1 # RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.03
4 Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
5 package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
6 and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
7 website for the Koha project is:
9 - [Koha Community](http://koha-community.org)
11 Koha 18.11.03 can be downloaded from:
13 - [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-18.11.03.tar.gz)
15 Installation instructions can be found at:
17 - [Koha Wiki](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation)
18 - OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
20 Koha 18.11.03 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
22 It includes 2 new features, 8 enhancements, 80 bugfixes.
30 - [[17006]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17006) Add route to change patron's password
32 > Sponsored by Municipal Libray Ceska Trebova
34 - [[22132]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22132) Add Basic authentication to the REST API
36 > This adds http BASIC authentication as an optional auth method to the RESTful APIs. This greatly aids developers when developing against our APIs.
42 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
44 - [[21993]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21993) Be userfriendly when the CSRF token is wrong
45 - [[22047]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22047) set_password should have a 'skip_validation' param
46 - [[22051]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22051) Make Koha::Object->store translate 'Incorrect <type> value' exceptions
50 - [[18816]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18816) Make CataloguingLog work in production by preventing circulation from spamming the log
52 ### Command-line Utilities
54 - [[18562]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18562) Add koha-sip script to handle SIP servers for instances
56 > To ease multi-tenant sites maintenance, several handy scripts were introduced. For handling SIP servers, 3 scripts were introduced: koha-start-sip, koha-stop-sip and koha-enable-sip.
57 This patch introduces a new script, koha-sip, that unifies those actions regarding SIP servers on a per instance base, through the use of option switches.
58 18.11 Note: The introduction of this script does NOT remove the koha-%-sip versions at this time and the scripts can be used interchangeably until one upgrades to 19.05 where the koha-%-sip versions are officially removed.
62 ### Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
64 - [[20000]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20000) use Modern::Perl in installer perl scripts
66 > Sponsored by Catalyst IT
68 > Code cleanup which improves the readability, and therefore reliability, of Koha.
74 - [[22029]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22029) Remove Google+ from social links on OPAC detail
76 > Google revealed that Google Plus accounts will be shut down on April 2, 2019.
82 - [[20569]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20569) Improve description of CheckPrevCheckout system preference
84 > A simple string patch that clarifies the intention of the CheckPrevCheckout system preference options.
89 ## Critical bugs fixed
93 - [[18723]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18723) Dot not recognized as decimal separator on receive
94 - [[21989]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21989) JS error in "Add orders from MARC file" - addorderiso2709.pl
95 - [[22282]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22282) Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF
97 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
99 - [[21610]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21610) Koha::Object->store needs to handle incorrect values
103 - [[21491]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21491) When 'Default lost item fee refund on return policy' is unset it says no but acts as if 'yes'
107 - [[21495]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21495) Regression in hold override functionality
111 - [[22085]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22085) UNIMARC default XSLT broken by Bug 14716
118 - [[7143]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7143) Bug for tracking changes to the about page
119 - [[21441]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21441) System information gives reference to a non-existant table
123 - [[20865]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20865) Remove space before : on order receive filters
124 - [[21089]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21089) Overlapping elements in ordering information on acqui/supplier.pl
125 - [[22110]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22110) Editing adjustments doesn't work for Currencyformat != US
127 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
129 - [[19816]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19816) output_pref must implement 'dateonly' for dateformat => rfc3339
130 - [[19920]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19920) changepassword is exported from C4::Members but has been removed
131 - [[21170]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21170) Warnings in MARCdetail.pl - isn't numeric in numeric eq (==)
132 - [[21478]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21478) Koha::Hold->suspend_hold allows suspending in transit holds
133 - [[21907]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21907) Error from mainpage when Article requests enabled and either IndependentBranches or IndependentBranchesPatronModifications is enabled
134 - [[22006]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22006) Koha::Account::Line->item should return undef if no item linked
135 - [[22097]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22097) CataloguingLog should be suppressed for item branch transfers
136 - [[22124]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22124) Update cataloguing plugin system to not generate type parameter in script tag
137 - [[22125]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22125) branches.pickup_location should be flagged as boolean
141 - [[20491]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20491) Use "Date due" in table header of item table
142 - [[22122]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22122) Make sequence of Z39.50 search options match in acq and cataloguing
143 - [[22242]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22242) Javascript error in value builder cased by Select2
147 - [[17347]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17347) 'Renew' tab should ignore whitespace at begining and end of barcode
148 - [[21877]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21877) Show authorized value description for withdrawn in checkout
149 - [[22054]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22054) Display a nicer error message when trying to renew an on-site checkout from renew page
