Koha 17.11.10 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.10

Koha 17.11.10 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 6 enhancements, 49 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20509] Data consistency – authority types
  • [21150] Data inconsistencies – item types

Command-line Utilities

  • [20795] koha-rebuild-zebra should pass through increased verbosity
  • [21011] Data inconsistencies – items.holdingbranch | items.homebranch

Patrons

  • [18635] Koha::Patron->guarantees() should return results alphabetically

Templates

  • [20984] MARC21 subfield 300f – Type of Unit does not display

Critical bugs fixed

Circulation

  • [21231] BlockReturnofLostItems does not prevent lost items being found

Packaging

  • [20437] Force requirement for HTTP::OAI 3.27

Templates

  • [13692] Series link is only using 800a instead of 800t

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21033] Remove few warns in acqui/basket.pl
  • [21048] suggest_status not behaving properly
  • [21097] Missing optgroup closing tag in orderreceive.tt
  • [21288] Slowness in acquisition caused by GetInvoices

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20631] C4::Acounts claims to use ReturnLostItem but doesn’t
  • [21056] Changing the logged in library can fail sporadically
  • [21238] TemplateToolkit.t is failing on slow server

Authentication

  • [13779] sessionID declared twice in C4::Auth::checkauth()

Cataloging

  • [21053] Editing 008 field with a hash overwrites data
  • [21064] Advanced cataloging editor – rancor – check for changes should return ‘undefined’ instead of ‘undef’

Circulation

  • [21168] Error on circ/returns.pl after deleting checked-in item

Command-line Utilities

  • [21035] runreport.pl prints only a newline when printing a row that has a field that contains an embedded newline

Developer documentation

  • [21077] Fix comment for statistics.type in installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql

Hold requests

  • [21075] AutoUnsuspendHolds should unsuspend holds <= today
  • [21076] Javascript error on article requests page

Label/patron card printing

  • [20765] Search for items by acqdate does not work in label batch

OPAC

  • [19291] Make breadcrumbs for OPAC search history consistent with other patron account pages
  • [21094] Syndetics: always use https instead of http
  • [21127] Remove jqTransform jQuery plugin from the OPAC

Packaging

  • [20800] Keep Koha on Stretch from using broken libhttp-oai-perl
  • [21267] X_FORWARDED_PROTO header should be set in apache

Patrons

  • [7996] Patron modification log requires parameters permission

REST api

  • [21031] Apache Rewrite rules don’t work for API when using anything but Debian package Plack configuration

Searching

  • [19390] OPAC view link in staff results should open in a new tab

Staff Client

  • [17625] 245f and 245g are not displayed in XSLT
  • [20504] Language attribute in html tag is empty in system preference editor
  • [21248] Fix COinS carp in MARC details page on unknown record

System Administration

  • [19179] Email option for SMSSendDriver is not documented as a valid setting
  • [21131] Changing and restoring a WYSIWYG preference can result in unexpected behaviour
  • [21144] ROADTYPE missing from authorised value categories list

Templates

  • [19511] Local cover images not centered in table column in staff client search results
  • [20974] Remove files left behind after removing Solr
  • [21099] Floating toolbars reposition too late
  • [21139] The floating toolbars have some issues
  • [21148] Dropdowns styled by the Select2 plugin do not highlight missing required fields
  • [21164] Fix alignment on new basket form in acquisitions
  • [21185] Incorrect title tag on tags review page
  • [21285] Select2 broken on high dpi screens

Test Suite

  • [20776] Add Selenium::Remote::Driver to dependencies
  • [21134] Wrong error handling in Koha/Patron/Modification.pm hides a bug
  • [21230] Reserves.t is failing randomly
  • [21262] Do not format numbers for editing if too big
  • [21360] IssueSlip.t is failing if run at 23:59

Tools

  • [20564] Error 500 displays when uploading patron images with a zipped file
  • [21142] Batch item/record modification/deletion tools does not open uploaded files in utf-8

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 (99.5%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (75.4%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.8%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.8%)
  • Czech (94%)
  • Danish (65.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.5%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.7%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (92.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.5%)
  • Greek (82.1%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.6%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.9%)
  • Persian (54.8%)
  • Polish (97.5%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.5%)
  • Slovak (96.7%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (91.7%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (67.4%)

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 17.11.10 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.10:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.10.

  • Nick Clemens (12)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • David Cook (4)
  • Charlotte Cordwell (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)
  • Jonathan Druart (24)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (2)
  • Owen Leonard (9)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Joy Nelson (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.10

  • abunchofthings.net (4)
  • ACPL (9)
  • BibLibre (4)
  • BSZ BW (7)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (24)
  • ByWater-Solutions (15)
  • bywatersolutiosn.com (2)
  • joensuu.fi (2)
  • Prosentient Systems (4)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (4)
  • Theke Solutions (4)
  • unidentified (2)

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

  • Christopher Brannon (1)
  • Nick Clemens (68)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (14)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Michal Denar (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (14)
  • John Doe (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (17)
  • Katrin Fischer (32)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Ulrich Kleiber (1)
  • Pierre-Luc Lapointe (4)
  • Owen Leonard (11)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Josef Moravec (7)
  • Joy Nelson (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (79)
  • Lisette Scheer (1)
  • Maryse Simard (9)
  • Fridolin Somers (78)
  • John Sterbenz (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (8)
  • Marc Véron (1)
  • Cab Vinton (1)
  • George Williams (1)

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 17.11.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 24 sept. 2018 14:12:24.