misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_05_13.html

   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.05.13">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.13</h1>
   2
   3 <p>23 Jul 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 19.05.13 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.05.13.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 19.05.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 16 bugfixes.</p>
  30
  31 <h3 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h3>
  32
  33
  34 <ul>
  35     <li><strong>Debian 8 (Jessie) is not supported anymore</strong></li>
  36     <li><strong>MySQL 5.5 is not supported anymore</strong></li>
  37 </ul>
  38
  39 <p>Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
  40 deployment: </p>
  41
  42 <ul>
  43     <li>Debian 9 (Stretch) with MariaDB 10.1 (and experimental MariaDB 10.3 support)</li>
  44     <li>Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) with MariaDB 10.1</li>
  45 </ul>
  46
  47 <p>Additional notes:</p>
  48
  49 <ul>
  50     <li>Perl >= 5.14 is required and 5.24 or 5.26 are recommended</li>
  51 <li>Zebra or Elasticsearch is required</li>
  52 </ul>
  53
  54 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
  55
  56 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  57
  58 <ul>
  59 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24986">[24986]</a> Maximum row size reached soon for borrowers and deletedborrowers</li>
  60 </ul>
  61
  62 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  63
  64 <ul>
  65     <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22672">[22672]</a> Replace &lt;i> tags with &lt;em> AND &lt;b> tags with &lt;strong> in the OPAC</li>
  66 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25769">[25769]</a> Patron self modification triggers change request for date of birth to null</li>
  67 </ul>
  68
  69 <h3 id="patrons">Patrons</h3>
  70
  71 <ul>
  72 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25858">[25858]</a> Borrower permissions are broken by update from bug 22868</li>
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
  76
  77 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  78
  79 <ul>
  80 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25587">[25587]</a> JavaScript issue - "clear" button doesn't reset some dropdowns</li>
  81 </ul>
  82
  83 <h3 id="command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities</h3>
  84
  85 <ul>
  86 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22470">[22470]</a> Missing the table name on misc/migration_tools/switch_marc21_series_info.pl</li>
  87 </ul>
  88
  89 <h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3>
  90
  91 <ul>
  92 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25576">[25576]</a> ILL requests Help does not take you to the correct place in the manual</li>
  93 </ul>
  94
  95 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  96
  97 <ul>
  98 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23276">[23276]</a> Don't show tags on tag cloud when tagging is disabled</li>
  99 </ul>
 100
 101 <h3 id="patrons">Patrons</h3>
 102
 103 <ul>
 104 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24353">[24353]</a> [19.05] privacy_guarantor_checkouts incorrectly shows No on moremember.pl</li>
 105 </ul>
 106
 107 <h3 id="restapi">REST API</h3>
 108
 109 <ul>
 110 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24862">[24862]</a> Wrong behaviour on anonymous sessions</p>
 111
 112 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>ByWater Solutions</em></p></li>
 113 </ul>
 114
 115 <h3 id="serials">Serials</h3>
 116
 117 <ul>
 118 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25696">[25696]</a> Test prediction pattern button is invalid HTML</li>
 119 </ul>
 120
 121 <h3 id="staffclient">Staff Client</h3>
 122
 123 <ul>
 124 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25537">[25537]</a> Page reload at branchtransfers.pl loses destination branch</li>
 125 </ul>
 126
 127 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
 128
 129 <ul>
 130 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25394">[25394]</a> Cronjob path in the AuthorityMergeLimit syspref description is wrong</p>
 131
 132 <blockquote>
 133   <p>Updates the system preference description with the correct path for the cronjob (misc/cronjobs/merge_authorities.pl).</p>
 134 </blockquote></li>
 135 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25675">[25675]</a> System preference PatronSelfRegistration incorrectly described</li>
 136 </ul>
 137
 138 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 139
 140 <ul>
 141 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25615">[25615]</a> Empty select in "Holds to pull" filters</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=25623">[25623]</a> Some tests in oauth.t do not roll back</li>
 148 </ul>
 149
 150 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 151
 152 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 153 documentation is </p>
 154
 155 <ul>
 156 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 157 </ul>
 158
 159 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 160 Koha manual is available:</p>
 161
 162 <ul>
 163 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.05/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 164 </ul>
 165
 166 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 167
 168 <ul>
 169 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 170 </ul>
 171
 172 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 173
 174 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 175 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 176
 177 <ul>
 178 <li>Arabic (98.6%)</li>
 179 <li>Armenian (99.9%)</li>
 180 <li>Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)</li>
 181 <li>Basque (59.2%)</li>
 182 <li>Chinese (China) (59.8%)</li>
 183 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)</li>
 184 <li>Czech (92.7%)</li>
 185 <li>Danish (52.1%)</li>
 186 <li>English (New Zealand) (82.7%)</li>
 187 <li>English (USA)</li>
 188 <li>Finnish (79%)</li>
 189 <li>French (98.4%)</li>
 190 <li>French (Canada) (99.1%)</li>
 191 <li>German (100%)</li>
 192 <li>German (Switzerland) (85.7%)</li>
 193 <li>Greek (73.5%)</li>
 194 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 195 <li>Italian (90.2%)</li>
 196 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (88.4%)</li>
 197 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)</li>
 198 <li>Polish (82.7%)</li>
 199 <li>Portuguese (100%)</li>
 200 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)</li>
 201 <li>Slovak (86.6%)</li>
 202 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
 203 <li>Swedish (87.9%)</li>
 204 <li>Turkish (100%)</li>
 205 <li>Ukrainian (73.7%)</li>
 206 <li>Vietnamese (50.8%)</li>
 207 </ul>
 208
 209 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 210
