RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 20.05.06

23 Nov 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 20.05.06 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 20.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancements, 73 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

• [26600] Missing module in Indexer.pm

Fines and fees

• [26506] Koha::Account::pay will fail if $userenv is not set

Plugin architecture

• [24633] Add support for gitlab searching of plugins

  Sponsored by Theke Solutions

  The enhancement allows setting Gitlab targets for retrieving plugins.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [26496] Budget plan save button doesn’t save plans
• [26738] Unable to change manager of purchase suggestion
• [26908] EDI vendor accounts edit no longer allows plugins to be selected for an account

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [26639] Turn auto_savepoint ON
• [26911] Update for 18936 can cause data loss if constraints are violated
• [26963] Improve Koha::Item::pickup_locations performance
  

  Koha::Item::pickup_locations is very inefficient, causing timeouts on records with large numbers of holds/items.

  This development refactors the underlying implementation, and also makes the method return a resultset, to delay as much as possible the DB access, and thus allowing for further filtering on the callers, through chaining.

Cataloging

• [18051] Advanced Editor – Rancor – encoding issues with some sources
• [26750] Deleted items are not removed from index

Circulation

• [25758] Items scheduled for automatic renewal do not show that they will not renew due to a hold
  

  Bug 19014 prioritized the ‘too soon’ message for renewals to prevent sending too many notifications. When displaying information about the hold elsewhere it is desired to see the ‘on hold’ status even when the renewal is too soon.

  This patch add a switch to the CanBookBeRenewed routine to decide which status has priority (i.e. whether we are checking from the renewal cron or elsewhere)

• [26232] undefined fine grace period kills koha

Database

• [18050] Missing constraint on aqbudgets.budget_period_id in aqbudgets

Fines and fees

• [26915] Koha explodes when writing off a fee with FinePaymentAutoPopup

Hold requests

• [26429] If a waiting hold has expired the expiration date on the holds page shows for tomorrow
• [26900] Fixes Koka::Libraries typo in C4/Reserves.pm
• [26990] No feedback if holds override is disabled and hold fails

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

• [26853] Data lost due to “Data too long for column” errors during MARC import

OPAC

• [26973] extendedPatronAttributes not showing during selfregistration

Plugin architecture

• [25549] Broken plugins should not break Koha (Install plugin script/method should highlight broken plugins)
• [26751] Fatal exception if only one repo defined

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [23828] Elasticsearch – ES – Authority record results not ordered correctly

Searching – Zebra

• [26581] Elasticsearch – Records can be indexed multiple times during returns

Serials

• [26604] “Generate next” button gives error on serials-collection.pl
• [26987] No property notforloan for Koha::Serial::Item

Staff Client

• [23432] Stock rotation: cancelled transfer result in stockrotation failures

Tools

• [26557] Batch import fails when incoming records contain itemnumber

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [26190] Cannot close baskets when all lines have been cancelled

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [26569] Use gender-neutral pronouns in systempreference explanation field in DB
• [26673] Remove Perl shebangs from Perl modules

Authentication

• [26191] Relocate track_login call in Auth.pm (see 22543)

Cataloging

• [11460] Correction to default itemcallnumber system preference in UNIMARC
• [17515] Advanced Editor – Rancor – Z39 sources not sorted properly
• [25353] Correct eslint errors in additems.js
• [26605] Correctly URI-encode query string in call number browse plugin
• [26613] In the unimarc_framework.sql file in the it-IT translation there are wrong value fields for 995 r record

Circulation

• [26583] Unnecessary code in AddIssue
• [26627] Print and confirming a hold can cause an infinite loop
• [26675] Typo in line 341 of process_koc.pl

Command-line Utilities

• [26601] Add utf8 output to text output of overdue_notices.pl

  Sponsored by Styrian State Library

Hold requests

• [26762] OPAC hold template markup error

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [26612] Error during web install for it-IT translation

MARC Authority data support

• [26606] Correctly URI-encode query string in URL loaded after deleting an authority record

MARC Bibliographic data support

• [26018] Not all subfields for the following tags are in the same tab (or marked ‘ignored’)

OPAC

• [26184] Wrap ‘items available for pick-up’ note when placing a hold in the OPAC in a div element
• [26389] OPAC renewal failure due to automatic renewal does not have a failure message
• [26526] Use of checkout notes not clear in OPAC
• [26619] Cart – The “Print” button is only translated when you are in “More details” mode
• [26647] Add translation context to cancel hold button in OPAC
• [26766] Don’t show star rating in dialog when saving a checkout note

