Koha 22.05.16 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.05.16

28 Sep 2023

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 22.05.16 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.05.16 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancements, 12 bugfixes, and 3 security fixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

  • 34349 Validate inputs for task scheduler
  • 34369 Add CSRF protection to system preferences
  • 34513 Authenticated users can bypass permissions and view some privileged pages

Bugfixes

Acquisitions

Other bugs fixed

  • 33939 JavaScript needs to distinguish between order budgets and default budgets when adding to staged file form a basket

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

  • 34243 Too many cities are created (at least in comments)
  • 34303 t/00-testcritic.t should only test files part of git repo
  • 34316 account->add_credit does not rethrow exception

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

  • 34097 Using the three ellipses to set the date accessioned for an item repositions the screen to the top
  • 34182 AddBiblio shouldn’t set biblio.serial based on biblio.seriestitle

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34279 overduefinescap of 0 is ignored, but overduefinescap of 0.00 is enforced
  • 34601 Cannot manage suggestions without CSRF error

Other bugs fixed

  • 33992 Only consider the date when labelling a waiting recall as problematic

    Sponsored by Auckland University of Technology

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

  • 33132 Searching by DOB still broken in 22.05.x

Templates

Other bugs fixed

  • 34184 “Document type” in suggestions form should have an empty entry

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

  • 33727 Merge Calendar tests

Enhancements

Command-line Utilities

Enhancements

  • 34213 False POD for matchpoint option in import_patrons.pl

OPAC

Enhancements

  • 33808 Accessibility: Non-descriptive links

Packaging

Enhancements

  • 28493 Make koha-passwd display the username

Documentation

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

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 (77.7%)
– Armenian (100%)
– Armenian (Classical) (69.7%)
– Bulgarian (85.5%)
– Chinese (Taiwan) (96%)
– Czech (62.2%)
– English (New Zealand) (68.4%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (94.9%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (99.5%)
– German (100%)
– German (Switzerland) (54%)
– Greek (56.1%)
– Hindi (100%)
– Italian (99.8%)
– Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (85.2%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (55.8%)
– Persian (58.7%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (87.3%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (81.1%)
– Russian (78.2%)
– Slovak (64%)
– Spanish (100%)
– Swedish (83.5%)
– Telugu (84.3%)
– Turkish (98.1%)
– Ukrainian (74%)

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 22.05.16 is

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

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

  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
    • REST API — Martin Renvoize
    • ERM — Pedro Amorim
    • ILL — Pedro Amorim

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Aleisha Amohia

  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

  • Documentation Team:

    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth
    • Katrin Fischer

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 23.05 — Fridolin Somers
    • 22.11 — PTFS Europe (Matt Blenkinsop, Pedro Amorim)
    • 22.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 21.11 — Danyon Sewell

  • Release Maintainer assistants:

    • 21.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 22.05.16

– Auckland University of Technology

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.05.16

– Aleisha Amohia (1)
– Matt Blenkinsop (1)
– Nick Clemens (2)
– David Cook (5)
– Jonathan Druart (4)
– Lucas Gass (2)
– Kyle M Hall (2)
– Mason James (1)
– Phil Ringnalda (2)
– