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   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha18.11.02">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.02</h1>
   2
   3 <p>22 Jan 2019</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 18.11.02 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-18.11.02.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 18.11.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 6 enhancements, 20 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=21912">[21912]</a> Koha::Objects->search lacks tests</li>
  37 </ul>
  38
  39 <h3 id="authentication">Authentication</h3>
  40
  41 <ul>
  42 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21547">[21547]</a> Use set_password in opac-passwd and remove sub goodkey</li>
  43 </ul>
  44
  45 <blockquote>
  46   <p>Architectural enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.</p>
  47 </blockquote>
  48
  49 <h3 id="i18nl10n">I18N/L10N</h3>
  50
  51 <ul>
  52 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21789">[21789]</a> Example usage of I18N Template::Toolkit plugin</li>
  53 </ul>
  54
  55 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21817">[21817]</a> Mock userenv should be a t::lib::Mocks method</li>
  59 </ul>
  60
  61 <blockquote>
  62   <p>Test suite enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.</p>
  63 </blockquote>
  64
  65 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  66
  67 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
  68
  69 <ul>
  70 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21605">[21605]</a> Cannot create EDI account</li>
  71 </ul>
  72
  73 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  74
  75 <ul>
  76 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22052">[22052]</a> DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers</li>
  77 </ul>
  78
  79 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  80
  81 <ul>
  82 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21915">[21915]</a> Add a way to automatically reconcile balance for patrons</li>
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <blockquote>
  86   <p>Sponsored by ByWater Solutions</p>
  87
  88   <p>In the past, if a patron had any credit existing on their account (newly added, or pre-existing), if debts were present then the credit balance would always be immediately applied to the debt.  This functionality was inadvertently removed during refactoring efforts which debuted in 16.11. <br />
  89   This patch adds code to restore the functionality and allows it to be optionally applied to the system via a new system preference, <code>AccountAutoReconcile</code>. <br />
  90   Note: The new preference defaults to the post 16.11 behaviour, if you wish to restore the 16.11 functionality then you will need to update the preference after the upgrade.</p>
  91 </blockquote>
  92
  93 <ul>
  94 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21928">[21928]</a> CircAutoPrintQuickSlip 'clear' is not working</li>
  95 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22020">[22020]</a> Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal</li>
  96 </ul>
  97
  98 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  99
 100 <ul>
 101 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22030">[22030]</a> OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username</li>
 102 </ul>
 103
 104 <h3 id="restapi">REST api</h3>
 105
 106 <ul>
 107 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22071">[22071]</a> authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case</li>
 108 </ul>
 109
 110 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 111
 112 <ul>
 113 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21813">[21813]</a> In-page JavaScript causes error on patron entry page</li>
 114 </ul>
 115
 116 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
 117
 118 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
 119
 120 <ul>
 121 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21929">[21929]</a> Typo in orderreceive.tt</li>
 122 </ul>
 123
 124 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
 125
 126 <ul>
 127 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21909">[21909]</a> Koha::Account::outstanding_* methods should preserve call context</li>
 128 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22007">[22007]</a> KohaDates output does not need to be html filtered</li>
 129 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22033">[22033]</a> related_resultset is a hole in the Koha::Object logic</li>
 130 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22059">[22059]</a> Wrong exception parameters in Koha::Patron->set_password</li>
 131 </ul>
 132
 133 <h3 id="marcbibliographicdatasupport">MARC Bibliographic data support</h3>
 134
 135 <ul>
 136 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22034">[22034]</a> Viewing record with Default framework doesn't work on MARC tab</li>
