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   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.11.10">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.10</h1>
   2
   3 <p>21 Sep 2020</p>
   4
   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>
   9
  10 <ul>
  11 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org">Koha Community</a></li>
  12 </ul>
  13
  14 <p>Koha 19.11.10 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.11.10.tar.gz">Download</a></li>
  18 </ul>
  19
  20 <p>Installation instructions can be found at:</p>
  21
  22 <ul>
  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>
  25 </ul>
  26
  27 <p>Koha 19.11.10 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 1 security fixes, 1 enhancements, 35 bugfixes.</p>
  30
  31 <h3 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h3>
  32
  33 <p>Koha is continiously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
  34 deployment: </p>
  35
  36 <ul>
  37 <li>Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)</li>
  38 <li>Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1</li>
  39 <li>Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3</li>
  40 <li>Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1 </li>
  41 <li>Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)</li>
  42 </ul>
  43
  44 <p>Additional notes:</p>
  45
  46 <ul>
  47 <li>Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)</li>
  48 <li>Zebra or Elasticsearch is required</li>
  49 </ul>
  50
  51 <h2 id="kohasecurity">Koha security</h2>
  52
  53 <ul>
  54 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26322">[26322]</a> REST API plugin authorization is not checked anymore</li>
  55 </ul>
  56
  57 <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
  58
  59 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  60
  61 <ul>
  62 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26041">[26041]</a> Accessibility: The date picker calendar is not keyboard accessible</li>
  63 </ul>
  64
  65 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  66
  67 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
  68
  69 <ul>
  70 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25750">[25750]</a> Fallback to ecost_tax_included, ecost_tax_excluded not happening when no 'Actual cost' entered</p>
  71
  72 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>Horowhenua District Council, NZ</em></p></li>
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  76
  77 <ul>
  78 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26253">[26253]</a> duplicated mana_config in etc/koha-conf.xml</li>
  79 </ul>
  80
  81 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  82
  83 <ul>
  84 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25783">[25783]</a> Holds Queue treating item-level holds as bib-level</li>
  85 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26078">[26078]</a> "Item returns to issuing library" creates infinite transfer loop</li>
  86 </ul>
  87
  88 <h3 id="holdrequests">Hold requests</h3>
  89
  90 <ul>
  91 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25786">[25786]</a> Holds Queue building may target the wrong item for item level requests that match holds queue priority</li>
  92 </ul>
  93
  94 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  95
  96 <ul>
  97 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26069">[26069]</a> Twitter share button leaks information to Twitter</li>
  98 </ul>
  99
 100 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 101
 102 <ul>
 103 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25792">[25792]</a> Rename 'ttf-dejavu' package to 'fonts-dejavu' for Debian 11</li>
 104 </ul>
 105
 106 <h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
 107
 108 <ul>
 109 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26090">[26090]</a> Catalog by itemtype report fails if SQL strict mode is on</li>
 110 </ul>
 111
 112 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
 113
 114 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
 115
 116 <ul>
 117 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25751">[25751]</a> When an ORDERED suggestion is edited, the status resets to "No status"</li>
 118 </ul>
 119
 120 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
 121
 122 <ul>
 123 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21539">[21539]</a> addorderiso2709.pl forces librarian to select a ccode and notforloan code when using MarcItemFieldsToOrder</li>
 124 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26228">[26228]</a> Update gulpfile to work with Node.js v12</li>
 125 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26270">[26270]</a> XISBN.t is failing since today</li>
 126 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26331">[26331]</a> svc/letters/preview is not executable which prevents CGI functioning</li>
 127 </ul>
 128
 129 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
 130
 131 <ul>
 132 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26233">[26233]</a> Edit item date sort still does not sort correctly</li>
 133 </ul>
 134
 135 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
 136
 137 <ul>
 138 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25584">[25584]</a> When a 'return claim' is added, the button disappears, but the claim date doesn't show up</li>
 139 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25958">[25958]</a> Allow LongOverdue cron to exclude specified lost values</li>
 140 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26076">[26076]</a> Paying selected accountlines in full may result in the error "You must pay a value less than or equal to $x"</li>
 141 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26136">[26136]</a> Prevent double submit of checkin form</li>
 142 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26361">[26361]</a> JS error on returns.tt in 20.05</li>
 143 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26362">[26362]</a> Overdue report shows incorrect branches for patron, holdingbranch, and homebranch</li>
 144 </ul>
 145
 146 <h3 id="installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)</h3>
 147
 148 <ul>
 149 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25448">[25448]</a> Update German (de-DE) framework files</li>
