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   1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha19.05.14">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.14</h1>
   2
   3 <p>25 Aug 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 19.05.14 can be downloaded from:</p>
  15
  16 <ul>
  17 <li><a href="https://download.koha-community.org/koha-19.05.14.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 19.05.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.</p>
  28
  29 <p>It includes 3 security fixes, 6 enhancements, 11 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="securitybugs">Security bugs</h2>
  54
  55 <h3 id="koha">Koha</h3>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23634">[23634]</a> Privilege escalation vulnerability for staff users with 'edit_borrowers' permission and 'OpacResetPassword' enabled</li>
  59 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24663">[24663]</a> OPACPublic must be tested for all opac scripts</li>
  60 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25360">[25360]</a> Use secure flag for CGISESSID cookie</li>
  61 </ul>
  62
  63 <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements</h2>
  64
  65 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
  66
  67 <ul>
  68 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25151">[25151]</a> Accessibility: The 'Your cart' page does not contain a level-one header</li>
  69 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25154">[25154]</a> Accessibility: The 'Search results' page does not use heading markup where content is introduced</li>
  70 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25236">[25236]</a> Accessibility: The 'Refine your search' box contains semantically incorrect headings</li>
  71 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25238">[25238]</a> Accessibility: Multiple 'H1' headings exist in the full record display</li>
  72 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25239">[25239]</a> Accessibility: The 'Confirm hold page' contains semantically incorrect headings</li>
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
  76
  77 <ul>
  78 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4985">[4985]</a> Copy a change on the calendar to all libraries</p>
  79
  80 <p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>Koha-Suomi Oy</em></p></li>
  81 </ul>
  82
  83 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
  84
  85 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
  86
  87 <ul>
  88 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25611">[25611]</a> Changing the vendor when creating the basket does not keep that new vendor</li>
  89 </ul>
  90
  91 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
  92
  93 <ul>
  94 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25875">[25875]</a> Patron displayed multiple times in add user search if they have multiple sub permissions</li>
  95 </ul>
  96
  97 <h3 id="cataloging">Cataloging</h3>
  98
  99 <ul>
 100 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25553">[25553]</a> Edit item date sort does not sort correctly</li>
 101 </ul>
 102
 103 <h3 id="installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)</h3>
 104
 105 <ul>
 106 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25491">[25491]</a> Perl warning at the login page of installer</li>
 107 </ul>
 108
 109 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
 110
 111 <ul>
 112 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11994">[11994]</a> Fix OpenSearch discovery in the OPAC</p>
 113
 114 <blockquote>
 115   <p>OpenSearch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch) allows you to search your library's catalog directly from the browser address bar or search box. This fixes the OpenSearch feature so that it now works correctly in Firefox. Note: make sure OPACBaseURL is correctly set.</p>
 116 </blockquote></li>
 117 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24352">[24352]</a> Wrong labels displaying in result list with OpacItemLocation</p>
 118
 119 <blockquote>
 120   <p>This fixes the OPAC's MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference.</p>
 121
 122   <p>Previously, search results showed the label "Location(s)" whether the
 123   setting was "collection code" or "location."</p>
 124 </blockquote></li>
 125 </ul>
 126
 127 <h3 id="packaging">Packaging</h3>
 128
 129 <ul>
 130 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25509">[25509]</a> Remove useless libjs-jquery dependency</li>
 131 </ul>
 132
 133 <h3 id="restapi">REST API</h3>
 134
 135 <ul>
