Koha 17.05.09 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.09

Koha 17.05.09 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.05.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 38 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Cataloging

  • [18417] Advanced Editor – Rancor – add shortcuts for copyright symbols (C) (P)

Test Suite

  • [19483] t/db_dependent/www/* crashes test harness due to misconfigured test plan

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [19596] Internal server error if open order with deleted biblio / null biblionumber

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [15770] Number::Format issues with large numbers
  • [19847] tracklinks.pl accepts any url from a parameter for proxying
  • [20126] Saving a biblio does no longer update MARC field lengths

Cataloging

  • [19968] Undefined subroutine &Date::Calc::Today

Command-line Utilities

  • [19730] misc/export_records.pl should use biblio_metadata.timestamp

Notices

  • [18477] AR_PENDING notice does not populate values from article_requests table

OPAC

  • [18915] Creating a checkout note (patron note) sends an incomplete email message
  • [19911] Passwords displayed to user during self-registration are not HTML-encoded
  • [19975] Tag cloud searching does not working

Patrons

  • [19921] Error when updating child to adult patron on system with only one adult patron category

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [19559] Elasticsearch QueryAutoTruncate truncate field names with hyphens if data is quoted

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [19401] No confirm message when deleting an invoice from invoice detail page
  • [19429] No confirm message when deleting an invoice from invoice search

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19839] invoice.pl warns about bad variable scope
  • [19985] TestBuilder.t fails if default circ rule exists

Circulation

  • [16603] Hide option to apply directly when processing uploaded offline circulation file
  • [19825] List of pending offline operations does not links to biblio

Database

  • [19422] kohastructure.sql missing DROP TABLES

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [19973] SQL syntax error in uk-UA/mandatory/sample_notices.sql

OPAC

  • [17682] Change URL for Google Scholar in OPACSearchForTitleIn

Packaging

  • [18696] Change debian/source/format to quilt
  • [20072] Fix build-git-snapshot for Debian source format quilt

Patrons

  • [19443] Error while attempting to duplicate a patron

Reports

  • [19669] Remove deprecated checkouts by patron category report

Searching

  • [19971] typo in the comments of parseQuery routine

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [19580] Elasticsearch: QueryAutoTruncate exclude period as splitting character in autotruncation

Staff Client

  • [19221] Onboarding tool says user needs to be made superlibrarian

System Administration

  • [19560] Unable to delete library when branchcode contains special characters
  • [19977] Local Use tab in systempreferences tries to open text editor’s temporary files, and die
  • [19987] If no z39.50/SRU servers, the z39.50/SRU buttons should not show

Templates

  • [19677] Angle brackets in enumchron do not display in opac or staff side

Test Suite

  • [19455] Circulation/SwitchOnSiteCheckouts.t is failing randomly
  • [19705] DecreaseLoanHighHolds.t is still failing randomly
  • [19783] Move check_kohastructure.t to db_dependent
  • [19914] Cannot locate the “Delete” in the library list table
  • [19937] Silence warnings t/db_dependent/www/batch.t
  • [20042] 00-load.t fails when Elasticsearch is not installed

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 (99%)
  • Basque (79%)
  • Chinese (China) (83%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  • Czech (94%)
  • Danish (69%)
  • English (New Zealand) (91%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (96%)
  • French (Canada) (94%)
  • German (99%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (79%)
  • Hindi (99%)
  • Italian (99%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (57%)
  • Occitan (76%)
  • Persian (57%)
  • Polish (99%)
  • Portuguese (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84%)
  • Slovak (90%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (96%)
  • Turkish (99%)
  • Vietnamese (71%)

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 17.05.09 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.05.09:

  • Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.05.09.

  • Aleisha Amohia (5)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • David Bourgault (1)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • Charlotte Cordwell (2)
  • Olivier Crouzet (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (17)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Te Rauhina Jackson (1)
  • Grace Smyth (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (5)
  • Mirko Tietgen (5)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Koha translators (1)
  • Jesse Weaver (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.05.09

  • abunchofthings.net (5)
  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (9)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (17)
  • ByWater-Solutions (9)
  • jns.fi (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (3)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • unidentified (13)
  • Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

  • Arturo (2)
  • Charlotte Cordwell (2)
  • Claire Gravely (2)
  • David Bourgault (4)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (55)
  • Grace Smyth (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (52)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lee Jamison (1)
  • Marjorie Barry-Vila (2)
  • Marjorie Vila (3)
  • Mark Tompsett (11)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Nick Clemens (56)
  • Owen Leonard (8)
  • Kyle M Hall (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (16)

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 17.05.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 23 févr. 2018 09:24:40.