Koha 17.11.11 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.11

Koha 17.11.11 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 38 bugfixes.

To play with Koha Plugins, have a look at https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-kitchen-sink/.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20669] Add upgrade method to plugins

This enhancement standardises the methods used by plugin authors to maintain their plugin data across plugin versions.

  • [21352] Allow plugins to add CSS and Javascript to Staff interface

This enhancement allows plugin authors to make adaptations to the staff client using css and javascript.

OPAC

  • [20181] Allow plugins to add CSS and Javascript to OPAC

Patrons

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

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21133] Missing use C4::Accounts statement in Koha/Patron.pm

Circulation

  • [10382] collection not returning to null when removed from course reserves
  • [21176] decreaseLoanHighHolds does not properly calculate date when TimeFormat set to 12 hour

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [16690] Improve security of remote database installations
  • [21440] koha-create expects the file passed by $DEFAULTSQL to be in gzip format

Add support to koha-create to allow it to accept both compressed and uncompressed files for DEFAULTSQL

Label/patron card printing

  • [21281] Label Template – Creation not working

OPAC

  • [21479] Removing from cart removes 2 items

translate.koha-community.org

  • [21480] misc/translator/translate does not work with perl 5.26

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [16739] Generate EDIFACT on basket groups falsely showing when configuration is incomplete
  • [19271] Ordered/Spent lists should display vendor name, not vendor code
  • [21398] Search term when adding an order from an existing record should be required
  • [21425] basketno not being interpolated into error message

Authentication

  • [20023] Password recovery should be case insensitive
  • [21323] Redirect page after login missing multiple params

Cataloging

  • [18655] Unimarc field 210c fails on importing fields with a simple quote
  • [20785] Advanced Editor does not honor MarcFieldDocURL
  • [21362] Advanced MARC Editor – Rancor – Tab navigation not working in fixed fields
  • [21407] Can’t enter new macros in the advanced cataloging editor (rancor)

Command-line Utilities

  • [21322] process_message_queue.pl –type should take an argument

Database

  • [5458] length of items.ccode disagrees with authorised_values.authorised_value

Fines and fees

  • [21196] Allow calcfine to consider default item type replacement cost

I18N/L10N

  • [19500] Make module names on letters overview page translatable

ILL

  • [21289] Error when sending emails to partner libraries

Lists

  • [21297] “More lists” screen missing “Select an Existing list” fieldset when all lists are public

Notices

  • [15971] Serial claim letters should allow the use of all biblio and biblioitems fields (like issn)

OPAC

  • [20994] Fix capitalization on OPAC result list “Save to Lists”
  • [21078] Overdrive JS breaks when window opened from another site

Patrons

  • [21353] Merge patrons option only available with manage_patron_lists

Searching

  • [20151] Search is broken when stemming has no language

Searching – Zebra

  • [21416] ‘gr’ option missing from ZEBRA_LANGUAGE options in koha-sites.conf

Serials

  • [20241] Fix display of publication year in subscription record search for MARC21
  • [20616] Using “Edit serials” with no issues selected gives an ugly error

Templates

  • [13272] Many inputs lack a type attribute
  • [21038] Reserves should be holds
  • [21397] Routing list tab not marked as active

Test Suite

  • [20764] t/Koha_Template_Plugin_KohaPlugins.t is DB dependent

Tools

  • [20131] Inventory optional filters always shows “For loan” for value 0
  • [21141] Batch item modification tool throws error 500 when an itemnumber is invalid

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 (99.4%)
  • Armenian (99.9%)
  • Basque (75.3%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.7%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.7%)
  • Czech (94.1%)
  • Danish (65.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.4%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.6%)
  • French (98.9%)
  • French (Canada) (92%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.4%)
  • Greek (82.4%)
  • Hindi (99.9%)
  • Italian (99.8%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.5%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.8%)
  • Persian (54.8%)
  • Polish (97.5%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.4%)
  • Slovak (96.6%)
  • Spanish (99.9%)
  • Swedish (91.6%)
  • 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 17.11.11 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.11:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.11.

  • Blou (1)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Christopher Brannon (1)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (3)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (17)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (7)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • Jon Knight (1)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (8)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Andreas Roussos (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (8)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (6)
  • Koha translators (1)
  • Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.11

  • abunchofthings.net (1)
  • ACPL (3)
  • BibLibre (11)
  • BSZ BW (7)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (17)
  • ByWater-Solutions (5)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (6)
  • cdalibrary.org (1)
  • helsinki.fi (2)
  • joensuu.fi (1)
  • Libriotech (1)
  • Loughborough University (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • unidentified (8)

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

  • Barry Cannon (1)
  • Nick Clemens (51)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Chris Cormack (7)
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose (3)
  • Michal Denar (6)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (26)
  • Katrin Fischer (19)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Dilan Johnpullé (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (9)
  • Julian Maurice (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • David Nind (3)
  • Séverine QUEUNE (6)
  • Martin Renvoize (65)
  • Fridolin Somers (67)
  • Mark Tompsett (5)
  • Marc Véron (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 oct. 2018 09:31:21.