The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.11.10.
This is a security and maintenance release and contains many 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.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.10

21 Sep 2020

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 19.11.10 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.11.10 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 security fixes, 1 enhancements, 35 bugfixes.

System requirements

Koha is continiously 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

Koha security

• [26322] REST API plugin authorization is not checked anymore

Enhancements

OPAC

• [26041] Accessibility: The date picker calendar is not keyboard accessible

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [25750] Fallback to ecost_tax_included, ecost_tax_excluded not happening when no ‘Actual cost’ entered

  Sponsored by Horowhenua District Council, NZ

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [26253] duplicated mana_config in etc/koha-conf.xml

Circulation

• [25783] Holds Queue treating item-level holds as bib-level
• [26078] “Item returns to issuing library” creates infinite transfer loop

Hold requests

• [25786] Holds Queue building may target the wrong item for item level requests that match holds queue priority

OPAC

• [26069] Twitter share button leaks information to Twitter

Packaging

• [25792] Rename ‘ttf-dejavu’ package to ‘fonts-dejavu’ for Debian 11

Reports

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

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [25751] When an ORDERED suggestion is edited, the status resets to “No status”

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [21539] addorderiso2709.pl forces librarian to select a ccode and notforloan code when using MarcItemFieldsToOrder
• [26228] Update gulpfile to work with Node.js v12
• [26270] XISBN.t is failing since today
• [26331] svc/letters/preview is not executable which prevents CGI functioning

Cataloging

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

Circulation

• [25584] When a ‘return claim’ is added, the button disappears, but the claim date doesn’t show up
• [25958] Allow LongOverdue cron to exclude specified lost values
• [26076] Paying selected accountlines in full may result in the error “You must pay a value less than or equal to $x”
• [26136] Prevent double submit of checkin form
• [26361] JS error on returns.tt in 20.05
• [26362] Overdue report shows incorrect branches for patron, holdingbranch, and homebranch

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [25448] Update German (de-DE) framework files

OPAC

• [26119] Patron attribute option to display in OPAC is not compatible with PatronSelfRegistrationVerifyByEmail
• [26388] Renew all and Renew selected buttons should account for items that can’t be renewed

Packaging

• [25778] koha-plack puts duplicate entries into PERL5LIB when multiple instances named

REST API

• [26271] Call to /api/v1/patrons//account returns 500 error if manager_id is NULL

Reports

• [17801] ‘Top Most-circulated items’ gives wrong results when filtering by checkout date

SIP2

• [25903] Sending a SIP patron information request with a summary field flag in indexes 6-9 will crash server

Searching

• [17661] Differences in field ending (whitespace, punctuation) cause duplicate facets

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [26313] “Show analytics” and “Show volumes” links don’t work with Elasticsearch and UseControlNumber

Self checkout

• [25791] SCO print dialog pops up twice

System Administration

• [25005] Admin Rights issue for Suggestion to Purchase

Templates

• [26213] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin when adding orders from MARC file
• [26324] Spelling error resizeable vs resizable

Test Suite

• [24147] Objects.t is failing randomly

Tools

• [26236] log viewer does not translate the interface properly

  New sysprefs

• DefaultLongOverdueSkipLostStatuses

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 (98.3%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (100%)
• Basque (55.9%)
• Catalan; Valencian (50.7%)
• Chinese (China) (57.1%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.8%)
• Czech (91%)
• English (New Zealand) (78.6%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (74.5%)
• French (95.3%)
• French (Canada) (94%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (81.1%)
• Greek (70.5%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (86.2%)
• Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (53.5%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (83.6%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (53.2%)
• Polish (78.7%)
• Portuguese (99.7%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (99.7%)
• Slovak (83.3%)
• Spanish (99.9%)
• Swedish (85.3%)
• Telugu (93.5%)
• Turkish (99.9%)
• Ukrainian (74.7%)
• Vietnamese (51.4%)

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 19.11.10 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 19.11.10:

• Horowhenua District Council, NZ

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.10.

• Aleisha Amohia (4)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
• Alex Buckley (1)
• Nick Clemens (8)
• David Cook (3)
• Jonathan Druart (11)
• Katrin Fischer (3)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
• Lucas Gass (2)
• Kyle Hall (10)
• Mason James (1)
• Joonas Kylmälä (2)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Koha Translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.11.10

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

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

• Aleisha Amohia (50)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (7)
• Nick Clemens (3)
• Rebecca Coert (1)
• Holly Cooper (1)
• Sarah Cornell (1)
• Jonathan Druart (38)
• Katrin Fischer (18)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2)
• Daniel Gaghan (1)
• Jeff Gaines (1)
• Lucas Gass (39)
• Didier Gautheron (1)
• Amit Gupta (3)
• Kyle Hall (2)
• Sally Healey (3)
• Brandon J (1)
• Joonas Kylmälä (2)
• Owen Leonard (5)
• Kelly McElligott (3)
• Josef Moravec (1)
• Kim Peine (3)
• Martin Renvoize (13)
• David Roberts (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Lisette Scheer (1)
• Fridolin Somers (6)
• Emmi Takkinen (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:

• 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 21 Sep 2020 23:08:52.