The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.14.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various 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:
[24473] Syndetics content should be $raw filtered on opac-detail.tt
Syndetics provides enhanced content which is displayed in the OPAC under the tabs ‘Title Notes’, ‘Excerpt’, ‘About the author’, and ‘Editions’. They provide this information as HTML but Koha currently displays the content with the HTML tags. This fixes this so that the enhanced content displays correctly.
[25869] Coce images not loading for lists (virtualshelves)
[25982] OPAC shelves RSS link output is HTML not XML
[26070] Google Transliterate API has been deprecated
The Google Transliterate API has been deprecated by Google in 2011. This removes the remaining code and GoogleIndicTransliteration system preference from Koha as this is no longer functional.
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
Tomás Cohen Arazi (27)
Alex Arnaud (8)
Donna Bachowski (1)
Christopher Brannon (1)
Nick Clemens (26)
Rebecca Coert (1)
Holly Cooper (1)
Frédéric Demians (1)
Michal Denar (2)
Jonathan Druart (139)
Magnus Enger (1)
Katrin Fischer (60)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (6)
Lucas Gass (194)
Didier Gautheron (4)
Victor Grousset (8)
Amit Gupta (2)
Kyle Hall (2)
Stina Hallin (1)
Sally Healey (22)
Heather Hernandez (1)
Abbey Holt (1)
Barbara Johnson (1)
Jill Kleven (1)
Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
Joonas Kylmälä (13)
Owen Leonard (14)
Ere Maijala (1)
Julian Maurice (11)
Kelly McElligott (2)
Josef Moravec (5)
David Nind (10)
Emma Perks (8)
Martin Renvoize (37)
Jason Robb (4)
Marcel de Rooy (15)
Caroline Cyr La Rose (3)
Lisette Scheer (4)
Maryse Simard (1)
Michael Springer (1)
We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
Andrew Nugged
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:
Equinox Open Source Grant Recipient Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico Goes Live with Koha
Duluth, Ga., July 29, 2020: Equinox Open Library Initiative is honored to
announce the successful migration of the Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico, a
division of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan, Puerto Rico to the
Koha Integrated Library System. They were one of two 2019 Equinox Open Source
Grant recipients.
The Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico was created in 1967, a division of the
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. In 2003 it became the National Library to
preserve and provide access to resources related to Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.
The ir migration encompassed 56001 bibliographic records. Equinox services
included: project management, system configuration, extraction and migration of
bibliographic data, and staff training. Equinox also provided Koha support, hosting,
and auxiliary services.
“We are extremely happy and thankful for this extraordinary work,” said Carlos Ruiz
Cortés, Executive Director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. “The
catalogue is modern and very comfortable for research. It is also a great
opportunity as we are implementing new services for our users, while promoting
access to our valuable cultural resources.”
The Equinox Open Source Grant was offered for the first time in 2019 providing
Koha migration, support and training to two successful grantees. The grant was
inspired by the vibrant open source community and the belief that every community
deserves to benefit from an accessible and thriving library.
“Staff from the National Library and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, led by
Hilda Teresa Ayala-González, worked diligently for many months migrating data,
making configuration decisions, testing, and training to prepare for the new
system,” said Jennifer Weston, Implementation Project Manager at Equinox. “The
new Koha database inspired additional projects as the staff took advantage of the
library’s recent closing to launch a new website, and plan for a digitization project
to be linked with Koha to coincide with the 65th anniversary celebration of the
Cultural Institute. It has been both a pleasure and an honor to work with the
Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico to provide these new opportunities for their
community.”
Koha Tips and Tricks
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
A current project that really encapsulates the strengths of the Koha community is work PTFS Europe developers are doing on enhancing Koha accessibility. This project is being funded by a Koha library at the UK Houses of Parliament, fixes for identified bugs are being developed by PTFS Europe and signed-off and quality assured at pace by a wide group of members of the Koha community. Bugs fixed include making headings semantically correct, adding ‘skip to main content’ links, adding aria labels to search results and making aria labels translatable. Full details of progress on this tree of bugs can be found here.
#ChatOpenS: August 19, 2020, 12-1pm EDT. Networking Twitter Chat bringing those interested in open source in libraries together.
Upcoming Events
KohaCon 2020 Update!
