misc/release_notes/release_notes_19_11_12.html

   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.11.12">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.12</h1>
   2
   3 <p>24 Nov 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 19.11.12 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.11.12.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 19.11.12 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 1 security fixes, 1 enhancements, 22 bugfixes.</p>
  30
  31 <h3 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h3>
  32
  33 <p>Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
  34 deployment: </p>
  35
  36 <ul>
  37 <li>Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)</li>
  38 <li>Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1</li>
  39 <li>Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3</li>
  40 <li>Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1 </li>
  41 <li>Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)</li>
  42 </ul>
  43
  44 <p>Additional notes:</p>
  45
  46 <ul>
  47 <li>Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)</li>
  48 <li>Zebra or Elasticsearch is required</li>
  49 </ul>
  50
  51 <h2 id="kohasecurity">Koha security</h2>
  52
  53 <ul>
  54 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26904">[26904]</a> OPAC password recovery allows regexp in email</li>
  55 </ul>
  56
  57 <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
  58
  59 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  60
  61 <ul>
  62 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25242">[25242]</a> Accessibility: The 'Holdings' table partially obscures navigation links at 200% zoom</li>
  63 </ul>
  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=26496">[26496]</a> Budget plan save button doesn't save plans</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=26639">[26639]</a> Turn auto_savepoint ON</li>
  77 </ul>
  78
  79 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
  80
  81 <ul>
  82 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18051">[18051]</a> Advanced Editor - Rancor - encoding issues with some sources</li>
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
  86
  87 <ul>
  88 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25758">[25758]</a> Items scheduled for automatic renewal do not show that they will not renew due to a hold</p>
  89
  90 <blockquote>
  91   <p>Bug 19014 prioritized the 'too soon' message for renewals to prevent sending too many notifications. When displaying information about the hold elsewhere it is desired to see the 'on hold' status even when the renewal is too soon.</p>
  92
  93   <p>This patch add a switch to the CanBookBeRenewed routine to decide which status has priority (i.e. whether we are checking from the renewal cron or elsewhere)</p>
  94 </blockquote></li>
  95 </ul>
  96
  97 <h3 id="database">Database</h3>
  98
  99 <ul>
 100 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18050">[18050]</a> Missing constraint on aqbudgets.budget_period_id in aqbudgets</li>
 101 </ul>
 102
 103 <h3 id="holdrequests">Hold requests</h3>
 104
 105 <ul>
 106 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26429">[26429]</a> If a waiting hold has expired the expiration date on the holds page shows for tomorrow</li>
 107 </ul>
 108
 109 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 110
 111 <ul>
 112 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26973">[26973]</a> extendedPatronAttributes not showing during selfregistration</li>
 113 </ul>
 114
 115 <h3 id="pluginarchitecture">Plugin architecture</h3>
 116
 117 <ul>
 118 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25549">[25549]</a> Broken plugins should not break Koha (Install plugin script/method should highlight broken plugins)</li>
 119 </ul>
 120
 121 <h3 id="serials">Serials</h3>
 122
 123 <ul>
 124 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26604">[26604]</a> "Generate next" button gives error on serials-collection.pl</li>
 125 </ul>
 126
 127 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
 128
 129 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
 130
 131 <ul>
 132 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26190">[26190]</a> Cannot close baskets when all lines have been cancelled</li>
 133 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26497">[26497]</a> "Hide all columns" throws Javascript error on aqplan.pl</li>
 134 </ul>
 135
 136 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
 137
 138 <ul>
 139 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26569">[26569]</a> Use gender-neutral pronouns in systempreference explanation field in DB</li>
 140 </ul>
 141
 142 <h3 id="authentication">Authentication</h3>
 143
 144 <ul>
 145 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26191">[26191]</a> Relocate track_login call in Auth.pm (see 22543)</li>
 146 </ul>
 147
 148 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
 149
 150 <ul>
 151 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26605">[26605]</a> Correctly URI-encode query string in call number browse plugin</li>
 152 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26613">[26613]</a> In the unimarc_framework.sql file in the it-IT translation there are wrong value fields for 995 r record</li>
 153 </ul>
 154
 155 <h3 id="command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities</h3>
 156
 157 <ul>
