Koha 16.05.04 Released

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It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Koha 16.05.04, a
maintenance release of the Koha open source integrated library system.

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 16.5.4 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.5.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 17 enhancements, 44 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Acquisitions

  • [16738] Improve EDIFACT messages template
  • [16843] Help for EDIFACT messages
  • [16981] Add EDI admin links to acq menu

Label/patron card printing

  • [16576] Remove the use of “onclick” from label templates

OPAC

  • [5456] Create a link to opac-ics.pl
  • [16507] show play media tab first
  • [16875] OPAC: Removing link to records if authority is not used by any records
  • [17210] Remove use of onclick from biblio detail sidebar in OPAC
  • [17220] Improve clarity when placing a hold by changing button text from “Place hold” to “Confirm hold”
  • [17222] Remove use of onclick from OPAC member entry page

Packaging

  • [17030] Configure the REST api on packages install

Serials

  • [16950] Serials subscriptions advanced search shows ‘0 found’ pre-search

System Administration

Templates

  • [17011] Remove “onblur” event attribute from some templates

Tools

  • [16937] Remove the use of “onclick” from the manage staged MARC records template
  • [17161] Making ‘preview MARC’ links show as buttons in batch record mod

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [16556] KohaToMarcMapped columns sharing same field with biblio(item)number are removed.
  • [17048] Authority search result list page scrolling not working properly

Cataloging

  • [17072] 006 not filling in with existing values

Circulation

  • [14390] Fine not updated from ‘FU’ to ‘F’ on renewal
  • [17135] Fine for the previous overdue may get overwritten by the next one

Command-line Utilities

  • [11144] Fix sequence of cronjobs: automatic renewal – fines – overdue notices

Hold requests

  • [17010] Canceling a hold awaiting pickup no longer alerts librarian about next hold

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [16554] Web installer fails to load i18n sample data on MySQL 5.6+

OPAC

  • [16686] Fix “Item in transit from since” in Holds tab
  • [16996] Template process failed: undef error – Can’t call method “description”

Packaging

  • [17262] Plack on packages is not having memcached set properly

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [17141] Incorrect method called in edi_cron to get logdir

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [16449] unimarc_field_4XX raises a warning
  • [17128] summary-print.pl is not plack safe
  • [17157] Middle click on dropdown menu in header may cause software error
  • [17223] Add Cache::Memcached to PerlDependencies
  • [17231] HTML5MediaYouTube should recognize youtu.be links from youtube as well at the full links

Cataloging

  • [12629] Software error when trying to merge records from different frameworks
  • [17152] Duplicating a subfield should not copy the data
  • [17194] When edit record, Button “Z39.50/SRU search” not work
  • [17201] Remaining calls to C4::Context->marcfromkohafield
  • [17206] Can’t switch to default framework

Command-line Utilities

  • [16822] koha-common init.d script should run koha-plack without quiet

Label/patron card printing

  • [17175] Typo in patron card images error message

Lists

  • [17185] Staff client shows “Lists that include this title:” even if item is not in a list

MARC Authority data support

  • [17118] Regression: Bug 15381 triggers error when trying to clear a linked authority

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [17281] Warning when saving subfield structure

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

  • [6852] Staged import reports wrong success for items with false branchcode

OPAC

  • [14434] OPAC should indicate to patrons that auto renewal will not work because hold has been placed
  • [16311] Advanced search language limit typo for Romanian
  • [16464] If a patron has been discharged, show a message in the OPAC
  • [17142] Don’t show library group selection in advanced search if groups are not defined

Packaging

  • [17228] Make two versions of SIPconfig.xml identical
  • [17266] Update man page for koha-remove with -p
  • [17267] Document koha-create –adminuser

Staff Client

  • [16809] Silence CGI param warnings from C4::Biblio::TransformHtmlToMarc
  • [17149] EDI accounts: Add missing ‘>’ to breadcrumb

System Administration

  • [11019] Require some fields when adding authorized value category

Templates

  • [13921] XSLT Literary Formats Not Showing
  • [16903] Multiple class attributes on catalog search tab
  • [16990] Show branch name instead of branch code when managing patron modification requests
  • [17200] Badly formatted “hold for” patron name on catalog detail page

Tools

  • [14612] Overdue notice triggers should show branchname instead of branchcode
  • [16886] ‘Upload patron images’ tool is not plack safe

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 (95%)
  • Chinese (China) (89%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (96%)
  • Danish (74%)
  • English (New Zealand) (98%)
  • Finnish (93%)
  • French (94%)
  • French (Canada) (91%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Greek (78%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (55%)
  • Kurdish (52%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (60%)
  • Persian (62%)
  • Polish (99%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
  • Slovak (96%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (79%)
  • 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 16.5.4 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 16.5.4:

  • ByWater Solutions
  • Catalyst IT
  • Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg), Germany

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.5.4.

  • Aleisha (6)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (5)
  • Aleisha Amohia (4)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Hector Castro (1)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Frédéric Demians (8)
  • Marcel de Rooy (7)
  • Jonathan Druart (20)
  • Nicole Engard (1)
  • Magnus Enger (5)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (9)
  • Lee Jamison (1)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • Owen Leonard (12)
  • Holger Meißner (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (7)
  • Andreas Roussos (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Marc Véron (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 16.5.4

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (12)
  • biblos.pk.edu.pl (5)
  • BSZ BW (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (20)
  • ByWater-Solutions (10)
  • Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg), Germany (1)
  • jns.fi (1)
  • Libriotech (5)
  • Marc Véron AG (1)
  • marywood.edu (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (7)
  • Tamil (8)
  • Theke Solutions (2)
  • unidentified (14)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (9)

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

  • Aleisha Amohia (8)
  • Andreas Roussos (1)
  • Chris Cormack (6)
  • Claire Gravely (8)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Frédéric Demians (94)
  • Hector Castro (4)
  • Jacek Ablewicz (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (41)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Liz Rea (5)
  • Marc (7)
  • Marc Véron (11)
  • Mark Tompsett (10)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Nick Clemens (12)
  • Owen Leonard (6)
  • Sean Minkel (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (18)
  • Nicole C Engard (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (92)
  • Marcel de Rooy (20)

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.x.
The last Koha release was 3.22.8, which was released on June 24, 2016.

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)