Koha 22.05.20 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 22.05.20.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org

Please continue reading for the details this release.

Koha 22.05.20 is a security bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

• 24879 Add missing authentication checks
• 30524 Add base framework for dealing with CSRF in Koha
• 35960 XSS in staff login form
• 36244 Template toolkit syntax not escaped in letter templates
• 36322 Can run docs/*/.pl from the UI
• 36323 koha_perl_deps.pl can be run from the UI

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

• 29510 objects.find should call search_limited if present
• 35890 AutoLocation system preference + setting the library IP field – can still login and unexpected results

Other bugs fixed

• 35918 Incorrect library used when AutoLocation configured using the same IP
• 36072 Can request articles even if ArticleRequests is off
• 36092 sessionID not passed to the template on auth.tt
• 36176 [23.11 and below] We need tests to check for ‘cud-‘ operations in stable branches (pre-24.05)

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

• 36034 cas_ticket is set to serialized patron object in session

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

• 35343 record method, required for bug 26611, missing from Koha::Authority

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

• 35518 Call to C4::Context->userenv happens before it’s gets populated breaks code logic in circulation

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

• 35941 OPAC user can guess clubs of other users

Other bugs fixed

• 35942 OPAC user can enroll several times to the same club

Reports

Critical bugs fixed

• 31988 manager.pl is only user for “Catalog by item type” report

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

• 35904 C4::Auth::checkauth cannot be tested easily

Web services

Critical bugs fixed

• 34893 ILS-DI can return the wrong patron for AuthenticatePatron

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

• 27342 Improve readability and improvement of C4::Auth::get_template_and_user

Serials

Enhancements

• 23352 Define serial’s collection in the subscription

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:

• Chinese (Traditional) (63%)

• English (100%)
• English (USA)
• French (41%)
• German (40%)
• Hindi (75%)

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:

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 22.05.20 is

• Release Manager: Katrin Fischer

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart

• QA Manager: Marcel de Rooy

• QA Team:

  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Julian Maurice
  • Lucas Gass
  • Victor Grousset
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Nick Clemens
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Emily Lamancusa
  • David Cook
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Pedor Amorim

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • ERM — Matt Blenkinsop
  • ILL — Pedro Amorim
  • SIP2 — Matthias Meusburger
  • CAS — Matthias Meusburger

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Indranil Das Gupta

• Packaging Managers:

  • Mason James
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi

• Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

• Documentation Team:

  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Kelly McElligott
  • Philip Orr
  • Marie-Luce Laflamme
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart

• Wiki curators:

  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Katrin Fischer

• Release Maintainers:

  • 23.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 23.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 22.11 — Frédéric Demians
  • 22.05 — Danyon Sewell

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 22.05 — Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.05.20

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 22.05.20

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

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 22.05.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 28 Mar 2024 00:07:46.