Koha 20.05.17 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 20.05.17.

As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org

Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

Please continue reading for the details this release.

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
website for the Koha project is:

• Koha Community

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 20.05.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

• [28960] EDI transfer_items uses a relationship where it’s looking for a field

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [29134] Patron search has poor performance when ExtendedAttributes enabled and many attributes match

Cataloging

• [28676] AutoCreateAuthorities can repeatedly generate authority records when using Default linker and heading is cached

REST API

• [29032] ILL route unusable (slow)

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is

• Koha Documentation

As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

• Arabic (43.3%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
• Czech (33.1%)
• English (USA)
• French (70.5%)
• French (Canada) (31.2%)
• German (72.4%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (78.9%)
• Spanish (58.5%)
• Turkish (70.2%)

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

• Koha Git Repository

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:

• Arabic (89.1%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Armenian (Classical) (99.7%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (94%)
• Czech (80.6%)
• English (New Zealand) (66.5%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (70.3%)
• French (86.8%)
• French (Canada) (96.9%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (74.3%)
• Greek (62.6%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (100%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (70.9%)
• Polish (79.5%)
• Portuguese (87.7%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (97.7%)
• Russian (86.1%)
• Slovak (89.3%)
• Spanish (99.6%)
• Swedish (79.2%)
• Telugu (100%)
• Turkish (100%)
• Ukrainian (66%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

• Koha Translation Info

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
list to volunteer:

• Koha Translate List

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

• Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 20.05.17 is

• Release Manager: Jonathan Druart

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Martin Renvoize
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi

• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

• QA Team:

  • Agustín Moyano
  • Andrew Nugged
  • David Cook
  • Joonas Kylmälä
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Nick Clemens
  • Petro Vashchuk
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Victor Grousset

• Topic Experts:

  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Elasticsearch — Fridolin Somers
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • Accounts — Martin Renvoize

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Sally Healey

• Packaging Manager:

• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Thomas Dukleth

• Release Maintainers:

  • 21.05 — Kyle M Hall
  • 20.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 20.05 — Victor Grousset
  • 19.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 21.05 — Nick Clemens

• Release Maintainer mentors:

  • 19.11 — Aleisha Amohia

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.17

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Nick Clemens (4)
• Victor Grousset (2)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.05.17

• ByWater-Solutions (4)
• Koha Community Developers (2)
• PTFS-Europe (1)
• Theke Solutions (1)

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

• Jonathan Druart (6)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
• Victor Grousset (6)
• Kyle M Hall (6)
• Joonas Kylmälä (3)
• David Nind (1)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Phil Ringnalda (2)
• Fridolin Somers (6)

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 20.05.x.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at:

• Koha Bugzilla

He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 27 Oct 2021 19:05:48.