[Koha] 3.18 upgrade, bug 13404 GRS1 v. DOM questions

[Amy Schuler]

hi all,
Just upgrading from 3.10 to 3.18.06 on Debian.  That's a big leap.
Everything is looking and feeling totally alien.  I am testing out the
upgrade and added a record using the stage marc record/import staged record
tools.  However, the record does not show up in catalog search.  I tried
reindexing:  koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v instancename.  That seemed to go okay
up until I got these weird errors: zebraidx(5004) [warn] Couldn't open
collection.abs [No such file or directory]" and "Record didn't contain
match fields in (bib1,Local-number)" The reindex proceeded but skipped the
biblios.

I found these 2 bugs that seem relevant:
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13396 and
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13404

so it sounds like there is a patch. But where is the patch? I may be an
idiot but I don't see it. I just see examples of code to manually add/fix
in the koha.conf.xml.   If there is a patch I can use to avoid manual
editing, that would be excellent.

Please advise.  Thanks!

Amy Schuler
Cary Institute