 150 </ul>
 151
 152 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 153
 154 <ul>
 155 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26119">[26119]</a> Patron attribute option to display in OPAC is not compatible with PatronSelfRegistrationVerifyByEmail</li>
 156 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26388">[26388]</a> Renew all and Renew selected buttons should account for items that can't be renewed</li>
 157 </ul>
 158
 159 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 160
 161 <ul>
 162 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25778">[25778]</a> koha-plack puts duplicate entries into PERL5LIB when multiple instances named</li>
 163 </ul>
 164
 165 <h3 id="restapi">REST API</h3>
 166
 167 <ul>
 168 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26271">[26271]</a> Call to /api/v1/patrons/<patron_id>/account returns 500 error if manager_id is NULL</li>
 169 </ul>
 170
 171 <h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
 172
 173 <ul>
 174 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17801">[17801]</a> 'Top Most-circulated items' gives wrong results when filtering by checkout date</li>
 175 </ul>
 176
 177 <h3 id="sip2">SIP2</h3>
 178
 179 <ul>
 180 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25903">[25903]</a> Sending a SIP patron information request with a summary field flag in indexes 6-9 will crash server</li>
 181 </ul>
 182
 183 <h3 id="searching">Searching</h3>
 184
 185 <ul>
 186 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17661">[17661]</a> Differences in field ending (whitespace, punctuation) cause duplicate facets</li>
 187 </ul>
 188
 189 <h3 id="searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch</h3>
 190
 191 <ul>
 192 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26313">[26313]</a> "Show analytics" and "Show volumes" links don't work with Elasticsearch and UseControlNumber</li>
 193 </ul>
 194
 195 <h3 id="selfcheckout">Self checkout</h3>
 196
 197 <ul>
 198 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25791">[25791]</a> SCO print dialog pops up twice</li>
 199 </ul>
 200
 201 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
 202
 203 <ul>
 204 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25005">[25005]</a> Admin Rights issue for Suggestion to Purchase</li>
 205 </ul>
 206
 207 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 208
 209 <ul>
 210 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26213">[26213]</a> Remove the use of jquery.checkboxes plugin when adding orders from MARC file</li>
 211 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26324">[26324]</a> Spelling error resizeable vs resizable</li>
 212 </ul>
 213
 214 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 215
 216 <ul>
 217 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24147">[24147]</a> Objects.t is failing randomly</li>
 218 </ul>
 219
 220 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
 221
 222 <ul>
 223 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26236">[26236]</a> log viewer does not translate the interface properly</p>
 224
 225 <h2 id="newsysprefs">New sysprefs</h2></li>
 226 <li><p>DefaultLongOverdueSkipLostStatuses</p></li>
 227 </ul>
 228
 229 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 230
 231 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 232 documentation is </p>
 233
 234 <ul>
 235 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 236 </ul>
 237
 238 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 239 Koha manual is available:</p>
 240
 241 <ul>
 242 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.11/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 243 </ul>
 244
 245 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 246
 247 <ul>
 248 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 249 </ul>
 250
 251 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 252
 253 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 254 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 255
 256 <ul>
 257 <li>Arabic (98.3%)</li>
 258 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
 259 <li>Armenian (Classical) (100%)</li>
 260 <li>Basque (55.9%)</li>
 261 <li>Catalan; Valencian (50.7%)</li>
 262 <li>Chinese (China) (57.1%)</li>
 263 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (98.8%)</li>
 264 <li>Czech (91%)</li>
 265 <li>English (New Zealand) (78.6%)</li>
 266 <li>English (USA)</li>
 267 <li>Finnish (74.5%)</li>
 268 <li>French (95.3%)</li>
 269 <li>French (Canada) (94%)</li>
 270 <li>German (100%)</li>
 271 <li>German (Switzerland) (81.1%)</li>
 272 <li>Greek (70.5%)</li>
 273 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 274 <li>Italian (86.2%)</li>
 275 <li>Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (53.5%)</li>
 276 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (83.6%)</li>
 277 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (53.2%)</li>
 278 <li>Polish (78.7%)</li>
 279 <li>Portuguese (99.7%)</li>
 280 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (99.7%)</li>
 281 <li>Slovak (83.3%)</li>
 282 <li>Spanish (99.9%)</li>
 283 <li>Swedish (85.3%)</li>
 284 <li>Telugu (93.5%)</li>
 285 <li>Turkish (99.9%)</li>
 286 <li>Ukrainian (74.7%)</li>
 287 <li>Vietnamese (51.4%)</li>
 288 </ul>
 289
 290 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 291
 292 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 293
 294 <ul>
 295 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 296 </ul>
 297
 298 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 299 list to volunteer:</p>
 300
 301 <ul>
 302 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 303 </ul>
 304
 305 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 306
 307 <ul>
 308 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 309 </ul>
 310
 311 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 312
 313 <p>The release team for Koha 19.11.10 is</p>
 314
 315 <ul>
 316 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 317 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 318
 319 <ul>
 320 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 321 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 322 </ul></li>
