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Koha Community Newsletter: January 2019

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January 2019

Volume 10, Issue 1
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Table of Contents

Development

Koha 18.11.02 Released

by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.02.

This is a maintenance release and contains 4 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 18.05.08 Released

by Jesse Maseto
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.08.

Koha 18.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 23 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 17.11.14 Released

by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.14

Koha 17.11.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 14 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Community

Community Gossip

Larry Baerveldt tries a Chromebook for system administration and shares his experience in the following articles:

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Vimal Kumar shows you how to use Google Analytics with Koha.
Alex Buckley covers the following topics in his latest Koha Tips and Tricks article:

  • Is it possible to alter the ‘material type’ of a bibliographic record?
  • Can the information displayed in search result pages and book detail pages in the Koha OPAC and staff client be customized?
  • Why is there a ‘No cover image available’ box appearing in OPAC search results and can it be hidden?
  • We have upgraded to Koha 18.05 and the styling is broken, how do we fix this?

Support Provider News

Upcoming Events

February General IRC Meeting

The February General IRC meeting will be held the 13th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

February Documentation IRC Meeting

The February Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 5th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Past Events

Pakistan: Two-Day National Workshop on Koha Operational and Administrative Skills

by Furrukh Hussain Zai

The Pakistan Library Association (PLA) is the Registered National Representative Body of the Librarians in Pakistan since March 1957. PLA is responsible to look after the interest of the professional librarians and to work for the development and improvement of libraries both in formal and informal sectors of education and research. In 2015, PLA has started the Koha Implementation Program (PLA’s KIP) and implemented the Koha-ILS in 20 institutions of Pakistan at free of cost.

In 2018, PLA noted that the community required a comprehensive training that’s may strengthen them on the operational & administrative skills of this greatest innovation in an effective manner and to make them a Koha Expert Librarian (we call them a Koha Dinosaur) as most of the past pieces of training were based on how to install it and an overviews of the basic features. Therefore, the Pakistan Library Association (PLA) Sindh branch has conducted a two-day National workshop on Koha-ILS operational & administrative skills in partnership with Affinity Library and Commecs College, Karachi as on January 26-27, 2019.

It was the first advanced level, hands-on workshop that’s explored all the operational and administrative aspects of the Koha-ILS including, the installation, module management, and effective use of tools and administration, along with allied technologies such as MARC21, RDA, Responsive Interface Design, SQL Reports, jQuery, and with lots of readymade scripts, templates and tips.

Prof. Dr. Syed Farhat Hussain (Professor Department of Library & Information Science, University of Karachi and President Pakistan Library Association) distributed the certificates among the participants with Cdr. (Retd) Tanveer Ahmed, TI (Guest of Honor), Anil Zafar (Organizer), and Furrukh Hussain Zai (Key Resource Person).

Workshop photographs are available at this link http://bit.ly/kdwsp

January General IRC Meeting

The January General IRC meeting was held the 9th at 14:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

January Developers IRC Meeting

The January Developers IRC meeting was held the 16th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Koha 18.05.08 released

Posted on by jessem Posted in Koha News

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.08

22 Jan 2019

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 18.05.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 23 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Circulation

  • [21065] Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports
  • [21928] CircAutoPrintQuickSlip ‘clear’ is not working
  • [22020] Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

OPAC

  • [22030] OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username

REST api

  • [22071] authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case

Reports

  • [21984] Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters
  • [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn’t work on MARC tab

Notices

  • [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS

Packaging

  • [17108] Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)
  • [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/18.05.x)

Searching – Zebra

  • [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)

Templates

  • [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

Tools

  • [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
  • [22022] Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)

New sysprefs

  • OverDriveUsername

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:

  • Arabic (99.9%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (72.6%)
  • Chinese (China) (77.1%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (63.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (92.5%)
  • French (98.9%)
  • French (Canada) (94.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (98.5%)
  • Greek (80.5%)
  • Hindi (99.1%)
  • Italian (97.5%)
  • Norwegian BokmÃ¥l (67.7%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
  • Persian (53%)
  • Polish (93.8%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.6%)
  • Slovak (94.5%)
  • Spanish (98.8%)
  • Swedish (94%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (65.2%)

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 18.05.08 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.05.08:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.08.

