1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.05.06">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.06</h1>
5 <p>Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
6 package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
7 and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
8 website for the Koha project is:</p>
11 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org">Koha Community</a></li>
14 <p>Koha 19.05.06 can be downloaded from:</p>
17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.05.06.tar.gz">Download</a></li>
20 <p>Installation instructions can be found at:</p>
23 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation">Koha Wiki</a></li>
24 <li>OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball</li>
27 <p>Koha 19.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
29 <p>It includes 2 enhancements, 34 bugfixes.</p>
31 <h3 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h3>
33 <p>Koha is continiously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
37 <li>Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5</li>
38 <li>Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1 (MySQL 8.0 support is experimental)</li>
39 <li>Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1 (MariaDB 10.3 support is experimental) </li>
42 <p>Additional notes:</p>
45 <li>Perl 5.10 is required</li>
46 <li>Zebra or Elasticsearch is required</li>
49 <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
51 <h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
54 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23389">[23389]</a> Add 'All' option to report value dropdowns</p>
57 <p>This enhancement adds the ability to optionally include an <code>all</code> option in report placeholders allowing for an 'All' option to be displayed in filter select lists.</p>
59 <p><strong>Usage</strong>: <code>WHERE branchcode LIKE <<Branch|branches:all>></code></p>
63 <h3 id="webservices">Web services</h3>
66 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22677">[22677]</a> Include hint on OAI-PMH URL for Koha in system preference</li>
69 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
71 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
74 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24243">[24243]</a> Bad characters in MARC cause internal server error when searching catalog</li>
77 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
80 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13958">[13958]</a> Add a suspensionsCalendar syspref</p>
82 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>Universidad Nacional de Córdoba</em></p>
85 <p>Before 18.05, suspension expiry date calculation didn't take the calendar into account. This behaviour changed with bug 19204, and some libraries miss the old behaviour. </p>
87 <p>These patches decouple overdue days calculation configuration (<code>finesCalendar</code>) from how the expiry date is calculated for the suspension through a new system preference: <code>SuspensionsCalendar</code>, that has the exact same options but only applies to suspensions. On upgrade, the new preference is populated with the value from <code>finesCalendar</code>, thus respecting the current configuration.</p>
89 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24075">[24075]</a> Backdating a return to the exact due date and time results in the fine not being refunded</li>
90 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24138">[24138]</a> suspension miscalculated when Suspension charging interval bigger than 1 and Max. suspension duration is defined</li>
93 <h3 id="command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities</h3>
96 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24164">[24164]</a> Patron emailer cronjob is not generating unique content for notices</li>
99 <h3 id="holdrequests">Hold requests</h3>
102 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24168">[24168]</a> Errors with use of CanItemBeReserved return value</li>
105 <h3 id="notices">Notices</h3>
108 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24064">[24064]</a> DUEDGST typoed as DUEGST</li>
109 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24072">[24072]</a> Typos in advance_notices.pl causes DUEDGST not to be sent</li>
110 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24268">[24268]</a> advance_notices.pl dies on undefined letter</li>
113 <h3 id="searching">Searching</h3>
116 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23970">[23970]</a> itemsearch - publication date not taken into account if not used in the first field</li>
119 <h3 id="searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch</h3>
122 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23089">[23089]</a> Elasticsearch - cannot sort on non-text fields</li>
125 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
127 <h3 id="about">About</h3>
130 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24136">[24136]</a> Add libraries (sponsors) to the about page</li>
133 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
136 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24106">[24106]</a> In returns.pl, don't search for item if no barcode is provided</li>
139 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
142 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23427">[23427]</a> Better sorting of previous checkouts</li>
143 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24024">[24024]</a> Holds Awaiting Pickup (Both Active and Expired) Sorts by Firstname</li>
146 <h3 id="coursereserves">Course reserves</h3>
149 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23952">[23952]</a> Fix body id on OPAC course details page</li>
152 <h3 id="finesandfees">Fines and fees</h3>
155 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23483">[23483]</a> When writing off a fine, the title of the patron is shown as description</li>
158 <h3 id="i18nl10n">I18N/L10N</h3>
161 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13749">[13749]</a> On loading holds in patron account 'processing' is not translatable</li>
164 <h3 id="marcbibliographicdatasupport">MARC Bibliographic data support</h3>
167 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17831">[17831]</a> Remove non-existing bibliosubject.subject mapping from frameworks</li>
170 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
173 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23506">[23506]</a> Sound material type displays wrong icon in OPAC/Staff details</li>
174 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23785">[23785]</a> Software error Can't call method "get_coins" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 692.</li>
177 <h3 id="patrons">Patrons</h3>
180 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21939">[21939]</a> Permission for holds history tab is too strict</li>
183 <h3 id="searching">Searching</h3>
186 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23768">[23768]</a> ISBN search in IntranetCatalogPulldown searches nothing if passed an invalid ISBN and using SearchWithISBNVariations</li>
187 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24120">[24120]</a> Search terms in search dropdown must be URI filtered</li>
190 <h3 id="searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch</h3>
193 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24128">[24128]</a> Add alias for biblionumber => local-number</li>
196 <h3 id="staffclient">Staff Client</h3>
199 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23246">[23246]</a> Record detail page jumps into the 'images' tab if no holdings</p>
201 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>American Numismatics Society</em></p></li>
202 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23987">[23987]</a> batchMod.pl provides a link back to the record after the record is deleted</li>
205 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
