Koha 21.05.17 released, ⚠ security release

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 21.05.17.

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:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 21.05.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.

It includes 1 security fixes, 6 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

Security bugs

Koha

  • [30969] Cross site scripting (XSS) attack in OPAC authority search ( opac-authorities-home.pl )

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

  • [30234] Serial local covers don’t appear in the staff interface for other libraries with SeparateHoldings

    This fixes the display of item-specific local cover images in the staff interface. Before this, item images were not shown for holdings on the record’s details view page.

Circulation

  • [29504] Confirm item parts requires force_checkout permission (checkouts tab)

Patrons

  • [31005] Cannot edit patrons in other categories if an extended attribute is mandatory and limited to a category

    This fixes an error when a mandatory patron attribute limited to a specific patron category was causing a ‘500 error’ when editing a patron not in that category.

Reports

  • [30551] Cash register report shows wrong library when paying fees in two different libraries

Searching – Elasticsearch

  • [30883] Authorities merge is limited to 100 biblio with Elasticsearch

    This fixes the hard-coded limit of 100 when merging authorities (when Elasticsearch is the search engine). When merging authorities where the term is used over 100 times, only the first 100 authorities would be merged and the old term deleted, irrespective of the value set in the AuthorityMergeLimit system preference.

Searching – Zebra

  • [29418] Error searching for analytics in detail view

    Sponsored by Theke Solutions

Documentation

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

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

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 (89.3%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Armenian (Classical) (89%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (91.1%)
  • Czech (70.9%)
  • English (New Zealand) (61.1%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (82.1%)
  • French (93.3%)
  • French (Canada) (98.8%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (60.5%)
  • Greek (55.3%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.3%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (65.4%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (91.1%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (86.6%)
  • Russian (86%)
  • Slovak (72.6%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (76.5%)
  • Telugu (99%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Ukrainian (77.6%)

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 21.05.17 is

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

    • Aleisha Amohia
    • Nick Clemens
    • Jonathan Druart
    • Lucas Gass
    • Victor Grousset
    • Kyle M Hall
    • Joonas Kylmälä
    • Andrew Nugged
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Fridolin Somers
    • Petro Vashchuk
    • David Cook

  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Aleisha Amohia
    • Jake Deery
    • Lucas Gass
    • Séverine Queune

  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • Donna Bachowski
    • Aude Charillon
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Managers:

    • Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth
    • Katrin Fischer

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 22.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 21.11 — Arthur Suzuki
    • 21.05 — Victor Grousset

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 21.05.17

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.17

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Victor Grousset (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (2)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Koha translators (1)
  • Shi Yao Wang (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.05.17

  • BibLibre (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (3)
  • Koha Community Developers (5)
  • PTFS-Europe (2)
  • Solutions inLibro inc (1)
  • Theke Solutions (4)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
  • Chris Cormack (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (6)
  • Victor Grousset (12)
  • David Nind (10)
  • Martin Renvoize (8)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Arthur Suzuki (7)

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:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 21.05.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 26 Jul 2022 01:21:21.