RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.12

29 Apr 2019

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 18.05.12 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 31 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Circulation

• [20450] Add collection to list of items when placing hold on specific copy

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [22611] Typo introduced into Koha::EDI by bug 15685

Cataloging

• [21049] Rancor 007 field does not retain value

Circulation

• [21346] Clean up dialogs in returns.pl

Course reserves

• [22652] Editing Course reserves is broken

Web services

• [21832] Restore is_expired in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [20782] EDI: Clicking the 'Invoice' link on the 'EDI Messages' page does not take you directly to the corresponding invoice
• [21659] Link to basket groups from order receive page are broken
• [22444] currencies_manage permission doesn't provide link to manage currencies when selected alone

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [22607] Default value in issues.renewals should be '0' not null

Cataloging

• [10345] Copy number should be incremented when adding multiple items at once

Circulation

• [13763] Renew feature does not check for the BarcodeInputFilter option

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [21013] Missing itemtype for checkut makes patron summary print explode
• [22536] Display problem in Holds to Pull report

Command-line Utilities

• [17746] koha-reset-passwd should use Koha::Patron->set_password

Course reserves

• [21003] Don't show warning when editing a reserve item

Hold requests

• [21263] Pickup library not set correctly when using Default holds policy by item type

I18N/L10N

• [19497] Translatability: Get rid of "Edit [% field.name |html %] field"

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Notices

• [14358] Changing the module refreshes the page and resets library choice
• [20937] PrintNoticesMaxLines is not effective for overdue notices with a print type specified where a patron has an email

OPAC

• [13629] SingleBranchMode removes both library and availability search from advanced search
• [22075] Encoding problem with RIS export
• [22560] Forgotten password "token expired" page still shows boxes to reset password
• [22561] Forgotten password requirements hint doesn't list all rules for new passwords
• [22620] OPAC description for collection in opac-reserve.tt
• [22624] Show OPAC description for authorised values in OPAC

Searching

• [12441] search.pl has incorrect reference to OPACdefaultSortField and OPACdefaultSortOrder

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

• [20823] UNIMARC XSLT does not display 604$t

Searching - Elasticsearch

• [19670] search_marc_map.marc_field should have COLLATE= utf8mb4_bin

Serials

• [13735] Item form in serials module doesn't respect max length set in the frameworks

System Administration

• [22575] Item type administration uses invalid error class for dialog

Templates

• [21130] Detail XSLT produces translatable HTML class

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

• 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 (99.4%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (72.2%)
• Chinese (China) (76.9%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.5%)
• Czech (92.1%)
• Danish (63.4%)
• English (New Zealand) (95.2%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (92.1%)
• French (98.5%)
• French (Canada) (93.7%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (98.1%)
• Greek (80.5%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (97.1%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (67.3%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (70.2%)
• Persian (52.9%)
• Polish (93.4%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (87.2%)
• Slovak (97.6%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (93.6%)
• Turkish (99.5%)
• Vietnamese (64.9%)

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 18.05.12 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Chris Cormack
• Topic Experts:
  • SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
  • EDI -- Colin Campbell
  • Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
  • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Jon Knight
  • Indranil Das Gupta
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose

• Documentation Team:

  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
• Release Maintainers:
  • 18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
  • 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
  • 17.11 -- Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 18.05 -- Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.05.12:

• Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.12.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
• Philippe Blouin (1)
• David Bourgault (1)
• Christopher Brannon (4)
• Colin Campbell (1)
• Nick Clemens (3)
• Jonathan Druart (4)
• Katrin Fischer (6)
• Lucas Gass (5)
• Owen Leonard (8)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Hayley Mapley (5)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Josef Moravec (2)
• Björn Nylen (1)
• Martin Renvoize (4)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Lyon 3 Team (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.12

• ACPL (8)
• BibLibre (7)
• BSZ BW (6)
• ByWater-Solutions (8)
• Catalyst (5)
• Coeur D'Alene Public Library (4)
• Independant Individuals (3)
• Koha Community Developers (4)
• PTFS-Europe (5)
• Rijks Museum (1)
• Solutions inLibro inc (2)
• Theke Solutions (4)
• ub.lu.se (1)
• University of Helsinki (1)
• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
• Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (3)
• Nick Clemens (45)
• Chris Cormack (4)
• Michal Denar (3)
• Devinim (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Katrin Fischer (21)
• Lucas Gass (50)
• Kyle Hall (4)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Lisette (3)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Hayley Mapley (2)
• Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (2)
• Josef Moravec (10)
• Séverine Queune (1)
• Liz Rea (14)
• Martin Renvoize (67)
• David Roberts (1)
• Marcel de Rooy (7)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
• Bin Wen (4)

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 rmain1805.

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 29 Apr 2019 05:13:28.