The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 20.05.10.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bug-fixes 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.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 20.05.10

23 Mar 2021

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 20.05.10 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 20.05.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 40 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) for running Koha here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations

Enhancements

Acquisitions

• [27794] Add link to biblio in lateorders page
  

  This patch modifies the display of bibliographic records in the acquisitions report of late orders so that the title of the record is a link to the corresponding bibliographic details page.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [26997] Database Mysql Version 8.0.22 failed to Update During Upgrade
• [27828] New order from staged file is broken

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [27821] sanitize_zero_date does not handle datetime

Circulation

• [26208] Overdues restrictions not consistently removed when renewing multiple items at once
• [26457] DB DeadLock when renewing checkout items
• [27808] Item’s onloan column remains unset if a checked out item is issued to another patron without being returned first

Hold requests

• [27071] Hold pickup library match not enforced correctly on intranet when using hold groups
  

  When using library groups, the rules for placing holds did not always work as expected. This fixes these rules so that when patrons are part of a library in a group, they can only place a hold for items held in that library group. It also improves the error messages.

  Example:

  • There are two library groups with distinct libraries in each (Group A and B).
  • Default rules for all libraries are: Hold Policy = “From local hold group” and Hold pickup library match to “Patron’s hold group”, AllowHoldPolicyOverride is Don’t allow.
  • You can place a hold for a patron that belongs to one of the Group A libraries, for an item only held in a Group A library.
  • You can’t place a hold for that item for a patron from a Group B library.

Holidays

• [27835] Closed days offsets with one day

OPAC

• [24398] Error when viewing single news item and NewsAuthorDisplay pref set to OPAC
• [27626] Patron self-registration breaks if categorycode and password are hidden

Patrons

• [27933] Order patron search broken (dateofbirth, cardnumber, expirationdate)

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [27597] Searching “kw:term” does not work with Elasticsearch
• [27784] Unknown authority types break elasticsearch authorities indexing
  

  This patch fixes Elasticsearch indexing failures caused by ‘SUBDIV’ type authority records in Koha. It skips the step of parsing the authorities into the linking form if the type contains ‘_SUBD’.

  Notes:

  • Koha currently doesn’t have support for ‘SUBDIV’ type authority records.
  • They can be added to the authority types in the staff interface, however, values are hard coded in various modules and Koha has no concept of how to link a subfield heading to a record, as we only deal in whole fields.

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [23675] UseACQFrameworkForBiblioRecords default framework is missing LDR breaking encoding
• [23929] Invoice adjustments should filter inactive funds
• [27813] Purchase suggestions should sort by suggesteddate rather than title
  

  This changes the list of purchase suggestions so that the oldest suggestions are shown first, rather than by title. (This was the behaviour before Koha 20.05).

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [27680] API DataTables Wrapper fails for ordering on multi-data-field columns
• [27714] Koha::NewsItem->author explodes if the author has been removed
  

  This fixes the cause of errors occurring for the display of news items where the author of no longer exists in Koha.

Cataloging

• [25777] Datatables on z3950_search.pl show incorrect number of entries
• [26964] Advanced editor no longer selects newly created macros
  

  This patch fixes the behaviour for saving of new macros using the advanced editor. Before this fix the newly created macro wasn’t selected and the automatic save (there isn’t a save option) had nothing to save.

• [27578] Searchid not initialized when adding a new record

Database

• [7806] Don’t use 0000-00-00 to signal a non-existing date

Hold requests

• [27729] Code around SkipHoldTrapOnNotForLoanValue contains two perl bugs

I18N/L10N

• [27815] “Remove” in point of sale untranslatable

OPAC

• [27650] Wrong variable passed to the template in opac-main

REST API

• [27330] Wrong return status when no enrollments in club holds
• [27593] Inconsistent return status on club holds routes

SIP2

• [27014] SIP2 cannot find patrons at checkin

Searching

• [27745] Use of uninitialized value in hash element error at C4/Search.pm

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [24567] Elasticsearch: CCL syntax does not allow for multiple indexes to be searched at once
• [26051] Elasticsearch uses the wrong field for callnumber sorting
  

  This fixes the sorting of search results by call number when using Elasticsearch. Currently it does not sort correctly (uses local-classification instead of cn-sort) and may also cause error messages “No results found” and “Error: Unable to perform your search. Please try again.”. This also matches the behaviour used by Zebra.

