Koha 17.11.05 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 17.11.05. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.

This is my fifth release as the 17.11.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone who helped along the way, looking forward to many more 🙂

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 17.11.05

24 Apr 2018

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 17.11.05 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.05 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Command-line Utilities

  • [19955] Add ability to process only one ‘type’ of message ( sms, email, etc ) for a given run of process_message_queue.pl

I18N/L10N

  • [20295] Allow translating link title in ILL module
  • [20296] Untranslatable “All” in patrons table filter

Staff Client

  • [19953] Add column for invoice in acquisition details tab

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

Patrons

  • [19908] Password should not be mandatory

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

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

Cataloging

  • [20067] Wrong display of authorised value for items.materials on staff detail page
  • [20341] Show authorized value description for withdrawn like damaged and lost

Command-line Utilities

  • [11936] Consistent log message for item insert
  • [20234] Make maintenance scripts use koha-zebra instead of koha-*-zebra

Database

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

I18N/L10N

  • [20140] Allow translating more of OAI sets
  • [20141] Untranslatable string in Transport cost matrix
  • [20142] Allow translating offline circ message
  • [20147] Allow translating prompt in label edit batch
  • [20301] Allow translating “View” in manage MARC import
  • [20302] Allow translating Delete button in Patron batch mod tool

MARC Authority data support

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

Notices

  • [18570] Password recovery e-mail only sent after message queue is processed

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

  • [20239] Fix spelling on authority linker plugin
  • [20240] Remove space before : when searching for a vendor in serials (Vendor name 🙂
  • [20290] Fix capitalization: Routing List
  • [20372] Correct toolbar markup on some pages

Test Suite

  • [20311] get_age tests can fail on February 28th
  • [20474] Passwordrecovery.t should mock Mail::Sendmail::sendmail

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 (99.7%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (75.5%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.9%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (94%)
  • Danish (65.8%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.7%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.8%)
  • French (98.4%)
  • French (Canada) (92.2%)
  • German (99.9%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.6%)
  • Greek (79.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Norwegian BokmĂĄl (54.6%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (73%)
  • Persian (54.9%)
  • Polish (97.5%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (80.7%)
  • Slovak (96.6%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (91.9%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (67.5%)

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 17.11.05 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.05:

  • Orex Digital

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.05.

  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (5)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Charles Farmer (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Victor Grousset (2)
  • Pasi Kallinen (7)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Maksim Sen (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (7)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.05

  • ACPL (4)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • BSZ BW (3)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (5)
  • ByWater-Solutions (2)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (2)
  • joensuu.fi (7)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (2)
  • Theke Solutions (4)
  • unidentified (10)

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 (36)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Roch D’Amour (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (38)
  • Charles Farmer (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (10)
  • Brendan Gallagher (3)
  • Lucie Gay (1)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Dilan JohnpullĂ© (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (8)
  • Jesse Maseto (2)
  • Julian Maurice (10)
  • Kyle M Hall (4)
  • Josef Moravec (7)
  • SĂ©verine QUEUNE (3)
  • Maksim Sen (1)

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 17.11.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 24 Apr 2018 00:32:43.