Koha 17.11.13 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.13

Koha 17.11.13 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 new features, 1 enhancements, 39 bugfixes.

New features

REST api

  • [21116] Add API routes through plugins

Allows the extension of the Koha API via plugins. This can allow for custom vendor integrations and prototyping of new routes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [20968] Plugins: Add hooks to enable plugin integration into catalogue

Sponsored by PTFS Europe

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21282] Ordered/spent lists should use prices including tax for calculations

Corrects the prices shown on the ordered/spent lists for each fund in acquisitions to show the price with taxes included. This will make the total shown on these pages match the total shown in the table on the acq start and fund pages.

  • [21853] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF with Perl > 5.24.1

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [17597] Outdated translation credits
  • [20720] Add libraries (sponsors) to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [18584] Our legacy code contains trailing-spaces
  • [18720] Get rid of “die” in favor of exceptions in C4::Acquisition::GetBasketAsCsv
  • [21867] Replace remaining document.element.onchange calls in marc_modification_templates.js

Cataloging

  • [20592] updateitem.pl causes database errors when empty non-public item notes updated
  • [21556] Deleting same record twice leads to fatal software error
  • [21666] Advanced editor search- error is given for ‘Unsupported Use attribute’ when searching on title + author

Circulation

  • [18677] issue_id is not added to accountlines for lost item fees
  • [20598] Accruing fines not closed out by longoverdue.pl if WhenLostForgiveFine is not enabled

Command-line Utilities

  • [21640] Itivia outbound script doesn’t print to STDOUT
  • [21698] FIX POD of cancel_unfilled_holds.pl

Course reserves

  • [21349] Instructors with special characters (e.g. $, ., 🙂 in their cardnumber cannot be removed from course reserves

Database

  • [21015] Members.pm slow because it loads twice Koha::Schema

ILL

  • [21497] Dates should be correctly formatted for ILL requests in OPAC
  • [21585] Missing firstnames should be gracefully ignored in ILL requests table

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [21654] Installer is loading a non-existent file

Lists

  • [21629] List sort on call number does not use cn_sort

With this patch lists sorted on call number will now use the machine sortable form of the callnumber from items.cn_sort for better results.

  • [21874] Encoding broken in list and cart email subjects

MARC Authority data support

  • [21581] Matching rules for authorities do not respect ‘Search index’ setting
  • [21644] UNIMARC XSLT display of 210 in intranet

Packaging

  • [20952] Automatic debian/control updates (oldoldstable/17.11.x)

Patrons

  • [21080] patron attribute classes break patron’s edit view
  • [21634] “Circulation” option is lost when viewing patron’s logs

Reports

  • [21005] Missing row/column defaults cause unexpected results in report wizards
  • [21837] Overdues report shoudln’t set homebranchfilter as holdingbranchfilter

System Administration

  • [21625] Fix wording and typo in SMSSendDriver system preference description
  • [21730] PA_CLASS missing from list of authorized values categories

Templates

  • [10442] Remove references to non-standard “error” class
  • [21186] Incorrect Bootstrap modal event name in multiple templates
  • [21740] Fixed-length fields show _ instead of @ when editing subfields

Test Suite

  • [18959] Text_CSV_Various.t must skip if Text::CSV::Unicode is not installed
  • [21787] GetHardDueDate.t has a silly test

Tools

  • [21819] Marc modification templates action always checks Regexp checkbox
  • [21854] Patron category is not showing during batch modification
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input

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 (99.1%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (75.1%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.5%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
  • Czech (93.8%)
  • Danish (65.5%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.3%)
  • French (98.6%)
  • French (Canada) (91.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99.1%)
  • Greek (82.6%)
  • Hindi (99.7%)
  • Italian (99.5%)
  • Norwegian BokmĂĄl (54.3%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.6%)
  • Persian (54.7%)
  • Polish (97.2%)
  • Portuguese (99.7%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
  • Slovak (96.3%)
  • Spanish (99.7%)
  • Swedish (91.4%)
  • Turkish (99.7%)
  • Vietnamese (67.2%)

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 17.11.13 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.13.

  • Dimitris Antonakis (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • David Cook (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Magnus Enger (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (3)
  • Kyle Hall (5)
  • Andrew Isherwood (3)
  • Joonas Kylmälä (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Thatcher Leonard (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (1)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (8)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.13

  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • ACPL (4)
  • BibLibre (9)
  • BSZ BW (3)
  • ByWater-Solutions (11)
  • bywatersolution.com (1)
  • debian.diman (1)
  • Independant Individuals (12)
  • Koha Community Developers (13)
  • Libriotech (2)
  • Prosentient Systems (3)
  • PTFS-Europe (6)
  • Rijks Museum (5)
  • Theke Solutions (5)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Cori Lynn Arnold (4)
  • Nick Clemens (65)
  • Michal Denar (5)
  • Devinim (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Charles Farmer (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (15)
  • Lucas Gass (2)
  • Stephen Graham (5)
  • Kyle Hall (5)
  • Andrew Isherwood (5)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Jesse Maseto (16)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (9)
  • Martin Renvoize (55)
  • Benjamin Rokseth (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (21)
  • Andreas Roussos (6)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (70)
  • Myka Kennedy Stephens (1)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (9)

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

  • Owen Leonard

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 21 déc. 2018 08:27:15.