1 # RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.06
4 Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
5 package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
6 and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
7 website for the Koha project is:
9 - [Koha Community](http://koha-community.org)
11 Koha 21.05.06 can be downloaded from:
13 - [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-21.05.06.tar.gz)
15 Installation instructions can be found at:
17 - [Koha Wiki](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation)
18 - OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
20 Koha 21.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
22 It includes 3 enhancements, 63 bugfixes.
24 ### System requirements
26 You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations
33 ### Plugin architecture
35 - [[27173]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27173) Add plugin hooks for authority record changes
37 >This enhancement allows plugin authors to implement an `after_authority_action` method in order to act upon authority create, modify and delete.
38 - [[28474]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28474) Pass process_message_queue.pl params to before_send_messages plugin hooks
40 >This enhancement passes the parameters received by process_message_queue.pl through to the before_send_messages plugin calls. This allows plugins to respect calls that should only affect certain letter codes etc.
44 - [[17314]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17314) Routes to create, list and delete a purchase suggestion
47 ## Critical bugs fixed
51 - [[14999]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14999) Adding to basket orders from staged files mixes up the prices between different orders
52 - [[29283]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29283) Cannot delete basket with cancelled order for deleted biblio
54 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
56 - [[26374]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26374) Update for 19974 is not idempotent
57 - [[29330]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29330) Koha cannot send emails with attachments using Koha::Email and message_queue table
58 - [[29386]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29386) background jobs table data field is a TEXT which is too small
62 - [[29255]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29255) Built-in offline circulation broken with SQL error
64 ### Command-line Utilities
66 - [[28994]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28994) Make writeoff_debts.pl use amountoutstanding, not amount
70 - [[28803]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28803) process_message_queue.pl dies if any messsages in the message queue contain an invalid to_address
71 - [[29223]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29223) Auto-renewals can fail when not digested per branch and patron requests digest
75 - [[28870]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28870) Cart shipping fails because of Non-ASCII characters in display-name of reply-to address
76 - [[29318]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29318) OverDrive search page should not require edit_borrowers permission
77 - [[29416]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29416) Regression: information from existing bib no longer populating on suggest for purchase
79 >This restores the behaviour for purchase suggestions for an existing title, so that the suggestion form is pre-filled with the details from the existing record.
83 - [[29341]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29341) If OpacRenewalBranch = opacrenew, pseudonymization process leads to "internal server error" when patrons renew the loans at OPAC
84 - [[29524]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29524) Cannot set a new value for privacy_guarantor_checkouts in memberentry.pl
88 - [[28585]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28585) Cannot search on date fields
90 >This patch fixes the date handling for query parsing from the API. We use dt_from_string to convert out RFC3339 formatted date strings to DateTime objects with an associated timezone and then user the native datetime formatted provided by the SQL connection library to convert to an appropriately formated date time string.
91 - [[29272]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29272) API not respecting $category->effective_change_password
95 - [[29204]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29204) Error 500 when execute Circulation report with date period
99 - [[26871]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26871) L1 cache still too long in SIP Server
101 >This fixes SIP connections so that when system preference and configuration changes are made (for example: enabling or disabling logging of issues and returns) they are picked up automatically with the next message, rather than requiring the SIP connection to be closed and reopened.
103 >SIP connections typically tend to be long lived - weeks if not months. Basically the connection per SIP machine is initiated once when the SIP machine boots and then never closed until maintenance is required. Therefore we need to reset Koha's caches on every SIP request to get the latest system preference and configuration changes from the memcached cache that is shared between all the Koha programs (staff interface, OPAC, SIP, cronjobs, etc).
104 - [[29264]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29264) SIP config allows use of non-branchcode institution ids causes workers to die without responding
106 >This adds a warning to the logs where a SIP login uses an institution id that is *not* a valid library code.
108 >If a SIP login uses an institution with an id that doesn't match a valid branchcode, everything will appear to work, but the SIP worker will die anywhere that Koha gets the branch from the userenv and assumes it is valid.
110 >The repercussions of this are that actions such as the checkout message simply die and do not return a response message to the requestor.
