Koha 16.11.15 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.11.15, this is a maintenance release. The 16.11.x branch is no longer released as packages, so people should upgrade to 17.05.x or 17.11.x as soon as practical.

Please read below for the full release notes.

You can download a tarball from http://download.koha-community.org/

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.11.15

03 Jan 2018

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 16.11.15 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.

It includes 7 security fixes, 3 bugfixes.

Security bugs

Koha

  • [19319] Reflected XSS Vulnerability in opac-MARCdetail.pl
  • [19568] Wrong html filter used in opac-opensearch.tt url
  • [19569] X-Frame-Options=SAMEORIGIN is not set from opac-showmarc.pl
  • [19570] autocomplete=”off” no set for login forms at the OPAC
  • [19611] XSS Flaws in supplier.pl
  • [19612] Fix XSS in /cgi-bin/koha/members/memberentry.pl
  • [19614] Fix XSS in /cgi-bin/koha/members/pay.pl

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [19593] [16.11.x] “Delete vendor” button is always set

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19655] To.json doesn’t escape newlines which can create invalid JSON

Other bugs fixed

Serials

  • [19796] [16.11] Subscription info appears doubled up on OPAC detail page

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%)
  • Basque (80%)
  • Chinese (China) (85%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  • Czech (95%)
  • Danish (70%)
  • English (New Zealand) (93%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (93%)
  • German (99%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (84%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (51%)
  • Norwegian BokmÃ¥l (56%)
  • Occitan (78%)
  • Persian (59%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (86%)
  • Slovak (92%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (98%)
  • 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 16.11.15 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.11.15:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.15.

  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Bernardo González Kriegel (1)
  • Amit Gupta (3)
  • Gwendal Joncour (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.15

  • BSZ BW (1)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (6)
  • ByWater-Solutions (2)
  • Catalyst (2)
  • informaticsglobal.com (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (1)
  • unidentified (1)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)
  • Université Rennes 2 (1)

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

  • Chris Cormack (8)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Nick Clemens (1)
  • Simon Pouchol (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (6)

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.

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 03 Jan 2018 19:59:01.