Koha 23.05.03 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 23.05.03.

Koha 23.05.03 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 23.05.03 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 43 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Bugfixes

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34469 Modifying an order line of a standing order will delete linked invoice ID

Other bugs fixed

  • 34108 When items are added on order, item selection gets lost on editing items
  • 34305 If actual cost is negative, wrong price will display in the acq details tab
  • 34452 Button ‘Update adjustments’ is hidden

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34193 Default HTTPS template has outdated SSLProtocol value

Other bugs fixed

  • 33964 Use Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::Persistent for sending email

  • 34056 authorised-values API client file is missing -api-client suffix

    Sponsored by Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC)

  • 34316 account->add_credit does not rethrow exception
  • 34354 Job progress typo
  • 34364 Background job – Fix visual progress of progress bar
  • 34470 Real Time Holds Queue – make random numbers play nice with forked processes

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34028 Two factor authentication (2FA) shows the wrong values for manual entry

    This fixes the details displayed for manually entering two-factor authentication (2FA) details into a 2FA application (when enabling 2FA). Currently, the wrong information is displayed – so you can’t successfully add the account manually to your 2FA application.

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

  • 33755 Profile used is not saved when importing records

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34279 overduefinescap of 0 is ignored, but overduefinescap of 0.00 is enforced

Other bugs fixed

  • 33992 Only consider the date when labelling a waiting recall as problematic

    Sponsored by Auckland University of Technology

  • 34289 UI issue on checkin page when checking the forgive fines checkbox

ERM

Other bugs fixed

  • 34447 “Actions” columns are exported

    Sponsored by Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC)

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

  • 32271 Overdue fines cap (amount) set to 0.00 when editing rule
  • 33028 Wrongly formatted monetary amounts in circulation rules break scripts and calculations

Other bugs fixed

  • 34332 Syntax error in point of sale email template

Hold requests

Other bugs fixed

  • 30846 “If any unavailable” doesn’t consider negative notforloan values as unavailable

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

  • 34334 ‘Item(s)’ in MARC detail view untranslatable

ILL

Other bugs fixed

  • 34133 ILL table should be sorted by request id descending by default

MARC Authority data support

Other bugs fixed

  • 33978 Adding authority from automatic linker closes imported record

Notices

Other bugs fixed

  • 34059 advance_notices.pl -c –digest-per-branch does not work as intended

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34155 OPAC item level holds “force” option broken

Other bugs fixed

  • 33848 Enabling Coce in the OPAC breaks cover images on bibliographic detail page

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

  • 33117 Patron checkout search not working if searching with second surname
  • 34117 Duplicate patron sets dateenrolled incorrectly
  • 34280 Patrons with no email address produce a warning when saving
  • 34435 get_password_expiry_date should not modify its parameter

REST API

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34024 REST API should not allow changing the pickup location on found holds

Other bugs fixed

  • 33556 $c->validation should be avoided (part 1)
  • 34365 Hold cancellation request workflow cannot be triggered on API
  • 34387 API docs tags missing descriptions

SIP2

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34258 Cannot renew item via SIP2

Searching

Other bugs fixed

  • 33140 Use facet label value in mouseover title attribute of facet removal link

Serials

Critical bugs fixed

  • 30451 Delete a subscription deletes the linked order

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34269 Regression in circulation rules for ‘similar’ patron categories

Other bugs fixed

  • 33286 ‘Catalog record’ should be ‘Bibliographic record’

Templates

Other bugs fixed

  • 31667 Merge ‘tip’ and ‘hint’ classes
  • 34343 Z39.50 search background not updated
  • 34493 Bad indenting in search_indexes.inc

Enhancements

Acquisitions

Enhancements

  • 34169 Add validation for monetary input fields in acquisition module

Command-line Utilities

Enhancements

  • 34213 False POD for matchpoint option in import_patrons.pl

Packaging

Enhancements

  • 28493 Make koha-passwd display the username

REST API

Enhancements

  • 32739 REST API: Extend endpoint /auth/password/validation for cardnumber

    This development adds a new attribute for identifying the patron for password validation: identifier. It expects to be passed a userid or a cardnumber in it. It the identifier doesn’t match a userid, then Koha will try matching a cardnumber.

Documentation

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

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 (70.9%)
– Armenian (100%)
– Armenian (Classical) (63.8%)
– Bulgarian (91.9%)
– Chinese (Taiwan) (98%)
– Czech (57.9%)
– English (New Zealand) (67.7%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (100%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (98.8%)
– German (100%)
– Hindi (100%)
– Italian (90.9%)
– Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (80.7%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (73.7%)
– Persian (88.2%)
– Polish (93.5%)
– Portuguese (89.5%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (100%)
– Russian (95.5%)
– Slovak (61%)
– Spanish (99.7%)
– Swedish (82.5%)
– Telugu (76.1%)
– Turkish (85.9%)
– Ukrainian (77%)

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 23.05.03 is

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

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

  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
    • REST API — Martin Renvoize
    • ERM — Pedro Amorim
    • ILL — Pedro Amorim

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Aleisha Amohia

  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

  • Documentation Team:

    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth
    • Katrin Fischer

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 23.05 — Fridolin Somers
    • 22.11 — PTFS Europe (Matt Blenkinsop, Pedro Amorim)
    • 22.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 21.11 — Danyon Sewell

  • Release Maintainer assistants:

    • 21.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 23.05.03

– Auckland University of Technology
– [Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC)](http://www.bulac.fr)

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.03

– Aleisha Amohia (1)
– Pedro Amorim (4)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (17)
– Matt Blenkinsop (2)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– David Cook (1)
– Jonathan Druart (5)
– Laura Escamilla (1)
– Katrin Fischer (13)
– Géraud Frappier (1)
– Thibaud Guillot (1)
– Kyle M Hall (4)
– Mason James (1)
– Andreas Jonsson (1)
– Emily Lamancusa (6)
– Owen Leonard (5)
– Julian Maurice (1)
– Martin Renvoize (15)
– Marcel de Rooy (2)
– Andreas Roussos (2)
– Fridolin Somers (4)
– Koha translators (1)
– Hammat Wele (3)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 23.05.03

– Athens County Public Libraries (5)
– BibLibre (6)
– Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (13)
– ByWater-Solutions (6)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
– Dataly Tech (2)
– Koha Community Developers (5)
– KohaAloha (1)
– Kreablo AB (1)
– montgomerycountymd.gov (6)
– Prosentient Systems (1)
– PTFS-Europe (21)
– Rijksmuseum (2)
– Solutions inLibro inc (4)
– Theke Solutions (17)

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

– Pedro Amorim (1)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (71)
– Matt Blenkinsop (1)
– Emmanuel Bétemps (1)
– Nick Clemens (7)
– Jonathan Druart (7)
– Magnus Enger (1)
– Laura Escamilla (1)
– Katrin Fischer (30)
– Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
– Lucas Gass (3)
– Amaury GAU (1)
– Stephen Graham (1)
– Victor Grousset (2)
– Kyle M Hall (2)
– Emily Lamancusa (5)
– Sam Lau (15)
– Owen Leonard (3)
– David Nind (4)
– Martin Renvoize (19)
– Phil Ringnalda (1)
– Marcel de Rooy (6)
– Caroline Cyr La Rose (3)
– Michaela Sieber (6)
– Fridolin Somers (85)
– Anneli Österman (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 23.05.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 29 Aug 2023 21:00:18.