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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.14
09 Feb 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 19.11.14 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 19.11.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 5 enhancements, 11 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
Enhancements
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
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[24254] Add Koha::Items->filter_by_visible_in_opac
This patch introduces an efficient way of filtering Koha::Items result sets, to hide items that that shouldn't be exposed on public interfaces.
Filtering is governed by the following system preferences. A helper method is added to handle lost items:
- hidelostitems: Koha::Items->filter_out_lost is added to handle this.
Some patrons have exceptions so OpacHiddenItems is not enforced on them. That's why the new method [1] has an optional parameter that expects the logged in patron to be passed in the call.
[1] Koha::Items->filter_by_visible_in_opac
Command-line Utilities
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[24272] Add a command line script to compare the syspref cache to the database
This script checks the value of the system preferences in the database against those in the cache. Generally differences will only exist if changes have been made directly to the DB or the cache has become corrupted.
Reports
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[26713] Add pagination to bottom of saved SQL reports table
This enhancement adds a second pagination menu to the bottom of saved SQL reports tables.
Searching - Elasticsearch
- [24863] QueryFuzzy syspref says it requires Zebra but Elasticsearch has some support
Templates
- [27192] Set focus for cursor to item type input box when creating new item types
Critical bugs fixed
OPAC
- [15448] Placing hold on specific items doesn't enforce OpacHiddenItems
SIP2
- [27196] Waiting title level hold checked in at wrong location via SIP leaves hold in a broken state and drops connection
Other bugs fixed
About
- [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page
Cataloging
- [27308] Advanced editor should skip blank lines when inserting new fields
Circulation
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[27011] Warnings in returns.pl
This patch removes a variable ($name) that is no longer used in Circulation > Check in (/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl), and the resulting warnings (..[WARN] Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at..) that were recorded in the error log.
Command-line Utilities
- [17429] Document the --plack option for koha-list
Fines and fees
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This fixes the HTML
I18N/L10N
- [27416] String 'Modify tag' in breadcrumb is untranslatable
Notices
- [24447] POD of C4::Members::Messaging::GetMessagingPreferences() is misleading
Searching - Zebra
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[27299] Zebra phrase register is incorrectly tokenized when using ICU
Previously, Zebra indexing in ICU mode was incorrectly tokenizing text for the "p" register. This meant that particular phrase searches were not working as expected. With this change, phrase searching works the same in ICU and CHR modes.
Templates
- [27457] Set focus for cursor to Debit type code field when creating new debit type
Documentation
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is
As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available:
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
Translations
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:
- Arabic (98%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (100%)
- Basque (55.8%)
- Catalan; Valencian (50.6%)
- Chinese (China) (57%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (98.7%)
- Czech (90.9%)
- English (New Zealand) (78.4%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (74.3%)
- French (97%)
- French (Canada) (93.9%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (80.9%)
- Greek (71.3%)
- Hindi (99.8%)
- Italian (87.1%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (79.8%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (83.5%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (53.1%)
- Polish (78.6%)
- Portuguese (99.5%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (99.5%)
- Slovak (83.2%)
- Spanish (99.8%)
- Swedish (85.1%)
- Telugu (95.7%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (74.5%)
- Vietnamese (51.6%)
Partial translations are available for various other languages.
The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
Release Team
The release team for Koha 19.11.14 is
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Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
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Release Manager assistants:
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
- Marcel de Rooy
- Joonas Kylmälä
- Josef Moravec
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Nick Clemens
- Kyle Hall
- Martin Renvoize
- Alex Arnaud
- Julian Maurice
- Matthias Meusburger
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Topic Experts:
- Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
- CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger
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Bug Wranglers:
- Michal Denár
- Holly Cooper
- Henry Bolshaw
- Lisette Scheer
- Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
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Packaging Manager: Mason James
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Documentation Managers:
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- David Nind
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Documentation Team:
- Martin Renvoize
- Donna Bachowski
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Kelly McElligott
- Jessica Zairo
- Chris Cormack
- Henry Bolshaw
- Jon Drucker
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Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
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Release Maintainers:
- 20.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia
- 19.05 -- Victor Grousset
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Release Maintainer mentors:
- 19.11 -- Hayley Mapley
- 19.05 -- Martin Renvoize
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.14.
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (8)
- Eden Bacani (2)
- Nick Clemens (4)
- David Cook (1)
- Jonathan Druart (8)
- Victor Grousset (1)
- Amy King (1)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Catherine Ma (1)
- Martin Renvoize (1)
- Andreas Roussos (2)
- Lisette Scheer (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.14
- Athens County Public Libraries (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (4)
- Dataly Tech (2)
- Independant Individuals (4)
- Koha Community Developers (9)
- Latah County Library District (1)
- Prosentient Systems (1)
- PTFS-Europe (1)
- Theke Solutions (8)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- Nick Clemens (3)
- David Cook (1)
- Jonathan Druart (16)
- Katrin Fischer (5)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (31)
- Victor Grousset (34)
- Kyle M Hall (10)
- Barbara Johnson (2)
- Mazen Khallaf (1)
- Owen Leonard (2)
- Kelly McElligott (1)
- David Nind (2)
- Martin Renvoize (13)
- Fridolin Somers (25)
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:
He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)
Autogenerated release notes updated last on 09 Feb 2021 11:46:37.