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   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.05.15">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.15</h1>
   2
   3 <p>22 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="https://koha-community.org">Koha Community</a></li>
  12 </ul>
  13
  14 <p>Koha 19.05.15 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="https://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.05.15.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 19.05.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 4 enhancements, 26 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="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
  54
  55 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25155">[25155]</a> Accessibility: The 'Login modal' contains semantically incorrect headings</li>
  59 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25244">[25244]</a> Accessibility: Checkboxes on the search results page do not contain specific aria labels</li>
  60 <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>
  61 </ul>
  62
  63 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
  64
  65 <ul>
  66 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25709">[25709]</a> Rename systempreference from NotesBlacklist to NotesToHide</p>
  67
  68 <blockquote>
  69   <p>This patchset updates a syspref name to be clearer about what it does and to follow community guidelines on using inclusive language.</p>
  70
  71   <p>https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#TERM3:<em>Inclusive</em>Language</p>
  72 </blockquote></li>
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  76
  77 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  78
  79 <ul>
  80 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26000">[26000]</a> Holiday exceptions are incorrectly cached for an individual branch</li>
  81 <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>
  82 </ul>
  83
  84 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  85
  86 <ul>
  87 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25566">[25566]</a> Change in DecreaseLoanHighHolds behaviour</li>
  88 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25726">[25726]</a> Holds to Pull made empty by pathological holds</li>
  89 </ul>
  90
  91 <h3 id="database">Database</h3>
  92
  93 <ul>
  94 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24379">[24379]</a> Patron login attempts happen to be NULL instead of 0</li>
  95 </ul>
  96
  97 <h3 id="labelpatroncardprinting">Label/patron card printing</h3>
  98
  99 <ul>
 100 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25852">[25852]</a> If a layout is edited, the layout type will revert to barcode</li>
 101 </ul>
 102
 103 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 104
 105 <ul>
 106 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26069">[26069]</a> Twitter share button leaks information to Twitter</li>
 107 </ul>
 108
 109 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 110
 111 <ul>
 112 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17084">[17084]</a> Automatic debian/control updates (master)</li>
 113 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25591">[25591]</a> Update list-deps for Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04</li>
 114 <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>
 115 </ul>
 116
 117 <h3 id="restapi">REST API</h3>
 118
 119 <ul>
 120 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25944">[25944]</a> Bug in ill_requests patch schema</li>
 121 </ul>
 122
 123 <h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
 124
 125 <ul>
 126 <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>
 127 </ul>
 128
 129 <h3 id="searching-zebra">Searching - Zebra</h3>
 130
 131 <ul>
 132 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23086">[23086]</a> Search for collection is broken</li>
 133 </ul>
 134
 135 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 136
 137 <ul>
 138 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26033">[26033]</a> framapic is closing</li>
 139 </ul>
 140
 141 <h3 id="z39.50sruopensearchservers">Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers</h3>
 142
 143 <ul>
 144 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23542">[23542]</a> SRU import encoding issue</li>
 145 </ul>
 146
 147 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
 148
 149 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
 150
 151 <ul>
 152 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26270">[26270]</a> XISBN.t is failing since today</li>
 153 </ul>
 154
 155 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
 156
 157 <ul>
 158 <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>
 159 </ul>
 160
 161 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 162
 163 <ul>
 164 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25982">[25982]</a> OPAC shelves RSS link output is HTML not XML</li>
 165 </ul>
 166
 167 <h3 id="searching-elasticsearch">Searching - Elasticsearch</h3>
 168
 169 <ul>
 170 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25873">[25873]</a> Elasticsearch - Records with malformed data are not indexed</li>
 171 </ul>
 172
 173 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
 174
 175 <ul>
 176 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25005">[25005]</a> Admin Rights issue for Suggestion to Purchase</li>
 177 </ul>
 178
 179 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 180
 181 <ul>
 182 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25762">[25762]</a> Typo in linkitem.tt</li>
 183 </ul>
 184
 185 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 186
 187 <ul>
 188 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24147">[24147]</a> Objects.t is failing randomly</li>
 189 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25641">[25641]</a> Koha/XSLT/Base.t is failing on U20</li>
 190 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25729">[25729]</a> Charges/Fees.t is failing on slow servers due to wrong date comparison</li>
 191 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26043">[26043]</a> Holds.t is failing randomly</li>
 192 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26162">[26162]</a> Prevent Selenium's StaleElementReferenceException</p>
 193
 194 <h2 id="newsysprefs">New sysprefs</h2></li>
 195 <li><p>NotesToHide</p></li>
 196 </ul>
 197
 198 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 199
 200 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 201 documentation is </p>
 202
 203 <ul>
 204 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 205 </ul>
 206
 207 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 208 Koha manual is available:</p>
 209
 210 <ul>
 211 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.05/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 212 </ul>
 213
 214 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 215
 216 <ul>
 217 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 218 </ul>
 219
 220 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 221
 222 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 223 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 224
 225 <ul>
 226 <li>Arabic (98.6%)</li>
 227 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
 228 <li>Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)</li>
 229 <li>Basque (59.2%)</li>
 230 <li>Chinese (China) (59.7%)</li>
 231 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)</li>
 232 <li>Czech (92.8%)</li>
 233 <li>Danish (52%)</li>