 136 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25570">[25570]</a> Listing requests should be paginated by default</li>
 137 </ul>
 138
 139 <h3 id="sip2">SIP2</h3>
 140
 141 <ul>
 142 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25805">[25805]</a> SIP will show hold patron name (DA) as something like C4::SIP::SIPServer=HASH(0x88175c8) if there is no patron</li>
 143 </ul>
 144
 145 <h3 id="staffclient">Staff Client</h3>
 146
 147 <ul>
 148 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25756">[25756]</a> Empty HTML table row after OPAC "Appearance" preferences</li>
 149 </ul>
 150
 151 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
 152
 153 <ul>
 154 <li><p><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25447">[25447]</a> Terminology: Fix button text "Edit biblio"</p>
 155
 156 <blockquote>
 157   <p>This updates the text on the cataloging main page so that in the menu for each search result the "Edit biblio" link is now "Edit record."</p>
 158 </blockquote></li>
 159 </ul>
 160
 161 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
 162
 163 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
 164 documentation is </p>
 165
 166 <ul>
 167 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
 168 </ul>
 169
 170 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
 171 Koha manual is available:</p>
 172
 173 <ul>
 174 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/manual/19.05/en/html/">Koha Manual</a></li>
 175 </ul>
 176
 177 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
 178
 179 <ul>
 180 <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 181 </ul>
 182
 183 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
 184
 185 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
 186 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
 187
 188 <ul>
 189 <li>Arabic (98.6%)</li>
 190 <li>Armenian (99.9%)</li>
 191 <li>Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)</li>
 192 <li>Basque (59.2%)</li>
 193 <li>Chinese (China) (59.7%)</li>
 194 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)</li>
 195 <li>Czech (92.8%)</li>
 196 <li>Danish (52%)</li>
 197 <li>English (New Zealand) (82.7%)</li>
 198 <li>English (USA)</li>
 199 <li>Finnish (79%)</li>
 200 <li>French (98.3%)</li>
 201 <li>French (Canada) (99%)</li>
 202 <li>German (100%)</li>
 203 <li>German (Switzerland) (85.7%)</li>
 204 <li>Greek (73.5%)</li>
 205 <li>Hindi (100%)</li>
 206 <li>Italian (90.2%)</li>
 207 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (88.4%)</li>
 208 <li>Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)</li>
 209 <li>Polish (82.7%)</li>
 210 <li>Portuguese (99.9%)</li>
 211 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)</li>
 212 <li>Slovak (86.5%)</li>
 213 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
 214 <li>Swedish (87.9%)</li>
 215 <li>Turkish (99.9%)</li>
 216 <li>Ukrainian (73.7%)</li>
 217 <li>Vietnamese (50.7%)</li>
 218 </ul>
 219
 220 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
 221
 222 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
 223
 224 <ul>
 225 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
 226 </ul>
 227
 228 <p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
 229 list to volunteer:</p>
 230
 231 <ul>
 232 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
 233 </ul>
 234
 235 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
 236
 237 <ul>
 238 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
 239 </ul>
 240
 241 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
 242
 243 <p>The release team for Koha 19.05.14 is</p>
 244
 245 <ul>
 246 <li><p>Release Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
 247 <li><p>Release Manager assistants:</p>
 248
 249 <ul>
 250 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 251 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 252 </ul></li>
 253 <li><p>QA Manager: Katrin Fischer</p></li>
 254 <li><p>QA Team:</p>
 255
 256 <ul>
 257 <li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
 258 <li>Joonas Kylmälä</li>
 259 <li>Josef Moravec</li>
 260 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 261 <li>Nick Clemens</li>
 262 <li>Kyle Hall</li>
 263 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 264 <li>Alex Arnaud</li>
 265 <li>Julian Maurice</li>
 266 <li>Matthias Meusburger</li>
 267 </ul></li>
 268 <li><p>Topic Experts:</p>
 269
 270 <ul>
 271 <li>Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians</li>
 272 <li>REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
 273 <li>UI Design -- Owen Leonard</li>
