Koha 19.05.01 release

by Fridolin SOMERSPosted on Tuesday July 2nd, 2019 Posted in 19.05, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.05.01.

Koha 19.05.01 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.05.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 47 bugfixes and 1 security bug.

Security bugs fixed

• [23058] Cross-site scripting in OPAC search

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [23095] Circulation rules not displayed (empty vs null)

Authentication

• [22585] Fix remaining double-escaped CAS links

Circulation

• [22877] Returning a lost item not marked as returned can generate additional overdue fines

Lists

• [17526] OPAC lists sortfield breaks with a (

MARC Authority data support

• [23053] Local-Number cannot be used for authority matching due to non-existence of ‘phrase’ index

Mana-kb

• [22915] Cannot subscribe to Mana-KB

This fix updates the Mana server URL in etc/koha-conf.xml so that it uses the correct URL – https://mana-kb.koha-community.org.

Patrons

• [23082] Fatal error editing a restricted patron

System Administration

• [23104] Regression (18925) in circ rules – unlimited vs 0

Tools

• [23093] Error during upgrade of OpacNavRight preference to Koha news

Other bugs fixed

About

• [21662] Missing developers from history
• [23037] Henry Bolshaw is missing from the contributors list

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [16750] Redirect from selectbranchprinter.pl to additem.pl causes software error
• [23117] additem.pl crashes on nonexistent biblionumber

Cataloging

• [7890] Required fields in the MARC editor should be highlighted

This bugfix modifies the basic MARC editor so that required fields have the standard “Required” label on them instead of a small red asterisk.

• [21887] 856$u link problem in XSLT result lists and detail page

Circulation

• [13094] It should be easy to hide the ‘Cancel all’ button on the holds over report
• [18344] Overdue fines ‘cap at replacement price’ and ‘cap by amount’ should work together
• [22982] Paying lost fee does not always remove lost item from checkouts

Database

• [23022] Koha is not compatible with MySQL >= 8.0.11 because of NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER mode

Developer documentation

• [22358] Add POD to Koha::SharedContent

Hold requests

• [22633] Barcodes in the patrons ‘holds’ summary should link to the moredetail page

ILL

• [22099] “List requests” button displays when listing requests

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

• [22770] Typo in German translation for Greek in language pull down

Lists

• [22941] Giving malformed sortfield to list results in Internal Server Error

MARC Authority data support

• [22919] Authorities MARC Structure not inserted with SQL strict modes

MARC Bibliographic data support

• [20986] MARC21 Supplement and Index Textual Holdings don’t display

OPAC

• [22945] Markup error in OPAC search results around lists display
• [22948] Markup error in OPAC bibliographic detail template
• [22950] Markup error in OPAC recent comment template
• [22952] Markup error in OPAC suggestions template
• [22953] Markup warning in OPAC user summary template
• [22954] Minor markup error in OPAC messaging template
• [22955] Markup error in OPAC lists template
• [23076] Include OpacUserJS on OPAC maintenance page

This fix allows the OPAC maintenance page to use JavaScript included in the OPACUserJS system preference.

Patrons

• [22910] Unique attributes should not be copied when duplicating a patron

SIP2

• [19457] If CheckPrevCheckout is set to “Do”, then checkouts are blocked at the SIPServer

Searching

• [14794] Searching patron by birthday returns no results if format incorrect

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [21534] ElasticSearch – Wildcards not being analyzed

Serials

• [10215] Increase the size of opacnote and librariannote for table subscriptionhistory
• [11492] Receiving a serial item causes routing list notes to be lost

Sponsored by Plant and Food Research Limited

Staff Client

• [22958] The Help link on SMS providers page should link to the correct chapter in the manual

System Administration

• [8558] Better confirmation message for importing frameworks

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [22947] Markup error in OPAC preferences file

Templates

• [22906] Minor corrections to plugins home page
• [22960] Typo found in circulation.pref in UpdateItemLocationOnCheckin preference

Test Suite

• [23027] Suggestions.t is failing if no biblio in DB

Tools

• [23006] Can’t use inventory tool with barcodes that contain regex relevant characters ($,…)

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 (93%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (60.2%)
• Chinese (China) (60.8%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.3%)
• Czech (90.9%)
• Danish (52.8%)
• English (New Zealand) (83.9%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (79.4%)
• French (93.3%)
• French (Canada) (96.3%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (87.1%)
• Greek (74.4%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (88.8%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (90.1%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (56.9%)
• Polish (81.4%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (92.3%)
• Slovak (85.4%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (89.5%)
• Turkish (92.8%)
• Ukrainian (58.6%)
• 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 19.05.01 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 19.05.01:

• Catalyst IT
• Plant and Food Research Limited

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.01.

• Aleisha Amohia (3)
• Alex Arnaud (3)
• Nick Clemens (7)
• Jonathan Druart (13)
• Katrin Fischer (7)
• Kyle Hall (7)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Owen Leonard (12)
• Hayley Mapley (1)
• Joy Nelson (1)
• Liz Rea (1)
• Martin Renvoize (13)
• Justin Rittenhouse (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Mirko Tietgen (1)
• Mark Tompsett (2)
• Koha translators (1)
• Nazlı Çetin (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 19.05.01

• abunchofthings.net (1)
• ACPL (12)
• BibLibre (8)
• BSZ BW (7)
• ByWater-Solutions (15)
• Catalyst (1)
• Devinim (2)
• Independant Individuals (6)
• Koha Community Developers (13)
• koha-suomi.fi (1)
• nd.edu (1)
• PTFS-Europe (13)
• Rijks Museum (1)

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

• Axel Amghar (1)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Arthur Bousquet (3)
• Nick Clemens (14)
• Chris Cormack (4)
• Michal Denar (1)
• Jonathan Druart (1)
• Magnus Enger (2)
• Katrin Fischer (34)
• Lucas Gass (1)
• Claire Gravely (1)
• Kyle Hall (1)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• David Kuhn (1)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Nabila Love (1)
• Josef Moravec (4)
• David Nind (1)
• Nadine Pierre (5)
• Liz Rea (20)
• Martin Renvoize (84)
• Marcel de Rooy (11)
• Maryse Simard (9)
• Fridolin Somers (76)
• Mark Tompsett (9)
• Ed Veal (1)
• Marc Véron (1)
• Bin Wen (4)
• Nazlı Çetin (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 27 juin 2019 08:08:46.

Koha 18.05.12 release

by martinrenvoizePosted on Friday May 3rd, 2019 Posted in 18.05, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.12

This is a combined security and maintenance release containing 4 security fixes, 1 enhancements and 31 bugfixes.

Koha 18.05.12 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Security bugs

Koha

• [22068] Canceling article request should verify the request belongs to the borrower
• [22478] Cross-site scripting vulnerability in paginations
• [22542] Back browser should not allow to see other patrons details (see bug 5371)
• [22692] Logging in via cardnumber circumvents account logout

Enhancements

Circulation

• [20450] Add collection to list of items when placing hold on specific copy

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [22611] Typo introduced into Koha::EDI by bug 15685

Cataloging

• [21049] Rancor 007 field does not retain value

Circulation

• [21346] Clean up dialogs in returns.pl

Course reserves

• [22652] Editing Course reserves is broken

Web services

• [21832] Restore is_expired in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [20782] EDI: Clicking the ‘Invoice’ link on the ‘EDI Messages’ page does not take you directly to the corresponding invoice
• [21659] Link to basket groups from order receive page are broken
• [22444] currencies_manage permission doesn’t provide link to manage currencies when selected alone

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [22607] Default value in issues.renewals should be ‘0’ not null

Cataloging

• [10345] Copy number should be incremented when adding multiple items at once

Circulation

• [13763] Renew feature does not check for the BarcodeInputFilter option

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [21013] Missing itemtype for checkut makes patron summary print explode
• [22536] Display problem in Holds to Pull report

Command-line Utilities

• [17746] koha-reset-passwd should use Koha::Patron->set_password

Course reserves

• [21003] Don’t show warning when editing a reserve item

Hold requests

• [21263] Pickup library not set correctly when using Default holds policy by item type

I18N/L10N

• [19497] Translatability: Get rid of “Edit [% field.name |html %] field”

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Notices

• [14358] Changing the module refreshes the page and resets library choice
• [20937] PrintNoticesMaxLines is not effective for overdue notices with a print type specified where a patron has an email

OPAC

• [13629] SingleBranchMode removes both library and availability search from advanced search
• [22075] Encoding problem with RIS export
• [22560] Forgotten password “token expired” page still shows boxes to reset password
• [22561] Forgotten password requirements hint doesn’t list all rules for new passwords
• [22620] OPAC description for collection in opac-reserve.tt
• [22624] Show OPAC description for authorised values in OPAC

Searching

• [12441] search.pl has incorrect reference to OPACdefaultSortField and OPACdefaultSortOrder

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [20823] UNIMARC XSLT does not display 604$t

Searching – Elasticsearch

• [19670] search_marc_map.marc_field should have COLLATE= utf8mb4_bin

Serials

• [13735] Item form in serials module doesn’t respect max length set in the frameworks