 158 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26601">[26601]</a> Add utf8 output to text output of overdue_notices.pl</p>
 159
 160 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>Styrian State Library</em></p></li>
 161 </ul>
 162
 163 <h3 id="installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)</h3>
 164
 165 <ul>
 166 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26612">[26612]</a> Error during web install for it-IT translation</li>
 167 </ul>
 168
 169 <h3 id="marcauthoritydatasupport">MARC Authority data support</h3>
 170
 171 <ul>
 172 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26606">[26606]</a> Correctly URI-encode query string in URL loaded after deleting an authority record</li>
 173 </ul>
 174
 175 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
 176
 177 <ul>
 178 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20804">[20804]</a> Sanitize input of timeout syspref</li>
 179 </ul>
 180
 181 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 182
 183 <ul>
 184 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26727">[26727]</a> Fix <p/> appearing in the templates</li>
 185 </ul>
 186
 187 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
 188
 189 <ul>
 190 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26589">[26589]</a> t/db_dependent/OAI/Sets.t unit test fails due to OAI-PMH:AutoUpdateSets syspref</li>
 191 </ul>
 192
 193 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
 194
 195 <ul>
 196 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8437">[8437]</a> Large database backups and large exports from export.pl fail under plack</li>
 197 </ul>
 198
 199 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 200
 201 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 202 documentation is </p>
 203
 204 <ul>
 205 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 206 </ul>
 207
 208 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 209 Koha manual is available:</p>
 210
 211 <ul>
 212 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.11/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 213 </ul>
 214
 215 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 216
 217 <ul>
 218 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 219 </ul>
 220
 221 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 222
 223 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 224 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 225
 226 <ul>
 227 <li>Arabic (98.3%)</li>
 228 <li>Armenian (100%)</li>
 229 <li>Armenian (Classical) (100%)</li>
 230 <li>Basque (55.9%)</li>
 231 <li>Catalan; Valencian (50.7%)</li>
 232 <li>Chinese (China) (57.1%)</li>
 233 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (98.8%)</li>
 234 <li>Czech (91%)</li>
 235 <li>English (New Zealand) (78.6%)</li>
 236 <li>English (USA)</li>
 237 <li>Finnish (74.5%)</li>
 238 <li>French (97.1%)</li>
 239 <li>French (Canada) (94.1%)</li>
 240 <li>German (100%)</li>
 241 <li>German (Switzerland) (81.1%)</li>
 242 <li>Greek (71.4%)</li>
 243 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 244 <li>Italian (87.3%)</li>
 245 <li>Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (71.4%)</li>
 246 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (83.6%)</li>
 247 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (53.2%)</li>
 248 <li>Polish (78.7%)</li>
 249 <li>Portuguese (99.7%)</li>
 250 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (99.7%)</li>
 251 <li>Slovak (83.3%)</li>
 252 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
 253 <li>Swedish (85.3%)</li>
 254 <li>Telugu (93.5%)</li>
 255 <li>Turkish (100%)</li>
 256 <li>Ukrainian (74.7%)</li>
 257 <li>Vietnamese (51.7%)</li>
 258 </ul>
 259
 260 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 261
 262 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 263
 264 <ul>
 265 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 266 </ul>
 267
 268 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 269 list to volunteer:</p>
 270
 271 <ul>
 272 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 273 </ul>
 274
 275 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 276
 277 <ul>
 278 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 279 </ul>
 280
 281 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 282
 283 <p>The release team for Koha 19.11.12 is</p>
 284
 285 <ul>
 286 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 287 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 288
 289 <ul>
 290 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 291 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 292 </ul></li>
 293 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 294 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 295
 296 <ul>
 297 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 298 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 299 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 300 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 301 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 302 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 303 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 304 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 305 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 306 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 307 </ul></li>
 308 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 309
 310 <ul>
