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   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha18.11.01">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.01</h1>
   2
   3 <p>20 Dec 2018</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 18.11.01 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-18.11.01.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 18.11.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 1 enhancement and 35 bugfixes.</p>
  30
  31 <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
  32
  33 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  34
  35 <ul>
  36 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21896">[21896]</a> Add Koha::Account::reconcile_balance</li>
  37 </ul>
  38
  39 <blockquote>
  40   <p>Adds a business logic level routine for reconciling user account balances.</p>
  41 </blockquote>
  42
  43 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  44
  45 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  46
  47 <ul>
  48 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21910">[21910]</a> Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children</li>
  49 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21955">[21955]</a> Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache</li>
  50 </ul>
  51
  52 <blockquote>
  53   <p>Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.</p>
  54 </blockquote>
  55
  56 <h3 id="authentication">Authentication</h3>
  57
  58 <ul>
  59 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21973">[21973]</a> CAS URL escaped twice, preventing login</li>
  60 </ul>
  61
  62 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
  63
  64 <ul>
  65 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21986">[21986]</a> Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places</li>
  66 </ul>
  67
  68 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  69
  70 <ul>
  71 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18805">[18805]</a> Currently it is impossible to apply credits against debits in patron accounts</li>
  72 </ul>
  73
  74 <blockquote>
  75   <p>This patch adds an <code>Apply Credits</code> button to the accounts interface to allow a librarian to apply outstanding credits against outstanding debits.</p>
  76 </blockquote>
  77
  78 <ul>
  79 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21065">[21065]</a> Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports</li>
  80 </ul>
  81
  82 <h3 id="database">Database</h3>
  83
  84 <ul>
  85 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21931">[21931]</a> Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script</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=21608">[21608]</a> Arranging holds priority with dropdowns is faulty when there are waiting/intransit holds</li>
  92 </ul>
  93
  94 <h3 id="i18nl10n">I18N/L10N</h3>
  95
  96 <ul>
  97 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21895">[21895]</a> Translations fail on upgrade to 18.11.00 (package installation)</li>
  98 </ul>
  99
 100 <h3 id="installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)</h3>
 101
 102 <ul>
 103 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22024">[22024]</a> Update translated web installer files with new class splitting rules</li>
 104 </ul>
 105
 106 <h3 id="marcauthoritydatasupport">MARC Authority data support</h3>
 107
 108 <ul>
 109 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21962">[21962]</a> The <code>searching entire record</code> option in authority searches is currently failing</li>
 110 </ul>
 111
 112 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 113
 114 <ul>
 115 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21911">[21911]</a> Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups</li>
 116 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21950">[21950]</a> Searching with 'accents' breaks on navigating to the second page of results</li>
 117 </ul>
 118
 119 <h3 id="patrons">Patrons</h3>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21778">[21778]</a> Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions</li>
 123 </ul>
 124
 125 <h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
 126
 127 <ul>
 128 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21984">[21984]</a> Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters</li>
 129 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21991">[21991]</a> Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters</li>
 130 </ul>
 131
 132 <h3 id="searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch</h3>
 133
 134 <ul>
 135 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20261">[20261]</a> No result in some page in authority search opac and pro (ES)</li>
 136 </ul>
 137
 138 <h3 id="staffclient">Staff Client</h3>
 139
 140 <ul>
 141 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21405">[21405]</a> Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES</li>
 142 </ul>
 143
 144 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 145
 146 <ul>
 147 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21956">[21956]</a> Sysprefs not reset by regressions.t</li>
 148 </ul>
 149
 150 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
 151
 152 <h3 id="about">About</h3>
 153
 154 <ul>
 155 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7143">[7143]</a> Bug for tracking changes to the about page</li>
 156 </ul>
 157
 158 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
 159
 160 <ul>
 161 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21759">[21759]</a> Avoid manually setting amountoutstanding in _FixAccountForLostAndReturned</li>
 162 </ul>
 163
 164 <blockquote>