 234 <li>English (New Zealand) (82.7%)</li>
 235 <li>English (USA)</li>
 236 <li>Finnish (79%)</li>
 237 <li>French (98.5%)</li>
 238 <li>French (Canada) (99%)</li>
 239 <li>German (100%)</li>
 240 <li>German (Switzerland) (85.7%)</li>
 241 <li>Greek (73.5%)</li>
 242 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 243 <li>Italian (90.2%)</li>
 244 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (88.4%)</li>
 245 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)</li>
 246 <li>Polish (82.7%)</li>
 247 <li>Portuguese (99.9%)</li>
 248 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)</li>
 249 <li>Slovak (86.5%)</li>
 250 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
 251 <li>Swedish (87.9%)</li>
 252 <li>Turkish (100%)</li>
 253 <li>Ukrainian (73.7%)</li>
 254 <li>Vietnamese (50.7%)</li>
 255 </ul>
 256
 257 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 258
 259 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 260
 261 <ul>
 262 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 263 </ul>
 264
 265 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 266 list to volunteer:</p>
 267
 268 <ul>
 269 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 270 </ul>
 271
 272 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 273
 274 <ul>
 275 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 276 </ul>
 277
 278 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 279
 280 <p>The release team for Koha 19.05.15 is</p>
 281
 282 <ul>
 283 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 284 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 285
 286 <ul>
 287 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 288 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 289 </ul></li>
 290 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 291 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 292
 293 <ul>
 294 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 295 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 296 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 297 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 298 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 299 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 300 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 301 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 302 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 303 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 304 </ul></li>
 305 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 306
 307 <ul>
 308 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 309 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 310 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 311 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 312 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 313 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 314 </ul></li>
 315 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 316
 317 <ul>
 318 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 319 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 320 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 321 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 322 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 323 </ul></li>
 324 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 325 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 326
 327 <ul>
 328 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 329 <li>David Nind</li>
 330 </ul></li>
 331 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 332
 333 <ul>
 334 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 335 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 336 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 337 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 338 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 339 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 340 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 341 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 342 </ul></li>
 343 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 344 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 345
 346 <ul>
 347 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 348 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 349 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 350 </ul></li>
 351 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 352
 353 <ul>
 354 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 355 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 356 </ul></li>
 357 </ul>
 358
 359 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 360
 361 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.15.</p>
 362
 363 <ul>
 364 <li>Aleisha Amohia (2)</li>
 365 <li>Nick Clemens (6)</li>
 366 <li>Jonathan Druart (18)</li>
 367 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)</li>
 368 <li>Didier Gautheron (1)</li>
 369 <li>Victor Grousset (4)</li>
 370 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
 371 <li>Mason James (3)</li>
 372 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 373 <li>Hayley Mapley (1)</li>
 374 <li>Julian Maurice (1)</li>
 375 <li>Martin Renvoize (5)</li>
 376 <li>Fridolin Somers (1)</li>
 377 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 378 </ul>
 379
 380 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 381 patches to Koha 19.05.15</p>
 382
 383 <ul>
 384 <li>Athens County Public Libraries (1)</li>
 385 <li>BibLibre (3)</li>
 386 <li>ByWater-Solutions (8)</li>
 387 <li>Catalyst (1)</li>
 388 <li>Independant Individuals (2)</li>
 389 <li>Koha Community Developers (22)</li>
 390 <li>KohaAloha (3)</li>
 391 <li>PTFS-Europe (5)</li>
 392 </ul>
 393
 394 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 395 for Koha.</p>
 396
 397 <ul>
 398 <li>Aleisha Amohia (39)</li>
 399 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)</li>
 400 <li>Alex Arnaud (2)</li>
 401 <li>Donna Bachowski (1)</li>
 402 <li>Christopher Brannon (1)</li>
 403 <li>Nick Clemens (4)</li>
 404 <li>Jonathan Druart (17)</li>
 405 <li>Magnus Enger (1)</li>
 406 <li>Katrin Fischer (13)</li>
 407 <li>Lucas Gass (33)</li>
 408 <li>Didier Gautheron (1)</li>
 409 <li>Victor Grousset (41)</li>
 410 <li>Amit Gupta (2)</li>
 411 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
 412 <li>Sally Healey (5)</li>
 413 <li>Brandon Jimenez (1)</li>
 414 <li>Owen Leonard (4)</li>
 415 <li>Julian Maurice (2)</li>
 416 <li>Kelly McElligott (2)</li>
 417 <li>Martin Renvoize (9)</li>
 418 <li>David Roberts (1)</li>
 419 <li>Marcel de Rooy (3)</li>
 420 </ul>
 421
 422 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 423 please send a patch against these release notes to
 424 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 425
 426 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 427
 428 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 429 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 430
 431 <ul>
 432 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 433 </ul>
 434
 435 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 436 line is 19.05.x.</p>
 437
 438 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 439
 440 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 441 tracker at:</p>
 442
 443 <ul>
 444 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 445 </ul>
 446
 447 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 448 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 449
 450 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Sep 2020 13:41:51.</p>