Koha 20.11.15 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 20.11.15.

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 20.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 10 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Enhancements

Acquisitions

  • [27793] Store Contents of FTX segment of EDI quotes for inclusion in orders

    This enhancement adds support for the EDI FTX (FreeText) segment in Edifact ordering. We simply store the segment and pass it around in the EDI process required.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [29670] Restore functionality broken by bug 27708 for AcqCreateItem set to “placing an order”

    This patch restores the lost GIR segments in EDI messages generated by orders with items attached.

Circulation

  • [29495] Issue link is lost in return claims when using ‘MarkLostItemsAsReturned’

Fines and fees

  • [29457] Fee Cancellation records the wrong manager_id

    Prior to this patch inadvertently the field borrowers.userid was used to fill accountslines.manager_id. This should have been borrowernumber.

    This report fixes that and prints a generic warning.

Hold requests

  • [29736] Error when placing a hold for a club without members

ILL

  • [28932] Backend overriding status_graph element causes duplicate actions

OPAC

  • [29696] “Suggest for purchase” missing biblio link
  • [30045] SCO print slip is broken

REST API

  • [29018] Deleting patrons from REST API doesn’t do any checks or move to deletedborrowers

    This fixes the REST API route for deleting patrons so that it now checks for guarantees, debts, and current checkouts. If any of these checks fail, the patron is not deleted.

Tools

  • [28832] [21.05] Batch modification always clears permanent_location if it is mapped in frameworks

Other bugs fixed

Packaging

  • [28926] Update cpanfile for Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI v2.16

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is

As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

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 (98.9%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Armenian (Classical) (89%)
  • Bulgarian (91.6%)
  • Catalan; Valencian (57.8%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (92.9%)
  • Czech (73.1%)
  • English (New Zealand) (59.4%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (79.2%)
  • French (92.4%)
  • French (Canada) (92%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (66.7%)
  • Greek (60.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (94.4%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (63.6%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (91.4%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (96.5%)
  • Russian (93.4%)
  • Slovak (80.3%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (74.9%)
  • Telugu (99.8%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Ukrainian (70.6%)

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 20.11.15 is

  • Release Manager: Fridolin Somers

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

    • Andrew Nugged
    • Jonathan Druart
    • Joonas Kylmälä
    • Kyle M Hall
    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Nick Clemens
    • Petro Vashchuk
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Victor Grousset

  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
    • Accounts — Martin Renvoize

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Indranil Das Gupta
    • Erica Rohlfs

  • Packaging Manager:

  • Documentation Manager: David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • Aude Charillon
    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • Kelly McElligott
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Rocio Lopez

  • Translation Managers:

    • Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 21.11 — Kyle M Hall
    • 21.05 — Andrew Fuerste-Henry
    • 20.11 — Victor Grousset
    • 19.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.11.15

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (5)
  • Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2)
  • Victor Grousset (4)
  • Andrew Isherwood (2)
  • Mason James (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (10)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.11.15

  • ByWater-Solutions (5)
  • Koha Community Developers (9)
  • KohaAloha (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (13)
  • Theke Solutions (4)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Jonathan Druart (4)
  • Jonathan Field (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Andrew Fuerste-Henry (33)
  • Victor Grousset (28)
  • Kyle M Hall (11)
  • Joonas Kylmälä (1)
  • David Nind (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (6)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Fridolin Somers (11)
  • Deb Stephenson (1)

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@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 20.11.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 24 Feb 2022 11:55:32.