From 781c90b3f76619a307ba6ecce39ee5e3b43ab5cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleisha Amohia Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:55:28 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes for 19.11.08 release Signed-off-by: Aleisha Amohia --- .../release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.html | 464 ++++++++++++++++++ misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.md | 376 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 840 insertions(+) create mode 100644 misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.html create mode 100644 misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.md diff --git a/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.html b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1f93245a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.html @@ -0,0 +1,464 @@ +

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.08

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22 Jul 2020

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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:

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Koha 19.11.08 can be downloaded from:

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Installation instructions can be found at:

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Koha 19.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

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It includes 8 enhancements, 18 bugfixes.

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System requirements

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Koha is continiously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for +deployment:

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Additional notes:

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Enhancements

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Hold requests

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OPAC

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Tools

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Critical bugs fixed

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Architecture, internals, and plumbing

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MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

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OPAC

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Searching - Elasticsearch

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Other bugs fixed

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Acquisitions

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Architecture, internals, and plumbing

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Cataloging

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Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

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OPAC

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Packaging

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REST API

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SIP2

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Staff Client

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Templates

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Web services

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Documentation

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The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha +documentation is

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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

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Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff +interface are available in this release for the following languages:

+ + + +

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

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The release team for Koha 19.11.08 is

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Credits

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We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored +new features in Koha 19.11.08:

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We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.08.

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We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed +patches to Koha 19.11.08

+ + + +

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

+ + + +

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

+ + + +

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

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The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development +version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:

+ + + +

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 22 Jul 2020 00:57:05.