150 - [[22083]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22083) Typo in circulation_batch_checkouts.tt
151 - [[22111]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22111) Correctly format fines when placing holds (maxoutstanding warning)
152 - [[22119]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22119) Add price formatting in circulation
153 - [[22120]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22120) Add price formatting to patron summary print
154 - [[22203]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22203) Holds modal no longer links to patron
156 ### Command-line Utilities
158 - [[22235]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22235) Make maintenance scripts use koha-sip instead of koha-%-sip
160 ### Developer documentation
162 - [[21290]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21290) POD of ModItem mentions MARC for items
166 - [[22066]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22066) branchcode should be recorded for manual credits
167 - [[22138]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22138) members/paycollect.pl has not been updated to have the new tab names
171 - [[7614]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7614) Use branch transfer limits for determining available opac holds pickup locations
175 - [[21885]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21885) Improve date selection on calendar for selecting the end date on a range
179 - [[22101]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22101) ILL requests missing in menu on advanced search page
181 ### Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)
183 - [[11922]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11922) Add SHOW_BCODE patron attribute for Norwegian web installer
184 - [[22095]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22095) Dead link in web installer
186 ### MARC Authority data support
188 - [[19994]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19994) use Modern::Perl in Authorities perl scripts
192 - [[21829]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21829) Date displays as a datetime in notices
193 - [[22002]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22002) Each message_transport_type in the letters table is showing as a separate notice in Tools > Notices and slips
197 - [[21192]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21192) Borrower Fields on OPAC's Personal Details Screen Use Self Register Field Options Incorrectly
198 - [[21808]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21808) Field 711 is not handled correctly in showAuthor XSLT for relator term or code
199 - [[22058]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22058) OPAC holdings table shows instead of blank
200 - [[22118]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22118) Format hold fee when placing holds in OPAC
201 - [[22207]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22207) Course reserves page does not have unique body id
205 - [[19818]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19818) Add id into tag html from moremember.tt
206 - [[20165]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20165) Capitalization: Street Address should be Street address in patron search options
207 - [[21930]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21930) Typo in the manage_circ_rules_from_any_libraries description
208 - [[22149]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22149) Grammar fix in the manage_circ_rules_from_any_libraries description
212 - [[20274]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20274) itemtypes.plugin report: not handling item-level_itypes syspref
213 - [[20679]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20679) Remove 'rows per page' from reports print layout
214 - [[22082]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22082) Ambiguous column in patron stats
215 - [[22168]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22168) Improve styling of new chart settings for reports
216 - [[22278]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22278) Newly created report group is not selected after saving an SQL report
220 - [[14716]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14716) Correctly URI-encode URLs in XSLT result lists and detail pages
221 - [[18909]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18909) Enable the maximum zebra records size to be specified per instance
223 ### Searching - Elasticsearch
225 - [[21084]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21084) Searching for authorities with 'contains' gives no results if search terms include punctuation
229 - [[16231]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16231) Correct permission handling in subscription edit menu
231 ### System Administration
233 - [[7403]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7403) Remove warning from CataloguingLog system preference
234 - [[15110]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15110) Improve decreaseHighHolds system preference description
235 - [[21637]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21637) Capitalization: EasyAnalyticalRecords syspref option "Don't Display" should be "Don't display"
236 - [[21855]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21855) Remove mention of deprecated delete_unverified_opac_registrations.pl cronjob
237 - [[21926]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21926) Enhance OAI-PMH:archiveID system preference description
238 - [[22009]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22009) Fix error messages for classification sources and filing rules
242 - [[10562]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10562) Improve Leader06 Type Labels in MARC21slim2OPACResults.xsl
243 - [[21840]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21840) Fix some typos in the templates
244 - [[21866]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21866) Rephrase "Warning: This *report* was written for an older version of Koha" to refer to plugins
245 - [[22113]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22113) Add price formatting on item lost report
246 - [[22116]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22116) Add price formatting to rental charge and replacement price on items tab in staff
247 - [[22236]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22236) Translation should generate tags with consistent attribute order
251 - [[22254]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22254) t/db_dependent/Koha/Patrons.t contains a DateTime math error
255 - [[19915]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19915) Inventory tool doesn't use cn_sort for callnumber ranges
257 > This patch brings the inventory tool inline with other pages displaying data sorted by callnumbers by also adopting the use of cn_sort for sorting.
