misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_05_16.html

   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.05.16">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.16</h1>
   2
   3 <p>27 Oct 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 19.05.16 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.05.16.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 19.05.16 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 2 security fixes, 9 bugfixes.</p>
  30
  31 <h3 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h3>
  32
  33 <ul>
  34 <li>Debian 8 (Jessie) is not supported anymore</li>
  35 <li>MySQL 5.5 is not supported anymore</li>
  36 </ul>
  37
  38 <p>Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
  39 deployment: </p>
  40
  41 <ul>
  42 <li>Debian 9 (Stretch) with MariaDB 10.1 (and experimental MariaDB 10.3 support)</li>
  43 <li>Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) with MariaDB 10.1</li>
  44 </ul>
  45
  46 <p>Additional notes:</p>
  47
  48 <ul>
  49 <li>Perl >= 5.14 is required and 5.24 or 5.26 are recommended</li>
  50 <li>Zebra or Elasticsearch is required</li>
  51 </ul>
  52
  53 <h2 id="securitybugs">Security bugs</h2>
  54
  55 <h3 id="koha">Koha</h3>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26562">[26562]</a> Searches are shared between sessions</li>
  59 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26592">[26592]</a> XSS vulnerability when ysearch is used</li>
  60 </ul>
  61
  62 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  63
  64 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  65
  66 <ul>
  67 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26434">[26434]</a> Plugin dirs duplicates in @INC with plack</li>
  68 </ul>
  69
  70 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  71
  72 <ul>
  73 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26510">[26510]</a> Transport Cost Matrix editor doesn't show all data when HoldsQueueSkipClosed is enabled</li>
  74 </ul>
  75
  76 <h3 id="marcbibliographicrecordstagingimport">MARC Bibliographic record staging/import</h3>
  77
  78 <ul>
  79 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26231">[26231]</a> bulkmarcimport.pl does not import authority if it already has a 001 field</li>
  80 </ul>
  81
  82 <h3 id="notices">Notices</h3>
  83
  84 <ul>
  85 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26420">[26420]</a> Overdue notices script does not care about borrower's language, always takes default template</li>
  86 </ul>
  87
  88 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
  89
  90 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  91
  92 <ul>
  93 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26511">[26511]</a> [19.11] PatronSelfRegistrationConfirmEmail preference shows</li>
  94 </ul>
  95
  96 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  97
  98 <ul>
  99 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23129">[23129]</a> Items holdingbranch should be set to the originating library when generating a transfer</li>
 100 </ul>
 101
 102 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 103
 104 <ul>
 105 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20783">[20783]</a> Cannot embed some YouTube videos due to 403 errors</li>
 106 </ul>
 107
 108 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 109
 110 <ul>
 111 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25762">[25762]</a> Typo in linkitem.tt</li>
 112 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26049">[26049]</a> Replace li with span class results_summary in UNIMARC intranet XSLT</li>
 113 </ul>
 114
 115 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 116
 117 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 118 documentation is </p>
 119
 120 <ul>
 121 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 122 </ul>
 123
 124 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 125 Koha manual is available:</p>
 126
 127 <ul>
 128 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.05/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 129 </ul>
 130
 131 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 132
 133 <ul>
 134 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 135 </ul>
 136
 137 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 138
 139 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 140 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 141
 142 <ul>
 143 <li>Arabic (98.6%)</li>
 144 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
 145 <li>Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)</li>
 146 <li>Basque (59.2%)</li>
 147 <li>Chinese (China) (59.7%)</li>
 148 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (99.3%)</li>
 149 <li>Czech (92.8%)</li>
 150 <li>Danish (52%)</li>
 151 <li>English (New Zealand) (82.7%)</li>
 152 <li>English (USA)</li>
 153 <li>Finnish (79%)</li>
 154 <li>French (99.1%)</li>
 155 <li>French (Canada) (98.9%)</li>
 156 <li>German (100%)</li>
 157 <li>German (Switzerland) (85.7%)</li>
 158 <li>Greek (73.7%)</li>
 159 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 160 <li>Italian (90.2%)</li>
 161 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (88.3%)</li>
 162 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)</li>
 163 <li>Polish (82.7%)</li>
 164 <li>Portuguese (99.8%)</li>
 165 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (94.1%)</li>
 166 <li>Slovak (86.5%)</li>
 167 <li>Spanish (99.9%)</li>
 168 <li>Swedish (87.8%)</li>
 169 <li>Turkish (100%)</li>
 170 <li>Ukrainian (73.7%)</li>
 171 <li>Vietnamese (50.8%)</li>
 172 </ul>
 173
 174 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 175
 176 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 177
 178 <ul>
 179 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 180 </ul>
 181
 182 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 183 list to volunteer:</p>
 184
 185 <ul>
 186 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 187 </ul>
 188
 189 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 190