diff --git a/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.md b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a8eacd94a --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_08.md @@ -0,0 +1,376 @@ +# RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.08 +22 Jul 2020 + +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](http://koha-community.org) + +Koha 19.11.08 can be downloaded from: + +- [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.11.08.tar.gz) + +Installation instructions can be found at: + +- [Koha Wiki](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation) +- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball + +Koha 19.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release. + +It includes 8 enhancements, 18 bugfixes. + +### System requirements + +Koha is continiously 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 + +### Hold requests + +- [[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 + + **Sponsored by** *Koha-Suomi Oy* + +### OPAC + +- [[22807]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22807) Accessibility: Add 'Skip to main content' link +- [[25151]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25151) Accessibility: The 'Your cart' page does not contain a level-one header +- [[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 +- [[25236]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25236) Accessibility: The 'Refine your search' box contains semantically incorrect headings +- [[25238]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25238) Accessibility: Multiple 'H1' headings exist in the full record display +- [[25239]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25239) Accessibility: The 'Confirm hold page' contains semantically incorrect headings + +### Tools + +- [[4985]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4985) Copy a change on the calendar to all libraries + + **Sponsored by** *Koha-Suomi Oy* + + +## Critical bugs fixed + +### Architecture, internals, and plumbing + +- [[24986]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24986) Maximum row size reached soon for borrowers and deletedborrowers + +### MARC Bibliographic record staging/import + +- [[25861]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25861) [19.11] Cannot copy MARC frameworks + + **Sponsored by** *Catalyst* + + >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. + +### OPAC + +- [[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 +- [[25769]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25769) Patron self modification triggers change request for date of birth to null + +### Searching - Elasticsearch + +- [[25864]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25864) Case sensitivity breaks searching of some fields in ES5 + + +## Other bugs fixed + +### Acquisitions + +- [[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 + +### Architecture, internals, and plumbing + +- [[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 + +### Cataloging + +- [[25553]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25553) Edit item date sort does not sort correctly + +### Installation and upgrade (web-based installer) + +- [[25491]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25491) Perl warning at the login page of installer + +### OPAC + +- [[11994]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11994) Fix OpenSearch discovery in the OPAC + + >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. +- [[24352]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24352) Wrong labels displaying in result list with OpacItemLocation + + >This fixes the OPAC's MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference. + > + >Previously, search results showed the label "Location(s)" whether the + >setting was "collection code" or "location." +- [[25434]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25434) When viewing cart on small screen sizes selections-toolbar is hidden + +### Packaging + +- [[25509]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25509) Remove useless libjs-jquery dependency + +### REST API + +- [[25570]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25570) Listing requests should be paginated by default + +### SIP2 + +- [[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 + +### Staff Client + +- [[25756]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25756) Empty HTML table row after OPAC "Appearance" preferences + +### Templates + +- [[25447]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25447) Terminology: Fix button text "Edit biblio" + + >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." + +### Web services + +- [[25793]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25793) OAI 'Set' and 'Metadata' dropdowns broken by OPAC jQuery upgrade + + +## Documentation + +The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha +documentation is + +- [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/) + +As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the +Koha manual is available: + +- [Koha Manual](http://koha-community.org/manual/19.11/en/html/) + + +The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at + +- [Koha Git Repository](https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual) + +## Translations + +Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff +interface are available in this release for the following languages: + +- Arabic (98.2%) +- Armenian (99.8%) +- Armenian (Classical) (100%) +- Basque (56%) +- Catalan; Valencian (50.9%) +- Chinese (China) (57.3%) +- Chinese (Taiwan) (99%) +- Czech (91.1%) +- English (New Zealand) (78.8%) +- English (USA) +- Finnish (74.7%) +- French (95.3%) +- French (Canada) (94.2%) +- German (100%) +- German (Switzerland) (81.3%) +- Greek (70.6%) +- Hindi (100%) +- Italian (86.2%) +- Norwegian Bokmål (83.8%) +- Occitan (post 1500) (53.4%) +- Polish (78.8%) +- Portuguese (100%) +- Portuguese (Brazil) (99.8%) +- Slovak (83.5%) +- Spanish (100%) +- Swedish (85.5%) +- Telugu (93.7%) +- Turkish (100%) +- Ukrainian (74.8%) +- Vietnamese (51.5%) + +Partial translations are available for various other languages. + +The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see + +- [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha) + +For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate +list to volunteer: + +- [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate) + +The most up-to-date translations can be found at: + +- [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/) + +## Release Team + +The release team for Koha 19.11.08 is + + +- Release Manager: Jonathan Druart + +- Release Manager assistants: + - Martin Renvoize + - Tomás Cohen Arazi + +- QA Manager: Katrin Fischer + +- QA Team: + - Marcel de Rooy + - Joonas Kylmälä + - Josef Moravec + - Tomás Cohen Arazi + - Nick Clemens + - Kyle Hall + - Martin Renvoize + - Alex Arnaud + - Julian Maurice + - Matthias Meusburger + +- Topic Experts: + - Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians + - REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi + - UI Design -- Owen Leonard + - Zebra -- Fridolin Somers + - Accounts -- Martin Renvoize + - CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger + +- Bug Wranglers: + - Michal Denár + - Holly Cooper + - Henry Bolshaw + - Lisette Scheer + - Mengü Yazıcıoğlu + +- Packaging Manager: Mason James + + +- Documentation Managers: + - Caroline Cyr La Rose + - David Nind + +- Documentation Team: + - Martin Renvoize + - Donna Bachowski + - Lucy Vaux-Harvey + - Kelly McElligott + - Jessica Zairo + - Chris Cormack + - Henry Bolshaw + - Jon Drucker + +- Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel + + +- Release Maintainers: + - 20.05 -- Lucas Gass + - 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia + - 19.05 -- Victor Grousset + +- Release Maintainer mentors: + - 19.11 -- Hayley Mapley + - 19.05 -- Martin Renvoize + +## Credits +We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored +new features in Koha 19.11.08: + +- [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) +- Koha-Suomi Oy + +We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.08. + +- Aleisha Amohia (7) +- Tomás Cohen Arazi (4) +- Nick Clemens (4) +- David Cook (1) +- Jonathan Druart (4) +- Katrin Fischer (2) +- Lucas Gass (3) +- Kyle Hall (2) +- Owen Leonard (5) +- Hayley Mapley (1) +- Martin Renvoize (9) +- Andreas Roussos (1) +- Slava Shishkin (1) +- Emmi Takkinen (3) +- Koha Translators (1) + +We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed +patches to Koha 19.11.08 + +- Athens County Public Libraries (5) +- Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2) +- ByWater-Solutions (9) +- Catalyst (1) +- Dataly Tech (1) +- Independant Individuals (11) +- Koha Community Developers (4) +- Prosentient Systems (1) +- PTFS-Europe (9) +- Theke Solutions (4) + +We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches +for Koha. + +- Aleisha Amohia (40) +- Tomás Cohen Arazi (2) +- Alex Arnaud (2) +- Alex Buckley (1) +- Jonathan Druart (39) +- Katrin Fischer (22) +- Lucas Gass (38) +- Sally Healey (7) +- Heather Hernandez (1) +- Rhonda Kuiper (1) +- Owen Leonard (5) +- Hayley Mapley (4) +- Julian Maurice (4) +- David Nind (5) +- Martin Renvoize (14) +- Emmi Takkinen (1) +- Timothy Alexis Vass (1) +- Christofer Zorn (1) + +We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project. + +- Andrew Nugged + + +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](git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git) + +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: + +- [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org) + +He rau ringa e oti ai. +(Many hands finish the work) + +Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jul 2020 00:57:05. -- 2.39.5