Release notes for Koha 3.18.13

Welcome to this holiday edition of Koha 3.18 release, I’ll be your host, Liz.

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 http://koha-community.org and Koha 3.18.13 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.13.tar.gz

Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 3.18.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Table of contents

Critical bugs fixed in Koha 3.18.13

Acquisitions

• Export of CSV from late orders form does only work in English (major – bug 14264)

Authentication

• Back-button in OPAC shows previous user’s details, after logout (major – bug 5371)

Cataloging

• Making 999 visible in framework duplicates 999 entry and affects index (major – bug 6657)
• Items table on detail page can be broken (major – bug 15256)

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

• Make test fails immediately on 3.22.00-beta due to missing Crypt::GCrypt which is optional (blocker – bug 15182)

Label/patron card printing

• Add several patrons to a new batch will create a new batch per patron added (major – bug 14739)

Reports

• Cache_expiry is not saved when updating a SQL report (critical – bug 14735)
• Software error: Can’t locate object method “field” via package “aqorders.datereceived” in reports/acquisitions_stats.pl (major – bug 15250)

SIP2

• Koha’s SIP server returns not ok for checking in items that are not checked out (major – bug 13411)
• Renewals cause Sipserver to crash (major – bug 14673)

Templates

• Incorrect alert while deleting single item in batch (major – bug 14632)

Test Suite

• T/Circulation_barcodedecode.t fails if no DB present (blocker – bug 15151)

Tools

• Can’t add item to rotating collection (critical – bug 15061)
• Batch Delete Records Error (major – bug 15079)

Other bugs fixed in Koha 3.18.13

Acquisitions

• Perl error in acq budget planning (normal – bug 4502)
• Add sorting to funds (normal – bug 14388)
• Closing and reopening a basket should not alter status of completed orders (normal – bug 15036)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• Get rid of warnings in members/summary-print.pl (trivial – bug 15068)

Cataloging

• Converting from ISO5426 is not complete (normal – bug 14078)

Circulation

• Update link to offline circ for windows (normal – bug 15094)

Command-line Utilities

• Runreport.pl doesn’t allow custom subjects anymore (normal – bug 15120)
• Runreport.pl badly encode accented characters (normal – bug 15133)

I18N/L10N

• There is no translation of confirm dialog when transfering a basket (normal – bug 15117)
• Allow correct translation for upload local cover image (minor – bug 15154)

Label/patron card printing

• Creation of barcode types 2of5 not functional (normal – bug 14781)

Lists

• List email sent from staff is missing ISBN and author information (normal – bug 15137)

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

• Useless unitialization warnings when updating authorities (minor – bug 15130)

OPAC

• Warns when clearing a rating on an item on OPAC (minor – bug 14553)
• OPACURLOpenInNewWindow should apply to item-level urls too (minor – bug 14575)

Patrons

• Userid not generated when defined in BorrowerUnwantedField (normal – bug 14867)
• Import patron tool creates ‘duplicate’ restrictions ( debarments ) (normal – bug 15010)
• Regression in patron search results ordering (normal – bug 15109)
• Show notices tab with EnhancedMessagingPreferences deactivated (minor – bug 14157)
• Patron’s transaction history changes items’ order after paying fines (minor – bug 14687)

Searching

• Transliterate rule for all single quote forms (normal – bug 14542)
• IntranetBiblioDefaultView syspref is not respected when XSLTResultsDisplay is empty (minor – bug 15175)
• Make OpacSuppression work even if there are no records suppressed (minor – bug 15198)

Staff Client

• Move help link back out of the dropdown menu (normal – bug 14773)

Templates

• Improve message shown for deleted records in basket summary page (normal – bug 10181)
• Warning on purchase suggestions is inaccurate (normal – bug 15114)
• Holds to pull report should show library and itype description instead of their codes (minor – bug 12152)
• Line break in html attribute (minor – bug 15059)

Tools

• Batch modifications for records – unavailable "Every" option (minor – bug 12540)

New system preferences in Koha 3.18.13

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 http://koha-community.org/documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18.13/en/

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

• English (USA)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer

The most up-to-date translations can be found at http://translate.koha-community.org

Release Team

The release team for Koha 3.18.13 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard
• Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

QA Team:

• Galen Charlton
• Jonathan Druart
• Brendan Gallagher
• Kyle Hall
• Julian Maurice
• Paul Poulain
• Martin Renvoize
• Marcel de Rooy
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Alex Sassmannshausen
  • Zeno Tajoli
• Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat
• Release Maintainer (3.18.x): Liz Rea
• Release Maintainer (3.16.x): Mason James
• Release Maintainer (3.14.x): Fridolin Somers

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.18.13:

• Vaara-kirjastot

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.13:

• Aleisha (1)
• Colin Campbell (2)
• Hector Castro (1)
• Nicole C. Engard (1)
• Galen Charlton (1)
• Nick Clemens (1)
• Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
• David Cook (4)
• Indranil Das Gupta (1)
• Frédéric Demians (2)
• Jonathan Druart (18)
• Katrin Fischer (2)
• Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
• Mason James (1)
• Joonas Kylmälä (2)
• Sophie Meynieux (1)
• Kyle M Hall (4)
• Liz Rea (7)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Lyon3 Team (1)
• Mark Tompsett (1)
• Marc Véron (3)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.18.13:

• BSZ BW (2)
• BibLibre (9)
• ByWater-Solutions (5)
• Catalyst (1)
• KohaAloha (1)
• PTFS-Europe (2)
• Prosentient Systems (4)
• Tamil (2)
• Theke Solutions (1)
• Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (2)
• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)
• bugs.koha-community.org (13)
• koha-community.org (2)
• quecheelibrary.org (1)
• unidentified (13)
• veron.ch (3)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha 3.18.13:

• Alex Arnaud (1)
• Barton Chittenden (1)
• Benjamin Rokseth (1)
• Brendan Gallagher (1)
• Chris Cormack (2)
• Daniel Grobani (1)
• David Cook (1)
• Frederic Demians (12)
• Frédéric Demians (49)
• Galen Charlton (1)
• Hector Castro (5)
• Jonathan Druart (13)
• Joonas Kylmälä (2)
• Julian Maurice (4)
• Katrin Fischer (27)
• Laurence Lefaucheur (1)
• Liz Rea (56)
• Marc Véron (7)
• Mark Tompsett (1)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Nicole Engard (3)
• Tomas Cohen Arazi (49)
• Brendan A Gallagher (2)
• Kyle M Hall (15)
• Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (8)

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 git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 3.18.x.

The last Koha release was 3.14.10, which was released on September 4, 2014.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 Dec 2015 23:20:19 Z #####