RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 20.05.02

22 Jul 2020

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is:

Koha 20.05.02 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 20.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 17 enhancements, 25 bugfixes.

System requirements

Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for deployment:

Additional notes:

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Hold requests

Notices

OPAC

Staff Client

Templates

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Command-line Utilities

OPAC

Patrons

  • [25322] Adding a guarantor with no relationship defaults to first available relationship name
  • [25858] Borrower permissions are broken by update from bug 22868

Searching - Elasticsearch

  • [25864] Case sensitivity breaks searching of some fields in ES5

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [25611] Changing the vendor when creating the basket does not keep that new vendor

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [25875] Patron displayed multiple times in add user search if they have multiple sub permissions

Cataloging

  • [25189] AutoCreateAuthorities can repeatedly generate authority records when using Default linker
  • [25553] Edit item date sort does not sort correctly

Circulation

  • [25440] Remove undef and CGI warnings and fix template variables list in circulation rules
  • [25807] Version 3.008 of Template breaks smart-rules display

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [25491] Perl warning at the login page of installer

OPAC

  • [11994] Fix OpenSearch discovery in the OPAC

    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.

  • [24352] Wrong labels displaying in result list with OpacItemLocation

    This fixes the OPAC's MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference.

    Previously, search results showed the label "Location(s)" whether the setting was "collection code" or "location."

  • [25914] Relative's checkouts have empty title in OPAC

Packaging

  • [25509] Remove useless libjs-jquery dependency

REST API

  • [25570] Listing requests should be paginated by default

SIP2

  • [25805] SIP will show hold patron name (DA) as something like C4::SIP::SIPServer=HASH(0x88175c8) if there is no patron

Staff Client

  • [25756] Empty HTML table row after OPAC "Appearance" preferences
  • [25804] Remove HTML from title tag of bibliographic detail page

Templates

  • [25447] Terminology: Fix button text "Edit biblio"

    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."

Web services

  • [25793] OAI 'Set' and 'Metadata' dropdowns broken by OPAC jQuery upgrade

    New sysprefs

  • SkipHoldTrapOnNotForLoanValue

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available:

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

  • Arabic (84.6%)
  • Armenian (99.9%)
  • Armenian (Classical) (99.7%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (91.3%)
  • Czech (81.2%)
  • English (New Zealand) (68%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (70%)
  • French (82%)
  • French (Canada) (95.8%)
  • German (97.7%)
  • German (Switzerland) (75.9%)
  • Greek (60.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (81.7%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (72.5%)
  • Polish (73.3%)
  • Portuguese (86.3%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (100%)
  • Slovak (72.6%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (79%)
  • Telugu (91.4%)
  • Turkish (91.8%)
  • Ukrainian (65.4%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

Release Team

The release team for Koha 20.05.02 is

  • Release Manager: Martin Renvoize

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Jonathan Druart
  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Joonas Kylmälä
    • Josef Moravec
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Nick Clemens
    • Kyle Hall
  • Topic Experts:

    • SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
    • EDI -- Colin Campbell
    • Elasticsearch -- Fridolin Somers
    • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • ILS-DI -- Arthur Suzuki
    • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
    • ILL -- Andrew Isherwood
  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Michal Denár
    • Cori Lynn Arnold
    • Lisette Scheer
    • Amit Gupta
  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Managers:

    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • David Nind
  • Documentation Team:

    • Donna Bachowski
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
    • Sugandha Bajaj
  • Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 19.11 -- Joy Nelson
    • 19.05 -- Lucas Gass
    • 18.11 -- Hayley Mapley
  • Release Maintainer mentors:

    • 19.11 -- Martin Renvoize
    • 19.05 -- Nick Clemens
    • 18.11 -- Chris Cormack

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 20.05.02:

  • Koha-Suomi Oy

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.02.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Nick Clemens (7)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Lucas Gass (8)
  • Kyle Hall (6)
  • Owen Leonard (11)
  • Hayley Mapley (1)
  • Julian Maurice (7)
  • Andrew Nugged (6)
  • Martin Renvoize (12)
  • David Roberts (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Andreas Roussos (1)
  • Slava Shishkin (1)
  • Emmi Takkinen (3)
  • Koha Translators (1)
  • Petro Vashchuk (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.02

  • Athens County Public Libraries (11)
  • BibLibre (7)
  • Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (21)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Dataly Tech (1)
  • Independant Individuals (12)
  • Koha Community Developers (8)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (13)
  • Rijks Museum (1)
  • Theke Solutions (4)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Alex Arnaud (5)
  • Alex Buckley (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (73)
  • Katrin Fischer (29)
  • Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
  • Lucas Gass (76)
  • Didier Gautheron (1)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Sally Healey (11)
  • Heather Hernandez (1)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
  • Rhonda Kuiper (1)
  • Owen Leonard (9)
  • Hayley Mapley (5)
  • Julian Maurice (5)
  • David Nind (5)
  • Martin Renvoize (29)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Emmi Takkinen (1)
  • Timothy Alexis Vass (1)
  • Christofer Zorn (1)

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

  • Andrew Nugged

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.

Revision control notes

The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is rmain2005.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at:

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Jul 2020 21:03:08.