  • Nightly Build Bot (2)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • TomÃs Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (11)
  • Lucas Gass (2)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (2)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.08

  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (11)
  • ByWater-Solutions (12)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (3)
  • Theke Solutions (4)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)
  • Nick Clemens (32)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Charles Farmer (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (24)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Jesse Maseto (15)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (47)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)

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 18.05.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 22 Jan 2019 17:06:47.

Koha 18.11.02 release

Posted on by martinrenvoize Posted in 18.11, Koha News, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.02.

This is a maintenance release and contains 4 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.

Koha 18.11.02 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21912] Koha::Objects->search lacks tests

Authentication

  • [21547] Use set_password in opac-passwd and remove sub goodkey

Architectural enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

I18N/L10N

  • [21789] Example usage of I18N Template::Toolkit plugin

Test Suite

  • [21817] Mock userenv should be a t::lib::Mocks method

Test suite enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21605] Cannot create EDI account

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers

Circulation

  • [21915] Add a way to automatically reconcile balance for patrons

Sponsored by ByWater Solutions

In the past, if a patron had any credit existing on their account (newly added, or pre-existing), if debts were present then the credit balance would always be immediately applied to the debt. This functionality was inadvertently removed during refactoring efforts which debuted in 16.11.
This patch adds code to restore the functionality and allows it to be optionally applied to the system via a new system preference, AccountAutoReconcile.
Note: The new preference defaults to the post 16.11 behaviour, if you wish to restore the 16.11 functionality then you will need to update the preference after the upgrade.

  • [21928] CircAutoPrintQuickSlip ‘clear’ is not working
  • [22020] Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal

OPAC

  • [22030] OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username

REST api

  • [22071] authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case

Templates

  • [21813] In-page JavaScript causes error on patron entry page

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21909] Koha::Account::outstanding_* methods should preserve call context
  • [22007] KohaDates output does not need to be html filtered
  • [22033] related_resultset is a hole in the Koha::Object logic
  • [22059] Wrong exception parameters in Koha::Patron->set_password

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn’t work on MARC tab

Notices

  • [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS

Packaging

  • [17108] Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)

Searching – Zebra

  • [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)

Staff Client

  • [21802] Edit notices form is not aligned with accordeon headers

Templates

  • [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert

Test Suite

  • [22107] Avoid deleting data in some tests

New sysprefs

  • AccountAutoReconcile
  • OverDriveUsername

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (100%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (63.9%)
  • Chinese (China) (64.6%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (56.1%)
  • English (New Zealand) (89.2%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (84.6%)
  • French (95.4%)
  • French (Canada) (98.9%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (92.8%)
  • Greek (76.5%)
  • Hindi (94.7%)
  • Italian (95.1%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (96%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)
  • Polish (86.2%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)
  • Slovak (91%)
  • Spanish (93.6%)
  • Swedish (91.5%)
  • Turkish (99.8%)
  • Ukrainian (60.5%)
  • Vietnamese (53.9%)

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 18.11.02 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.11.02:

  • ByWater Solutions

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.02.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (19)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.02

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • PTFS-Europe (6)
  • Rijks Museum (2)
  • Theke Solutions (19)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nick Clemens (44)
  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Charles Farmer (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (8)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Kyle Hall (7)
  • Owen Leonard (8)
  • Josef Moravec (7)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (66)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)

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 18.11.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 22 Jan 2019 15:42:52.

Koha 17.11.14 release

Posted on by Fridolin SOMERS Posted in 17.11, Announcements, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.14

Koha 17.11.14 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 14 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21605] Cannot create EDI account

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn’t work on MARC tab

Notices

  • [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS

Searching – Zebra

  • [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)

Templates

  • [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (99.2%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (75.1%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.5%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
  • Czech (93.8%)
  • Danish (65.5%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.3%)
  • French (98.6%)
  • French (Canada) (91.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.1%)
  • Greek (82.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.3%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.6%)
  • Persian (54.7%)
  • Polish (97.2%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
  • Slovak (96.3%)
  • Spanish (99.7%)
  • Swedish (91.4%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (67.2%)

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 17.11.14 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.14.