 311 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 312 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 313 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 314 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 315 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 316 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 317 </ul></li>
 318 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 319
 320 <ul>
 321 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 322 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 323 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 324 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 325 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 326 </ul></li>
 327 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 328 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 329
 330 <ul>
 331 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 332 <li>David Nind</li>
 333 </ul></li>
 334 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 335
 336 <ul>
 337 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 338 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 339 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 340 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 341 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 342 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 343 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 344 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 345 </ul></li>
 346 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 347 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 348
 349 <ul>
 350 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 351 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 352 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 353 </ul></li>
 354 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 355
 356 <ul>
 357 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 358 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 359 </ul></li>
 360 </ul>
 361
 362 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 363
 364 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
 365 new features in Koha 19.11.12:</p>
 366
 367 <ul>
 368 <li>Styrian State Library</li>
 369 </ul>
 370
 371 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.12.</p>
 372
 373 <ul>
 374 <li>Aleisha Amohia (6)</li>
 375 <li>Alex Buckley (1)</li>
 376 <li>Nick Clemens (4)</li>
 377 <li>David Cook (1)</li>
 378 <li>Jonathan Druart (4)</li>
 379 <li>John Fawcett (2)</li>
 380 <li>Katrin Fischer (5)</li>
 381 <li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)</li>
 382 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
 383 <li>Mark Hofstetter (1)</li>
 384 <li>Mason James (1)</li>
 385 <li>Owen Leonard (2)</li>
 386 <li>Agustín Moyano (1)</li>
 387 <li>Martin Renvoize (2)</li>
 388 <li>Phil Ringnalda (2)</li>
 389 <li>Marcel de Rooy (1)</li>
 390 <li>Fridolin Somers (1)</li>
 391 <li>Emmi Takkinen (1)</li>
 392 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 393 </ul>
 394
 395 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 396 patches to Koha 19.11.12</p>
 397
 398 <ul>
 399 <li>Athens County Public Libraries (2)</li>
 400 <li>BibLibre (1)</li>
 401 <li>Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (5)</li>
 402 <li>ByWater-Solutions (6)</li>
 403 <li>Catalyst (1)</li>
 404 <li>Chetco Community Public Library (2)</li>
 405 <li>hofstetter.at (1)</li>
 406 <li>Independant Individuals (7)</li>
 407 <li>Koha Community Developers (4)</li>
 408 <li>KohaAloha (1)</li>
 409 <li>Prosentient Systems (1)</li>
 410 <li>PTFS-Europe (2)</li>
 411 <li>Rijks Museum (1)</li>
 412 <li>Theke Solutions (1)</li>
 413 <li>voipsupport.it (2)</li>
 414 </ul>
 415
 416 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 417 for Koha.</p>
 418
 419 <ul>
 420 <li>Aleisha Amohia (31)</li>
 421 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)</li>
 422 <li>Henry Bolshaw (1)</li>
 423 <li>Nick Clemens (2)</li>
 424 <li>David Cook (1)</li>
 425 <li>Chris Cormack (1)</li>
 426 <li>Jonathan Druart (25)</li>
 427 <li>Katrin Fischer (20)</li>
 428 <li>Lucas Gass (30)</li>
 429 <li>Didier Gautheron (1)</li>
 430 <li>Sally Healey (1)</li>
 431 <li>Barbara Johnson (2)</li>
 432 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
 433 <li>Julian Maurice (3)</li>
 434 <li>Kelly McElligott (1)</li>
 435 <li>David Nind (3)</li>
 436 <li>Séverine Queune (1)</li>
 437 <li>Martin Renvoize (13)</li>
 438 <li>Alexis Ripetti (1)</li>
 439 <li>Marcel de Rooy (1)</li>
 440 <li>Timothy Alexis Vass (1)</li>
 441 </ul>
 442
 443 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 444 please send a patch against these release notes to
 445 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 446
 447 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 448
 449 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 450 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 451
 452 <ul>
 453 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 454 </ul>
 455
 456 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 457 line is 19.11.x.</p>
 458
 459 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 460
 461 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 462 tracker at:</p>
 463
 464 <ul>
 465 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 466 </ul>
 467
 468 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 469 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 470
 471 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 24 Nov 2020 00:48:13.</p>