Patrons

• [26594] Patrons merge problem with restriction
• [26686] Sorting for “Updated on” broken on patron’s “Notices” tab

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [26487] Add all MARC flavours for not-onloan-count search field
• [26832] Elasticsearch mappings export should use UTF-8

Searching – Zebra

• [26599] Unused parameter name in POD of ModZebra

Staff Client

• [26137] Warn on malformed param on log viewer (viewlog.pl)
• [26445] Search results browser in staff has broken link back to results

System Administration

• [20804] Sanitize input of timeout syspref

Templates

• [26449] Small typo in web installer template
• [26450] Typo in UNIMARC field 105 plugin template
• [26538] Display cities list before input text
• [26551] When importing a framework, the modal heading is too long and runs outside of the dialog
• [26696] Make payment table has a display issue when credits exist
• [26723] Improve link text on OverDriveAuthName system preference
• [26725] Improve link text on Patron attributes administration page
• [26726] Improve link text on Transport cost matrix page
• [26727] Fix 

  appearing in the templates

• [26756] Fix quotes showing behind some system preference descriptions
• [26816] Remove extra space before comma in staff results item list

Test Suite

• [26589] t/db_dependent/OAI/Sets.t unit test fails due to OAI-PMH:AutoUpdateSets syspref

Tools

• [8437] Large database backups and large exports from export.pl fail under plack
• [9118] Show only sensible options when editing a unique holiday
• [25167] Fix not for loan filter in inventory tool
• [26781] Marc Modification Templates treat subfield 0 and no subfield set
• [26784] Editing a MARC modification template is noisy

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 (99.1%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (99.7%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (94.2%)
• Czech (80.9%)
• English (New Zealand) (67%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (70.8%)
• French (81.9%)
• French (Canada) (95.5%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (74.8%)
• Greek (62.3%)
• Hindi (99.7%)
• Italian (100%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (71.4%)
• Polish (73.8%)
• Portuguese (87.3%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (98.4%)
• Russian (57.7%)
• Slovak (90.1%)
• Spanish (99.9%)
• Swedish (77.8%)
• Telugu (89.9%)
• Turkish (96.7%)
• Ukrainian (66.4%)

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 20.05.06 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 20.05.06:

• Styrian State Library
• Theke Solutions

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.06.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
• Blou (1)
• Alex Buckley (1)
• Nick Clemens (19)
• David Cook (4)
• Jonathan Druart (15)
• John Fawcett (2)
• Katrin Fischer (11)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
• Lucas Gass (9)
• Didier Gautheron (3)
• Kyle Hall (5)
• Mark Hofstetter (1)
• Mason James (1)
• Owen Leonard (8)
• Matthias Meusburger (1)
• Agustín Moyano (1)
• Björn Nylen (1)
• Martin Renvoize (5)
• Phil Ringnalda (2)
• Tal Rogoff (3)
• Marcel de Rooy (3)
• Andreas Roussos (2)
• Lisette Scheer (1)
• Fridolin Somers (6)
• Emmi Takkinen (2)
• Koha Translators (1)
• Timothy Alexis Vass (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.05.06

• Athens County Public Libraries (8)
• BibLibre (10)
• Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (11)
• ByWater-Solutions (34)
• cass.govt.nz (3)
• Catalyst (1)
• Chetco Community Public Library (2)
• Dataly Tech (2)
• hofstetter.at (1)
• Independant Individuals (2)
• Koha Community Developers (15)
• KohaAloha (1)
• Latah County Library District (1)
• Prosentient Systems (4)
• PTFS-Europe (5)
• Rijks Museum (3)
• Solutions inLibro inc (1)
• Theke Solutions (4)
• ub.lu.se (2)
• voipsupport.it (2)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (12)
• Bob Bennhoff (1)
• Christoper Brannon (2)
• Nick Clemens (16)
• David Cook (2)
• Chris Cormack (9)
• Jonathan Druart (85)
• Magnus Enger (2)
• Katrin Fischer (43)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
• Lucas Gass (101)
• Didier Gautheron (1)
• Victor Grousset (1)
• Kyle Hall (6)
• Sally Healey (1)
• Heather Hernandez (2)
• B Johnson (1)
• Barbara Johnson (4)
• Joonas Kylmälä (4)
• Owen Leonard (5)
• Julian Maurice (5)
• kelly mcelligott (1)
• David Nind (25)
• Séverine Queune (6)
• Martin Renvoize (41)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (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 rmain2005.

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 23 Nov 2020 23:29:55.