RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.11.10

28 Sep 2023

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 22.11.10 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.11.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 67 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

• 34349 Validate inputs for task scheduler
• 34369 Add CSRF protection to system preferences
• 34513 Authenticated users can bypass permissions and view some privileged pages
• 34761 Stored/reflected XSS with searches and saved search filters

Bugfixes

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

• 34509 Cannot create baskets if too many vendors

Other bugs fixed

• 34095 Shipping cost should default to a blank box instead of 0.00
• 34445 Default budget is not selected in addorderiso2709.pl

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

• 30362 GetSoonestRenewDate is technically wrong when NoRenewalBeforePrecision set to date soonest renewal is today
• 34570 Remove use of onclick for PopupMARCFieldDoc()
• 34571 Remove use of onclick for ExpandField

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

• 34163 CSRF error if try OAuth2/OIDC after logout

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

• 33744 Plugins not working on duplicated MARC fields
• 34266 Item type should not default to biblio itemtype if it's not a valid itemtype

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

• 34601 Cannot manage suggestions without CSRF error

Other bugs fixed

• 25023 Claims returned dates not formatted according to dateformat preference
• 32765 Transfer is not retried after cancelling hold
• 34257 Library limitations for item types not respected when batch modding items
• 34341 Revert Bug 34072: Holds queue search interface hidden on small screens
• 34572 Simplify template logic around check-in input form
• 34634 Expiration date does not display on reserve/request.pl if date is today or in the past

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

• 31964 Missing manpage for koha-z3950-responder

  This adds a man page for the koha-z3950-responder command-line utility, documenting all available options and parameters that can be used when running this command.

• 34505 Patron invalid age in search_for_data_inconsistencies.pl should skip expired patrons
• 34569 misc/cronjobs/holds/holds_reminder.pl problem with trigger arg

ERM

Other bugs fixed

• 34219 getAll not allowing additional parameters
• 34465 "Actions" columns are sortable
• 34466 "Clear filter" always disabled

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

• 34620 Writeoff causes 500 error if RequirePaymentType is on

  This fixes writing off a charge when the RequirePaymentType system preference is set to required. The write-off now completes successfully without generating an error page (Patrons > [patron account] > Accounting > Make a payment > Write off an individual charge).

Other bugs fixed

• 34331 Point of sale transaction history is showing the wrong register information
• 34340 Point of sale email template is showing 0.00 in the tendered field

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

• 34609 Holds history errors 500 if old_reserves.biblionumber is NULL
• 34666 _Findgroupreserve is not returning title level matches from the queue for holds with no item group

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

• 34079 The phrase "Displaying [all|approved|pending|rejected] terms" was separated
• 34081 Contextualization of "Approved" (one term) vs "Approved" (more than one term), and other tag statuses
• 34310 Input prompt in datatables column search boxes untranslatable

ILL

Other bugs fixed

• 34223 ILL status filter does not load immediately after selecting a backend filter

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

• 34276 upgrading 23.05 to 23.05.002

Other bugs fixed

• 34684 220600007.pl is failing if run twice
• 34685 updatedatabase.pl does not propagate the error code

Label/patron card printing

Other bugs fixed

• 34592 The patron search window, given just a sort field value, doesn't work

Lists

Other bugs fixed

• 34650 Editing/deleting lists from toolbar on virtualshelves/shelves.pl causes CSRF error

Notices

Other bugs fixed

• 34583 Overdue notices: wrong encoding in e-mail in 'print' mode

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

• 27496 Accessibility: Navigation buttons are poorly described by screen readers
• 29578 Search term highlighting breaks with titles containing characters with Greek diacritics

  This fixes an issue with the term highlighter which is used during catalog searches in both the OPAC and the Staff interface. Under certain conditions (searching for titles containing characters with Greek diacritics), the jQuery term highlighter would break and in the process make the "Highlight" / "Unhighlight" button disappear altogether. UNIMARC instances were affected the most by this.

• 34522 Suggestion for purchase displays wrong library in OPAC display if patron suggests for non-home library
• 34627 Fix CMS page HTML structure so that footer content is displayed correctly
• 34641 Novelist content does not display on OPAC detail page if NovelistSelectView is set to below
• 34723 opac-imageviewer.pl not showing thumbnails

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

• 34356 Enabling RecordStaffUserOnCheckout causes bad default sorting in checkout history

Reports

Other bugs fixed

• 34552 No Results when filtering "All payments to the library" or "payment" in Statistics wizards : Cash register

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

• 23548 AQ field required in checkin response

  This fixes SIP return messages so that there is an "AQ|" field, even if it is empty (this is a required field according to the specification, and some machines (such as PV-SUPA) crash if it is not present).

Serials

Critical bugs fixed

• 30451 Delete a subscription deletes the linked order

  When an order had been created using the 'from a subscription' option and the subscription was deleted, the order line would be deleted with it, independent of its status or age. This caused problems with funds and budgets. With this patch, we will unlink order line and subscription on delete, but the order line will remain.

Templates

Other bugs fixed

• 34038 Fix incorrect use of __() in .tt and .inc files
• 34066 Datatable options don't fully translate on list of saved reports
• 34115 Use a global tab select function for activating Bootstrap tabs based on location hash
• 34379 Inconsistencies in Library groups page
• 34385 Inconsistencies in Transport cost matrix page header
• 34386 Inconsistencies in Cities and towns page titles, breadcrumbs, and header
• 34434 Terminology: Biblio should be bibliographic
• 34436 Some breadcrumbs lack for translatability
• 34502 Useless SEARCH_RESULT.localimage usage
• 34533 jsdiff library missing from guided reports page
• 34565 Label mismatch in MARC21 006 and 008 cataloging plugins
• 34567 Correct colors for advanced cataloging editor status bar
• 34625 Search engine configuration tables header problem
• 34646 Two attributes class in OPAC masthead-langmenu.inc

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

• 34617 Patron expiration dates not updated during import when there is no dateexpiry column in the file

Other bugs fixed

• 22135 Inventory tool doesn't export "out of order" problem to CSV

  This fixes the export of inventory results when "Check barcodes list for items shelved out of order" is selected. Currently, the problem column is blank for items shelved out of order when it should be "Shelved out of order".

Enhancements

ERM

Enhancements

• 34448 ERM should be able to display error messages coming from the API

REST API

Enhancements

• 34313 Make password validation endpoint return patron IDs

Staff interface

Enhancements

• 33316 Improve display of ES indexer jobs

Templates

Enhancements

• 34345 'Circulation and fine rules' vs 'Circulation and fines rules'

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 (Taiwan) (71.5%)

• English (USA)
• French (58.6%)
• German (59.4%)
• Hindi (82.2%)
• Italian (32.2%)
• Turkish (26.2%)

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 22.11.10 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Jonathan Druart
  • Martin Renvoize

• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

• QA Team:

  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Nick Clemens
  • David Cook
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Lucas Gass
  • Victor Grousset
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Andrii Nugged
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Petro Vashchuk

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
  • Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
  • REST API -- Martin Renvoize
  • ERM -- Pedro Amorim
  • ILL -- Pedro Amorim

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Aleisha Amohia

• Packaging Manager: Mason James

• Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

• Documentation Team:

  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Katrin Fischer

• Release Maintainers:

  • 23.05 -- Fridolin Somers
  • 22.11 -- PTFS Europe (Matt Blenkinsop, Pedro Amorim)
  • 22.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 21.11 -- Danyon Sewell

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 21.11 -- Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.11.10

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 22.11.10

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 22.11.x.

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 28 Sep 2023 11:29:06.