Koha 17.11.15 release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.15.

Koha 17.11.15 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 27 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21912] Koha::Objects->search lacks tests

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [22282] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF

Circulation

  • [21491] When ‘Default lost item fee refund on return policy’ is unset it says no but acts as if ‘yes’

Other bugs fixed

About

  • [21441] System information gives reference to a non-existant table

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [19920] changepassword is exported from C4::Members but has been removed
  • [21170] Warnings in MARCdetail.pl – isn’t numeric in numeric eq (==)

Cataloging

  • [20491] Use “Date due” in table header of item table
  • [22122] Make sequence of Z39.50 search options match in acq and cataloguing
  • [22242] Javascript error in value builder cased by Select2

Circulation

  • [17347] ‘Renew’ tab should ignore whitespace at begining and end of barcode
  • [21877] Show authorized value description for withdrawn in checkout
  • [22054] Display a nicer error message when trying to renew an on-site checkout from renew page
  • [22083] Typo in circulation_batch_checkouts.tt
  • [22111] Correctly format fines when placing holds (maxoutstanding warning)

Developer documentation

  • [21290] POD of ModItem mentions MARC for items

ILL

  • [22101] ILL requests missing in menu on advanced search page

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

  • [11922] Add SHOW_BCODE patron attribute for Norwegian web installer
  • [22095] Dead link in web installer

Notices

  • [21829] Date displays as a datetime in notices

OPAC

  • [21192] Borrower Fields on OPAC’s Personal Details Screen Use Self Register Field Options Incorrectly
  • [21808] Field 711 is not handled correctly in showAuthor XSLT for relator term or code
  • [22118] Format hold fee when placing holds in OPAC
  • [22207] Course reserves page does not have unique body id

Reports

  • [20274] itemtypes.plugin report: not handling item-level_itypes syspref
  • [20679] Remove ‘rows per page’ from reports print layout
  • [22082] Ambiguous column in patron stats

Templates

  • [21866] Rephrase “Warning: This report was written for an older version of Koha” to refer to plugins
  • [22113] Add price formatting on item lost report

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 (75.1%)
  • Chinese (China) (79.4%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
  • Czech (93.7%)
  • Danish (65.4%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (95.2%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (91.7%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (82.8%)
  • Hindi (99.9%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.2%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.5%)
  • Persian (54.6%)
  • Polish (97.1%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.1%)
  • Slovak (96.2%)
  • Spanish (99.6%)
  • Swedish (91.3%)
  • Turkish (99.9%)
  • Vietnamese (67.1%)

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 17.11.15 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.15.

  • Jasmine Amohia (3)
  • Ethan Amohia (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (5)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Kyle Hall (1)
  • Helene Hickey (4)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Olivia Lu (1)
  • Liz Rea (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (6)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.15

  • ACPL (1)
  • BibLibre (6)
  • BSZ BW (5)
  • ByWater-Solutions (4)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Independant Individuals (3)
  • Koha Community Developers (4)
  • Rijks Museum (1)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (2)
  • Wellington East Girls’ College (3)
  • wgc.school.nz (4)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (3)
  • Nick Clemens (33)
  • Devinim (2)
  • Katrin Fischer (14)
  • Lucas Gass (23)
  • Kyle Hall (5)
  • Jack Kelliher (1)
  • Owen Leonard (9)
  • Olivia Lu (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (10)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Jose-Mario Monteiro-Santos (1)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • David Nind (6)
  • Martin Renvoize (37)
  • Maryse Simard (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (33)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (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 17.11.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 25 févr. 2019 06:23:27.