Koha 16.05.19 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.05.19.

Koha 16.05.19 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.05.19 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 5 enhancements, 15 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [17610] [16.11.x] Allow the number of plack workers and max connections to be set in koha-conf.xml

Cataloging

  • [16204] Show friendly error message when trying to edit record which no longer exists

OPAC

  • [18616] The “Add forgot password link to OPAC” should allow patrons to use their library card number in addition to username

Patrons

  • [15644] City dropdown default selection when modifying a patron matches only on city

Test Suite

  • [19337] Allow basic_workflow.t be configured by ENV

Critical bugs fixed

MARC Authority data support

  • [19415] FindDuplicateAuthority is searching on biblioserver since 16.05

Patrons

  • [14637] Add patron category fails with MySQL 5.6.26

Searching

  • [17278] Limit to available items returns 0 results

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [19195] Noisy warns when creating or editing a basket

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [18584] Our legacy code contains trailing-spaces

MARC Authority data support

  • [18801] Merging authorities has an invalid ‘Default’ type in the merge framework selector

OPAC

  • [16463] OPAC discharge page should warn the user about checkouts before they request
  • [19345] SendMail error does not display error message in password recovery

Staff Client

  • [19193] When displaying the fines of the guarantee on the guarantor account, price is not in correct format.

System Administration

  • [16726] Text in Preferences search box does not clear

Test Suite

  • [17664] Silence non-zebra warnings in t/db_dependent/Search.t
  • [19262] pod_spell.t does not work
  • [19307] t/db_dependent/Circulation/NoIssuesChargeGuarantees.t fails if AllowFineOverride set to allow
  • [19386] t/db_dependent/SIP/Patron.t is failing randomly
  • [19423] DecreaseLoanHighHolds.t is failing randomly

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 (98%)
  • Armenian (93%)
  • Basque (77%)
  • Chinese (China) (88%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98%)
  • Czech (95%)
  • Danish (72%)
  • English (New Zealand) (96%)
  • Finnish (98%)
  • French (98%)
  • French (Canada) (92%)
  • German (99%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (85%)
  • Hindi (99%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (53%)
  • Kurdish (51%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (58%)
  • Occitan (79%)
  • Persian (60%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (88%)
  • Slovak (94%)
  • Spanish (99%)
  • Swedish (90%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (74%)

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 16.05.19 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 16.05.19:

  • Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.05.19.

  • Aleisha Amohia (5)
  • David Bourgault (1)
  • Pongtawat C (1)
  • Nick Clemens (3)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (9)
  • Mason James (7)
  • David Kuhn (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Dominic Pichette (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 16.05.19

  • ACPL (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (9)
  • ByWater-Solutions (3)
  • KohaAloha (7)
  • punsarn.asia (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (3)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (2)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • unidentified (7)

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

  • Alex Buckley (1)
  • Amit Gupta (1)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • David Bourgault (2)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Dominic Pichette (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (10)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Katrin Fischer (11)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (4)
  • Mason James (15)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)

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.

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 22 Nov 2017 13:44:53.