Koha 17.11.18 release

Posted on Posted in 17.11, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 17.11.18

This is a combined security and maintenance release containing 3 security fixes and 4 bugfixes.

Koha 17.11.18 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Security bugs

Koha

  • [22068] Canceling article request should verify the request belongs to the borrower
  • [22478] Cross-site scripting vulnerability in paginations
  • [22542] Back browser should not allow to see other patrons details (see bug 5371)

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

  • [21049] Rancor 007 field does not retain value

Course reserves

  • [22652] Editing Course reserves is broken

Web services

  • [21832] Restore is_expired in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

  • [19497] Translatability: Get rid of “Edit [% field.name |html %] field”

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

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) (91.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (82.9%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (54.2%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (72.5%)
  • Persian (54.6%)
  • Polish (97.1%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
  • Slovak (96.2%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (91.4%)
  • 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 17.11.18 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 17.11.18:

  • Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.18.

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (3)
  • Hayley Mapley (1)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (5)
  • Lyon 3 Team (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 17.11.18

  • BibLibre (7)
  • Catalyst (1)
  • Koha Community Developers (3)
  • Rijks Museum (1)
  • Theke Solutions (1)
  • Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (1)
  • Nick Clemens (9)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Michal Denar (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (3)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (12)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Josef Moravec (4)
  • Liz Rea (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (13)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (12)

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 30 avril 2019 08:06:13.