RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.05.21

06 May 2024

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 22.05.21 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.05.21 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 15 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

• 19613 Scrub borrowers fields: borrowernotes opacnote
• 30524 Add base framework for dealing with CSRF in Koha
• 36149 userenv stored in plack worker's memory and survive from one request to another

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

• 29510 objects.find should call search_limited if present
• 35890 AutoLocation system preference + setting the library IP field - can still login and unexpected results

Other bugs fixed

• 35918 Incorrect library used when AutoLocation configured using the same IP
• 36072 Can request articles even if ArticleRequests is off
• 36092 sessionID not passed to the template on auth.tt

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

• 36034 cas_ticket is set to serialized patron object in session

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

• 35343 record method, required for bug 26611, missing from Koha::Authority
• 36511 Some scripts missing a dependency following Bug 24879

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

• 35518 Call to C4::Context->userenv happens before it's gets populated breaks code logic in circulation

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

• 35941 OPAC user can guess clubs of other users

Other bugs fixed

• 35942 OPAC user can enroll several times to the same club

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

• 35904 C4::Auth::checkauth cannot be tested easily

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

• 27342 Improve readability and improvement of C4::Auth::get_template_and_user
• 36328 C4::Scrubber should allow more HTML tags

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, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

• Chinese (Traditional) (70%)

• English (100%)
• English (USA)
• French (41%)
• German (40%)
• Hindi (81%)

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:

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 22.05.21 is

• Release Manager: Katrin Fischer

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart

• QA Manager: Marcel de Rooy

• QA Team:

  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Julian Maurice
  • Lucas Gass
  • Victor Grousset
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Nick Clemens
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Emily Lamancusa
  • David Cook
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Pedor Amorim

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
  • Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
  • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • ERM -- Matt Blenkinsop
  • ILL -- Pedro Amorim
  • SIP2 -- Matthias Meusburger
  • CAS -- Matthias Meusburger

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Indranil Das Gupta

• Packaging Managers:

  • Mason James
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi

• Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

• Documentation Team:

  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Kelly McElligott
  • Philip Orr
  • Marie-Luce Laflamme
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart

• Wiki curators:

  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Katrin Fischer

• Release Maintainers:

  • 23.11 -- Fridolin Somers
  • 23.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 22.11 -- Frédéric Demians
  • 22.05 -- Danyon Sewell

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 22.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.05.21

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 22.05.21

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

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@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 22.05.x-security.

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 06 May 2024 01:46:38.