Koha 17.05.11 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.11

Koha 17.05.11 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.05.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 17 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [18593] Suggestions aren’t updated when one biblio is merged with another

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20229] Remove problematic SQL modes

Command-line Utilities

  • [12812] Longoverdue.pl –mark-returned doesn’t return items
  • [17717] Fix broken cronjobs due to permissions of the current directory

OPAC

  • [20286] Subscribing to a search via rss goes to an empty page

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19739] Add default ES configuration to koha-conf.xml

Cataloging

  • [20341] Show authorized value description for withdrawn like damaged and lost

Command-line Utilities

  • [11936] Consistent log message for item insert
  • [18709] koha-foreach should use koha-shell, internally
  • [20234] Make maintenance scripts use koha-zebra instead of koha-*-zebra

Database

  • [19547] Maria DB doesn’t have a debian.cnf

MARC Authority data support

  • [20430] Z39.50 button display depends on wrong server count

Serials

  • [20461] New subscription form: “Item type” and “item type for older issues” fields are ignored

System Administration

  • [20383] Hide link to plugin management if plugins are not enabled

Templates

  • [20372] Correct toolbar markup on some pages

Test Suite

  • [20311] get_age tests can fail on February 28th

Tools

  • [20376] “Select all” button no longer selects disabled checkboxes in Batch Record Deletion Tool

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:

  • Arabic (99.2%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (78.7%)
  • Chinese (China) (83.3%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)
  • Czech (94.2%)
  • Danish (68.8%)
  • English (New Zealand) (90.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (99.7%)
  • French (96.2%)
  • French (Canada) (94.5%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.8%)
  • Greek (79.5%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Korean (50.2%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (57.4%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (76.3%)
  • Persian (57.4%)
  • Polish (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.3%)
  • Slovak (89.7%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (95.6%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (70.6%)

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 17.05.11 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.05.11:

  • Orex Digital

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.05.11.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (5)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Victor Grousset (1)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Maksim Sen (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (4)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.05.11

  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (5)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (1)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (5)
  • unidentified (3)

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

  • delaye (2)
  • Hugo Agud hagud@orex.es (1)
  • Hugo Agud hagud@orex.es (1)
  • JM Broust (1)
  • Nick Clemens (22)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (7)
  • Jonathan Druart (18)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Brendan Gallagher (3)
  • Lucie Gay (1)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Julian Maurice (6)
  • Kyle M Hall (4)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Séverine QUEUNE (2)
  • Maksim Sen (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (25)

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 25 avril 2018 06:27:26.