Koha 19.05.04 release

by Fridolin SOMERSPosted on Tuesday September 24th, 2019 Posted in 19.05, Announcements, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.05.04.

Koha 19.05.04 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.05.04 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 9 enhancements, 37 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [21180] Allow Talking Tech outbound script to limit based on patron home library branchcode

Command-line Utilities

• [16219] Runreport.pl should allow SQL parameters to be passed on the command line

OPAC

• [23537] Overdrive won’t show complete results if the Overdrive object doesn’t have a primaryCreator

Patrons

• [21390] Send self registration verification emails immediately

REST api

• [16825] Add API route for getting an item

Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

Templates

• [21058] Missing class for results_summary spans
• [23438] Use Font Awesome icons in intranet search results browser

Tools

• [22272] Calendar: When entering date ranges grey out dates in the past from the start date
• [23385] Hide default value fields by default on patron import

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [23397] Order lines can be duplicated in acqui scripts spent.pl and ordered.pl

Authentication

• [23526] Shibboleth login url with query has double encoded ‘?’ %3F

Circulation

• [23079] Checkouts page broken because of problems with date calculation (TZAmerica/Sao_Paulo)
• [23404] Circulation::TooMany error on itemtype when at biblio level
• [23518] Problem with borrower search autocomplete

Database

• [23265] Update to DB revision 16.12.00.032 fails: Unknown column ‘me.item_level_hold’

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [23353] ACQ framework makes fr-CA web installer explode

Label/patron card printing

• [23289] Label Template – Creation not working (MariaDB >= 10.2.4)

OPAC

• [23530] Opac-basket.pl script accidentally displays ‘hidden’ items

REST api

• [23597] Holds API is missing reserved parameters on the GET spec

Searching

• [11677] Limit to Only items currently available for loan or reference not working
• [23425] Search explodes with “invalid data, cannot decode object”

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [23004] Missing authtype filter in auth_finder.pl

System Administration

• [23309] Can’t add new subfields to bibliographic frameworks in strict mode

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [22786] Can create new funds for locked budgets
• [23294] Restore actual cost input field on order page
• [23319] Reloading page when adding to basket from existing order can cause internal server error
• [23338] Cannot specify replacement price when ordering from file if not using fields to order

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [23539] accountlines.accounttype should match authorised_values.authorised_value in size

Cataloging

• [22830] correct for loop in value_builder/unimarc_field_4XX.pl value_builder
• [23436] Save to ‘undefined’ showing in Advanced cataloging editor

Circulation

• [23273] Downloading from overdues.pl doesn’t use set filters
• [23408] Relatives’ checkout table columns are not configured properly

Hold requests

• [23502] Staff client “revert status” buttons should not depend on SuspendHoldsIntranet preference

MARC Authority data support

• [23437] When UseAuthoritiesForTracing is ‘Use’ we should use series authorities

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

• [23324] Need an ISBN normalization routine

Notices

• [22744] Remove confusing ‘Do not notify’ checkboxes from messaging preferences

OPAC

• [16111] RSS feed for OPAC search results has wrong content type
• [23210] login4tags should be a link

SIP2

• [22037] regression: guarantor no longer blocked (debarred) if child is over limit, when checking out via SIP.

Self checkout

• [22929] Enabling the GDPR_Policy will affect libraries using the SCO module in Koha

Serials

• [23416] When a note to a specific issue upon receiving a serial, this note will appear in next issue received

System Administration

• [23445] Loan period unit in circulation rules is untranslatable causing problems when editing rules

Templates

• [23446] Fix display issue with serials navigation
• [23575] Template error causes item search to be submitted multiple times

Tools

• [22799] Batch item modification is case sensitive

Sponsored by South Taranaki District Council

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers

• [23242] Error when adding new Z39.50/SRU server in DB strict mode

New sysprefs

• PreserveSerialNotes

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

• Koha Documentation

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

• Koha Manual

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:

• Arabic (99.3%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (60.1%)
• Chinese (China) (60.7%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
• Czech (91%)
• Danish (52.7%)
• English (New Zealand) (83.8%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (80.1%)
• French (94.6%)
• French (Canada) (98.6%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (86.9%)
• Greek (74%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (89.5%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (89.7%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (56.8%)
• Polish (83.8%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (93.5%)
• Slovak (85.1%)
• Spanish (99.9%)
• Swedish (89.2%)
• Turkish (98.6%)
• Ukrainian (71.6%)
• Vietnamese (51%)

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 19.05.04 is

• Release Manager: Martin Renvoize
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Nick Clemens
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Nick Clemens
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Kyle Hall
  • Julian Maurice
  • Josef Moravec
  • Marcel de Rooy
• Topic Experts:
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • SIP2 — Kyle Hall
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Elasticsearch — Alex Arnaud
  • ILS-DI — Arthur Suzuki
  • Authentication — Martin Renvoize
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Michal Denár
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Jon Knight
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Arthur Suzuki
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Andy Boze
  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel
• Release Maintainers:
  • 19.05 — Fridolin Somers
  • 18.11 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Liz Rea

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 19.05.04:

• Koha-Suomi Oy
• South Taranaki District Council

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.04.

• Aleisha Amohia (1)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
• Alex Arnaud (1)
• David Bourgault (2)
• Nick Clemens (16)
• Chris Cormack (1)
• Jonathan Druart (16)
• Katrin Fischer (3)
• Martha Fuerst (1)
• Lucas Gass (1)
• Kyle Hall (2)
• Mason James (1)
• Owen Leonard (5)
• Liz Rea (2)
• Martin Renvoize (9)
• Marcel de Rooy (7)
• Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
• Fridolin Somers (11)
• Emmi Takkinen (1)
• Lari Taskula (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.05.04

• ACPL (5)
• BibLibre (12)
• BSZ BW (3)
• ByWater-Solutions (19)
• Catalyst (1)
• hmcpl.org (1)
• Independant Individuals (5)
• Koha Community Developers (16)
• KohaAloha (1)
• outlook.com (1)
• PTFS-Europe (9)
• Rijks Museum (7)
• Solutions inLibro inc (1)
• student.uef.fi (1)
• Theke Solutions (4)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (17)
• Cori Lynn Arnold (1)
• Donna Bachowski (1)
• Christopher Brannon (1)
• Nick Clemens (6)
• Michal Denar (4)
• Bouzid Fergani (1)
• Katrin Fischer (27)
• Lucas Gass (2)
• Claire Gravely (1)
• Victor Grousset (1)
• Kyle Hall (12)
• Ron Houk (2)
• Owen Leonard (12)
• Hayley Mapley (2)
• Julian Maurice (1)
• Matthias Meusburger (1)
• Josef Moravec (1)
• Nadine Pierre (2)
• Johanna Raisa (1)
• Liz Rea (3)
• Martin Renvoize (82)
• Marcel de Rooy (29)
• Maryse Simard (8)
• Fridolin Somers (83)
• George Williams (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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 19.05.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 24 sept. 2019 07:35:29.

Koha 19.05.03 release

by Fridolin SOMERSPosted on Thursday August 29th, 2019 Posted in 19.05, Announcements, release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.05.03.

Koha 19.05.03 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.05.03 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 15 enhancements, 65 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [23230] Make Koha::Plugins::Base::versioncompare OO
• [23237] Plugin allow [% INCLUDE %] from template

Notices

• [23278] Reopen last panel upon “Save and continue” in notices

OPAC

• [23099] OPAC Search result sorting “go” button flashes on page load

REST api

• [17003] REST API: add route to get checkout’s renewability

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [20607] Elasticsearch – ability to add a relevancy weight in mappings.yaml file

Templates

• [22935] Improve style of Bootstrap pagination
• [23159] Reindent addbiblio.tt
• [23183] Reindent cataloging.js
• [23196] Reindent tools/batch_record_modification.tt
• [23221] Reindent tools/manage-marc-import.tt
• [23304] Reindent cataloguing/z3950_search.tt

Test Suite

• [23280] Warning in t/db_dependent/selenium/patrons_search.t

Web services

• [23154] Add pagination to /api/v1/checkouts
• [23156] Add pagination to checkouts in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [21316] Adding controlfields to the ACQ framework causes issues when adding to basket

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [23316] GetFine needs updating for bug 22521

Cataloging

• [23045] Advanced cataloging editor (rancor) throws a JS error on incomplete/blank lines

Circulation

• [23018] Refunding a lost item fee may trigger error if any fee has been written off related to that item
• [23145] Confirming transfer during checkin clears the table of previously checked-in items
• [23405] Circulation autocomplete for patron lookup broken if cardnumber is empty

Command-line Utilities

• [22566] Stock rotation cronjob reporting has issues

Course reserves

• [22142] An item’s current location changes to blank when it is removed from Course Reserves
• [23083] Course reserve item edit fails if one does not set all values

Hold requests

• [14549] Hold not removed when item is checked out to patron who is not next in priority list

ILL

• [23229] “Get all requests” API call fired when loading any ILL page

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [23396] Rancor fails to load: insert_copyright is not defined

Label/patron card printing

• [23455] Patron card printing from Patron lists is broken

OPAC

• [23194] Public notes items in the OPAC should allow for HTML tags

Since 18.11, item.itemnotes content is escaped so any HTML tag would appear broken. It is now allowed again, hyperlinks for example.

• [23225] OPAC ISBD view returns 404 when no item attached
• [23253] OpacNavRight does not display correctly for opacuserlogin disabled or self registration
• [23428] Self registration with a verification by email is broken
• [23431] having Date of birth in PatronSelfModificationBorrowerUnwantedField causes DOB to be nullified

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [23322] Elasticsearch – Record matching fails when multiple keys exist

Staff Client

• [23315] Some system preferences are no longer editable

Tools

• [11642] Improve Batch patron deletion and anonymization GUI to make consequences clearer
• [18707] Background jobs post disabled inputs

Web services

• [22249] Error when submitting Mana comment

Other bugs fixed

About

• [22862] It should be possible to paste formatted phone numbers into the SMS messaging number field

This bugfix improves the likelihood of pasted patron phone numbers passing validation as we will now attempt to normalise out illegal characters often used to human-friendly formatting.

Acquisitions

• [23251] EDI Order line incorrectly terminated when it ends with a quoted apostrophe
• [23363] Clicking on shipping cost invoice link from spent.pl causes internal server error

Cataloging

• [21518] Material type “three-dimensional artifact” displays as “visual material”

Circulation

• [21027] Totals in statistics tab change when StatisticsFields is changed
• [23098] KOC upload process has misleading wording
• [23158] on-site checkout missing when using itemBarcodeFallbackSearch
• [23192] Cancelling holds over returning to wrong tab on waitingreserves.pl
• [23220] Cancelling transfer on returns.pl is subject to a race condition
• [23255] HomeOrHoldingbranch system preference options are described wrong

Command-line Utilities

• [22128] koha-remove fails mysql ERROR 1133 (42000) at line 2: Can’t find any matching row in the user table
• [23193] Make set_password.pl use Koha::Script
• [23345] Wrong parameter name in koha-dump usage statement

Fines and fees

• [23106] Totals are unclear when a credit is involved on the ‘Pay fines’ screen
• [23115] Totals are unclear when a credit is involved on the OPAC ‘Fines and charges’ screen

Hold requests

• [22021] Item status not shown accurately on request.pl
• [23048] Hide non-pickup branches from hold modification select

I18N/L10N

• [10492] Translation problems with TT directives in po files

Lists

• [23266] Add to cart fires twice on shelf page

OPAC

• [12537] Editions tab showing on bibs with more than one ISBN
• [22949] Markup error in OPAC course reserves template
• [22951] Markup error in OPAC holds template
• [23078] Use Koha.Preference in OPAC global header include
• [23126] Multiline entries in subscription history display with
  in OPAC
• [23248] opac-ISBDdetail.pl dies on invalid biblionumber
• [23308] Contents of “OpacMaintenanceNotice” HTML escaped on display

Packaging

• [21000] debian/build-git-snapshot script ignores -D

Patrons

• [22741] Koha::Patron->store must not log updated_on changes (random failure of test BorrowerLogs and TrackLastPatronActivity)
• [23077] Can’t import patrons without cardnumber
• [23199] Koha::Patron->store and uppercasesurname syspref
• [23217] Batch patron modification shows database errors when no Attribute provided
• [23218] Batch patron modification empty attribute causes improper handling of values