114 - [[29152]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29152) Change to default search behavior when limiting by branch
116 ### Searching - Elasticsearch
118 - [[29284]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29284) Koha dies when an analytics search fails in Elasticsearch
122 - [[28573]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28573) Replace authority record with Z39.50/SRU creates new authority record
124 ### System Administration
126 - [[28729]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28729) Return-path header not set in emails
133 - [[28904]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28904) Update information on Newsletter editor on about page
134 - [[29123]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29123) Add Dataly Tech to About page
135 - [[29300]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29300) Release team 22.05
139 - [[27708]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27708) Cannot create EDI order if AcqCreateItem value is not "placing an order"
140 - [[28627]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28627) Revert the order receive page to display 'Actual cost' as ecost_tax_included/ecost_tax_excluded if unitprice not set
142 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
144 - [[29218]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29218) "hidden" class is not working for DT if column visibility button is used
145 - [[29321]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29321) Remove a last without loop context
146 - [[29350]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29350) TT method 'delete' don't need to be escaped
147 - [[29408]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29408) The datatables api wrapper is ambiguously named
149 >This patch 1) renames the Koha REST JS dataTables wrapper from the
150 >ambiguous 'api' to the clearer 'kohaTable' 2) goes through the codebase and updates existing relevant calls to .api referencing the Koha REST dataTables wrapper to use the name 'kohaTable', and 3) adds JSDoc formatted parameter documentation for the kohaTable function.
154 - [[29319]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29319) Errors when doing a cataloging search which starts with a number + letter
156 >This fixes an error that occurs in cataloging search when entering a search term with ten characters (like "7th Heaven" or "2nd editio") - Koha thinks you are entering an ISBN10 number, gets confused and delivers an error page. Searching now works as expected for ISBN13/ISBN10 (without the '-'s), title and author searches.
157 - [[29437]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29437) 500 error when performing a catalog search for an ISBN13 with no valid ISBN10
161 - [[29309]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29309) 'Pay all fines' should be 'Pay all charges'
163 ### Label/patron card printing
165 - [[25459]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25459) In patron cards layout, barcode position doesn't respect units
169 - [[29460]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29460) Typo 'pendin g approval'
173 - [[28768]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28768) OPAC reading history page (opac-readingrecord.pl) wont display news items
174 - [[28901]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28901) showCart incorrectly calculates position if content above navbar
175 - [[28910]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28910) Correct eslint errors in OPAC basket.js
176 - [[29329]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29329) stray "s" in opac-detail
180 - [[27145]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27145) Patron deletion via intranet doesn't handle exceptions well
181 - [[28973]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28973) Improve Koha::Patron::can_see_patron_infos efficiency
182 - [[29213]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29213) Typo ol in member-alt-contact-style.inc
183 - [[29227]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29227) Patron messaging preferences digest show as editable but are not
187 - [[28613]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28613) Several objects.search-based routes missing parameters
188 - [[29405]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29405) The patron spec for date_renewed is missing it's format definition
190 >This fix adds the date format string to the date_renewed field. This is to ensure that the date_renewed field can be correctly validated.
194 - [[27884]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27884) Add HTML mail support for patron emailer script
195 - [[29328]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29328) Add missing list parameter to reports parameter menu
196 - [[29352]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29352) Runtime parameter labels should not be said to be optional
200 - [[29452]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29452) Unnecessary warns in sip logs
204 - [[28365]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28365) (Bug 19873 follow-up) Make it possible to search on value 0
205 - [[28847]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28847) Branch limits while searching should be expanded in query building and not in CGI
209 - [[28913]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28913) Automatic checkin setting in item type setup should note required cronjob
210 - [[29195]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29195) Highlighting broken on odd rows in circ-patron-search-results
212 ### System Administration
214 - [[29075]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29075) OPAC info should not be displayed in libraries table
215 - [[29456]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29456) "Auto renewal" and "Hold reminder" notice shown as "unknown" on the patron category list view
219 - [[29286]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29286) Typo: Librarien will need the manage_auth_values subpermission.
