Koha 17.11.07 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.07

Koha 17.11.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Circulation

  • [20343] Show number of checkouts by itemtype in circulation.pl

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [20798] Client side validation for for fund selection prevents adding only some records to a basket
  • [20827] Can’t add owner to a fund
  • [20861] Correct EDI permissions on some pages

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [18821] TrackLastPatronActivity is a performance killer
  • [20922] Koha::Number::Price must not be used in updatedatabase.pl

OPAC

  • [20763] AllowPurchaseSuggestionBranchChoice triggers error opac-suggestions.pl is visited without logging in

Staff Client

  • [20652] Sort after item type search fails

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [20892] Wrong basketgroup link in histsearch.pl

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20696] Remove a few ugly “eq undef” comparisons
  • [20767] “The method is not covered by tests!” should give more information
  • [20851] Missing module in circ/article-request-slip.pl
  • [20911] Search history page forms use ‘GET’ and this limits the number of entries that can be submitted

Cataloging

  • [19970] Revise change of bug 19413 to work better for translations
  • [20760] Advanced Cataloging Editor – Rancor – AuthorisedValues are incorrectly fetched
  • [20829] ‘Link to host item’ gives internal server error

Circulation

  • [17561] ReserveSlip needs itemnumber for item level holds on same biblio
  • [20546] Shelving location not displayed on checkin

Fines and fees

  • [20285] Lost item refund won’t always pay down lost item fee first

Hold requests

  • [19972] Holds to pull should honor syspref “item-level_itypes”

Notices

  • [20685] Modify letter template does not render correctly

Packaging

  • [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/17.11.x)

Patrons

  • [3886] Can’t print receipt w/out allowing “Add or modify borrowers” permission

Searching

  • [18799] XSLTresultsdisplay hides the icons
  • [20722] Searching only for an ITEMTYPECAT itemtype is impossible

Staff Client

  • [20781] 0 months is not a valid enrollment period and causes errors

Templates

  • [20752] Files tab in patron account is not properly capitalized
  • [20791] Correct capitalization on ‘Notices and slips’ page

Test Suite

  • [20191] OAI/Server.t still fails on slow servers

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

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 (99.6%)
  • Armenian (99.9%)
  • Basque (75.5%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.8%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.9%)
  • Czech (93.9%)
  • Danish (65.8%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.8%)
  • French (98.4%)
  • French (Canada) (92.2%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.6%)
  • Greek (80.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.6%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.9%)
  • Persian (54.9%)
  • Polish (97.6%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.6%)
  • Slovak (96.8%)
  • Spanish (99.9%)
  • Swedish (91.8%)
  • Turkish (99.9%)
  • 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 17.11.07 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.07:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.07.

  • Nightly Build Bot (1)
  • Nick Clemens (3)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (10)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Victor Grousset (1)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (8)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.07

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • BSZ BW (4)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (10)
  • ByWater-Solutions (5)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (6)
  • deichman.no (1)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (3)
  • Theke Solutions (2)
  • unidentified (1)

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

  • Blou (1)
  • claude (1)
  • Barton Chittenden (1)
  • Nick Clemens (29)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (10)
  • Jonathan Druart (23)
  • Charles Farmer (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (9)
  • Brendan Gallagher (1)
  • Lucie Gay (1)
  • Victor Grousset (1)
  • Amit Gupta (1)
  • Pierre-Luc Lapointe (2)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (5)
  • Martin Renvoize (29)
  • Maksim Sen (1)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (39)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (5)
  • Ed Veal (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 25 juin 2018 12:23:25.