 137 </ul>
 138
 139 <h3 id="notices">Notices</h3>
 140
 141 <ul>
 142 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21571">[21571]</a> Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS</li>
 143 </ul>
 144
 145 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 146
 147 <ul>
 148 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17108">[17108]</a> Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)</li>
 149 </ul>
 150
 151 <h3 id="searching-zebra">Searching - Zebra</h3>
 152
 153 <ul>
 154 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22073">[22073]</a> Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)</li>
 155 </ul>
 156
 157 <h3 id="staffclient">Staff Client</h3>
 158
 159 <ul>
 160 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21802">[21802]</a> Edit notices form is not aligned with accordeon headers</li>
 161 </ul>
 162
 163 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 164
 165 <ul>
 166 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21990">[21990]</a> No background color for div.error, must be .alert</li>
 167 </ul>
 168
 169 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 170
 171 <ul>
 172 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22107">[22107]</a> Avoid deleting data in some tests</li>
 173 </ul>
 174
 175 <h2 id="newsysprefs">New sysprefs</h2>
 176
 177 <ul>
 178 <li>AccountAutoReconcile</li>
 179 <li>OverDriveUsername</li>
 180 </ul>
 181
 182 <h2 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h2>
 183
 184 <p>Important notes:</p>
 185
 186 <ul>
 187 <li>Perl 5.10 is required</li>
 188 <li>Zebra is required</li>
 189 </ul>
 190
 191 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 192
 193 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 194 documentation is </p>
 195
 196 <ul>
 197 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 198 </ul>
 199
 200 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 201 Koha manual is available:</p>
 202
 203 <ul>
 204 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 205 </ul>
 206
 207 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 208
 209 <ul>
 210 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 211 </ul>
 212
 213 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 214
 215 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 216 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 217
 218 <ul>
 219 <li>Arabic (100%)</li>
 220 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
 221 <li>Basque (63.9%)</li>
 222 <li>Chinese (China) (64.6%)</li>
 223 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)</li>
 224 <li>Czech (92.5%)</li>
 225 <li>Danish (56.1%)</li>
 226 <li>English (New Zealand) (89.2%)</li>
 227 <li>English (USA)</li>
 228 <li>Finnish (84.6%)</li>
 229 <li>French (95.4%)</li>
 230 <li>French (Canada) (98.9%)</li>
 231 <li>German (100%)</li>
 232 <li>German (Switzerland) (92.8%)</li>
 233 <li>Greek (76.5%)</li>
 234 <li>Hindi (94.7%)</li>
 235 <li>Italian (95.1%)</li>
 236 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (96%)</li>
 237 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (60.1%)</li>
 238 <li>Polish (86.2%)</li>
 239 <li>Portuguese (100%)</li>
 240 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (77.7%)</li>
 241 <li>Slovak (91%)</li>
 242 <li>Spanish (93.6%)</li>
 243 <li>Swedish (91.5%)</li>
 244 <li>Turkish (99.8%)</li>
 245 <li>Ukrainian (60.5%)</li>
 246 <li>Vietnamese (53.9%)</li>
 247 </ul>
 248
 249 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 250
 251 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 252
 253 <ul>
 254 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 255 </ul>
 256
 257 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 258 list to volunteer:</p>
 259
 260 <ul>
 261 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 262 </ul>
 263
 264 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 265
 266 <ul>
 267 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 268 </ul>
 269
 270 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 271
 272 <p>The release team for Koha 18.11.02 is</p>
 273
 274 <ul>
 275 <li>Release Manager: <a href="mailto:nick@bywatersolutions.com">Nick Clemens</a></li>
 276 <li>Release Manager assistants:
 277 <ul>
 278 <li><a href="mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org">Jonathan Druart</a></li>
 279 <li><a href="mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com">Tomás Cohen Arazi</a></li>
 280 </ul></li>
 281 <li>QA Manager: <a href="mailto:Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de">Katrin Fischer</a></li>
 282 <li>QA Team:
 283 <ul>
 284 <li><a href="mailto:alex.arnaud@biblibre.com">Alex Arnaud</a></li>
 285 <li><a href="mailto:julian.maurice@biblibre.com">Julian Maurice</a></li>
 286 <li><a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
 287 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 288 <li><a href="mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com">Martin Renvoize</a></li>