208 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23751">[23751]</a> Description of staffaccess permission should be improved</li>
209 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24170">[24170]</a> sysprefs search result does not have a consistent order</li>
212 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
215 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23954">[23954]</a> Format notes in suggestion management</li>
218 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
221 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24144">[24144]</a> regressions.t tests have not been updated after bug 23836</li>
222 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24145">[24145]</a> Auth.t is failing because of wrong mocked ->param</li>
223 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24199">[24199]</a> t/Auth_with_shibboleth.t is failing randomly</li>
226 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
229 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24124">[24124]</a> Cannot select authorities in batch deletion tool in Chrome</p>
231 <h2 id="newsysprefs">New sysprefs</h2></li>
232 <li><p>SuspensionsCalendar</p></li>
235 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
237 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
238 documentation is </p>
241 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
244 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
245 Koha manual is available:</p>
248 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.05/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
251 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
254 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
257 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
259 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
260 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
263 <li>Arabic (99.8%)</li>
264 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
265 <li>Basque (59.9%)</li>
266 <li>Chinese (China) (60.5%)</li>
267 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)</li>
268 <li>Czech (92.7%)</li>
269 <li>Danish (52.7%)</li>
270 <li>English (New Zealand) (83.6%)</li>
271 <li>English (USA)</li>
272 <li>Finnish (79.8%)</li>
273 <li>French (99.3%)</li>
274 <li>French (Canada) (100%)</li>
275 <li>German (100%)</li>
276 <li>German (Switzerland) (86.7%)</li>
277 <li>Greek (74.2%)</li>
278 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
279 <li>Italian (90.9%)</li>
280 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (89.5%)</li>
281 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (56.6%)</li>
282 <li>Polish (83.5%)</li>
283 <li>Portuguese (100%)</li>
284 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (94.9%)</li>
285 <li>Slovak (85%)</li>
286 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
287 <li>Swedish (88.9%)</li>
288 <li>Turkish (98.3%)</li>
289 <li>Ukrainian (72.8%)</li>
290 <li>Vietnamese (51.4%)</li>
293 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
295 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
298 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
301 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
302 list to volunteer:</p>
305 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
308 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
311 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
314 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
316 <p>The release team for Koha 19.05.06 is</p>
319 <li><p>Release Manager: Martin Renvoize</p></li>
320 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
323 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
324 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
326 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
330 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
332 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
333 <li>Jonathan Druart</li>
335 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
336 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
337 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
339 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
342 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
343 <li>SIP2 -- Kyle Hall</li>
344 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
345 <li>Elasticsearch -- Alex Arnaud</li>
346 <li>ILS-DI -- Arthur Suzuki</li>
347 <li>Authentication -- Martin Renvoize</li>
349 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
352 <li>Michal Denár</li>
353 <li>Indranil Das Gupta</li>
355 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
356 <li>Arthur Suzuki</li>
358 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen</p></li>
359 <li><p>Documentation Manager: David Nind</p></li>
360 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
364 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
365 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
367 <li><p>Translation Managers: </p>
370 <li>Indranil Das Gupta</li>
371 <li>Bernardo González Kriegel</li>
373 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
376 <li>19.05 -- Fridolin Somers</li>
377 <li>18.11 -- Lucas Gass</li>
379 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2></li>
383 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
384 new features in Koha 19.05.06:</p>
387 <li>American Numismatics Society</li>
388 <li>Universidad Nacional de Córdoba</li>
391 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.06.</p>
394 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)</li>
395 <li>Nick Clemens (14)</li>
396 <li>Jonathan Druart (14)</li>
397 <li>Magnus Enger (2)</li>
398 <li>Katrin Fischer (6)</li>
399 <li>Lucas Gass (4)</li>
400 <li>Kyle Hall (2)</li>
401 <li>Owen Leonard (3)</li>
402 <li>Ere Maijala (1)</li>
403 <li>Martin Renvoize (4)</li>
404 <li>Fridolin Somers (3)</li>
405 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
408 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
409 patches to Koha 19.05.06</p>
413 <li>BibLibre (3)</li>
415 <li>ByWater-Solutions (20)</li>
416 <li>Koha Community Developers (14)</li>
417 <li>Libriotech (2)</li>
418 <li>PTFS-Europe (4)</li>
419 <li>Theke Solutions (4)</li>
420 <li>University of Helsinki (1)</li>
423 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
427 <li>Hugo Agud (2)</li>
428 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)</li>
429 <li>Cori Lynn Arnold (1)</li>
430 <li>Bob Bennhoff (2)</li>
431 <li>Nick Clemens (1)</li>
432 <li>Michal Denar (4)</li>
433 <li>Jonathan Druart (22)</li>
434 <li>Katrin Fischer (9)</li>
435 <li>Lucas Gass (50)</li>
436 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
437 <li>Rhonda Kuiper (1)</li>
438 <li>Joonas Kylmälä (1)</li>
439 <li>Ere Maijala (2)</li>
440 <li>Kelly McElligott (1)</li>
441 <li>Joy Nelson (24)</li>
442 <li>David Nind (1)</li>
443 <li>Séverine Queune (5)</li>
445 <li>Martin Renvoize (51)</li>
446 <li>Marcel de Rooy (10)</li>
447 <li>Lisette Scheer (1)</li>
448 <li>Maryse Simard (2)</li>
449 <li>Fridolin Somers (2)</li>
450 <li>George Williams (2)</li>
451 <li>Jessica Zairo (1)</li>
454 <p>We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
455 please send a patch against these release notes to
456 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
458 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
460 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
461 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
464 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
467 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
468 line is rmain1905.</p>
470 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
472 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
476 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
479 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
480 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
482 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 Dec 2019 20:05:32.</p>