The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.17.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various bugfixes and
enhancements.
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Koha Community Newsletter October 2020
Volume 11, Issue 10
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
Sending email notifications from Koha
Tutorial – Using Patron emailer and the Bywater emailer plugin. Janet McGowan describes two different approaches s to sending out custom letters to your patrons:
Using the delivered patron emailer functionality that came in with Koha version 19.05
Working with the Bywater patron emailer plugin
Getting involved in the Koha Community
Watch here.
Martin Renvoize, Development Manager, talks us through the different ways you can get involved in the Koha Community. From online chat to bug wrangling, Release Team roles to Hackfests.
From Equinox
#ChatOpenS: November 11, 2020 from 12-1pm EDT with Mike Rylander moderating. #ChatOpenS is a monthly Twitter Chat to bring together the open-source library community.
Upcoming Events
Open discussion on Koha Coding
On Wednesday 4 November our Development Manager, Martin Renvoize is going to be running an open discussion for our customers as a kind of bug testing/fixing workshop. If you have ever raised a support ticket with us having spotted a problem with your Koha system and it has resulted in a patch (fix) needing to be done in the system, chances are it will have been through the process which Martin will be demonstrating. He is aiming to go through the following:
A very quick guide to Bugzilla (the system used for managing bugs in Koha) and picking bugs to sign off
Picking a bug, testing it and signing it off with a sandbox
Picking a bug that is yet to be fixed and working through a fix for it
CILIP Conference is a highlight in the annual calendar for library, information and knowledge professionals in the UK and is an important opportunity to connect with networks, share work and build for the future. This year the conference format has had to be reimagined and will be delivered on a virtual event platform. The one-day event on 19 November will include all of the elements that you would expect â impressive keynote speakers, engaging sessions and chances to network.
PROGRAMME AND SPEAKERS
PTFS Europe will be in the virtual Exhibition Hall for this event giving the opportunity for delegates to learn all about Koha and how it could benefit their library.
Koha4Health
PTFS Europe is hosting a virtual conference for library professionals in the health sector on 24 November. With presentations from existing Koha libraries including The King’s Fund and Worcestershire Health Library this conference is an opportunity for health libraries to see why Koha is right for them. Yo can also learn more about other healthy living options at the Health Care Guys website
November General IRC Meeting
The November General IRC meeting will be held the 4th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
November Documentation IRC Meeting
The November Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 12th at 18:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
October General IRC Meeting
The October General IRC meeting was held the 7th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
October Development IRC Meeting
The October Development IRC meeting was held the 7th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
October Documentation IRC Meeting
The October Documentation IRC meeting was held the 15th at 18:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.11.11.
This is a security and maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release, especially Hayley Mapley who helped with release maintenance duties while we were busy organising Kohacon20!
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:
[23485] Holds to pull (pendingreserves.pl) should list barcodes
[26460] Wrong line ending (semicolon vs comma) in request.tt
Lists
[25913] Internal server error when calling get_coins on record with no title (245) but with 880 linked to 245
OPAC
[26512] Display issue with buttons for OPAC checkout note
Searching – Elasticsearch
[25957] Elasticsearch 5.X – empty subfields cause error on suggestible fields
Staff Client
[26249] keep_text class not set inconsistently in cat-search.inc
Templates
[26049] Replace li with span class results_summary in UNIMARC intranet XSLT
Tools
[26414] Unable to export Withdrawn status using CSV profile
This patch fixes the export of MARC records and the withdrawn status when using CSV profiles. Before this fix the full 952 field was exported, rather than just the withdrawn status.