260 - [[20634]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20634) Inventory form has 2 identical labels "Library:"
261 - [[22011]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22011) Typo in Item Batch Modification
262 - [[22036]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22036) Tidy up tags/review script
263 - [[22136]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22136) Import patrons notes hides a note because the syspref isn't referenced correctly
269 ## System requirements
273 - Perl 5.10 is required
278 The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
281 - [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/)
283 As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
284 Koha manual is available:
286 - [Koha Manual](http://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/)
289 The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
291 - [Koha Git Repository](https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual)
295 Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
296 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
301 - Chinese (China) (64.4%)
302 - Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
305 - English (New Zealand) (89%)
309 - French (Canada) (98.4%)
311 - German (Switzerland) (92.5%)
315 - Norwegian Bokmål (95.6%)
316 - Occitan (post 1500) (59.9%)
319 - Portuguese (Brazil) (85.9%)
327 Partial translations are available for various other languages.
329 The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
331 - [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha)
333 For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
336 - [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate)
338 The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
340 - [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/)
344 The release team for Koha 18.11.03 is
346 - Release Manager: [Nick Clemens](mailto:nick@bywatersolutions.com)
347 - Release Manager assistants:
348 - [Jonathan Druart](mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org)
349 - [Tomás Cohen Arazi](mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com)
350 - QA Manager: [Katrin Fischer](mailto:Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de)
352 - [Alex Arnaud](mailto:alex.arnaud@biblibre.com)
353 - [Julian Maurice](mailto:julian.maurice@biblibre.com)
354 - [Kyle Hall](mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com)
356 - [Martin Renvoize](mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com)
357 - [Jonathan Druart](mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org)
358 - [Marcel de Rooy](mailto:m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl)
359 - [Tomás Cohen Arazi](mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com)
360 - [Chris Cormack](mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz)
362 - SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
363 - EDI -- Colin Campbell
364 - Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
365 - REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
366 - UI Design -- Owen Leonard
370 - [Indranil Das Gupta](mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in)
371 - Packaging Manager: [Mirko Tietgen](mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net)
372 - Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose
373 - Documentation Team:
377 - Translation Managers:
378 - [Indranil Das Gupta](mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in)
379 - [Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel](mailto:bgkriegel@gmail.com)
382 - Caroline Cyr La Rose
383 - Release Maintainers:
384 - 18.11 -- [Martin Renvoize](mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com)
385 - 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
386 - 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
387 - 17.11 -- [Fridolin Somers](mailto:fridolin.somers@biblibre.com)
388 - Release Maintainer assistants:
389 - 18.05 -- [Kyle Hall](mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com)
392 We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
393 new features in Koha 18.11.03:
396 - Municipal Libray Ceska Trebova
398 We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.03.
401 - Jasmine Amohia (10)
403 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (26)
405 - Jonathan Druart (13)
406 - Katrin Fischer (12)
410 - Mackey Johnstone (1)
413 - Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
417 - Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (1)
420 - Martin Renvoize (6)
422 - Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
423 - Fridolin Somers (5)
425 - Koha translators (1)
427 We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
428 patches to Koha 18.11.03
433 - ByWater-Solutions (22)
435 - Independant Individuals (11)
437 - Koha Community Developers (13)
440 - Solutions inLibro inc (2)
442 - The City of Joensuu (1)
443 - Theke Solutions (26)
444 - University of Helsinki (1)
445 - Wellington East Girls' College (10)
448 We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
453 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (25)
455 - Anne-Claire Bernaudin (2)
456 - Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (5)
457 - Barton Chittenden (1)
460 - Frédéric Demians (1)
463 - Jonathan Druart (1)
465 - Katrin Fischer (58)
466 - Victor Grousset (1)
469 - Mackey Johnstone (1)
476 - Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (1)
480 - Martin Renvoize (154)
483 - Pierre-Marc Thibault (11)
487 We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
488 please send a patch against these release notes to
489 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
491 ## Revision control notes
493 The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
494 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
496 - [Koha Git Repository](git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git)
498 The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
501 ## Bugs and feature requests
503 Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
506 - [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org)
508 He rau ringa e oti ai.
509 (Many hands finish the work)
511 Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Feb 2019 12:45:11.