 211 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 212
 213 <ul>
 214 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 215 </ul>
 216
 217 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 218 list to volunteer:</p>
 219
 220 <ul>
 221 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 222 </ul>
 223
 224 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 225
 226 <ul>
 227 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 228 </ul>
 229
 230 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 231
 232 <p>The release team for Koha 19.05.13 is</p>
 233
 234 <ul>
 235 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 236 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 237
 238 <ul>
 239 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 240 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 241 </ul></li>
 242 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 243 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 244
 245 <ul>
 246 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 247 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 248 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 249 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 250 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 251 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 252 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 253 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 254 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 255 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 256 </ul></li>
 257 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 258
 259 <ul>
 260 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 261 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 262 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 263 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 264 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 265 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 266 </ul></li>
 267 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 268
 269 <ul>
 270 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 271 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 272 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 273 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 274 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 275 </ul></li>
 276 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 277 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 278
 279 <ul>
 280 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 281 <li>David Nind</li>
 282 </ul></li>
 283 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 284
 285 <ul>
 286 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 287 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 288 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 289 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 290 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 291 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 292 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 293 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 294 </ul></li>
 295 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 296 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 297
 298 <ul>
 299 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 300 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 301 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 302 </ul></li>
 303 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 304
 305 <ul>
 306 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 307 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 308 </ul></li>
 309 </ul>
 310
 311 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 312
 313 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
 314 new features in Koha 19.05.13:</p>
 315
 316 <ul>
 317 <li><a href="https://bywatersolutions.com/">ByWater Solutions</a></li>
 318 </ul>
 319
 320 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.13.</p>
 321
 322 <ul>
 323 <li>Aleisha Amohia (3)</li>
 324 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)</li>
 325 <li>David Cook (1)</li>
 326 <li>Jonathan Druart (4)</li>
 327 <li>Katrin Fischer (1)</li>
 328 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)</li>
 329 <li>Lucas Gass (1)</li>
 330 <li>Victor Grousset (3)</li>
 331 <li>Kyle Hall (2)</li>
 332 <li>David Roberts (1)</li>
 333 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)</li>
 334 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 335 <li>Petro Vashchuk (1)</li>
 336 </ul>
 337
 338 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 339 patches to Koha 19.05.13</p>
 340
 341 <ul>
 342 <li>Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (1)</li>
 343 <li>ByWater-Solutions (4)</li>
 344 <li>Independant Individuals (4)</li>
 345 <li>Koha Community Developers (7)</li>
 346 <li>Prosentient Systems (1)</li>
 347 <li>PTFS-Europe (1)</li>
 348 <li>Solutions inLibro inc (1)</li>
 349 <li>Theke Solutions (3)</li>
 350 </ul>
 351
 352 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 353 for Koha.</p>
 354
 355 <ul>
 356 <li>Aleisha Amohia (15)</li>
 357 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)</li>
 358 <li>Alex Arnaud (1)</li>
 359 <li>Donna Bachowski (1)</li>
 360 <li>Nick Clemens (2)</li>
 361 <li>Jonathan Druart (10)</li>
 362 <li>Katrin Fischer (6)</li>
 363 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)</li>
 364 <li>Lucas Gass (13)</li>
 365 <li>Victor Grousset (20)</li>
 366 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 367 <li>Julian Maurice (3)</li>
 368 <li>David Nind (4)</li>
 369 <li>Martin Renvoize (5)</li>
 370 <li>Andreas Roussos (1)</li>
 371 <li>Emmi Takkinen (1)</li>
 372 <li>Timothy Alexis Vass (1)</li>
 373 </ul>
 374
 375 <p>We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.</p>
 376
 377 <ul>
 378 <li>Andrew Nugged</li>
 379 </ul>
 380
 381 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 382 please send a patch against these release notes to
 383 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 384
 385 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 386
 387 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 388 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 389
 390 <ul>
 391 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 392 </ul>
 393
 394 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 395 line is 19.05.x.</p>
 396
 397 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 398
 399 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 400 tracker at:</p>
 401
 402 <ul>
 403 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 404 </ul>
 405
 406 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 407 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 408
 409 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 23 Jul 2020 01:33:36.</p>