Documentation
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
Bob Bennhoff (6)
Henry Bolshaw (2)
Nick Clemens (11)
Chris Cormack (1)
Michal Denar (1)
Jonathan Druart (82)
Bouzid Fergani (1)
Katrin Fischer (52)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (5)
Bonnie Gardner (1)
Lucas Gass (87)
Didier Gautheron (1)
Victor Grousset (1)
Kyle Hall (4)
Sally Healey (1)
Heather Hernandez (1)
Brandon Jimenez (2)
Joonas Kylmälä (4)
Owen Leonard (1)
Julian Maurice (3)
David Nind (22)
Martin Renvoize (16)
Alexis Ripetti (4)
Marcel de Rooy (13)
Lisette Scheer (2)
Fridolin Somers (1)
Arthur Suzuki (5)
Timothy Alexis Vass (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 Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.16.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various bugfixes and
enhancements.
The application period for the 2021 Equinox Open Source Grant is now open. The Equinox Open Source Grant provides project management, training, hosting, and technology support services for the implementation of Koha ILS. Libraries, archives, museums, and other eligible educational, cultural, and information organizations are encouraged to apply. Applications will be accepted from September 8 through November 1, 2020. The application and submission details can be found here http://bit.ly/EOSG2021. For full announcement details please see the press release available on our website here.
Take a look here to see all the Koha Special Interest Groups available through the Koha-US group.
Kalleen Marquise reports on Koha-US and the challenges of providing library services in 2020:
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
Housebound module
In this video, Fiona Borthwick tells us about the Housebound Module or Home Delivery Service in Koha which controls the circulation of material to those who canât get into their local library.
Koha Tables – a basic guide
Lucy Vaux-Harvey has produced this handy guide to the Koha database tables for you so you can easily find how your data is structured. This is really useful when you are writing or looking at Koha reports.
Batch editing MARC records
Lucy Vaux-Harvey has done this detailed video to show you how to batch edit MARC records in Koha using MARC modification templates.
From PTFS Europe Koha available through G-Cloud 12
A very important framework in the UK for public sector procurement of software is the G-Cloud as part of the UK Government Digital Marketplace. For the eighth year, PTFS Europe has been successful in applying to be on the framework to implement and support Koha. Read the news article here.
PTFS Europe Customer Day 2020
Our virtual conference was a great success involving nearly 100 Koha library users from the PTFS Europe customer base. The full agenda involving presentations from five customer organisations as well as PTFS Europe staff is here. The event was live-streamed to YouTube and a video of each session is available here.
From Equinox
#ChatOpenS: Our next #ChatOpenS is going to be dedicated to documentation on October 14, 2020 from 12-1pm EDT. #ChatOpenS is a monthly Twitter Chat to bring together the open source library community.
Upcoming Events
KohaCon 2020 Update!
Kohacon is in 4 weeks! Here’s an update.
Registration
Be sure to register for Kohacon! We can’t emphasize this enough. Knowing exactly who is attending and how (online or in-person) helps us when it comes to supplying food for tea breaks and emailing out workshop sign-ups and video links. Please register here https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/
Certificates of attendance will be provided to those who have registered.
Call for contributions to the Official Kohacon2020 Video
We’re making a Kohacon video and we want to hear from YOU! It will be the next best thing to having you here in NZ. To do this, please send us a short video clip or photograph (created on a mobile phone is fine) in landscape orientation by Friday 2 October (any timezone).
This video will be played during the conference, which will also be streamed on YouTube.
Here are some suggestions:
– A quick shot of individuals who would like to say their name and optionally the library they are affiliated with – maybe mention your IRC nickname if you’re an IRC regular.
– A short message to the Koha community
– Tell us something special about your library/organization, or how Koha helped make something better
– Image/video of your library building, especially if it shows something special about your local area.
– Please provide all content in landscape orientation.
We can’t wait to see your videos and photographs!
Kohacon updates
Over on the Kohacon website, we’re posting a series of regular updates to highlight speakers, sponsors, talks, and workshops. You can find those updates on the About page https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/about/
The Koha team at Catalyst / Kohacon2020 organising committee
October General IRC Meeting
The October General IRC meeting will be held the 7th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
October Development IRC Meeting
The October Development IRC meeting will be held the 7th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
October Documentation IRC Meeting
The October Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 15th at 18:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
September General IRC Meeting
The September General IRC meeting was held the 2nd at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
September Development IRC Meeting
The September Development IRC meeting was held the 9th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.11.10.
