Koha 19.05.15 released

Posted on Posted in release Tagged with ,

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.15

22 Sep 2020

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.15.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various bugfixes and
enhancements.

As always you can download the release from: https://download.koha-community.org

Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

Please continue reading for the details this release.

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:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.05.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 26 bugfixes.

System requirements

  • Debian 8 (Jessie) is not supported anymore
  • MySQL 5.5 is not supported anymore

Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
deployment:

  • Debian 9 (Stretch) with MariaDB 10.1 (and experimental MariaDB 10.3 support)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) with MariaDB 10.1

Additional notes:

  • Perl >= 5.14 is required and 5.24 or 5.26 are recommended
  • Zebra or Elasticsearch is required

Enhancements

OPAC

  • [25155] Accessibility: The ‘Login modal’ contains semantically incorrect headings
  • [25244] Accessibility: Checkboxes on the search results page do not contain specific aria labels
  • [26041] Accessibility: The date picker calendar is not keyboard accessible

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [26000] Holiday exceptions are incorrectly cached for an individual branch
  • [26253] duplicated mana_config in etc/koha-conf.xml

Circulation

  • [25566] Change in DecreaseLoanHighHolds behaviour
  • [25726] Holds to Pull made empty by pathological holds

Database

  • [24379] Patron login attempts happen to be NULL instead of 0

Label/patron card printing

  • [25852] If a layout is edited, the layout type will revert to barcode

OPAC

  • [26069] Twitter share button leaks information to Twitter

Packaging

  • [17084] Automatic debian/control updates (master)
  • [25591] Update list-deps for Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04
  • [25792] Rename ‘ttf-dejavu’ package to ‘fonts-dejavu’ for Debian 11

REST API

  • [25944] Bug in ill_requests patch schema

Reports

  • [26090] Catalog by itemtype report fails if SQL strict mode is on

Searching – Zebra

  • [23086] Search for collection is broken

Test Suite

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers

  • [23542] SRU import encoding issue

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [26270] XISBN.t is failing since today

Cataloging

  • [26233] Edit item date sort still does not sort correctly

OPAC

  • [25982] OPAC shelves RSS link output is HTML not XML

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [25873] Elasticsearch – Records with malformed data are not indexed

System Administration

  • [25005] Admin Rights issue for Suggestion to Purchase

Templates

Test Suite

  • [24147] Objects.t is failing randomly
  • [25641] Koha/XSLT/Base.t is failing on U20
  • [25729] Charges/Fees.t is failing on slow servers due to wrong date comparison
  • [26043] Holds.t is failing randomly

  • [26162] Prevent Selenium’s StaleElementReferenceException

    New sysprefs

  • NotesToHide

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 (98.6%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)
  • Basque (59.2%)
  • Chinese (China) (59.7%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
  • Czech (92.8%)
  • Danish (52%)
  • English (New Zealand) (82.7%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (79%)
  • French (98.5%)
  • French (Canada) (99%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (85.7%)
  • Greek (73.5%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (90.2%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (88.4%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)
  • Polish (82.7%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)
  • Slovak (86.5%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (87.9%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Ukrainian (73.7%)
  • Vietnamese (50.7%)

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 19.05.15 is

  • Release Manager: Jonathan Druart

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Martin Renvoize
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Joonas Kylmälä
    • Josef Moravec
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Nick Clemens
    • Kyle Hall
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Alex Arnaud
    • Julian Maurice
    • Matthias Meusburger

  • Topic Experts:

    • Elasticsearch — Frédéric Demians
    • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
    • Accounts — Martin Renvoize
    • CAS/Shibboleth — Matthias Meusburger

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Michal Denár
    • Holly Cooper
    • Henry Bolshaw
    • Lisette Scheer
    • Mengü Yazıcıoğlu

  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Managers:

    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • Martin Renvoize
    • Donna Bachowski
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
    • Kelly McElligott
    • Jessica Zairo
    • Chris Cormack
    • Henry Bolshaw
    • Jon Drucker

  • Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 20.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 19.11 — Aleisha Amohia
    • 19.05 — Victor Grousset

  • Release Maintainer mentors:

    • 19.11 — Hayley Mapley
    • 19.05 — Martin Renvoize

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.15.

  • Aleisha Amohia (2)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Jonathan Druart (18)
  • Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
  • Didier Gautheron (1)
  • Victor Grousset (4)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Mason James (3)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Hayley Mapley (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (5)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Koha Translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.05.15

  • Athens County Public Libraries (1)
  • BibLibre (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (8)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Independant Individuals (2)
  • Koha Community Developers (22)
  • KohaAloha (3)
  • PTFS-Europe (5)

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

  • Aleisha Amohia (39)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Donna Bachowski (1)
  • Christopher Brannon (1)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (17)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (13)
  • Lucas Gass (33)
  • Didier Gautheron (1)
  • Victor Grousset (41)
  • Amit Gupta (2)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Sally Healey (5)
  • Brandon Jimenez (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Kelly McElligott (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (9)
  • David Roberts (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (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 19.05.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 22 Sep 2020 13:41:51.