Tēnā koutou,
It’s 84 days to Kohacon! The programme has changed since we first launched it in February of this year and we would encourage you to take another look https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/
Kohacon2020 will be a mix of in-person and online presentations. Speakers will deliver talks at the Tiakiwai Conference Centre venue and streamed online.
Our guest speakers hail from Finland, Pakistan, the USA, France, Bangladesh, Canada, Turkey, Australia, England, and New Zealand. Please register your intention to attend online or in-person at: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/
There is professional development goodness for everyone – documentation, accessibility, linked data, creative problem solving, cataloguing plugins, integration, and marketing tips to name just a few talks/workshops. You can register to receive programme updates, follow @nzkoha on twitter, and keep an eye on the website: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/
by Heather Hernandez
The next Koha-US Cataloging SIG (Special Interest Group) round table will look at MARC frameworks (we’ll edit one live!) followed by our usual open discussion of cataloging issues–this month, submitted questions already include: Why use cutters instead of author’s last names? And, what’s the difference between “form, subfield v” and “topic subfield x” in a subject heading–what makes something a “form” or a “topic?”. Please bring your questions, tips, tricks, ideas, and comments and let’s chat and learn from each other! You don’t have to be a member of Koha-US to participate, nor do you have to be a cataloger! We often work in real, live, in production Koha catalogs, and are happy to try things out live–it’s loads of fun! So please join us on Thursday, August 6, 2020 @ 8am – 9am PT (9 MT/10 CT/11 ET in the United States). Can’t make it? No problem–it will be recorded and available on the Koha US YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV58VVGJH5V1wNHZqYpAfX7y1dU9eWTXq
Upcoming topics of the Cataloging SIG meetings include Related formats (e.g. print/online) (September), Languages and record displays (October), Reports (November), Workarounds and documentation (December).
Please also feel free to address questions, tips, tricks, ideas for topics, etc. to the group or to me, heather_hernandez@nps.gov, via email at anytime. And guest presenters & hosts are most welcome if you have something you’d like to share! Full details on our SIG meetings (with the link to join), as well as those of the other SIGS, are on the Koha US calendar, http://koha-us.org/calendar/
August General IRC Meeting
The August General IRC meeting will be 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 will be 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 will be held the 13th August 2020, 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
July General IRC Meeting
The July General IRC meeting was held the 17th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Development IRC Meeting
The July Development IRC meeting was held the 1st at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Documentation IRC Meeting
The July Documentation IRC meeting was held the 2nd at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
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:
[22807] Accessibility: Add ‘Skip to main content’ link
[25151] Accessibility: The ‘Your cart’ page does not contain a level-one header
[25154] Accessibility: The ‘Search results’ page does not use heading markup where content is introduced
[25236] Accessibility: The ‘Refine your search’ box contains semantically incorrect headings
[25238] Accessibility: Multiple ‘H1’ headings exist in the full record display
[25239] Accessibility: The ‘Confirm hold page’ contains semantically incorrect headings
[25402] Put OPAC cart download options into dropdown menu
This enhancement adds the OPAC cart download format options into the dropdown menu, rather than opening in a separate pop up window. (This also matches the behaviour in the staff interface.)
Staff Client
[12093] Add CSS classes to item statuses in detail view
Templates
[25471] Add DataTables to MARC subfield structure admin page for bibliographic frameworks
[25747] Don’t display a comma when patron has no firstname
Tools
[4985] Copy a change on the calendar to all libraries
Sponsored byKoha-Suomi Oy
Critical bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
[24986] Maximum row size reached soon for borrowers and deletedborrowers
Circulation
[25851] 19.11 upgrade creates holdallowed rule with empty value
Command-line Utilities
[25752] Current directory not kept when using koha-shell
OPAC
[22672] Replace tags with AND tags with in the OPAC
[25769] Patron self modification triggers change request for date of birth to null
Patrons
[25322] Adding a guarantor with no relationship defaults to first available relationship name
[25858] Borrower permissions are broken by update from bug 22868
Searching – Elasticsearch
[25864] Case sensitivity breaks searching of some fields in ES5
Other bugs fixed
Acquisitions
[25611] Changing the vendor when creating the basket does not keep that new vendor
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
[25875] Patron displayed multiple times in add user search if they have multiple sub permissions
Cataloging
[25189] AutoCreateAuthorities can repeatedly generate authority records when using Default linker
[25553] Edit item date sort does not sort correctly
Circulation
[25440] Remove undef and CGI warnings and fix template variables list in circulation rules
[25807] Version 3.008 of Template breaks smart-rules display
Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
[25491] Perl warning at the login page of installer
OpenSearch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch) allows you to search your library’s catalog directly from the browser address bar or search box. This fixes the OpenSearch feature so that it now works correctly in Firefox. Note: make sure OPACBaseURL is correctly set.