  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Kyle Hall (2)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (6)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.14

  • BibLibre (7)
  • ByWater-Solutions (9)
  • Koha Community Developers (6)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijks Museum (3)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nick Clemens (21)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (4)
  • Charles Farmer (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Lucas Gass (13)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (7)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (25)
  • Marcel de Rooy (9)
  • Fridolin Somers (22)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (5)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)

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 17.11.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 22 janv. 2019 09:44:01.

Koha Community Newsletter: December 2018

Posted on by croseburg Posted in 17.11, 18.05, 18.05, 18.11, Announcements, Events, IRC Meetings, Koha, Koha News, Koha Newsletter, Koha Tips & Tricks, release, Release management

Koha Community Newsletter Subscribe
December 2018

Volume 9, Issue 12
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

Please submit news items to Submit

Table of Contents

Development

Koha 18.11.01 Released

by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.01.

This is a maintenance release and contains 1 architectural enhancement and 35 bugfixes.

WARNING: Cache::Memory support has been removed as of this release as there were fundamental flaws in it’s operation and memcached has been recommended for some time. Now is a good time to ensure you’re memcached settings are all in order.

Read the full release notes

Koha 18.05.07 Released

by Jesse Maseto
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.07.

Please note, this release removes support for using Cache::Memory as your
caching strategy due to unresolvable bugs with its implementation which
cause issues in plack environments. memcached has been the recommended
caching module for some time now, so anyone still relying on Cache::Memory
should consider migrating to Memcached.

This is a maintenance release that includes 2 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 17.11.13 Released

by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.13

Koha 17.11.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 new feature, 1 enhancements, 39 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Community

Koha Tips and Tricks

Vimal Kumar has a process for data migration (Unicode) from excel to koha to show you.

Kelly McElligot created the following tutorials for you:

Jessie Zairo goes over setting up Koha integration with Recorded Books.

Upcoming Events

January General IRC Meeting

The January General IRC meeting will be held the 9th at 14:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

January Developers IRC Meeting

The January Developers IRC meeting will be held the 16th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

February Documentation IRC Meeting

The February Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 5th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Past Events

December General IRC Meeting

The December General IRC meeting was held the 12th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

December Developers IRC Meeting

The December Developers IRC meeting was held the 5th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

December Documentation IRC Meeting

The December Documentation IRC meeting was held 4th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Koha 17.11.13 release

Posted on by Fridolin SOMERS Posted in 17.11, Announcements, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.13

Koha 17.11.13 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 new features, 1 enhancements, 39 bugfixes.

New features

REST api

  • [21116] Add API routes through plugins

Allows the extension of the Koha API via plugins. This can allow for custom vendor integrations and prototyping of new routes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20968] Plugins: Add hooks to enable plugin integration into catalogue

Sponsored by PTFS Europe

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21282] Ordered/spent lists should use prices including tax for calculations

Corrects the prices shown on the ordered/spent lists for each fund in acquisitions to show the price with taxes included. This will make the total shown on these pages match the total shown in the table on the acq start and fund pages.

  • [21853] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF with Perl > 5.24.1

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [17597] Outdated translation credits
  • [20720] Add libraries (sponsors) to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [18584] Our legacy code contains trailing-spaces
  • [18720] Get rid of “die” in favor of exceptions in C4::Acquisition::GetBasketAsCsv
  • [21867] Replace remaining document.element.onchange calls in marc_modification_templates.js

Cataloging

  • [20592] updateitem.pl causes database errors when empty non-public item notes updated
  • [21556] Deleting same record twice leads to fatal software error
  • [21666] Advanced editor search- error is given for ‘Unsupported Use attribute’ when searching on title + author

Circulation

  • [18677] issue_id is not added to accountlines for lost item fees
  • [20598] Accruing fines not closed out by longoverdue.pl if WhenLostForgiveFine is not enabled