System Administration

• [22575] Item type administration uses invalid error class for dialog

Templates

• [21130] Detail XSLT produces translatable HTML class

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 (72.2%)
• Chinese (China) (76.9%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.5%)
• Czech (92.1%)
• Danish (63.4%)
• English (New Zealand) (95.2%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (92.1%)
• French (98.5%)
• French (Canada) (93.7%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (98.1%)
• Greek (80.5%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (97.1%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (67.3%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (70.2%)
• Persian (52.9%)
• Polish (93.4%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (87.2%)
• Slovak (97.6%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (93.6%)
• Turkish (99.5%)
• Vietnamese (64.9%)

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 18.05.12 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Chris Cormack
• Topic Experts:
  • SIP2 — Colin Campbell
  • EDI — Colin Campbell
  • Elasticsearch — Ere Maijala
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Jon Knight
  • Indranil Das Gupta
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose

• Documentation Team:

  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
• Release Maintainers:
  • 18.11 — Martin Renvoize
  • 18.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Jesse Maseto
  • 17.11 — Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 18.05 — Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.05.12:

• Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.12.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
• Philippe Blouin (1)
• David Bourgault (1)
• Christopher Brannon (4)
• Colin Campbell (1)
• Nick Clemens (3)
• Jonathan Druart (4)
• Katrin Fischer (6)
• Lucas Gass (6)
• Owen Leonard (8)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Hayley Mapley (5)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Josef Moravec (2)
• Björn Nylen (1)
• Martin Renvoize (4)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Lyon 3 Team (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.12

• ACPL (8)
• BibLibre (7)
• BSZ BW (6)
• ByWater-Solutions (9)
• Catalyst (5)
• Coeur D’Alene Public Library (4)
• Independant Individuals (3)
• Koha Community Developers (4)
• PTFS-Europe (5)
• Rijks Museum (1)
• Solutions inLibro inc (2)
• Theke Solutions (4)
• ub.lu.se (1)
• University of Helsinki (1)
• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
• Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (3)
• Nick Clemens (45)
• Chris Cormack (4)
• Michal Denar (3)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Katrin Fischer (21)
• Lucas Gass (60)
• Kyle Hall (4)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Hayley Mapley (2)
• Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (2)
• Josef Moravec (10)
• Séverine Queune (1)
• Liz Rea (14)
• Martin Renvoize (67)
• David Roberts (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (7)
• Lisette Scheer (3)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
• Bin Wen (4)
• Mengü Yazıcıoğlu (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 18.05.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 02 May 2019 12:42:22.

Koha 17.11.18 release

by martinrenvoizePosted on Friday May 3rd, 2019 Posted in 17.11, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 17.11.18

This is a combined security and maintenance release containing 3 security fixes and 4 bugfixes.

Koha 17.11.18 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Security bugs

Koha

• [22068] Canceling article request should verify the request belongs to the borrower
• [22478] Cross-site scripting vulnerability in paginations
• [22542] Back browser should not allow to see other patrons details (see bug 5371)

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

• [21049] Rancor 007 field does not retain value

Course reserves

• [22652] Editing Course reserves is broken

Web services

• [21832] Restore is_expired in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

• [19497] Translatability: Get rid of “Edit [% field.name |html %] field”

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

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 (99.2%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (75.1%)
• Chinese (China) (79.4%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
• Czech (93.7%)
• Danish (65.4%)
• English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (95.2%)
• French (99%)
• French (Canada) (91.8%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (99%)
• Greek (82.9%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (99.9%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (54.2%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (72.5%)
• Persian (54.6%)
• Polish (97.1%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
• Slovak (96.2%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (91.4%)
• Turkish (99.9%)
• Vietnamese (67.1%)

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 17.11.18 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Chris Cormack
• Topic Experts:
  • SIP2 — Colin Campbell
  • EDI — Colin Campbell
  • Elasticsearch — Ere Maijala
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Jon Knight
  • Indranil Das Gupta
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose

• Documentation Team:

  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
• Release Maintainers:
  • 18.11 — Martin Renvoize
  • 18.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Jesse Maseto
  • 17.11 — Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 18.05 — Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.18:

• Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.18.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Hayley Mapley (1)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Lyon 3 Team (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.18

• BibLibre (7)
• Catalyst (1)
• Koha Community Developers (3)
• Rijks Museum (1)
• Theke Solutions (1)
• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
• Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (1)
• Nick Clemens (9)
• Chris Cormack (2)
• Michal Denar (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Katrin Fischer (4)
• Lucas Gass (12)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Josef Moravec (4)
• Liz Rea (3)
• Martin Renvoize (13)
• Marcel de Rooy (2)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Fridolin Somers (12)

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 17.11.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 30 avril 2019 08:06:13.