debts were present then the credit balance would always be immediately applied to the debt. This functionality was inadvertently removed during refactoring efforts which debuted in 16.11.
This patch adds code to restore the functionality and allows it to be optionally applied to the system via a new system preference, AccountAutoReconcile.
Note: The new preference defaults to the post 16.11 behaviour, if you wish to restore the 16.11 functionality then you will need to update the preference after the upgrade.

  • [21928] CircAutoPrintQuickSlip ‘clear’ is not working
  • [22020] Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal

OPAC

  • [22030] OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username

REST api

  • [22071] authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case

Templates

  • [21813] In-page JavaScript causes error on patron entry page

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21909] Koha::Account::outstanding_* methods should preserve call context
  • [22007] KohaDates output does not need to be html filtered
  • [22033] related_resultset is a hole in the Koha::Object logic
  • [22059] Wrong exception parameters in Koha::Patron->set_password

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn’t work on MARC tab

Notices

  • [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS

Packaging

  • [17108] Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)

Searching – Zebra

  • [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)

Staff Client

  • [21802] Edit notices form is not aligned with accordeon headers

Templates

  • [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert

Test Suite

  • [22107] Avoid deleting data in some tests

New sysprefs

  • AccountAutoReconcile
  • OverDriveUsername

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 (63.9%)
  • Chinese (China) (64.6%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (56.1%)
  • English (New Zealand) (89.2%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (84.6%)
  • French (95.4%)
  • French (Canada) (98.9%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (92.8%)
  • Greek (76.5%)
  • Hindi (94.7%)
  • Italian (95.1%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (96%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)
  • Polish (86.2%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)
  • Slovak (91%)
  • Spanish (93.6%)
  • Swedish (91.5%)
  • Turkish (99.8%)
  • 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 18.11.02 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.11.02:

  • ByWater Solutions

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.02.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (19)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.02

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • PTFS-Europe (6)
  • Rijks Museum (2)
  • Theke Solutions (19)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nick Clemens (44)
  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Charles Farmer (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (8)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Kyle Hall (7)
  • Owen Leonard (8)
  • Josef Moravec (7)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (66)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Nazlı Çetin (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 18.11.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 22 Jan 2019 15:42:52.