Koha 3.20.8 Released

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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 3.20.8 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 3.20.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 59 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Documentation

  • [13136] No documentation for Home > Tools > Labels home > Manage label Layouts

I18N/L10N

  • [15231] Import patrons: Remove string splitting by html tags to avoid weird translations

Patrons

  • [14948] Display amounts right aligned in tables on patron pages

translate.koha-community.org

  • [15080] ./translate-tool should tell if xgettext-executable is missing

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [15138] typo in reports/borrowers_out.pl – issues.timestamap
  • [15344] GetMemberDetails called unecessary
  • [15429] sub _parseletter should not change referenced values

Cataloging

  • [15572] Authority creation fails when authid is linked to 001 field
  • [15579] records_batchmod permission doesn’t allow access to batch modification

Circulation

  • [15431] svc/checkouts dies due to undefined variable (13024 merge problem)

This bug appears only in 3.20.7 version and is very visible and disturbing. It has been discussed on Koha mailing list: after a package upgrade, the check-out screen doesn’t display anymore the checkout items table.

  • [15442] Checkouts table will not display due to javascript error
  • [15462] Unable to renew books via circ/renew.pl
  • [15560] Multiple holding branchs and locations not displaying in pending holds report
  • [15570] circ/renew.pl is broken

Patrons

  • [15367] Batch patron modification: Data loss with multiple repeatable patron attributes

Tools

  • [15332] ModMember not interpreting dates (Batch patron modification)
  • [15607] Batch patron modification: Data loss of ‘dateenrolled’ and ‘expirydate’ fields

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [14853] Change “Fund” to “Shipping fund” where appropriate

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [15432] t/db_dependent/Letters.t depends on external data/configuration

Authentication

  • [14034] User logged out on refresh after Shibboleth authentication

Circulation

  • [15569] Automatic renewal should not be displayed if the patron cannot checkout

Developer documentation

  • [14397] Typo ‘foriegn’ in table comments
  • [14538] POD for CalcFine is incomplete

Documentation

I18N/L10N

  • [15233] Cataloging subfield editors: Clean up html and streamline text for better translatability
  • [15236] Better translatibility in “Connect biblio.biblionumber to a MARC subfield”
  • [15237] Quote of the day: Better translatibility for editor and help
  • [15238] Better translatability for Installer Step 1
  • [15300] Translatability: Replace ambiguous ‘From’ and ‘To’ in members-update.tt
  • [15304] Norwegian patron database: translatable strings added to all po files
  • [15340] Translatability: fix issue with ‘or choose’ splitted by tag
  • [15345] Translatability: fix issue in facets (Availability’)
  • [15346] Translatability: fix sentence splitting issue in memberentrygen.tt
  • [15362] Translatability: Fix issue on Administration ‘Did you mean?’
  • [15363] Translatability: Fix issue with ambiguous ‘all’ on Administration > Set library checkin and transfer policy
  • [15365] Translatability: Fix issue on Administration > Circulation and fine rules
  • [15383] Opac: Authority details: Fix translation issues with tags

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [15405] XML paths to zebra libraries is wrong for 64-bit installs on non-Debian linux

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [15170] Add 264 field to MARC21*DC.xsl

OPAC

  • [15210] Novelist js throws an error if no ISBN
  • [15373] Zip should be ZIP
  • [15382] 245$a visibility constraints not respected in opac-MARCdetail.pl
  • [15412] Dropdowns in suspend holds date selector do not function in Firefox
  • [15511] Tabbed fines display on OPAC patron summary page broken

Patrons

  • [14193] Accessibility: Searching patrons using the alphabetic index doesn’t work
  • [15252] Patron search on start with does not work with several terms

Reports

  • [15366] Fix breadcrumbs and html page title in guided reports

Searching

  • [13022] Hardcoded limit causes records with more than 20 items to show inaccurate statuses

If a record has more than 20 items, all the items over 20 will show as available on results even if they are not! This is a hard coded limit in the Search module. This is made configurable with the new system preference MaxSearchResultsItemsPerRecordStatu

  • [15217] variables declared twice in in catalogue/search.pl
  • [15606] Spelling mistake in MARC21slim2OPACDetail.xsl

Serials

  • [15171] Searching serials expiring after today should be allowed

Staff Client

  • [14613] Send cart window is too small in staff and hides ‘send’ button

System Administration

  • [14153] Noisy warns in admin/transport-cost-matrix.pl
  • [15101] Don’t display system preference AllowPkiAuth under heading CAS Authentication
  • [15409] Plugins section missing from Admin menu sidebar
  • [15603] Accessibility: Can’t tab to select link in budgets add user popup

Templates

  • [15228] Patron card batches – Improve translatability
  • [15229] Tiny typo: This patrons is …
  • [15327] Minor tweaks to Bootstrap modal handling on Staged MARC management page
  • [15396] MARC21 Leader plugin label ‘1-4 Record size’ is wrong

Tools

  • [14636] Sorting and searching by publication year in item search doesn’t work correctly
  • [15602] Accessibility: Can’t tab to add link in patron card creator add patrons popup

Web services

  • [14363] OAI-PMH should handle records without marcxml

Sometimes, some biblioitems records have empty marcxml. In this case, OAI harvester fails with a software error: Can’t call method “as_xml” on an undefined value at /home/koha/src/opac/oai.pl line 516. Instead, now, record is skipped, and a mess

New sysprefs

  • MaxSearchResultsItemsPerRecordStatusCheck

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

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

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available:

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:

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (98%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Czech (96%)
  • Danish (82%)
  • Finnish (86%)
  • French (93%)
  • German (100%)
  • Italian (99%)
  • Korean (62%)
  • Kurdish (59%)
  • Persian (69%)
  • Polish (99%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Slovak (100%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (88%)
  • Turkish (99%)
  • Vietnamese (84%)

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 3.20.8 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.20.8:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.8.

  • Chloe (1)
  • Gus (1)
  • Nick (1)
  • Aleisha (3)
  • Natasha (3)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Hector Castro (2)
  • Nicole C. Engard (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Frédéric Demians (10)
  • Jonathan Druart (16)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (8)
  • Brendan Gallagher (1)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (6)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Nicholas van Oudtshoorn (1)
  • Marc Véron (21)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.8

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • BSZ BW (8)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (16)
  • ByWater-Solutions (10)
  • jns.fi (1)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Marc Véron AG (21)
  • PTFS-Europe (2)
  • stacmail.net (1)
  • Tamil (10)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • unidentified (11)

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

  • Aleisha (4)
  • Alex (1)
  • Barry Cannon (1)
  • Briana (1)
  • Chris Cormack (3)
  • Frederic Demians (1)
  • Frédéric Demians (85)
  • Fridolin Somers (4)
  • Hector Castro (20)
  • Jesse Weaver (11)
  • Jonathan Druart (51)
  • Julian Maurice (77)
  • Karam Qubsi (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (15)
  • Marc Véron (11)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Natasha (1)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Nicole Engard (1)
  • Owen Leonard (5)
  • Thomas Misilo (1)
  • Bob Ewart bob-ewart@bobsown.com (1)
  • Brendan Gallagher brendan@bywatersolutions.com (13)
  • Brendan A Gallagher (33)
  • Kyle M Hall (29)
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (3)
  • Andreas Hedström Mace (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)

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:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.20.8. The last Koha release was 3.16.9, which was released on March 29, 2015.

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 28 janv. 2016 09:31:48.