RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.07

22 Jun 2020

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.11.07.

This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:

https://download.koha-community.org

This is my first release as the 19.11.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

Koha 19.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 48 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

• Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)
• Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1
• Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3
• Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1
• Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)

Additional notes:

• Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)
• Zebra or Elasticsearch is required

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [25045] Add a way to restrict anonymous access to public routes (OpacPublic behaviour)

  This enhancement allows libraries to distinctly disable the OPAC but allow the public facing API’s to be enabled.

  New system preference: RESTPublicAnonymousRequests defaults to enabled.

REST API

• [24909] Add unprivileged route to get a bibliographic record

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [14543] Order lines updated that have a tax rate not in gist will have tax rate set to 0!
• [25473] Can’t add order from MARC file, save button does nothing
• [25563] Cannot submit “add order from MARC file” form after alert
• [25677] Checkbox options for EDI accounts cannot be enabled

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [22522] API authentication breaks with updated Mojolicious version
• [25567] borrower_attribute_types.category_code must be set to undef if not set
• [25634] koha-foreach exits too early if any command has non-zero status
• [25707] Mappings update in bug 11529 causes incorrect MARC to DB data flow

Command-line Utilities

• [25538] koha-shell should pass –login to sudo if no command

Fines and fees

• [25526] Using Write Off Selected will not allow for a different amount to be written off

MARC Authority data support

• [25653] Authorities search does not retain selection

OPAC

• [17842] Broken diacritics on records exported as MARC from cart
• [25492] Your Account Menu button does nothing on mobile devices

Packaging

• [17084] Automatic debian/control updates (master)
• [25591] Update list-deps for Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04
• [25633] Update debian/control.ini file for 20.05 release cycle
• [25693] Correct permissions must be set on logdir after an upgrade

REST API

• [24003] REST API should set C4::Context->userenv

• [25411] Plugin routes cannot have anonymous access

  Sponsored by ByWater Solutions

System Administration

• [25601] Error when unsetting default checkout, hold and return policy for a specific library
• [25617] Error on about page when TimeFormat preference is set to 12hr

Tools

• [25557] Column config table in acquisitions order does not match the acq table in baskets

Other bugs fixed

About

• [25506] Perl undef warning on the “About Koha” page

Acquisitions

• [25507] PDF order print for German 2-pages is broken
• [25545] Invoice page – Adjustments are not included in the Total + adjustments + shipment cost (Column tax. inc.)

Circulation

• [24413] MarkLostItemsAsReturned functionality does not lift restrictions caused by long overdues
• [25587] JavaScript issue – “clear” button doesn’t reset some dropdowns

Command-line Utilities

• [22470] Missing the table name on misc/migration_tools/switch_marc21_series_info.pl

Documentation

• [25576] ILL requests Help does not take you to the correct place in the manual

I18N/L10N

• [25517] Koha.mo not found on package installations / Translations not working

MARC Authority data support

• [25428] Escaped HTML shows in authority detail view when subfield is a link

MARC Bibliographic data support

• [25701] Facets display in random order

Notices

• [24612] expirationdate blank if patron has more than one item from bib on hold

OPAC

• [23276] Don’t show tags on tag cloud when tagging is disabled
• [25597] Javascript errors in self-checkout printslip.pl preventing printing

Packaging

• [25618] Upgrading Koha to packages made of latest master version breaks Z3950

Patrons

• [23808] Creating Child Guarantee doesn’t populate Guarantor Information

  Sponsored by South Taranaki District Council

• [25452] Alternate email contact not displayed

REST API

• [24862] Wrong behaviour on anonymous sessions

  Sponsored by ByWater Solutions

• [25327] Cannot access API spec

Serials

• [25696] Test prediction pattern button is invalid HTML

Staff Client

• [25521] NewItemsDefaultLocation description should not mention cart_to_shelf.pl
• [25537] Page reload at branchtransfers.pl loses destination branch

System Administration

• [25394] Cronjob path in the AuthorityMergeLimit syspref description is wrong
• [25675] System preference PatronSelfRegistration incorrectly described

Templates

• [25615] Empty select in “Holds to pull” filters

Test Suite

• [24229] /items API tests fail on Ubuntu 18.04

• [25623] Some tests in oauth.t do not roll back

  New sysprefs

• RESTPublicAnonymousRequests

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%)
• Armenian (Classical) (100%)
• Basque (56.1%)
• Chinese (China) (57.4%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (99.2%)
• Czech (91.3%)
• English (New Zealand) (78.9%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (74.8%)
• French (95.5%)
• French (Canada) (94.4%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (81.4%)
• Greek (70.8%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (86.4%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (84%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (53.5%)
• Polish (79%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (100%)
• Slovak (83.6%)
• Spanish (99.9%)
• Swedish (85.7%)
• Telugu (93.9%)
• Turkish (99.3%)
• Ukrainian (74.9%)
• Vietnamese (50.9%)

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 19.11.07 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 libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 19.11.07:

• ByWater Solutions
• South Taranaki District Council

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.07.

• Aleisha Amohia (4)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (21)
• Alex Buckley (1)
• Nick Clemens (4)
• David Cook (4)
• Jonathan Druart (24)
• Katrin Fischer (2)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2)
• Lucas Gass (1)
• Kyle Hall (4)
• Mason James (5)
• Owen Leonard (3)
• Ere Maijala (2)
• Julian Maurice (1)
• Martin Renvoize (4)
• David Roberts (1)
• Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
• Slava Shishkin (1)
• Koha Translators (1)
• Petro Vashchuk (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.11.07

• Athens County Public Libraries (3)
• BibLibre (1)
• Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2)
• ByWater-Solutions (11)
• Catalyst (1)
• Independant Individuals (6)
• Koha Community Developers (24)
• KohaAloha (5)
• Prosentient Systems (4)
• PTFS-Europe (5)
• Solutions inLibro inc (1)
• Theke Solutions (21)
• University of Helsinki (2)

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

• Aleisha Amohia (76)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (7)
• Alex Arnaud (3)
• Donna Bachowski (1)
• Nick Clemens (10)
• David Cook (1)
• Holly Cooper (1)
• Jonathan Druart (43)
• Katrin Fischer (26)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
• Lucas Gass (36)
• Claire Gravely (1)
• Victor Grousset (14)
• Kyle Hall (13)
• Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
• Joonas Kylmälä (1)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Julian Maurice (7)
• David Nind (11)
• Martin Renvoize (40)
• Andreas Roussos (4)
• George Veranis (1)

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

• Andrew Nugged

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 19.11.x.

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 22 Jun 2020 21:54:15.