 165   <p>This patch results in a proper offset always being recorded for auditing purposes when a user is refunded after returning a previously lost item.</p>
 166 </blockquote>
 167
 168 <ul>
 169 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21848">[21848]</a> Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t</li>
 170 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21905">[21905]</a> Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered</li>
 171 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21969">[21969]</a> Koha::Account->outstanding_* should look for debits/credits by checking 'amount'</li>
 172 </ul>
 173
 174 <h3 id="command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities</h3>
 175
 176 <ul>
 177 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21908">[21908]</a> biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list</li>
 178 </ul>
 179
 180 <h3 id="finesandfees">Fines and fees</h3>
 181
 182 <ul>
 183 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21849">[21849]</a> Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn</li>
 184 </ul>
 185
 186 <h3 id="i18nl10n">I18N/L10N</h3>
 187
 188 <ul>
 189 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21736">[21736]</a> Localization widget messages are not translatable</li>
 190 </ul>
 191
 192 <h3 id="marcauthoritydatasupport">MARC Authority data support</h3>
 193
 194 <ul>
 195 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21880">[21880]</a> "Relationship information" disappears when accessing paginated results in authority searches</li>
 196 </ul>
 197
 198 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 199
 200 <ul>
 201 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21947">[21947]</a> Filtering order generates html in notes</li>
 202 </ul>
 203
 204 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 205
 206 <ul>
 207 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21897">[21897]</a> Typo in postinst affecting zebra configuration file installation</li>
 208 </ul>
 209
 210 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
 211
 212 <ul>
 213 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21961">[21961]</a> Typo in permission keeps Did you mean? config from showing up</li>
 214 </ul>
 215
 216 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 217
 218 <ul>
 219 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14334">[14334]</a> DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests</li>
 220 </ul>
 221
 222 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
 223
 224 <ul>
 225 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21465">[21465]</a> Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha</li>
 226 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21861">[21861]</a> The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input</li>
 227 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22022">[22022]</a> Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)</li>
 228 </ul>
 229
 230 <h2 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h2>
 231
 232 <p>Important notes:</p>
 233
 234 <ul>
 235 <li>Perl 5.10 is required</li>
 236 <li>Zebra is required</li>
 237 </ul>
 238
 239 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 240
 241 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 242 documentation is </p>
 243
 244 <ul>
 245 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 246 </ul>
 247
 248 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 249 Koha manual is available:</p>
 250
 251 <ul>
 252 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 253 </ul>
 254
 255 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 256
 257 <ul>
 258 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 259 </ul>
 260
 261 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 262
 263 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 264 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 265
 266 <ul>
 267 <li>Arabic (93.2%)</li>
 268 <li>Armenian (99.1%)</li>
 269 <li>Basque (63.9%)</li>
 270 <li>Chinese (China) (64.6%)</li>
 271 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (96.2%)</li>
 272 <li>Czech (92.5%)</li>
 273 <li>Danish (56.1%)</li>
 274 <li>English (New Zealand) (89.2%)</li>
 275 <li>English (USA)</li>
 276 <li>Finnish (84.7%)</li>
 277 <li>French (95.2%)</li>
 278 <li>French (Canada) (98.1%)</li>
 279 <li>German (100%)</li>
 280 <li>German (Switzerland) (92.8%)</li>
 281 <li>Greek (76.3%)</li>
 282 <li>Hindi (94.6%)</li>
 283 <li>Italian (91.5%)</li>
 284 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (96%)</li>
 285 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)</li>
 286 <li>Polish (86.2%)</li>
 287 <li>Portuguese (99.1%)</li>
 288 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)</li>
 289 <li>Slovak (87.3%)</li>
 290 <li>Spanish (93.2%)</li>
 291 <li>Swedish (91.5%)</li>
 292 <li>Turkish (97.9%)</li>
 293 <li>Ukrainian (60.5%)</li>
 294 <li>Vietnamese (53.9%)</li>
 295 </ul>
 296
 297 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 298
 299 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 300
 301 <ul>
 302 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 303 </ul>
 304
 305 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 306 list to volunteer:</p>
 307
 308 <ul>
 309 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 310 </ul>
 311
 312 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 313
 314 <ul>
 315 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 316 </ul>
 317
 318 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 319
 320 <p>The release team for Koha 18.11.01 is</p>
 321
 322 <ul>
 323 <li>Release Manager: <a href="mailto:nick@bywatersolutions.com">Nick Clemens</a></li>
 324 <li>Release Manager assistants:
 325 <ul>
 326 <li><a href="mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org">Jonathan Druart</a></li>
