Koha 16.11.07 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.11.07.

Koha 16.11.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 38 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [18242] Remove primary key on old_issues.issue_id
  • [18364] LOCK and UNLOCK are not transaction-safe
  • [18373] make upgrade is broken

Circulation

  • [18022] Empty barcode causes internal server error
  • [18266] Internal Server Error when paying fine for lost item
  • [18372] transits are not created at check in despite user responsing Yes to the prompt

Hold requests

  • [18001] LocalHoldsPriority can cause multiple holds queue lines for same hold request

Notices

  • [18439] Resend button for notices being hidden by CSS and never unhidden

SIP2

  • [17758] SIP checkin does not handle holds correctly

Tools

  • [12913] Fix wrong inventory results
  • [18312] Export is broken unless a file is supplied
  • [18329] Batch record deletion broken

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [14535] Late orders does not show orders with price = 0
  • [17872] Fix small error in GetBudgetHierarchy and one of its calls
  • [18429] Receiving an item should update the datelastseen

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [17814] koha-plack –stop should make sure that Plack really stop
  • [18443] Get rid of warning ‘uninitialized value $user’ in C4/Auth.pm

Circulation

  • [12972] Transfer slip and transfer message (blue box) can conflict
  • [17309] Renewing and HomeOrHoldingBranch syspref
  • [18321] One more checkouts possible than allowed by rules
  • [18335] Check in: Make patron info in hold messages obey syspref AddressFormat

Command-line Utilities

  • [18058] ‘borrowers-force-messaging-defaults –doit –truncate ‘ gives DBI error

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [17911] Message and timeout mismatch at the end of the install process

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [12930] Web installer does not show login errors

Label/patron card printing

  • [18209] Patron’s card manage.pl page is not fully translatable
  • [18244] Patron card creator does not take in account fields with underscore (B_address etc.)

Notices

  • [17995] HOLDPLACED notice should have access to the reserves table

OPAC

  • [17945] Breadcrumbs broken on opac-serial-issues.pl
  • [18307] Branchname is no longer displayed in subscription tab view

Patrons

  • [18263] Make use of syspref ‘CurrencyFormat’ for Account and Pay fines tables
  • [18423] Add child button not always appearing – problem in template variable

SIP2

  • [12021] SIP2 checkin should alert on transfer and use CT for return branch

Searching

  • [17821] due date in intranet search results should use TT date plugin

Serials

  • [7728] Fixing subscription endddate inconsistency: should be empty when the subscription is running
  • [14932] serials/serials-collection.pl-page is very slow. GetFullSubscription* checks permission for each serial!

System Administration

  • [17346] Enable the check in option in Columns settings

Templates

  • [17290] Standardize on “Patron categories” when referring to patron category

Test Suite

  • [18460] Remove itemtype-related Serials.t warnings

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 (100%)
  • Armenian (97%)
  • Chinese (China) (86%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
  • Czech (96%)
  • Danish (71%)
  • English (New Zealand) (94%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (94%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Greek (78%)
  • Hindi (99%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (52%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (57%)
  • Occitan (79%)
  • Persian (59%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87%)
  • Slovak (92%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (99%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (72%)

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 16.11.07 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.11.07:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.07.

  • Blou (1)
  • pongtawat (1)
  • root (1)
  • Christopher Brannon (1)
  • Alex Buckley (1)
  • Nick Clemens (9)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (10)
  • Jonathan Druart (19)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Luke Honiss (1)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • David Kuhn (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Grace McKenzie (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Paul Poulain (2)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (3)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Marc Véron (5)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.07

  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • BSZ BW (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (19)
  • ByWater-Solutions (11)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • cdalibrary.org (1)
  • jns.fi (1)
  • Marc Véron AG (5)
  • Oslo Public Library (2)
  • punsarn.asia (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (10)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • translate.koha-community.org (1)
  • unidentified (4)

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

  • Alex Buckley (1)
  • beroud (1)
  • Cédric Vita (2)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Christopher Brannon (2)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Joel Sasse (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (31)
  • Josef Moravec (2)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Katrin Fischer (61)
  • Lari Taskula (1)
  • Marc Véron (16)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Nick Clemens (14)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Paul POULAIN (1)
  • Sonia BOUIS (1)
  • Srdjan (3)
  • Brendan A Gallagher (3)
  • Kyle M Hall (60)
  • Marcel de Rooy (23)

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 16.11.x. The last Koha release was 16.11.06, which was released on March 27, 2017.

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 Apr 2017 05:29:51.