1 <h1 id=
"releasenotesforkoha18.11.06">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA
18.11.06</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
18.11.06 can be downloaded from:
</p>
17 <li><a href=
"http://download.koha-community.org/koha-18.11.06.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
18.11.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
</p>
29 <p>It includes
50 bugfixes.
</p>
31 <h2 id=
"criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed
</h2>
33 <h3 id=
"acquisitions">Acquisitions
</h3>
36 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22713">[
22713]
</a> Replacement price removed when receiving if using MarcItemFieldstoOrder
</li>
37 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22908">[
22908]
</a> Modsuggestion will generate a notice even if the modification failed
</li>
40 <h3 id=
"authentication">Authentication
</h3>
43 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22717">[
22717]
</a> Google OAuth auto registration error
</li>
46 <h3 id=
"circulation">Circulation
</h3>
49 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22896">[
22896]
</a> Item to be transferred at checkin clears overridden due date
</li>
52 <h3 id=
"coursereserves">Course reserves
</h3>
55 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22899">[
22899]
</a> Cannot view course details
</li>
58 <h3 id=
"finesandfees">Fines and fees
</h3>
61 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22724">[
22724]
</a> Staff without writeoff permissions have access to 'Write off selected' button on Pay Fines tab
</li>
65 <p>Sponsored by Catalyst IT
</p>
68 <h3 id=
"holdrequests">Hold requests
</h3>
71 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22895">[
22895]
</a> [
18.11] cannot place item level holds
</li>
74 <h3 id=
"opac">OPAC
</h3>
77 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11853">[
11853]
</a> Cannot clear date of birth via OPAC patron update
</li>
78 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22420">[
22420]
</a> Tag cloud feature broken
</li>
79 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22881">[
22881]
</a> Trying to clear search history via the navbar X doesn't clear any searches
</li>
82 <h3 id=
"reports">Reports
</h3>
85 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22357">[
22357]
</a> Every run of runreport.pl with --store-results creates a new row in saved reports
</li>
88 <h3 id=
"searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch
</h3>
91 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22705">[
22705]
</a> Change default value of Elasticsearch cxn_pool to 'Static'
</li>
94 <h3 id=
"serials">Serials
</h3>
97 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22812">[
22812]
</a> Cannot add new subscription with strict SQL modes turned on
</li>
100 <h3 id=
"systemadministration">System Administration
</h3>
103 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22847">[
22847]
</a> Specific circ rule by patron category is displaying the default (or not displaying)
</li>
106 <h3 id=
"templates">Templates
</h3>
109 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22904">[
22904]
</a> Untranslatable strings in members-menu.js
</li>
112 <h3 id=
"testsuite">Test Suite
</h3>
115 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22836">[
22836]
</a> Tests catching XSS vulnerabilities in pagination are not correct
</li>
118 <h2 id=
"otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed
</h2>
120 <h3 id=
"acquisitions">Acquisitions
</h3>
123 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22225">[
22225]
</a> Tax hints and prices on orderreceive.pl may not match
</li>
124 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22791">[
22791]
</a> Calculation differs on aqui-home/spent and ordered.pl
</li>
125 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22907">[
22907]
</a> Cannot add new suggestion with strict SQL modes turned on
</li>
128 <h3 id=
"architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing
</h3>
131 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7862">[
7862]
</a> Warns when creating a new notice
</li>
135 <p>Sponsored by Catalyst IT
</p>
139 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21036">[
21036]
</a> Fix a bunch of older warnings
</li>
140 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22813">[
22813]
</a> searchResults queries the Koha::Patron object inside two nested loops
</li>
143 <h3 id=
"cataloging">Cataloging
</h3>
146 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21709">[
21709]
</a> Addbiblio shows clickable tag editor icons which do nothing
</li>
147 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22886">[
22886]
</a> Missing space between fields from Keyword to MARC mapping in cataloguing search
</li>
150 <h3 id=
"command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities
</h3>
153 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20537">[
20537]
</a> Warnings in overdue_notices.pl
</li>
157 <p>Sponsored by Catalyst IT
</p>
161 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22875">[
22875]
</a> Documentation misleading for import_patrons command line script
</li>
164 <h3 id=
"database">Database
</h3>
167 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22782">[
22782]
</a> Schema change for SocialData
</li>
170 <h3 id=
"installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
</h3>
173 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21651">[
21651]
</a> Force insert of notices related tables during the install process
</li>
174 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22527">[
22527]
