RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.07

27 Jun 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 Community

Koha 18.11.07 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 30 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Authentication

• [22585] Fix remaining double-escaped CAS links

MARC Authority data support

• [23053] Local-Number cannot be used for authority matching due to non-existence of ‘phrase’ index

Patrons

• [23082] Fatal error editing a restricted patron

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [16750] Redirect from selectbranchprinter.pl to additem.pl causes software error

Cataloging

• [7890] Required fields in the MARC editor should be highlighted

This bugfix modifies the basic MARC editor so that required fields have the standard “Required” label on them instead of a small red asterisk.

• [21887] 856$u link problem in XSLT result lists and detail page

Circulation

• [18344] Overdue fines ‘cap at replacement price’ and ‘cap by amount’ should work together

Database

• [23022] Koha is not compatible with MySQL >= 8.0.11 because of NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER mode

ILL

• [22099] “List requests” button displays when listing requests

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [22770] Typo in German translation for Greek in language pull down

Lists

• [22941] Giving malformed sortfield to list results in Internal Server Error

MARC Authority data support

• [22919] Authorities MARC Structure not inserted with SQL strict modes

MARC Bibliographic data support

• [20986] MARC21 Supplement and Index Textual Holdings don’t display

OPAC

• [22945] Markup error in OPAC search results around lists display
• [22948] Markup error in OPAC bibliographic detail template
• [22950] Markup error in OPAC recent comment template
• [22952] Markup error in OPAC suggestions template
• [22953] Markup warning in OPAC user summary template
• [22954] Minor markup error in OPAC messaging template
• [22955] Markup error in OPAC lists template
• [23076] Include OpacUserJS on OPAC maintenance page

This fix allows the OPAC maintenance page to use JavaScript included in the OPACUserJS system preference.

Patrons

• [22910] Unique attributes should not be copied when duplicating a patron

SIP2

• [19457] If CheckPrevCheckout is set to “Do”, then checkouts are blocked at the SIPServer

Searching

• [14794] Searching patron by birthday returns no results if format incorrect

Serials

• [10215] Increase the size of opacnote and librariannote for table subscriptionhistory
• [11492] Receiving a serial item causes routing list notes to be lost

Sponsored by Plant and Food Research Limited

Staff Client

• [22958] The Help link on SMS providers page should link to the correct chapter in the manual

System Administration

• [8558] Better confirmation message for importing frameworks

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [22947] Markup error in OPAC preferences file

Tools

• [23006] Can’t use inventory tool with barcodes that contain regex relevant characters ($,…)

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

• Koha Documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
Koha manual is available:

• Koha Manual

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:

• Arabic (98.4%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (65.9%)
• Chinese (China) (64%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (99.6%)
• Czech (93.4%)
• Danish (55.3%)
• English (New Zealand) (88.2%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (84.4%)
• French (98.4%)
• French (Canada) (99.6%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (91.7%)
• Greek (78.6%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (93.7%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (94.8%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (59.5%)
• Polish (86.7%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (87.5%)
• Slovak (90.1%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (90.7%)
• Turkish (98.2%)
• Ukrainian (62.1%)
• Vietnamese (54.6%)

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 18.11.07 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Jonathan Druart
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Chris Cormack
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Kyle Hall
  • Julian Maurice
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Marcel de Rooy
• Topic Experts:
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • SIP2 — Colin Campbell
  • EDI — Colin Campbell
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Elasticsearch — Ere Maijala
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Jon Knight
  • Luis Moises Rojas
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
• Documentation Team:
  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
• Translation Managers:
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel
• Wiki curators:
  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
• Release Maintainers:
  • 18.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Jesse Maseto
  • 18.11 — Martin Renvoize
  • 17.11 — Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 18.05 — Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.11.07:

• Catalyst IT
• Plant and Food Research Limited

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.07.

• Aleisha Amohia (3)
• Nick Clemens (4)
• Jonathan Druart (6)
• Katrin Fischer (3)
• Lucas Gass (4)
• Kyle Hall (4)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Owen Leonard (10)
• Hayley Mapley (1)
• Joy Nelson (1)
• Liz Rea (1)
• Martin Renvoize (2)
• Justin Rittenhouse (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Koha translators (1)
• Nazlı Çetin (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.07

• ACPL (10)
• BSZ BW (3)
• ByWater-Solutions (13)
• Catalyst (1)
• Devinim (2)
• Independant Individuals (4)
• Koha Community Developers (6)
• koha-suomi.fi (1)
• nd.edu (1)
• PTFS-Europe (2)
• Rijks Museum (1)

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

• Arthur Bousquet (2)
• Nick Clemens (8)
• Chris Cormack (3)
• Jonathan Druart (1)
• Magnus Enger (1)
• Katrin Fischer (25)
• Lucas Gass (44)
• Claire Gravely (1)
• Kyle Hall (1)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• David Kuhn (1)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Josef Moravec (1)
• nabila (1)
• David Nind (1)
• Nadine Pierre (2)
• Liz Rea (10)
• Martin Renvoize (43)
• Marcel de Rooy (6)
• Maryse Simard (9)
• Fridolin Somers (39)
• Mark Tompsett (3)
• Ed Veal (1)
• Marc Véron (1)
• Bin Wen (2)
• Nazlı Çetin (2)

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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is new-security-release-18.11.07.

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 27 Jun 2019 17:59:52.