Koha 17.05.10 release
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.10
Koha 17.05.10 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 17.05.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 1 enhancements, 13 bugfixes.
Enhancements
Staff Client
- [19806] Add class to items.itemnotes_nonpublic
Critical bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [20145] borrowers.datexpiry eq ‘0000-00-00’ means expired?
Course reserves
- [20276] GetCourseItem is using the wrong call to get itemnumber
Hold requests
- [20167] Item hold is set to bibliographic hold when changing pickup location
OPAC
- [20218] Tracklinks fails when URL has special characters
Other bugs fixed
Acquisitions
- [20148] Don’t allow adding same user multiple times to a basket or an order
Circulation
- [19530] Prevent multiple transfers from existing for one item
Command-line Utilities
- [19452] The -truncate option in borrowers-force-messaging-defaults.pl should not remove category preferences
Patrons
- [20367] userid resets to firstname.surname when BorrowerUnwantedField contains userid
Test Suite
- [19529] NoIssuesChargeGuarantees.t is failing randomly
- [19979] Search.t fails on facet info with one branch
- [20250] NoIssuesChargeGuarantees.t is still failing randomly
- [20466] Incorrect fixtures for active currency in t/Prices.t
Tools
- [20098] Inventory: CSV export: itemlost column is always empty
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 (100%)
- 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 (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (84%)
- Slovak (90%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (96%)
- Turkish (100%)
- 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 17.05.10 is
- Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
- Release Manager assistant: Nick Clemens
- QA Team:
- Bug Wranglers:
- Amit Gupta
- Claire Gravely
- Josef Moravec
- Marc Véron
- Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
- Documentation Team:
- Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
- Release Maintainers:
- 17.05 — Fridolin Somers
- 16.11 — Chris Cormack
Credits
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.05.10:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.05.10.
- Nick Clemens (2)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
- Marcel de Rooy (2)
- Jonathan Druart (6)
- Victor Grousset (1)
- Pasi Kallinen (1)
- Kyle M Hall (2)
- Andreas Roussos (1)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Lari Taskula (1)
- Mark Tompsett (2)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.05.10
- BibLibre (3)
- bugs.koha-community.org (6)
- ByWater-Solutions (3)
- bywatetsolutions.com (1)
- jns.fi (1)
- joensuu.fi (1)
- Rijksmuseum (2)
- Theke Solutions (2)
- unidentified (3)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
- Brendan Gallagher (1)
- Charles Farmer (1)
- Claire Gravely (3)
- Fridolin Somers (22)
- Jonathan Druart (16)
- Josef Moravec (6)
- Katrin Fischer (5)
- Maksim Sen (1)
- Mark Tompsett (4)
- Nick Clemens (17)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Pasi Kallinen (1)
- Roch D’Amour (2)
- Kyle M Hall (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (5)
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 27 mars 2018 12:07:28.