Koha 17.05.07 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.07.

Koha 17.05.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

  • Koha Wiki
  • OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 17.05.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 26 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Templates

  • [19751] Holds awaiting pickup report should not be fixed-width

Security bugs fixed

  • [19614] Fix XSS in members/pay.pl
  • [19612] Fix XSS in members/memberentry.pl
  • [19611] Fix XSS Flaws in supplier.pl
  • [19319] Reflected XSS Vulnerability in opac-MARCdetail.pl
  • [19570] autocomplete=”off” no set for login forms at the OPAC
  • [19569] Set X-Frame-Options=SAMEORIGIN – opac-showmarc.ok
  • [19568] Escape url params with url filter – opac-opensearch.tt

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19655] To.json doesn’t escape newlines which can create invalid JSON

Cataloging

  • [19646] value_builder marc21_linking_section template is broken

Other bugs fixed

Cataloging

  • [18833] plugin unimarc_field_210c pagination error
  • [19595] Clicking plugin link does not fill item’s date acquired field

Command-line Utilities

  • [19190] Silly calculation of average time in touch_all scripts

Database

  • [19724] Add timestamp to biblio_metadata and deletedbiblio_metadata

Hold requests

  • [19533] Hold pulldown for itemtype is empty if hold placement needs override

Label/patron card printing

  • [10222] Error when saving Demco label templates
  • [19681] label-item-search.pl result count formatting error when there is only one page

Notices

  • [18990] Overdue Notices are not sending through SMS correctly

OPAC

  • [12497] Make OPAC search history feature accessible when it should
  • [19640] IdRef webservice display is broken

Packaging

  • [18907] Warning “dpkg-source: warning: relation < is deprecated: use << or <=”

Reports

  • [19638] False positives for ‘Update SQL’ button

Templates

  • [19692] Unclosed div in opac-shelves.tt

Test Suite

  • [19775] Search/History.t is failing randomly

Tools

  • [19643] Pagination buttons on staged marc management are stacking instead of inline
  • [19674] Broken indicators of changed fields in manage staged MARC records template
  • [19683] Export.pl does not populate the Authority Types dropdown correctly

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.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:

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (99%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (79%)
  • Chinese (China) (83%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  • Czech (94%)
  • Danish (69%)
  • English (New Zealand) (91%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (96%)
  • French (Canada) (94%)
  • German (99%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (79%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (57%)
  • Occitan (76%)
  • Persian (57%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84%)
  • Slovak (90%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (96%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (71%)

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 17.05.07 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.05.07:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.05.07.

  • root (1)
  • David Bourgault (2)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Victor Grousset (2)
  • Amit Gupta (3)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Chris Nighswonger (1)
  • Simon Pouchol (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (6)
  • Mark Tompsett (3)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.05.07

  • ACPL (4)
  • BibLibre (9)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (8)
  • ByWater-Solutions (5)
  • Foundations (1)
  • informaticsglobal.com (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (4)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (2)
  • translate.koha-community.org (1)
  • unidentified (3)

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

  • BWS Sandboxes (1)
  • Charles Farmer (2)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Claire Gravely (2)
  • David Bourgault (5)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Dominic Pichette (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (37)
  • George Williams (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (35)
  • Jonathan Druat (1)
  • Josef Moravec (6)
  • Katrin Fischer (9)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • Nick Clemens (37)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Simon Pouchol (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (23)

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 17.05.x.

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 23 dec. 2017 10:01:54.