Command-line Utilities

  • [21640] Itivia outbound script doesn’t print to STDOUT
  • [21698] FIX POD of cancel_unfilled_holds.pl

Course reserves

  • [21349] Instructors with special characters (e.g. $, ., 🙂 in their cardnumber cannot be removed from course reserves

Database

  • [21015] Members.pm slow because it loads twice Koha::Schema

ILL

  • [21497] Dates should be correctly formatted for ILL requests in OPAC
  • [21585] Missing firstnames should be gracefully ignored in ILL requests table

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [21654] Installer is loading a non-existent file

Lists

  • [21629] List sort on call number does not use cn_sort

With this patch lists sorted on call number will now use the machine sortable form of the callnumber from items.cn_sort for better results.

  • [21874] Encoding broken in list and cart email subjects

MARC Authority data support

  • [21581] Matching rules for authorities do not respect ‘Search index’ setting
  • [21644] UNIMARC XSLT display of 210 in intranet

Packaging

  • [20952] Automatic debian/control updates (oldoldstable/17.11.x)

Patrons

  • [21080] patron attribute classes break patron’s edit view
  • [21634] “Circulation” option is lost when viewing patron’s logs

Reports

  • [21005] Missing row/column defaults cause unexpected results in report wizards
  • [21837] Overdues report shoudln’t set homebranchfilter as holdingbranchfilter

System Administration

  • [21625] Fix wording and typo in SMSSendDriver system preference description
  • [21730] PA_CLASS missing from list of authorized values categories

Templates

  • [10442] Remove references to non-standard “error” class
  • [21186] Incorrect Bootstrap modal event name in multiple templates
  • [21740] Fixed-length fields show _ instead of @ when editing subfields

Test Suite

  • [18959] Text_CSV_Various.t must skip if Text::CSV::Unicode is not installed
  • [21787] GetHardDueDate.t has a silly test

Tools

  • [21819] Marc modification templates action always checks Regexp checkbox
  • [21854] Patron category is not showing during batch modification
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (99.1%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (75.1%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.5%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
  • Czech (93.8%)
  • Danish (65.5%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.3%)
  • French (98.6%)
  • French (Canada) (91.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.1%)
  • Greek (82.6%)
  • Hindi (99.7%)
  • Italian (99.5%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.3%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.6%)
  • Persian (54.7%)
  • Polish (97.2%)
  • Portuguese (99.7%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
  • Slovak (96.3%)
  • Spanish (99.7%)
  • Swedish (91.4%)
  • Turkish (99.7%)
  • Vietnamese (67.2%)

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 17.11.13 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.13.

  • Dimitris Antonakis (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • David Cook (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Magnus Enger (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Kyle Hall (5)
  • Andrew Isherwood (3)
  • Joonas Kylmälä (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Thatcher Leonard (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (8)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.13

  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • ACPL (4)
  • BibLibre (9)
  • BSZ BW (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (11)
  • bywatersolution.com (1)
  • debian.diman (1)
  • Independant Individuals (12)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • Libriotech (2)
  • Prosentient Systems (3)
  • PTFS-Europe (6)
  • Rijks Museum (5)
  • Theke Solutions (5)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Cori Lynn Arnold (4)
  • Nick Clemens (65)
  • Michal Denar (5)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Charles Farmer (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (15)
  • Lucas Gass (2)
  • Stephen Graham (5)
  • Kyle Hall (5)
  • Andrew Isherwood (5)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Jesse Maseto (16)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (9)
  • Martin Renvoize (55)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (21)
  • Andreas Roussos (6)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (70)
  • Myka Kennedy Stephens (1)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (9)

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

  • Owen Leonard

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 17.11.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 21 déc. 2018 08:27:15.

Koha 18.05.07 released

Posted on by jessem Posted in 18.05, 18.05, Koha News, release

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.07

20 Dec 2018

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.07.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and
enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:

http://download.koha-community.org

This is our first release as the 18.05.X release maintainers.
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

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Koha 18.11.01 release

Posted on by martinrenvoize Posted in 18.11, Koha News, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.01.