</a> Web installer links to wrong database manual when database user doesn't have required privileges
</li>
178 <p>Sponsored by Hypernova Oy
</p>
181 <h3 id=
"labelpatroncardprinting">Label/patron card printing
</h3>
184 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22878">[
22878]
</a> Cannot add a patron card layout with mysql strict mode on
</li>
187 <h3 id=
"marcauthoritydatasupport">MARC Authority data support
</h3>
190 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21450">[
21450]
</a> link_bibs_to_authorities.pl is caching searches without the auth type
</li>
193 <h3 id=
"opac">OPAC
</h3>
196 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22816">[
22816]
</a> OPAC detail holdings table doesn't fill it's container
</li>
199 <h3 id=
"patrons">Patrons
</h3>
202 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20514">[
20514]
</a> Searching for a patrons using the address option doesn't work with streetnumber
</li>
203 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22781">[
22781]
</a> Fields on patron search results should be html/json filtered
</li>
206 <h3 id=
"sip2">SIP2
</h3>
209 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15221">[
15221]
</a> SIP server always sets the alert flag when item not returned
</li>
212 <h3 id=
"searching">Searching
</h3>
215 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22010">[
22010]
</a> RecordedBooks and OverDrive should check preferences over passing variables
</li>
216 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22787">[
22787]
</a> Mapping missing for ů to u in word-phrase-utf-chr
</li>
217 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22901">[
22901]
</a> On item search authorised values select disappears on conditional change
</li>
220 <h3 id=
"staffclient">Staff Client
</h3>
223 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17698">[
17698]
</a> Make patron notes show up on staff dashboard
</li>
227 <p>RMNOTE - REMOVE FROM RELEASE NOTES -
18.11 FEATURE
</p>
231 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22914">[
22914]
</a> Add holds column to batch item delete to fix show/hide columns behaviour
</li>
234 <h3 id=
"systemadministration">System Administration
</h3>
237 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22965">[
22965]
</a> Typo in Classification Sources description on Admin homepage (admin-home.tt)
</li>
240 <h3 id=
"templates">Templates
</h3>
243 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22800">[
22800]
</a> No need to raw filter the mandatory fields var (OPAC suggestions)
</li>
244 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22932">[
22932]
</a> GetLatestSerials should not return formatted date
</li>
247 <h3 id=
"testsuite">Test Suite
</h3>
250 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21671">[
21671]
</a> Koha/Patron/Modifications.t is failing randomly
</li>
251 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22433">[
22433]
</a> SIP/Transaction.t is failing randomly
</li>
252 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22453">[
22453]
</a> TestBuilder should generate now() using the current timezone
</li>
253 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22808">[
22808]
</a> Move Cache.t to db_dependent
</li>
254 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22917">[
22917]
</a> Circulation.t fails if tests are ran slowly
</li>
255 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22930">[
22930]
</a> Make TestBuilder more strict about wrong arguments
</li>
258 <h3 id=
"tools">Tools
</h3>
261 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21831">[
21831]
</a> Marc modification templates move all action moves only one field
</li>
264 <h2 id=
"systemrequirements">System requirements
</h2>
266 <p>Important notes:
</p>
269 <li>Perl
5.10 is required
</li>
270 <li>Zebra is required
</li>
273 <h2 id=
"documentation">Documentation
</h2>
275 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
276 documentation is
</p>
279 <li><a href=
"http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation
</a></li>
282 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
283 Koha manual is available:
</p>
286 <li><a href=
"http://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/">Koha Manual
</a></li>
289 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
</p>
292 <li><a href=
"https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository
</a></li>
295 <h2 id=
"translations">Translations
</h2>
297 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
298 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
</p>
301 <li>Arabic (
98.6%)
</li>
302 <li>Armenian (
100%)
</li>
303 <li>Basque (
63.6%)
</li>
304 <li>Chinese (China) (
64%)
</li>
305 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (
99.8%)
</li>
306 <li>Czech (
93.6%)
</li>
307 <li>Danish (
55.4%)
</li>
308 <li>English (New Zealand) (
88.3%)
</li>
309 <li>English (USA)
</li>
310 <li>Finnish (
84.5%)
</li>
311 <li>French (
98.3%)
</li>
312 <li>French (Canada) (
99.7%)
</li>
313 <li>German (
100%)
</li>
314 <li>German (Switzerland) (
91.8%)
</li>
315 <li>Greek (
78.7%)
</li>
316 <li>Hindi (
100%)
</li>
317 <li>Italian (
93.8%)
</li>
318 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (
94.9%)
</li>
319 <li>Occitan (post
1500) (
59.6%)
</li>
320 <li>Polish (
86.8%)
</li>
321 <li>Portuguese (
100%)
</li>
322 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (
87.5%)
</li>
323 <li>Slovak (
90.3%)
</li>
324 <li>Spanish (
100%)
</li>
325 <li>Swedish (
90.9%)
</li>
326 <li>Turkish (
98.4%)
</li>
327 <li>Ukrainian (
62.2%)
</li>
328 <li>Vietnamese (
54.7%)
</li>
331 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.