 327 <li><a href="mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com">Tomás Cohen Arazi</a></li>
 328 </ul></li>
 329 <li>QA Manager: <a href="mailto:Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de">Katrin Fischer</a></li>
 330 <li>QA Team:
 331 <ul>
 332 <li><a href="mailto:alex.arnaud@biblibre.com">Alex Arnaud</a></li>
 333 <li><a href="mailto:julian.maurice@biblibre.com">Julian Maurice</a></li>
 334 <li><a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
 335 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 336 <li><a href="mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com">Martin Renvoize</a></li>
 337 <li><a href="mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org">Jonathan Druart</a></li>
 338 <li><a href="mailto:m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl">Marcel de Rooy</a></li>
 339 <li><a href="mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com">Tomás Cohen Arazi</a></li>
 340 <li><a href="mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz">Chris Cormack</a></li>
 341 </ul></li>
 342 <li>Topic Experts:
 343 <ul>
 344 <li>SIP2 -- Colin Campbell</li>
 345 <li>EDI -- Colin Campbell</li>
 346 <li>Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala</li>
 347 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 348 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 349 </ul></li>
 350 <li>Bug Wranglers:
 351 <ul>
 352 <li>Luis Moises Rojas</li>
 353 <li>Jon Knight</li>
 354 <li><a href="mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in">Indranil Das Gupta</a></li>
 355 </ul></li>
 356 <li>Packaging Manager: <a href="mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net">Mirko Tietgen</a></li>
 357 <li>Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 358 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 359
 360 <ul>
 361 <li>David Nind</li>
 362 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 363 </ul></li>
 364 <li><p>Translation Managers: </p>
 365
 366 <ul>
 367 <li><a href="mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in">Indranil Das Gupta</a></li>
 368 <li><a href="mailto:bgkriegel@gmail.com">Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel</a></li>
 369 </ul></li>
 370 <li><p>Wiki curators: </p>
 371
 372 <ul>
 373 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 374 </ul></li>
 375 <li>Release Maintainers:
 376 <ul>
 377 <li>18.11 -- <a href="mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com">Martin Renvoize</a></li>
 378 <li>18.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 379 <li>18.05 -- Jesse Maseto</li>
 380 <li>17.11 -- <a href="mailto:fridolin.somers@biblibre.com">Fridolin Somers</a></li>
 381 </ul></li>
 382 <li>Release Maintainer assistants:
 383 <ul>
 384 <li>18.05 -- <a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
 385 </ul></li>
 386 </ul>
 387
 388 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 389
 390 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.01.</p>
 391
 392 <ul>
 393 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)</li>
 394 <li>Nick Clemens (17)</li>
 395 <li>Jonathan Druart (13)</li>
 396 <li>Katrin Fischer (3)</li>
 397 <li>Kyle Hall (3)</li>
 398 <li>Pasi Kallinen (1)</li>
 399 <li>Julian Maurice (3)</li>
 400 <li>Josef Moravec (1)</li>
 401 <li>Martin Renvoize (3)</li>
 402 <li>Marcel de Rooy (4)</li>
 403 <li>Andreas Roussos (3)</li>
 404 <li>Fridolin Somers (3)</li>
 405 <li>Mirko Tietgen (1)</li>
 406 <li>Mark Tompsett (2)</li>
 407 <li>Koha translators (1)</li>
 408 <li>Nazlı Çetin (1)</li>
 409 </ul>
 410
 411 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 412 patches to Koha 18.11.01</p>
 413
 414 <ul>
 415 <li>abunchofthings.net (1)</li>
 416 <li>BibLibre (6)</li>
 417 <li>BSZ BW (3)</li>
 418 <li>ByWater-Solutions (20)</li>
 419 <li>Devinim (1)</li>
 420 <li>Independant Individuals (6)</li>
 421 <li>Koha Community Developers (13)</li>
 422 <li>PTFS-Europe (3)</li>
 423 <li>Rijks Museum (4)</li>
 424 <li>The City of Joensuu (1)</li>
 425 <li>Theke Solutions (9)</li>
 426 </ul>
 427
 428 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 429 for Koha.</p>
 430
 431 <ul>
 432 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)</li>
 433 <li>Christopher Brannon (3)</li>
 434 <li>Nick Clemens (66)</li>
 435 <li>Devinim (1)</li>
 436 <li>Jonathan Druart (16)</li>
 437 <li>Lucas Gass (1)</li>
 438 <li>Kyle Hall (7)</li>
 439 <li>Pasi Kallinen (1)</li>
 440 <li>Owen Leonard (6)</li>
 441 <li>Ere Maijala (1)</li>
 442 <li>Julian Maurice (5)</li>
 443 <li>Josef Moravec (4)</li>
 444 <li>Martin Renvoize (93)</li>
 445 <li>Marcel de Rooy (19)</li>
 446 <li>Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)</li>
 447 <li>Mirko Tietgen (2)</li>
 448 <li>Mark Tompsett (3)</li>
 449 </ul>
 450
 451 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 452 please send a patch against these release notes to
 453 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 454
 455 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 456
 457 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 458 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 459
 460 <ul>
 461 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 462 </ul>
 463
 464 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 465 line is 18.11.x.</p>
 466
 467 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 468
 469 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 470 tracker at:</p>
 471
 472 <ul>
 473 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 474 </ul>
 475
 476 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 477 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 478
 479 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 20 Dec 2018 12:12:58.</p>