This is a maintenance release and contains 1 architectural enhancement and 35 bugfixes.

WARNING: Cache::Memory support has been removed as of this release as there were fundamental flaws in it’s operation and memcached has been recommended for some time. Now is a good time to ensure you’re memcached settings are all in order.

Koha 18.11.01 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21896] Add Koha::Account::reconcile_balance

Adds a business logic level routine for reconciling user account balances.

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21910] Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children
  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Authentication

  • [21973] CAS URL escaped twice, preventing login

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Circulation

  • [18805] Currently it is impossible to apply credits against debits in patron accounts

This patch adds an Apply Credits button to the accounts interface to allow a librarian to apply outstanding credits against outstanding debits.

  • [21065] Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

Hold requests

  • [21608] Arranging holds priority with dropdowns is faulty when there are waiting/intransit holds

I18N/L10N

  • [21895] Translations fail on upgrade to 18.11.00 (package installation)

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [22024] Update translated web installer files with new class splitting rules

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

OPAC

  • [21911] Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups
  • [21950] Searching with ‘accents’ breaks on navigating to the second page of results

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Reports

  • [21984] Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters
  • [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [20261] No result in some page in authority search opac and pro (ES)

Staff Client

  • [21405] Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES

Test Suite

  • [21956] Sysprefs not reset by regressions.t

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21759] Avoid manually setting amountoutstanding in _FixAccountForLostAndReturned

This patch results in a proper offset always being recorded for auditing purposes when a user is refunded after returning a previously lost item.

  • [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t
  • [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered
  • [21969] Koha::Account->outstanding_* should look for debits/credits by checking ‘amount’

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

I18N/L10N

  • [21736] Localization widget messages are not translatable

MARC Authority data support

  • [21880] “Relationship information” disappears when accessing paginated results in authority searches

OPAC

  • [21947] Filtering order generates html in notes

Packaging

  • [21897] Typo in postinst affecting zebra configuration file installation

System Administration

  • [21961] Typo in permission keeps Did you mean? config from showing up

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

Tools

  • [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input
  • [22022] Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (93.2%)
  • Armenian (99.1%)
  • Basque (63.9%)
  • Chinese (China) (64.6%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (96.2%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (56.1%)
  • English (New Zealand) (89.2%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (84.7%)
  • French (95.2%)
  • French (Canada) (98.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (92.8%)
  • Greek (76.3%)
  • Hindi (94.6%)
  • Italian (91.5%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (96%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)
  • Polish (86.2%)
  • Portuguese (99.1%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)
  • Slovak (87.3%)
  • Spanish (93.2%)
  • Swedish (91.5%)
  • Turkish (97.9%)
  • Ukrainian (60.5%)
  • Vietnamese (53.9%)

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 18.11.01 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.01.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Nick Clemens (17)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Kyle Hall (3)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Koha translators (1)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.01

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • BSZ BW (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (20)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Independant Individuals (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijks Museum (4)
  • The City of Joensuu (1)
  • Theke Solutions (9)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Christopher Brannon (3)
  • Nick Clemens (66)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (16)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Kyle Hall (7)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (6)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Julian Maurice (5)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Martin Renvoize (93)
  • Marcel de Rooy (19)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (3)

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 18.11.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 20 Dec 2018 12:12:58.

Koha Community Newsletter: November 2018

Posted on by croseburg Posted in 17.11, 18.05, 18.05, 18.11, Announcements, Events, IRC Meetings, Koha, Koha News, Koha Newsletter, Koha Tips & Tricks, release, Release management

Koha Community Newsletter Subscribe
November 2018

Volume 9, Issue 11
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

Please submit news items to Submit

Table of Contents

Development

Koha 18.11.00 Released

by Nick Clemens
It is with great pleasure that the Koha community announces the release of Koha 18.11, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library system.

This release (as always) is the work of many librarians, developers, and community members who donate their time and effort to the project. Their contributions help shape the release, and the project going forward. None of this would be possible without them, and my sincere thanks goes out to everyone who had a hand in the project

Koha 18.11.00 is a major release, that comes with many new features.