 323 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 324 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 325
 326 <ul>
 327 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 328 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 329 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 330 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 331 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 332 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 333 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 334 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 335 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 336 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 337 </ul></li>
 338 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 339
 340 <ul>
 341 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 342 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 343 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 344 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 345 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 346 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 347 </ul></li>
 348 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 349
 350 <ul>
 351 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 352 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 353 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 354 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 355 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 356 </ul></li>
 357 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 358 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 359
 360 <ul>
 361 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 362 <li>David Nind</li>
 363 </ul></li>
 364 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 365
 366 <ul>
 367 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 368 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 369 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 370 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 371 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 372 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 373 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 374 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 375 </ul></li>
 376 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 377 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 378
 379 <ul>
 380 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 381 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 382 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 383 </ul></li>
 384 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 385
 386 <ul>
 387 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 388 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 389 </ul></li>
 390 </ul>
 391
 392 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 393
 394 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
 395 new features in Koha 19.11.10:</p>
 396
 397 <ul>
 398 <li>Horowhenua District Council, NZ</li>
 399 </ul>
 400
 401 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.10.</p>
 402
 403 <ul>
 404 <li>Aleisha Amohia (4)</li>
 405 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)</li>
 406 <li>Alex Buckley (1)</li>
 407 <li>Nick Clemens (8)</li>
 408 <li>David Cook (3)</li>
 409 <li>Jonathan Druart (11)</li>
 410 <li>Katrin Fischer (3)</li>
 411 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)</li>
 412 <li>Lucas Gass (2)</li>
 413 <li>Kyle Hall (10)</li>
 414 <li>Mason James (1)</li>
 415 <li>Joonas Kylmälä (2)</li>
 416 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 417 <li>Martin Renvoize (1)</li>
 418 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 419 </ul>
 420
 421 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 422 patches to Koha 19.11.10</p>
 423
 424 <ul>
 425 <li>Athens County Public Libraries (1)</li>
 426 <li>Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (3)</li>
 427 <li>ByWater-Solutions (21)</li>
 428 <li>Catalyst (1)</li>
 429 <li>Independant Individuals (4)</li>
 430 <li>Koha Community Developers (11)</li>
 431 <li>KohaAloha (1)</li>
 432 <li>Prosentient Systems (3)</li>
 433 <li>PTFS-Europe (1)</li>
 434 <li>Theke Solutions (6)</li>
 435 <li>University of Helsinki (2)</li>
 436 </ul>
 437
 438 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 439 for Koha.</p>
 440
 441 <ul>
 442 <li>Aleisha Amohia (50)</li>
 443 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (7)</li>
 444 <li>Nick Clemens (3)</li>
 445 <li>Rebecca Coert (1)</li>
 446 <li>Holly Cooper (1)</li>
 447 <li>Sarah Cornell (1)</li>
 448 <li>Jonathan Druart (38)</li>
 449 <li>Katrin Fischer (18)</li>
 450 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2)</li>
 451 <li>Daniel Gaghan (1)</li>
 452 <li>Jeff Gaines (1)</li>
 453 <li>Lucas Gass (39)</li>
 454 <li>Didier Gautheron (1)</li>
 455 <li>Amit Gupta (3)</li>
 456 <li>Kyle Hall (2)</li>
 457 <li>Sally Healey (3)</li>
 458 <li>Brandon J (1)</li>
 459 <li>Joonas Kylmälä (2)</li>
 460 <li>Owen Leonard (5)</li>
 461 <li>Kelly McElligott (3)</li>
 462 <li>Josef Moravec (1)</li>
 463 <li>Kim Peine (3)</li>
 464 <li>Martin Renvoize (13)</li>
 465 <li>David Roberts (1)</li>
 466 <li>Marcel de Rooy (1)</li>
 467 <li>Lisette Scheer (1)</li>
 468 <li>Fridolin Somers (6)</li>
 469 <li>Emmi Takkinen (1)</li>
 470 </ul>
 471
 472 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 473 please send a patch against these release notes to
 474 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 475
 476 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 477
 478 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 479 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 480
 481 <ul>
 482 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 483 </ul>
 484
 485 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 486 line is 19.11.x.</p>
 487
 488 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 489
 490 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 491 tracker at:</p>
 492
 493 <ul>
 494 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 495 </ul>
 496
 497 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 498 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 499
 500 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 21 Sep 2020 23:08:52.</p>