Koha 17.05.14 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.14

Koha 17.05.14 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.05.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

Important /!\ It should be last 17.05.x release, please consider upgrading.

It includes 14 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [20014] When adding to basket from a staged file item budgets are selected by matching on code, not id
  • [20972] If ISBN has 10 numbers only the first 9 numbers are used

Authentication

  • [18947] Unexpected Active Directory LDAP authentication failure mode
  • [20879] Shibboleth in combination with LDAP as an alternative no longer works

Command-line Utilities

  • [20811] Fix wrong usage of ModBiblio in bulkmarcimport.pl

Database

  • [20773] bug 20724 follow-up – Database cleanup

Hold requests

  • [20724] ReservesNeedReturns syspref breaks “Holds awaiting pickup”

OPAC

  • [21018] OPAC Resource URL Broken if Tracklinks is enabled

Packaging

  • [20693] Plack fails, because ‘libcgi-emulate-psgi-perl’ package is not installed

Patrons

  • [20903] Print payment receipt on child patron could end with server error
  • [20951] Koha::Patron::Discharge is missing use Koha::Patron::Debarments

Self checkout

  • [21054] Extra closing body tag in sco-main.tt prevents slip printing

Web services

  • [21199] Patron’s attributes are displayed on GetPatronInfo’s ILSDI output regardless opac_display

Other bugs fixed

Web services

  • [21226] Remove use of retired OCLC xISBN service

OCLC has now discontinued support for the xisbn service. One can continue to use the functionality that this service provided to Koha by switching on the ThingISBN preferences as an alternative.

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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:

  • Arabic (99.2%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (78.7%)
  • Chinese (China) (83.3%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)
  • Czech (94.6%)
  • Danish (68.8%)
  • English (New Zealand) (90.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (99.7%)
  • French (96.2%)
  • French (Canada) (94.5%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.8%)
  • Greek (81.5%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (50.2%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (57.4%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (76.3%)
  • Persian (57.4%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.4%)
  • Slovak (89.7%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (95.6%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (70.6%)

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 17.05.14 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.05.14:

  • Gothenburg University Library

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.05.14.

  • xljoha (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.05.14

  • abunchofthings.net (4)
  • BibLibre (2)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (8)
  • ByWater-Solutions (6)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (1)
  • Göteborgs universitet (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (4)
  • unidentified (1)

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

  • Brendan A Gallagher (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (19)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Chris Cormack (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (9)
  • Victor Grousset (5)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (27)
  • Fridolin Somers (55)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)

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 05 oct. 2018 07:09:13.