Koha 16.05.01 released

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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 16.5.1 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.5.1 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 20 enhancements, 67 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Acquisitions

  • [16511] Making contracts actions buttons
  • [16525] Have cancel button when adding new aq budget

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [16693] reserve/renewscript.pl is not used and should be removed

Documentation

  • [16537] Overdue and Status triggers grammar

Hold requests

  • [16336] UX of holds patron search with long lists of results

Packaging

  • [16647] Update debian/control for 16.*

Patrons

  • [12402] Show more on pending patron modification requests
  • [16729] Use member-display-address-style*-includes when printing user summary

Reports

  • [16388] Move option to download report into reports toolbar

Searching

  • [16524] Use floating toolbar on item search

System Administration

  • [16165] Include link to ILS-DI documentation page in ILS-DI system preference

Templates

  • [16005] Standardize use of icons for delete and cancel operations
  • [16127] Add discharge menu item to patron toolbar
  • [16437] Automatic item modifications by age needs prettying
  • [16450] Remove the use of “onclick” from guarantor search template
  • [16456] Add Font Awesome icons to some buttons in Tools module, section Patrons and circulation
  • [16541] Make edit and delete links styled buttons in cities administration
  • [16543] Make edit and delete links styled buttons in patron attribute types administration
  • [16592] Use Bootstrap modal for MARC and Card preview on acquisitions receipt summary page

Tools

  • [15213] Fix tools sidebar to highlight Patron lists when in that module

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [16443] C4::Members::Statistics is not plack safe
  • [16518] opac-addbybiblionumber is not plack safe

Circulation

  • [16570] All checked-in items are said to be part of a rotating collection

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [16619] Installer stuck in infinite loop
  • [16678] updatedatabase.pl 3.23.00.006 DB upgrade crashes if subscription_numberpatterns.numberingmethod contains parentheses

Label/patron card printing

  • [16747] Fix regression in patron card creator (patron image)

Packaging

Patrons

  • [16504] All borrower attribute values for a given code deleted if that attribute has branch limits

SIP2

  • [16492] Checkouts ( and possibly checkins and other actions ) will use the patron home branch as the logged in library
  • [16610] Regression in SIP2 user password handling

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [13074] C4::Items::builddefault_values_for_mod_marc should use Koha::Cache
  • [16088] Excessive CGI->new() calls hurting cache performace under plack
  • [16428] The framework is not checked to know if a field is mapped
  • [16441] C4::Letters::getletter is not plack safe
  • [16442] C4::Ris is not plack safe
  • [16444] C4::Tags is not plack safe
  • [16455] TagsExternalDictionary does not work under Plack
  • [16502] Table koha_plugin_com_bywatersolutions_kitchensink_mytable not always dropped after running Plugin.t
  • [16565] additional_fields and additional_field_values are not dropped in kohastructure.sql
  • [16578] Wide character warning in opac-export.pl when utf8 chosen
  • [16667] Unused variable and function call in circulation.pl
  • [16670] CGI->param used in list context
  • [16720] DBIx ActionLogs.pm should be removed

Cataloging

  • [14897] Header name mismatch in ./modules/catalogue/detail.tt
  • [16613] MARC 09X Field Help Links are Broken

Circulation

  • [16200] ‘Hold waiting too long’ fee has a translation problem
  • [16569] Message box for “too many checked out” is empty if AllowTooManyOverride is not enabled
  • [16596] branchcode and categorycode are displayed instead of their description on patron search result

Database

  • [10459] borrowers should have a timestamp

I18N/L10N

  • [15676] Actions in pending offline circulation actions are not translatable
  • [16540] Translatability in opac-auth.tt (tag-splitted sentences)
  • [16560] Translatability: Issues in opac-memberentry.tt
  • [16563] Translatability: Issues in opac-account.tt (sentence splitting)
  • [16620] Translatability: Fix problem with isolated word “please” in auth.tt
  • [16633] Translatability: Issues in tags/review.tt (sentence splitting)
  • [16634] Translatability: Fix issue in memberentrygen.tt

OPAC

  • [16465] OPAC discharge page has no title tag
  • [16597] Reflected XSS in [opac-]shelves and [opac-]shareshelf
  • [16599] XSS found in opac-shareshelf.pl

Packaging

  • [16695] Exception::Class 1.39 is not packaged for Jessie

Patrons

  • [14605] The description on pay/write off individual fine is wrong
  • [16458] Setting to guarantor: JavaScript error form.branchcode is undefined
  • [16508] User permission “parameters_remaining_permissions Remaining system parameters permissions” does not allow saving systempreferences.