223 - [[29306]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29306) Holds.t: Fix Use of uninitialized value $_ in concatenation (.) or string
224 - [[29315]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29315) Remove warnings from Search.t
225 - [[29363]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29363) TestBuilder.t failing if biblionumber=123 does not exist
226 - [[29364]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29364) Search.t not reverting changes made to the framework
230 - [[21105]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21105) oai.pl returns invalid earliestDatestamp
232 **Sponsored by** *Reformational Study Centre*
234 >This fixes the date format in OAI-PMH for Identify.earliestDatestamp so that it uses "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ" and is in UTC, instead of the SQL formsat "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" currently used. For OAI-PMH all date and time values must be in the format "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ" and in UTC.
240 The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
243 - [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/)
245 As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:
248 - [Arabic](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/ar/html/) (34.3%)
249 - [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/zh_TW/html/) (58.7%)
250 - [Czech](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/cs/html/) (27.6%)
251 - [English (USA)](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/en/html/)
252 - [French](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/fr/html/) (51.8%)
253 - [French (Canada)](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/fr_CA/html/) (25.2%)
254 - [German](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/de/html/) (73.5%)
255 - [Hindi](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/hi/html/) (100%)
256 - [Italian](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/it/html/) (48.1%)
257 - [Spanish](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/es/html/) (34.8%)
258 - [Turkish](https://koha-community.org/manual/21.05/tr/html/) (40.3%)
260 The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
262 - [Koha Git Repository](https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual)
267 Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
268 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
272 - Armenian (Classical) (89%)
273 - Chinese (Taiwan) (82.3%)
275 - English (New Zealand) (61.5%)
279 - French (Canada) (87.6%)
281 - German (Switzerland) (60.8%)
285 - Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.7%)
286 - Norwegian Bokmål (65.9%)
289 - Portuguese (Brazil) (87.2%)
298 Partial translations are available for various other languages.
300 The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
302 - [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha)
304 For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
307 - [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate)
309 The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
311 - [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/)
315 The release team for Koha 21.05.06 is
318 - Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
320 - Release Manager assistants:
324 - QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
341 - UI Design -- Owen Leonard
342 - REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
343 - Elasticsearch -- Fridolin Somers
344 - Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
345 - Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
353 - Documentation Manager: David Nind
356 - Documentation Team:
360 - Translation Managers:
361 - Bernardo González Kriegel
366 - Release Maintainers:
367 - 21.05 -- Kyle M Hall
368 - 20.11 -- Fridolin Somers
369 - 20.05 -- Victor Grousset
370 - 19.11 -- Wainui Witika-Park
372 - Release Maintainer assistants:
373 - 21.05 -- Nick Clemens
375 - Release Maintainer mentors:
376 - 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia
379 We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
380 new features in Koha 21.05.06
382 - Reformational Study Centre
384 We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.06
386 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (22)
387 - Jérémy Breuillard (1)
390 - Christophe Croullebois (1)
391 - Jonathan Druart (19)
394 - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
396 - David Gustafsson (2)
401 - Martin Renvoize (16)
403 - Andreas Roussos (1)
405 - Fridolin Somers (3)
406 - Koha translators (1)
410 We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
411 patches to Koha 21.05.06
413 - Athens County Public Libraries (7)
415 - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2)
416 - ByWater-Solutions (40)
418 - Independant Individuals (9)
419 - Koha Community Developers (19)
424 - Solutions inLibro inc (1)
425 - Theke Solutions (22)
427 We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
430 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)
432 - Jonathan Druart (90)
433 - Katrin Fischer (19)
434 - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (10)
436 - Victor Grousset (2)
438 - Andrew Isherwood (1)
439 - Barbara Johnson (1)
440 - Joonas Kylmälä (19)
442 - Kelly McElligott (1)
444 - Eric Phetteplace (1)
445 - Martin Renvoize (43)
446 - Marcel de Rooy (13)
453 We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
454 please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org.
456 ## Revision control notes
458 The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
459 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
461 - [Koha Git Repository](https://git.koha-community.org/koha-community/koha)
463 The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
466 ## Bugs and feature requests
468 Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
471 - [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org)
473 He rau ringa e oti ai.
474 (Many hands finish the work)
476 Autogenerated release notes updated last on 24 Nov 2021 19:32:31.