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

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.