Serials

  • [12748] Serials – two issues with status of “Expected”
  • [16692] Error “No method update!” when creating new serial issue

System Administration

  • [15641] Typo in explanation for MembershipExpiryDaysNotice
  • [16532] Libraries and groups showing empty tables if nothing defined

Templates

  • [16001] Use standard message dialog when there are no cities to list
  • [16529] Clean up and improve upload template
  • [16594] Orders by fund report has wrong link to css and other issues
  • [16608] Missing entity nbsp in some XML files
  • [16642] Fix capitalisation for upload patron image

Test Suite

  • [16500] Catch two warns in TestBuilder.t with warning_like
  • [16582] t/Price.t test should pass if Test::DBIx::Class is not available
  • [16607] Remove CPL/MPL from two unit tests
  • [16609] Catch warning from Koha::Hold in Hold.t
  • [16618] 00-load.t prematurely stops all testing
  • [16635] t/00-load.t warning from C4/Barcodes/hbyymmincr.pm
  • [16636] t/00-load.t warning from C4/External/BakerTaylor.pm
  • [16637] Dependency for C4::Tags not listed
  • [16649] OpenLibrarySearch.t fails when building packages
  • [16668] Fix t/Ris.t (follow-up for 16442)
  • [16675] fix breakage of t/Languages.t
  • [16717] Remove hardcoded category from Holds.t

Tools

  • [16548] All libraries selected on Tools -> Export Data screen
  • [16589] Quote of the day: Fix upload with csv files associated to LibreOffice Calc

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 (97%)
  • Chinese (China) (90%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (96%)
  • Danish (75%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99%)
  • Finnish (94%)
  • French (90%)
  • French (Canada) (90%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (79%)
  • Italian (99%)
  • Korean (55%)
  • Kurdish (53%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (61%)
  • Persian (62%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (93%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (92%)
  • Slovak (95%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (80%)
  • Turkish (99%)
  • Vietnamese (76%)

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 16.5.1 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 16.5.1:

  • Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.5.1.

  • Blou (1)
  • Liz (1)
  • phette23 (1)
  • remi (2)
  • Aleisha (6)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (1)
  • Dimitris Antonakis (1)
  • Hector Castro (2)
  • Galen Charlton (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Chris Cormack (5)
  • Frédéric Demians (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (17)
  • Rocio Dressler (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (39)
  • Brendan Gallagher (2)
  • Claire Gravely (2)
  • Owen Leonard (12)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (6)
  • Aliki Pavlidou (1)
  • Liz Rea (1)
  • Robin Sheat (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Lari Taskula (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (6)
  • Marc Véron (9)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 16.5.1

  • ACPL (12)
  • arts.ac.uk (2)
  • BibLibre (3)
  • biblos.pk.edu.pl (1)
  • BigBallOfWax (3)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (39)
  • bwstest.bywatersolutions.com (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (8)
  • Catalyst (4)
  • inLibro.com (2)
  • kallisti.net.nz (1)
  • Marc Véron AG (9)
  • Rijksmuseum (17)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • student.uef.fi (2)
  • Tamil (2)
  • Theke Solutions (4)
  • unidentified (19)

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

  • Aleisha (1)
  • Brendan Gallagher (49)
  • Chris Cormack (13)
  • Florent Mara (1)
  • Frédéric Demians (125)
  • Galen Charlton (4)
  • Hector Castro (1)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (5)
  • Jan Kissig (1)
  • Jesse Weaver (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (67)
  • Joy Nelson (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Liz Rea (1)
  • Marc Veron (2)
  • Marc Véron (12)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • mehdi (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (3)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • Nicolas Legrand (1)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (2)
  • Owen Leonard (10)
  • rainer (1)
  • Rocio Dressler (3)
  • Sabine Liebmann (1)
  • Sinziana (1)
  • Sofia (1)
  • Srdjan (20)
  • Trent Roby (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Nicole C Engard (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (86)
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (8)
  • Marcel de Rooy (44)

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 16.05_juin24.
The last Koha release was 3.20.7.1, which was released on December 26, 2015.

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 juin 2016 06:00:07.