 289 <li><a href="mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org">Jonathan Druart</a></li>
 290 <li><a href="mailto:m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl">Marcel de Rooy</a></li>
 291 <li><a href="mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com">Tomás Cohen Arazi</a></li>
 292 <li><a href="mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz">Chris Cormack</a></li>
 293 </ul></li>
 294 <li>Topic Experts:
 295 <ul>
 296 <li>SIP2 -- Colin Campbell</li>
 297 <li>EDI -- Colin Campbell</li>
 298 <li>Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala</li>
 299 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 300 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 301 </ul></li>
 302 <li>Bug Wranglers:
 303 <ul>
 304 <li>Luis Moises Rojas</li>
 305 <li>Jon Knight</li>
 306 <li><a href="mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in">Indranil Das Gupta</a></li>
 307 </ul></li>
 308 <li>Packaging Manager: <a href="mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net">Mirko Tietgen</a></li>
 309 <li>Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 310 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 311
 312 <ul>
 313 <li>David Nind</li>
 314 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 315 </ul></li>
 316 <li><p>Translation Managers: </p>
 317
 318 <ul>
 319 <li><a href="mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in">Indranil Das Gupta</a></li>
 320 <li><a href="mailto:bgkriegel@gmail.com">Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel</a></li>
 321 </ul></li>
 322 <li><p>Wiki curators: </p>
 323
 324 <ul>
 325 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 326 </ul></li>
 327 <li>Release Maintainers:
 328 <ul>
 329 <li>18.11 -- <a href="mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com">Martin Renvoize</a></li>
 330 <li>18.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 331 <li>18.05 -- Jesse Maseto</li>
 332 <li>17.11 -- <a href="mailto:fridolin.somers@biblibre.com">Fridolin Somers</a></li>
 333 </ul></li>
 334 <li>Release Maintainer assistants:
 335 <ul>
 336 <li>18.05 -- <a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
 337 </ul></li>
 338 </ul>
 339
 340 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 341
 342 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
 343 new features in Koha 18.11.02:</p>
 344
 345 <ul>
 346 <li>ByWater Solutions</li>
 347 </ul>
 348
 349 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.02.</p>
 350
 351 <ul>
 352 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (19)</li>
 353 <li>Colin Campbell (1)</li>
 354 <li>Nick Clemens (6)</li>
 355 <li>Jonathan Druart (13)</li>
 356 <li>Andrew Isherwood (1)</li>
 357 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 358 <li>Julian Maurice (1)</li>
 359 <li>Martin Renvoize (4)</li>
 360 <li>Marcel de Rooy (2)</li>
 361 <li>Mirko Tietgen (1)</li>
 362 <li>Koha translators (1)</li>
 363 </ul>
 364
 365 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 366 patches to Koha 18.11.02</p>
 367
 368 <ul>
 369 <li>abunchofthings.net (1)</li>
 370 <li>ACPL (1)</li>
 371 <li>BibLibre (1)</li>
 372 <li>ByWater-Solutions (6)</li>
 373 <li>Koha Community Developers (13)</li>
 374 <li>PTFS-Europe (6)</li>
 375 <li>Rijks Museum (2)</li>
 376 <li>Theke Solutions (19)</li>
 377 </ul>
 378
 379 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 380 for Koha.</p>
 381
 382 <ul>
 383 <li>Hugo Agud (1)</li>
 384 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)</li>
 385 <li>Alex Arnaud (2)</li>
 386 <li>Nick Clemens (44)</li>
 387 <li>Jonathan Druart (1)</li>
 388 <li>Charles Farmer (4)</li>
 389 <li>Katrin Fischer (8)</li>
 390 <li>Lucas Gass (1)</li>
 391 <li>Kyle Hall (7)</li>
 392 <li>Owen Leonard (8)</li>
 393 <li>Josef Moravec (7)</li>
 394 <li>Eric Phetteplace (1)</li>
 395 <li>Martin Renvoize (66)</li>
 396 <li>Marcel de Rooy (5)</li>
 397 <li>Pierre-Marc Thibault (2)</li>
 398 <li>Mirko Tietgen (1)</li>
 399 <li>Marc Véron (1)</li>
 400 <li>Nazlı Çetin (1)</li>
 401 </ul>
 402
 403 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 404 please send a patch against these release notes to
 405 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 406
 407 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 408
 409 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 410 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 411
 412 <ul>
 413 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 414 </ul>
 415
 416 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 417 line is 18.11.x.</p>
 418
 419 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 420
 421 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 422 tracker at:</p>
 423
 424 <ul>
 425 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 426 </ul>
 427
 428 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 429 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 430
 431 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jan 2019 15:42:52.</p>