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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.12.00

18 Dec 2018

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 18.12.00 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.12.00 is a major release, that comes with many new features.

It includes 1 enhancements, 29 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21896] Add Koha::Account::reconcile_balance

Adds a business logic level routine for reconciling user account balances.

Critical bugs fixed

(This list includes all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21910] Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children
  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Authentication

  • [21973] CAS URL escaped twice, preventing login

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Circulation

  • [18805] Currently it is impossible to apply credits against debits in patron accounts

This patch adds an Apply Credits button to the accounts interface to allow a librarian to apply outstanding credits against outstanding debits.

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

Hold requests

  • [21608] Arranging holds priority with dropdowns is faulty when there are waiting/intransit holds

I18N/L10N

  • [21895] Translations fail on upgrade to 18.11.00 (package installation)

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

OPAC

  • [21911] Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups
  • [21950] Searching with 'accents' breaks on navigating to the second page of results

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Reports

  • [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters

Searching - Elasticsearch

  • [20261] No result in some page in authority search opac and pro (ES)

Staff Client

  • [21405] Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES

Other bugs fixed

(This list includes all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

About

  • [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21759] Avoid manually setting amountoutstanding in _FixAccountForLostAndReturned

This patch results in a proper offset always being recorded for auditing purposes when a user is refunded after returning a previously lost item.

  • [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered
  • [21969] Koha::Account->outstanding_* should look for debits/credits by checking 'amount'

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

I18N/L10N

  • [21736] Localization widget messages are not translatable

MARC Authority data support

  • [21880] "Relationship information" disappears when accessing paginated results in authority searches

OPAC

  • [21947] Filtering order generates html in notes

Packaging

  • [21897] Typo in postinst affecting zebra configuration file installation

System Administration

  • [21961] Typo in permission keeps Did you mean? config from showing up

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

Tools

  • [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input

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

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 (98.8%)
  • Armenian (99.9%)
  • Basque (72.6%)
  • Chinese (China) (77.1%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (63.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (92.5%)
  • French (98.9%)
  • French (Canada) (94.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (98.5%)
  • Greek (80.4%)
  • Hindi (98.8%)
  • Italian (97.4%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (67.7%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
  • Persian (53%)
  • Polish (93.8%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.6%)
  • Slovak (94.4%)
  • Spanish (98.8%)
  • Swedish (94%)
  • Turkish (99.3%)
  • Vietnamese (65.2%)

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 18.12.00 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.12.00.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
  • Nick Clemens (14)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Kyle Hall (3)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.12.00

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • BSZ BW (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (17)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Independant Individuals (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (8)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijks Museum (2)
  • The City of Joensuu (1)
  • Theke Solutions (9)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Christopher Brannon (3)
  • Nick Clemens (52)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (9)
  • Kyle Hall (6)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (5)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Julian Maurice (5)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Martin Renvoize (22)
  • Marcel de Rooy (17)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (3)

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 master.

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 18 Dec 2018 10:47:25.