Searching – Zebra

• [8426] Map ︡a to a and t︠ to t for searching (Non-ICU)

Serials

• [27332] When renewing a serial subscription, show note and library only if RenewSerialAddsSuggestion is used

Staff Client

• [27776] Point of Sale ‘This sale’ table should not be sorted by default

System Administration

• [27703] Can’t navigate in Authorized values
  

  This fixes an issue when navigating authorized value categories – if you selected an authorized value category from the drop down list it wouldn’t change to the selected category.

• [27713] Duplicate search field IDs in MARC framework administration template
• [27798] Independent branches should have a warning

Templates

• [27752] Correct ESLint errors in batchMod.js
  

  This patch makes minor changes to batchMod.js used in Tools > Batch item modification. This addresses errors raised by ESLint, including white space changes, to make sure it meets coding guideline JS8: Follow guidelines set by ESLint.

• [27754] Correct eslint errors in basket.js
  

  This patch makes minor changes to basket.js in the staff interface templates to remove ESLint warnings. Besides whitespace changes, most changes are to correct undeclared or unnecessarily declared variables.

• [27795] Misalignment of TOTAL value in lateorders page
  

  New sysprefs

• ChargeFinesOnClosedDays

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 (98.7%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (99.7%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (94.1%)
• Czech (80.7%)
• English (New Zealand) (66.7%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (70.4%)
• French (82.1%)
• French (Canada) (97.4%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (74.4%)
• Greek (62.2%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (100%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (71.1%)
• Polish (73.5%)
• Portuguese (86.8%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (97.9%)
• Russian (86.6%)
• Slovak (89.7%)
• Spanish (99.8%)
• Swedish (79.5%)
• Telugu (89.5%)
• Turkish (100%)
• 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 20.05.10 is

• Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • David Cook
  • Agustín Moyano
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Joonas Kylmälä
  • Julian Maurice
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Josef Moravec
  • Nick Clemens
  • Kyle Hall
  • Victor Grousset
• Topic Experts:
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • Accounts — Martin Renvoize
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Amit Gupta
  • Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
  • Indranil Das Gupta
• Packaging Managers:
  • David Cook
  • Mason James
  • Agustín Moyano
• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose
• Documentation Team:
  • Marie-Luce Laflamme
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
  • Henry Bolshaw
  • David Nind
• Translation Managers:
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel
• Release Maintainers:
  • 20.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 20.05 — Andrew Fuerste-Henry
  • 19.11 — Victor Grousset

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.10.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (14)
• Philippe Blouin (1)
• Nick Clemens (9)
• David Cook (1)
• Jonathan Druart (24)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (8)
• Kyle M Hall (5)
• Joonas Kylmälä (1)
• Owen Leonard (7)
• Martin Renvoize (8)
• Phil Ringnalda (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (1)
• Koha Translators (1)
• Petro Vashchuk (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.05.10

• Athens County Public Libraries (7)
• BibLibre (1)
• ByWater-Solutions (22)
• Chetco Community Public Library (1)
• Independant Individuals (1)
• Koha Community Developers (24)
• Prosentient Systems (1)
• PTFS-Europe (8)
• Rijks Museum (1)
• Solutions inLibro inc (1)
• Theke Solutions (14)
• University of Helsinki (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (13)
• Sonia Bouis (1)
• Nick Clemens (5)
• Jonathan Druart (52)
• Katrin Fischer (16)
• Martha Fuerst (2)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (75)
• Lucas Gass (1)
• Didier Gautheron (1)
• Victor Grousset (1)
• Kyle M Hall (3)
• Sally Healey (1)
• Joonas Kylmälä (2)
• Owen Leonard (3)
• Kelly McElligott (1)
• David Nind (20)
• Séverine Queune (2)
• Martin Renvoize (38)
• Phil Ringnalda (2)
• Marcel de Rooy (10)
• Lisette Scheer (2)
• Fridolin Somers (71)

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 Mar 2021 20:43:00.