Searching

• [15704] The 264 index should be split by subfield to match how 260 is indexed

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [22524] Elasticsearch – Date range in advanced search

Staff Client

• [21716] Item Search hangs when \ exists in MARC fields

Templates

• [13597] Amazon ‘no image’ element needs a ‘no-image’ class, in the staff client
• [22768] Global search forms’ keyboard navigation broken
• [22957] Remove type attribute from script tags: Staff client includes 1/2
• [23226] Remove type attribute from script tags: Cataloging
• [23227] Remove type attribute from script tags: Reports

Test Suite

• [23211] SIP/Transaction.t is failing randomly

Tools

• [19012] Note additional columns that are required during patron import

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

• Koha Documentation

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

• Koha Manual

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:

• Arabic (99.4%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (60.2%)
• Chinese (China) (60.8%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
• Czech (90.8%)
• Danish (52.7%)
• English (New Zealand) (83.9%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (80.2%)
• French (93.8%)
• French (Canada) (98.7%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (87.1%)
• Greek (74.1%)
• Hindi (99.5%)
• Italian (89.4%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (89.9%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (56.8%)
• Polish (83.9%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (93.6%)
• Slovak (85.2%)
• Spanish (99.3%)
• Swedish (89%)
• Turkish (98.8%)
• Ukrainian (71.3%)
• Vietnamese (50.8%)

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 19.05.03 is

• Release Manager: Martin Renvoize
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Nick Clemens
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Nick Clemens
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Kyle Hall
  • Julian Maurice
  • Josef Moravec
  • Marcel de Rooy
• Topic Experts:
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • SIP2 — Kyle Hall
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Elasticsearch — Alex Arnaud
  • ILS-DI — Arthur Suzuki
  • Authentication — Martin Renvoize
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Michal Denár
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Jon Knight
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Arthur Suzuki
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Andy Boze
  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel
• Release Maintainers:
  • 19.05 — Fridolin Somers
  • 18.11 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Liz Rea
    

    Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.03.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
• Alex Arnaud (2)
• Rudolf Byker (1)
• Colin Campbell (1)
• Nick Clemens (28)
• Chris Cormack (1)
• Frédéric Demians (1)
• Jonathan Druart (16)
• Katrin Fischer (4)
• Kyle Hall (5)
• Andrew Isherwood (2)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
• Owen Leonard (26)
• Ere Maijala (2)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Josef Moravec (3)
• Liz Rea (3)
• Martin Renvoize (14)
• Marcel de Rooy (3)
• Fridolin Somers (7)
• Arthur Suzuki (1)
• Lari Taskula (1)
• Mark Tompsett (7)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.05.03

• ACPL (26)
• BibLibre (11)
• BSZ BW (4)
• ByWater-Solutions (33)
• Catalyst (1)
• Independant Individuals (15)
• Koha Community Developers (16)
• koha-suomi.fi (1)
• PTFS-Europe (17)
• Rijks Museum (3)
• student.uef.fi (1)
• Tamil (1)
• Theke Solutions (5)
• Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
• University of Helsinki (2)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (13)
• Arthur Bousquet (3)
• Frederik Chenier (2)
• Frédérik Chénier (8)
• Nick Clemens (32)
• Chris Cormack (7)
• Michal Denar (3)
• Jason DeShaw (1)
• Jonathan Druart (9)
• Bouzid Fergani (1)
• Katrin Fischer (35)
• Lucas Gass (2)
• Claire Gravely (7)
• Kyle Hall (17)
• Ron Houk (1)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Nicolas Legrand (1)
• Owen Leonard (8)
• Luis F. Lopez (2)
• Hayley Mapley (3)
• Felicia Martin (1)
• Laurel Moran (1)
• Josef Moravec (6)
• David Nind (2)
• Nadine Pierre (10)
• Johanna Raisa (3)
• Liz Rea (5)
• Martin Renvoize (143)
• Marcel de Rooy (22)
• Maryse Simard (10)
• Fridolin Somers (136)
• Christian Stelzenmüller (1)
• Mark Tompsett (27)
• Ian Walls (1)
• Bin Wen (2)
• George Williams (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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 19.05.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 août 2019 13:34:42.