Koha 21.05.18 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 21.05.18.

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:

• Koha Community

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 21.05.18 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 6 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

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [30848] Introduce Koha::Filter::ExpandCodedFields

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

• [29958] Missing dateaccessioned is set to today when storing an item

  This fixes editing items without an accession date – the accessioned date will remain empty, instead of being updated to today’s date.

Command-line Utilities

• [30914] cleanup_database.pl –transfers –old-reserves –confirm does not work

Test Suite

• [31108] rename ./t/00-check-atomic-updates.pl extension to *.t

Other bugs fixed

Fines and fees

• [30567] Create manual invoice with FR currency format show the incorrect format

  This fixes the price formatting when CurrencyFormat = FR. When adding a manual invoice, the amount input field was shown with a comma for debit types with default amounts, but it should be a decimal point. (For input fields we always use the decimal point and the display format uses the decimal separator defined by CurrencyFormat.)

I18N/L10N

• [30958] OPAC Overdrive search result page broken for translations

  Sponsored by Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Australia

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [25669] ElasticSearch 6: [types removal] Specifying types in put mapping requests is deprecated (incompatible with 7)

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, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

• Arabic (34.3%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (59.9%)
• Czech (27.6%)
• English (USA)
• French (67.9%)
• French (Canada) (26%)
• German (75%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (48.9%)
• Spanish (37%)
• Turkish (40.3%)

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 (89.3%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (89%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (91.1%)
• Czech (70.9%)
• English (New Zealand) (61.1%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (82.1%)
• French (93.3%)
• French (Canada) (98.8%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (60.5%)
• Greek (55.3%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (100%)
• Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.3%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (65.4%)
• Polish (100%)
• Portuguese (91.1%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (86.6%)
• Russian (86%)
• Slovak (72.7%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (76.5%)
• Telugu (99%)
• Turkish (100%)
• Ukrainian (77.8%)

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 21.05.18 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Jonathan Druart
  • Martin Renvoize

• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

• QA Team:

  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Nick Clemens
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Lucas Gass
  • Victor Grousset
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Joonas Kylmälä
  • Andrew Nugged
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Fridolin Somers
  • Petro Vashchuk
  • David Cook

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Jake Deery
  • Lucas Gass
  • Séverine Queune

• Packaging Manager: Mason James

• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Donna Bachowski
  • Aude Charillon
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Katrin Fischer

• Release Maintainers:

  • 22.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 21.11 — Arthur Suzuki
  • 21.05 — Victor Grousset

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 21.05.18

• Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Australia

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.18

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Alex Buckley (1)
• Kevin Carnes (1)
• Nick Clemens (2)
• Jonathan Druart (1)
• Katrin Fischer (1)
• Victor Grousset (3)
• Mason James (1)
• Martin Renvoize (4)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.05.18

• Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (1)
• ByWater-Solutions (2)
• Catalyst (1)
• Koha Community Developers (4)
• KohaAloha (1)
• PTFS-Europe (4)
• Theke Solutions (1)
• ub.lu.se (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (11)
• Nick Clemens (3)
• Jonathan Druart (2)
• Katrin Fischer (2)
• Lucas Gass (12)
• Victor Grousset (12)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• David Nind (3)
• Martin Renvoize (2)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (1)
• Arthur Suzuki (12)

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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 21.05.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 27 Aug 2022 20:53:41.