 191 <ul>
 192 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 193 </ul>
 194
 195 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 196
 197 <p>The release team for Koha 19.05.16 is</p>
 198
 199 <ul>
 200 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 201 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 202
 203 <ul>
 204 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 205 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 206 </ul></li>
 207 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 208 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 209
 210 <ul>
 211 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 212 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 213 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 214 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 215 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 216 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 217 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 218 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 219 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 220 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 221 </ul></li>
 222 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 223
 224 <ul>
 225 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 226 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 227 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 228 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 229 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 230 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 231 </ul></li>
 232 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 233
 234 <ul>
 235 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 236 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 237 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 238 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 239 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 240 </ul></li>
 241 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 242 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 243
 244 <ul>
 245 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 246 <li>David Nind</li>
 247 </ul></li>
 248 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 249
 250 <ul>
 251 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 252 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 253 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 254 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 255 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 256 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 257 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 258 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 259 </ul></li>
 260 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 261 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 262
 263 <ul>
 264 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 265 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 266 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 267 </ul></li>
 268 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 269
 270 <ul>
 271 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 272 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 273 </ul></li>
 274 </ul>
 275
 276 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 277
 278 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.16.</p>
 279
 280 <ul>
 281 <li>Aleisha Amohia (1)</li>
 282 <li>Nick Clemens (2)</li>
 283 <li>David Cook (1)</li>
 284 <li>Jonathan Druart (6)</li>
 285 <li>Lucas Gass (1)</li>
 286 <li>Victor Grousset (3)</li>
 287 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
 288 <li>Mason James (1)</li>
 289 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 290 <li>Martin Renvoize (1)</li>
 291 <li>Fridolin Somers (3)</li>
 292 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 293 </ul>
 294
 295 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 296 patches to Koha 19.05.16</p>
 297
 298 <ul>
 299 <li>Athens County Public Libraries (1)</li>
 300 <li>BibLibre (3)</li>
 301 <li>ByWater-Solutions (4)</li>
 302 <li>Independant Individuals (1)</li>
 303 <li>Koha Community Developers (9)</li>
 304 <li>KohaAloha (1)</li>
 305 <li>Prosentient Systems (1)</li>
 306 <li>PTFS-Europe (1)</li>
 307 </ul>
 308
 309 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 310 for Koha.</p>
 311
 312 <ul>
 313 <li>Aleisha Amohia (8)</li>
 314 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)</li>
 315 <li>Nick Clemens (1)</li>
 316 <li>Jonathan Druart (7)</li>
 317 <li>Bouzid Fergani (2)</li>
 318 <li>Katrin Fischer (8)</li>
 319 <li>Lucas Gass (7)</li>
 320 <li>Claire Gravely (2)</li>
 321 <li>Victor Grousset (18)</li>
 322 <li>Kyle Hall (3)</li>
 323 <li>Sally Healey (1)</li>
 324 <li>Hayley Mapley (3)</li>
 325 <li>Julian Maurice (1)</li>
 326 <li>Kelly McElligott (2)</li>
 327 <li>David Nind (1)</li>
 328 <li>Martin Renvoize (6)</li>
 329 <li>Lisette Scheer (1)</li>
 330 <li>Jessica Zairo (1)</li>
 331 </ul>
 332
 333 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 334 please send a patch against these release notes to
 335 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 336
 337 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 338
 339 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 340 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 341
 342 <ul>
 343 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 344 </ul>
 345
 346 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 347 line is 19.05.x.</p>
 348
 349 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 350
 351 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 352 tracker at:</p>
 353
 354 <ul>
 355 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 356 </ul>
 357
 358 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 359 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 360
 361 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 27 Oct 2020 20:58:26.</p>