[24352] Wrong labels displaying in result list with OpacItemLocation
This fixes the OPAC’s MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference.
Previously, search results showed the label “Location(s)” whether the
setting was “collection code” or “location.”
[25914] Relative’s checkouts have empty title in OPAC
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
Alex Arnaud (5)
Alex Buckley (1)
Jonathan Druart (73)
Katrin Fischer (29)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
Lucas Gass (76)
Didier Gautheron (1)
Kyle Hall (1)
Sally Healey (11)
Heather Hernandez (1)
Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
Rhonda Kuiper (1)
Owen Leonard (9)
Hayley Mapley (5)
Julian Maurice (5)
David Nind (5)
Martin Renvoize (29)
Marcel de Rooy (1)
Emmi Takkinen (1)
Timothy Alexis Vass (1)
Christofer Zorn (1)
We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
Andrew Nugged
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:
by Victor Grousset
The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 19.05.12.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
This is my first release as the 19.05.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. And in particular to those who helped me on the community IRC channel to solve the various issues and confusions that I encountered for my first release ever.
From PTFS Europe
Our successful FEstival online conference on 3 June was attended by a large number of delegates from the UK Further Education sector interested in what Koha offers their libraries. Particularly enjoyed were sessions from existing Koha libraries, Leeds City College and City of Glasgow College. All sessions are available to view on the PTFS Europe YouTube channel.
From Equinox
The next #ChatOpenS date is July 15, 2020 from 12-1pm EDT. It’s for discussing topics relating to open source in libraries – all communities welcome.
Upcoming Events
Koha US Cataloging SIG (Special Interest Group): archives and Koha
by Heather Hernandez
The next Koha-US Cataloging SIG (Special In terest Group) round table will look at archives and Koha. Please bring your questions, tips, tricks, and let’s chat about catalog records for finding aids hosted elsewhere, finding aids hosted in Koha, value of finding aids, objects (not just paper collections), using MarcEdit, EAD/MARC conversion, and as usual, any other tips, tricks, topics, or questions! You don’t have to be a member of Koha-US to participate, nor do you have to be a cataloger! We often work in real, live, in production Koha catalogs, and are happy to try things out live–it’s loads of fun! So please join us on Thursday, July 2, 2020 @ 8am – 9am PT (9 MT/10 CT/11 ET in the United States). Can’t make it? No problem–it will be recorded and available on the Koha US YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV58VVGJH5V1wNHZqYpAfX7y1dU9eWTXq
Upcoming topics of the Cataloging SIG meetings include MARC frameworks (August), Related formats (e.g. print/online) (September), Languages and record displays (October), Reports (November), Workarounds and documentation (December).
Please also feel free to address questions, tips, tricks, ideas for topics, etc. to the group or to me, heather_hernandez@nps.gov, via email at anytime. And guest presenters & hosts are most welcome if you have something you’d like to share! Full details on our SIG meetings, as well as those of the other SIGS, are on the Koha US calendar, http://koha-us.org/calendar/
July General IRC Meeting
The July General IRC meeting will be held the 17th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Development IRC Meeting
The July Development IRC meeting will be held the 1st at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Documentation IRC Meeting
The July Documentation IRC meeting was held the 2nd at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
June General IRC Meeting
The June General IRC meeting was held the 17th at 15:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
June Development IRC Meeting
The June Development IRC meeting was held the 3rd at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
June Documentation IRC Meeting
The June Documentation IRC meeting was held the 7th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.05.12.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
This is my first release as the 19.05.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. And in particular to those who helped me on the community IRC channel to solve the various issues and confusions that I encountered for my first release ever.