It includes 16 new features, 235 enhancements, 432 bugfixes.

Debian packages are available, if you are following a suite you will automatically upgrade to the next branch with this release, more info here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian#Follow_a_suite:_stable.2C_oldstable_.E2.80.A6

Read the full release notes

Koha 18.05.06 Released

by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.06.

This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes, along with some behind the scenes enhancements to allow plugin developers to support a wider range of Koha releases.

This is my sixth, and final, release as the 18.05.XX maintainer and I would like to thank everyone involved in this release and happily pass the responsibility on to its next maintainers, Lucas Gass and Jesse Maseto.

Koha 18.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 10 enhancements, 78 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 17.11.12 Released

by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.12.

Koha 17.11.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 5 enhancements, 33 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Community

Community Gossip

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Kelly McElligot created the following tutorials for you:

Jessie Zairo has some great tutorials to share:

Support Provider News

Equinox and Above the Treeline Announce Koha Integration with Edelweiss+Analytics. Read more

Upcoming Events

December General IRC Meeting

The December General IRC meeting will be held the 12th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

December Developers IRC Meeting

The December Developers IRC meeting will be held the 5th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

December Documentation IRC Meeting

The December Documentation IRC meeting will be held 4th at 19:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Past Events

Workshop by the Koha-Hellenic Users’ Group

by Sofia Zapounidou
The Koha-Hellenic Users’ Group organized the “First steps after your Koha installation” workshop at the 24th Panhellenic Academic Libraries Conference on October 31st. This workshop is the first one organized by the Koha-HUG and others will follow.
The Koha-HUG administration team presented basic Koha characteristics, translation of Koha in Greek using Pootle, installation and first steps after it, creation of frameworks, bugs & reporting, and migration of data from other systems to Koha. The workshop ended with a presentation by Mr. Andreas Roussos regarding the annual Swedish Koha Users Group meeting, which he attended earlier this year.

The Koha Hellenic Users’ Group administration team members are:

  • Dimitrios Antonakis, librarian at the PotamitisVekris Law Firm
  • Georgia Katsarou, librarian at the College year in Athens
  • Evgenios Papadopoulos, librarian at the Municipality of Volos Library
  • Andreas Roussos, library IT staff at the Holy Monastery of Paraklitos
  • Giorgos Veranis, Senior Developer at Library Systems
  • Sofia Zapounidou, librarian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Library & Information Centre

Photos:

Swedish Koha User Group meeting in Luleå 17-19 October 2018

Between 17-19 October 2018 the Swedish Koha User Group held its sixth biannual meeting. The host for the meeting was Luleå University Library. About 70 particpants from all around Sweden came to the meeting but also some delegates from Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, and Greece particpated. The conference part included presentations for two half-days on 17 and 18 of October, followed by an optional hackfest on 18 and 19 of October.

In the hackfest a number of topics were discussed and worked upon. Key points from the hackfest were:

  • How to use the ILL module?
  • How does Libris XL work with Koha?
  • How does ElasticSearch work in Koha?
  • How can you use JQuery in Koha?
  • Andreas Roussos presented What are some catalog housekeeping scripts for Koha?

Outside the work related topics the meeting also held a guided tour to the UNESCO World Heritage site Gammelstad Church Town, while also one Tex-Mex after work and an Italian dinner were arranged.

Read the full post

November General IRC Meeting

The November General IRC meeting was held the 3rd at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

November Developers IRC Meeting

The November Developers IRC meeting was held the 10th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

November Documentation IRC Meeting

The November Documentation IRC meeting was held 2nd at 21:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Koha 18.11 release

Posted on by Nick Clemens Posted in 18.11, Koha News, release

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.00

27 Nov 2018

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11

This release (as always) is the work of many librarians, developers, and community members who donate their time and effort to the project. Their contributions help shape the release, and the project going forward. None of this would be possible without them, and my sincere thanks goes out to everyone who had a hand in the project

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 18.11.00 can be downloaded from:

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