 274 <li>Zebra -- Fridolin Somers</li>
 275 <li>Accounts -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 276 <li>CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger</li>
 277 </ul></li>
 278 <li><p>Bug Wranglers:</p>
 279
 280 <ul>
 281 <li>Michal Denár</li>
 282 <li>Holly Cooper</li>
 283 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 284 <li>Lisette Scheer</li>
 285 <li>Mengü Yazıcıoğlu</li>
 286 </ul></li>
 287 <li><p>Packaging Manager: Mason James</p></li>
 288 <li><p>Documentation Managers:</p>
 289
 290 <ul>
 291 <li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
 292 <li>David Nind</li>
 293 </ul></li>
 294 <li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
 295
 296 <ul>
 297 <li>Martin Renvoize</li>
 298 <li>Donna Bachowski</li>
 299 <li>Lucy Vaux-Harvey</li>
 300 <li>Kelly McElligott</li>
 301 <li>Jessica Zairo</li>
 302 <li>Chris Cormack</li>
 303 <li>Henry Bolshaw</li>
 304 <li>Jon Drucker</li>
 305 </ul></li>
 306 <li><p>Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel</p></li>
 307 <li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
 308
 309 <ul>
 310 <li>20.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
 311 <li>19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia</li>
 312 <li>19.05 -- Victor Grousset</li>
 313 </ul></li>
 314 <li><p>Release Maintainer mentors:</p>
 315
 316 <ul>
 317 <li>19.11 -- Hayley Mapley</li>
 318 <li>19.05 -- Martin Renvoize</li>
 319 </ul></li>
 320 </ul>
 321
 322 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
 323
 324 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
 325 new features in Koha 19.05.14:</p>
 326
 327 <ul>
 328 <li>Koha-Suomi Oy</li>
 329 </ul>
 330
 331 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.14.</p>
 332
 333 <ul>
 334 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (7)</li>
 335 <li>Nick Clemens (2)</li>
 336 <li>David Cook (3)</li>
 337 <li>Jonathan Druart (7)</li>
 338 <li>Katrin Fischer (2)</li>
 339 <li>Victor Grousset (3)</li>
 340 <li>Kyle Hall (1)</li>
 341 <li>Owen Leonard (3)</li>
 342 <li>Hayley Mapley (1)</li>
 343 <li>Martin Renvoize (10)</li>
 344 <li>Marcel de Rooy (1)</li>
 345 <li>Andreas Roussos (1)</li>
 346 <li>Slava Shishkin (1)</li>
 347 <li>Emmi Takkinen (2)</li>
 348 <li>Koha Translators (1)</li>
 349 </ul>
 350
 351 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
 352 patches to Koha 19.05.14</p>
 353
 354 <ul>
 355 <li>Athens County Public Libraries (3)</li>
 356 <li>Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (2)</li>
 357 <li>ByWater-Solutions (3)</li>
 358 <li>Catalyst (1)</li>
 359 <li>Dataly Tech (1)</li>
 360 <li>Independant Individuals (3)</li>
 361 <li>Koha Community Developers (10)</li>
 362 <li>Prosentient Systems (3)</li>
 363 <li>PTFS-Europe (10)</li>
 364 <li>Rijks Museum (1)</li>
 365 <li>Theke Solutions (7)</li>
 366 </ul>
 367
 368 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
 369 for Koha.</p>
 370
 371 <ul>
 372 <li>Aleisha Amohia (36)</li>
 373 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (9)</li>
 374 <li>Jonathan Druart (31)</li>
 375 <li>Katrin Fischer (15)</li>
 376 <li>Lucas Gass (27)</li>
 377 <li>Victor Grousset (40)</li>
 378 <li>Sally Healey (7)</li>
 379 <li>Rhonda Kuiper (1)</li>
 380 <li>Owen Leonard (4)</li>
 381 <li>Julian Maurice (1)</li>
 382 <li>David Nind (5)</li>
 383 <li>Martin Renvoize (22)</li>
 384 <li>Marcel de Rooy (8)</li>
 385 <li>Christofer Zorn (1)</li>
 386 </ul>
 387
 388 <p>We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.</p>
 389
 390 <ul>
 391 <li>Andrew Nugged</li>
 392 </ul>
 393
 394 <p>We regret any omissions.  If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
 395 please send a patch against these release notes to
 396 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
 397
 398 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
 399
 400 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control.  The current development
 401 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
 402
 403 <ul>
 404 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
 405 </ul>
 406
 407 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
 408 line is 19.05.x.</p>
 409
 410 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
 411
 412 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
 413 tracker at:</p>
 414
 415 <ul>
 416 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
 417 </ul>
 418
 419 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
 420 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
 421
 422 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 25 Aug 2020 11:37:52.</p>