</p>
333 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
</p>
336 <li><a href=
"http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info
</a></li>
339 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
340 list to volunteer:
</p>
343 <li><a href=
"http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List
</a></li>
346 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
</p>
349 <li><a href=
"http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation
</a></li>
352 <h2 id=
"releaseteam">Release Team
</h2>
354 <p>The release team for Koha
18.11.06 is
</p>
357 <li>Release Manager: Nick Clemens
</li>
358 <li>Release Manager assistants:
360 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi
</li>
361 <li>Jonathan Druart
</li>
363 <li>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
</li>
366 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi
</li>
368 <li>Chris Cormack
</li>
369 <li>Jonathan Druart
</li>
371 <li>Julian Maurice
</li>
372 <li>Josef Moravec
</li>
373 <li>Martin Renvoize
</li>
374 <li>Marcel de Rooy
</li>
378 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
</li>
379 <li>SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
</li>
380 <li>EDI -- Colin Campbell
</li>
381 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard
</li>
382 <li>Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
</li>
386 <li>Indranil Das Gupta
</li>
388 <li>Luis Moises Rojas
</li>
390 <li>Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
</li>
391 <li>Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
</li>
392 <li><p>Documentation Team:
</p>
396 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey
</li>
398 <li><p>Translation Managers:
</p>
401 <li>Indranil Das Gupta
</li>
402 <li>Bernardo González Kriegel
</li>
404 <li><p>Wiki curators:
</p>
407 <li>Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
</li>
409 <li>Release Maintainers:
411 <li>18.05 -- Lucas Gass
</li>
412 <li>18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
</li>
413 <li>18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
</li>
414 <li>17.11 -- Fridolin Somers
</li>
416 <li>Release Maintainer assistants:
418 <li>18.05 -- Kyle Hall
</li>
422 <h2 id=
"credits">Credits
</h2>
424 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
425 new features in Koha
18.11.06:
</p>
429 <li>Hypernova Oy
</li>
430 <li>Northeast Kansas Library System, NEKLS (http://nekls.org/)
</li>
433 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha
18.11.06.
</p>
436 <li>Aleisha Amohia (
1)
</li>
437 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (
3)
</li>
438 <li>Henry Bolshaw (
1)
</li>
439 <li>Colin Campbell (
1)
</li>
440 <li>Nick Clemens (
16)
</li>
441 <li>David Cook (
1)
</li>
442 <li>Jonathan Druart (
40)
</li>
443 <li>Katrin Fischer (
2)
</li>
444 <li>Lucas Gass (
1)
</li>
445 <li>Owen Leonard (
3)
</li>
446 <li>Hayley Mapley (
2)
</li>
447 <li>Julian Maurice (
1)
</li>
448 <li>Josef Moravec (
1)
</li>
450 <li>Martin Renvoize (
9)
</li>
451 <li>Marcel de Rooy (
5)
</li>
452 <li>Fridolin Somers (
1)
</li>
453 <li>Mirko Tietgen (
1)
</li>
454 <li>Koha translators (
1)
</li>
457 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
458 patches to Koha
18.11.06</p>
461 <li>abunchofthings.net (
1)
</li>
463 <li>BibLibre (
2)
</li>
465 <li>ByWater-Solutions (
17)
</li>
466 <li>Catalyst (
2)
</li>
467 <li>Independant Individuals (
5)
</li>
468 <li>Koha Community Developers (
40)
</li>
469 <li>parliament.uk (
1)
</li>
470 <li>Prosentient Systems (
1)
</li>
471 <li>PTFS-Europe (
10)
</li>
472 <li>Rijks Museum (
5)
</li>
473 <li>Theke Solutions (
3)
</li>
476 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
480 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (
3)
</li>
481 <li>Arthur Bousquet (
1)
</li>
483 <li>Nick Clemens (
84)
</li>
484 <li>Chris Cormack (
7)
</li>
485 <li>Michal Denar (
10)
</li>
486 <li>Jonathan Druart (
11)
</li>
487 <li>Bouzid Fergani (
1)
</li>
488 <li>Katrin Fischer (
31)
</li>
489 <li>Kyle Hall (
1)
</li>
490 <li>Frank Hansen (
1)
</li>
491 <li>Jon Knight (
1)
</li>
492 <li>Owen Leonard (
2)
</li>
493 <li>Hayley Mapley (
4)
</li>
494 <li>Josef Moravec (
2)
</li>
495 <li>Liz Rea (
32)
</li>
496 <li>Martin Renvoize (
104)
</li>
497 <li>Marcel de Rooy (
22)
</li>
498 <li>Lisette Scheer (
1)
</li>
499 <li>Maryse Simard (
4)
</li>
503 <p>We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
504 please send a patch against these release notes to
505 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
</p>
507 <h2 id=
"revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes
</h2>
509 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
510 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
</p>
513 <li><a href=
"git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository
</a></li>
516 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
519 <h2 id=
"bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests
</h2>
521 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
525 <li><a href=
"http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla
</a></li>
528 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
529 (Many hands finish the work)
</p>
531 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on
31 May
2019 06:
51:
51.
</p>