This is a security and maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
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:
[26251] Remove unused routines from svc/split_callnumbers
Cataloging
[16314] Show upload link for upload plugin in basic MARC editor
Command-line Utilities
[26175] Remove warn if undefined barcode in misc/export_records.pl
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
[25129] Update German (de-DE) web installer files for 20.05
Notices
[25639] Add search queries to HTML so queries can be retrieved via JS
OPAC
[26041] Accessibility: The date picker calendar is not keyboard accessible
Reports
[25605] Exporting report as a tab delimited file can produce a lot of warnings
Staff Client
[26007] Warning/reminder for changes to Koha to MARC mapping
In current versions of Koha you can no longer change the Koha to MARC mappings from the frameworks, but only from the Koha to MARC mapping page in administration. This patch cleans up the hints on the framework page and adds a well visible note on the Koha to MARC mapping page. Any changes to the mappings require that you run the batchRebuildBiblioTables script to fully take effect.
[26182] Clearly pair UpdateItemWhenLostFromHoldList and CanMarkHoldsToPullAsLost system preferences
System Administration
[25945] Description of AuthoritySeparator is misleading
Templates
[26149] Remove jquery.checkboxes plugin from problem reports page
[26150] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from inventory page
[26153] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from items lost report
[26159] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from batch record delete page
[26201] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from batch extend due dates page
[26202] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from batch record modification page
[26204] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from staff interface lists
[26212] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from pending offline circulations
[26214] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin on late orders page
[26215] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from Z39.50 search pages
[26216] Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin from catalog search results
Tools
[26013] Date on ‘manage staged MARC records’ is not formatted correctly
Critical bugs fixed
Acquisitions
[25750] Fallback to ecost_tax_included, ecost_tax_excluded not happening when no ‘Actual cost’ enteredSponsored byHorowhenua District Council
[26082] Follow up to bug 23463 – need to call Koha::Item store to get itemnumber
Circulation
[26078] “Item returns to issuing library” creates infinite transfer loop
Fines and fees
[26023] Incorrect permissions handling for cashup actions on the library level registers summary page
Hold requests
[24683] Holds on biblios with different item types: rules for holds allowed are not applied correctly if any item type is available
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
Marco Abi-Ramia (1)
TomĂĄs Cohen Arazi (4)
Nick Clemens (5)
Rebecca Coert (1)
Holly Cooper (2)
Sarah Cornell (1)
Jonathan Druart (76)
Katrin Fischer (47)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2)
Daniel Gaghan (1)
Jeff Gaines (1)
Lucas Gass (86)
Didier Gautheron (1)
Amit Gupta (12)
Kyle Hall (6)
Sally Healey (4)
Brandon Jimenez (2)
Joonas Kylmälä (3)
Owen Leonard (7)
Kelly McElligott (4)
Josef Moravec (1)
AgustĂn Moyano (5)
David Nind (1)
Martin Renvoize (20)
Marcel de Rooy (2)
Lisette Scheer (4)
Fridolin Somers (8)
Emmi Takkinen (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 Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.15.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various bugfixes and
enhancements.
Equinox Announces Update to Curbside Pickup Plugin for Koha ILS
Duluth, Ga., August 28, 2020: Equinox Open Library Initiative is pleased to
announce completion of the latest update to the Curbside Pickup plugin for libraries
using Koha ILS. This improvement will allow Koha libraries to immediately make
use of the plugin without having to pay for additional development services or wait
for a technical change to the core Koha ILS.
The specifications and workflow for the new Koha plugin were designed by Equinox
staff this past July based off of the Curbside Pickup functionality developed by
Equinox for the Evergreen ILS in June. The Koha Curbside Pickup plugin provides
new staff management tools for coordinating curbside pickup services and
expediting communications using the ILS. These staff management tools include
setting pickup intervals, setting the number of pickup slots allowed per interval, and
whether patrons may directly schedule their own appointments. The development
work completed by Equinox this week removes a technical barrier in the Koha
system, allowing libraries to quickly deploy the new plugin without added cost.
