koha-release-notes/release_notes_19_11_14.md

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.13

15 Jan 2021

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:

• Koha Community

Koha 19.11.13 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 19.11.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 bugfixes.

System requirements

Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for deployment:

• Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)
• Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1
• Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3
• Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1
• Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)

Additional notes:

• Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)
• Zebra or Elasticsearch is required

Critical bugs fixed

Command-line Utilities

• [27276] borrowers-force-messaging-defaults throws Incorrect DATE value: '0000-00-00' even though sql strict mode is dissabled

Patrons

• [27004] Deleting a staff account who have created claims returned causes problem in the return_claims table because of a NULL value in return_claims.created_by.

Test Suite

• [27055] Update Firefox version used in Selenium GUI tests

Other bugs fixed

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

• [27099] Stage for import button not showing up

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 (98.2%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (100%)
• Basque (55.9%)
• Catalan; Valencian (50.7%)
• Chinese (China) (57.1%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.8%)
• Czech (91.1%)
• English (New Zealand) (78.6%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (74.5%)
• French (97.1%)
• French (Canada) (94.1%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (81.1%)
• Greek (71.4%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (87.3%)
• Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (74.9%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (83.6%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (53.2%)
• Polish (78.7%)
• Portuguese (99.6%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (99.6%)
• Slovak (83.3%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (85.3%)
• Telugu (95.8%)
• Turkish (100%)
• Ukrainian (74.6%)
• Vietnamese (51.7%)

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 19.11.13 is

• Release Manager: Jonathan Druart

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi

• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

• QA Team:

  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Joonas Kylmälä
  • Josef Moravec
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Nick Clemens
  • Kyle Hall
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Matthias Meusburger

• Topic Experts:

  • Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians
  • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
  • Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
  • Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
  • CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Michal Denár
  • Holly Cooper
  • Henry Bolshaw
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Mengü Yazıcıoğlu

• Packaging Manager: Mason James

• Documentation Managers:

  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Martin Renvoize
  • Donna Bachowski
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
  • Kelly McElligott
  • Jessica Zairo
  • Chris Cormack
  • Henry Bolshaw
  • Jon Drucker

• Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

• Release Maintainers:

  • 20.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia
  • 19.05 -- Victor Grousset

• Release Maintainer mentors:

  • 19.11 -- Hayley Mapley
  • 19.05 -- Martin Renvoize

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.13.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Jonathan Druart (2)
• Victor Grousset (1)
• Kyle M Hall (1)
• Owen Leonard (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.13

• Athens County Public Libraries (1)
• ByWater-Solutions (1)
• Koha Community Developers (3)
• Theke Solutions (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
• Nick Clemens (1)
• Chris Cormack (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (6)
• Lucas Gass (1)
• Victor Grousset (6)
• Kyle M Hall (1)
• Mason James (1)
• Fridolin Somers (6)

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 19.11.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 15 Jan 2021 11:36:37.