1 # RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.08
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 19.11.08 can be downloaded from:
13 - [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.11.08.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 19.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
22 It includes 8 enhancements, 18 bugfixes.
24 ### System requirements
26 Koha is continiously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
29 - Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)
30 - Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1
31 - Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3
32 - Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1
33 - Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)
37 - Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)
38 - Zebra or Elasticsearch is required
47 - [[25789]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25789) New expiration date on placing a hold in staff interface can be set to a date in the past
49 **Sponsored by** *Koha-Suomi Oy*
53 - [[22807]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22807) Accessibility: Add 'Skip to main content' link
54 - [[25151]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25151) Accessibility: The 'Your cart' page does not contain a level-one header
55 - [[25154]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25154) Accessibility: The 'Search results' page does not use heading markup where content is introduced
56 - [[25236]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25236) Accessibility: The 'Refine your search' box contains semantically incorrect headings
57 - [[25238]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25238) Accessibility: Multiple 'H1' headings exist in the full record display
58 - [[25239]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25239) Accessibility: The 'Confirm hold page' contains semantically incorrect headings
62 - [[4985]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4985) Copy a change on the calendar to all libraries
64 **Sponsored by** *Koha-Suomi Oy*
67 ## Critical bugs fixed
69 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
71 - [[24986]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24986) Maximum row size reached soon for borrowers and deletedborrowers
73 ### MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
75 - [[25861]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25861) [19.11] Cannot copy MARC frameworks
77 **Sponsored by** *Catalyst*
79 >Bug 17232 updated some SQL queries used when adding new MARC bibliographic frameworks. When backported to 19.11.x, it referenced a column `important` that does not exist in the marc_tag_structure table or marc_subfield_structure table in 19.11.x. This patch removes the references to `important` so that adding new bibliographic frameworks works again.
83 - [[22672]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22672) Replace <i> tags with <em> AND <b> tags with <strong> in the OPAC
84 - [[25769]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25769) Patron self modification triggers change request for date of birth to null
86 ### Searching - Elasticsearch
88 - [[25864]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25864) Case sensitivity breaks searching of some fields in ES5
95 - [[25611]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25611) Changing the vendor when creating the basket does not keep that new vendor
97 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
99 - [[25875]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25875) Patron displayed multiple times in add user search if they have multiple sub permissions
103 - [[25553]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25553) Edit item date sort does not sort correctly
105 ### Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
107 - [[25491]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25491) Perl warning at the login page of installer
111 - [[11994]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11994) Fix OpenSearch discovery in the OPAC
113 >OpenSearch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch) allows you to search your library's catalog directly from the browser address bar or search box. This fixes the OpenSearch feature so that it now works correctly in Firefox. Note: make sure OPACBaseURL is correctly set.
114 - [[24352]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24352) Wrong labels displaying in result list with OpacItemLocation
116 >This fixes the OPAC's MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference.
118 >Previously, search results showed the label "Location(s)" whether the
119 >setting was "collection code" or "location."
120 - [[25434]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25434) When viewing cart on small screen sizes selections-toolbar is hidden
124 - [[25509]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25509) Remove useless libjs-jquery dependency
128 - [[25570]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25570) Listing requests should be paginated by default
132 - [[25805]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25805) SIP will show hold patron name (DA) as something like C4::SIP::SIPServer=HASH(0x88175c8) if there is no patron
136 - [[25756]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25756) Empty HTML table row after OPAC "Appearance" preferences
140 - [[25447]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25447) Terminology: Fix button text "Edit biblio"
142 >This updates the text on the cataloging main page so that in the menu for each search result the "Edit biblio" link is now "Edit record."
146 - [[25793]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25793) OAI 'Set' and 'Metadata' dropdowns broken by OPAC jQuery upgrade
151 The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
154 - [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/)
156 As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
157 Koha manual is available:
159 - [Koha Manual](http://koha-community.org/manual/19.11/en/html/)
162 The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
164 - [Koha Git Repository](https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual)
168 Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
169 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
173 - Armenian (Classical) (100%)
175 - Catalan; Valencian (50.9%)
176 - Chinese (China) (57.3%)
177 - Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
179 - English (New Zealand) (78.8%)
183 - French (Canada) (94.2%)
185 - German (Switzerland) (81.3%)
189 - Norwegian Bokmål (83.8%)
190 - Occitan (post 1500) (53.4%)
193 - Portuguese (Brazil) (99.8%)
202 Partial translations are available for various other languages.
204 The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
206 - [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha)
208 For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
211 - [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate)
213 The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
215 - [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/)
219 The release team for Koha 19.11.08 is
222 - Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
224 - Release Manager assistants:
228 - QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
240 - Matthias Meusburger
243 - Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians
244 - REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
245 - UI Design -- Owen Leonard
246 - Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
247 - Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
248 - CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger
257 - Packaging Manager: Mason James
260 - Documentation Managers:
261 - Caroline Cyr La Rose
264 - Documentation Team:
274 - Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
277 - Release Maintainers:
278 - 20.05 -- Lucas Gass
279 - 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia
280 - 19.05 -- Victor Grousset
282 - Release Maintainer mentors:
283 - 19.11 -- Hayley Mapley
284 - 19.05 -- Martin Renvoize
287 We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
288 new features in Koha 19.11.08:
290 - [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha)
293 We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.08.
296 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
299 - Jonathan Druart (4)
305 - Martin Renvoize (9)
306 - Andreas Roussos (1)
309 - Koha Translators (1)
311 We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
312 patches to Koha 19.11.08
314 - Athens County Public Libraries (5)
315 - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2)
316 - ByWater-Solutions (9)
319 - Independant Individuals (11)
320 - Koha Community Developers (4)
321 - Prosentient Systems (1)
323 - Theke Solutions (4)
325 We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
328 - Aleisha Amohia (40)
329 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
332 - Jonathan Druart (39)
333 - Katrin Fischer (22)
336 - Heather Hernandez (1)
342 - Martin Renvoize (14)
344 - Timothy Alexis Vass (1)
345 - Christofer Zorn (1)
347 We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
352 We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
353 please send a patch against these release notes to
354 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
356 ## Revision control notes
358 The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
359 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
361 - [Koha Git Repository](git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git)
363 The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
366 ## Bugs and feature requests
368 Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
371 - [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org)
373 He rau ringa e oti ai.
374 (Many hands finish the work)
376 Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jul 2020 00:57:05.