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
What’s on our Mind: EDI ordering using EDIFACT in Koha. Jonathan Field has produced this EDI 101 guide which gives an overview of Setup, Workflow and Field mapping in the EDIFACT module.
We ran a customer discussion session on reporting in Koha and here is a link to a recording of the session. Janet McGowan, Lucy Vaux-Harvey and Fiona Borthwick gave demonstrations as follows:
Email notices from reports and an emailer plugin
Batch modification of patrons and items from reports
Adding charts to reports
PTFS Europe Customer Day
We are running a virtual conference for our customers right on 30 September which we will be live-streaming to our YouTube channel. Videos of the conference sessions will also be available on the channel after the event.
From Equinox
#ChatOpenS: September 16, 2020, 3-4pm EDT with Chris Cormack guest moderating. Networking Twitter Chat bringing those interested in open source in libraries together.
Upcoming Events
KohaCon 2020 Update!
53 days until Kohacon! We’re really excited and we hope you are, too.
Certificates of attendance will be provided to those who have registered.
We will send out links for viewing presentations prior to the conference. For those participating in online workshops, we will send out the links and access code to those who register.
The conference will go ahead regardless of the status of Covid-19 restrictions. The conference will be completely online if required, however, we have plans for NZ participants to also gather in Wellington, in person. We hope to see as many NZ speakers and delegates as possible.
We are thinking about ways to enjoy each others company, even though that cannot be in person for us all. Watch this space for links and updates about sponsor rooms, online social hangouts, a live DJ, and more.
The programme has changed since we first launched it in February of this year and we would encourage you to take another look!
Programme https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/
Sent with thanks to our very generous sponsors:
Pounamu: Bywater solutions, Catayst IT, EBSCO, and Equinox OLI.
MÄnuka Honey: FE Technologies, Linux Australia, and PTFS Europe.
The September General IRC meeting will be held the 2nd at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
September Development IRC Meeting
The September Development IRC meeting will be held the 9th of September 2020, 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
Koha ILS Users Philippines held Koha ILS Discussion Series
by Eugene Jose T. Espinoza and Raul V. MigriĂąo, Jr.
The Koha ILS Users Philippines (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1470467196524189/) held five Discussion Series through Google Meet tackling various topics regarding Koha ILS. The series began last June 6 and culminated on August 15, 2020.
Below are the list of topics per date:
⢠June 20 – Koha Modules
⢠July 4 – Koha Installation
⢠July 18 – OPAC Customization
⢠August 1 – Data Migration using MARCEdit
⢠August 15 – Koha notifications
This Discussion series was based on a poll put up by Manuel Tamayao last June 14, 2020 which gathered 38 responses. Each episode of the discussion series was graced with one or two Koha specialists. Each episode was primarily led by Eugene Espinoza representing one of the two Koha specialists while a host moderates the forum. The series was a hands-on discussion type wherein community participants were asked to try out, in real time, what has been demonstrated by the facilitator.
The Discussion series was attended by current Koha ILS users as well as prospective Koha ILS users. Regular attendees include Jerwyn Fernandez and Ram Migrino who both played a major role in the organization of KohaCon2017 in Philippines.
Newcomer Benjade Palermo from University of Mindanao and Anna Gefreliz Erpelo from University of Rizal System were also regular attendees.
This discussion series was conceptualized primarily to enliven the Koha ILS Users Philippines as well as to reach out to Filipino Koha users having concerns in any phase of their Koha implementation but having no resources or means to address the same.
Koha ILS Users Philippines hopes to hold similar activities in the future.
August General IRC Meeting
The August General IRC meeting was held the 5th of August 2020, 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Development IRC Meeting
The August Development IRC meeting was held the 12th of August 2020, 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Documentation IRC Meeting
The August Documentation IRC meeting was held the 13th August 2020, 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.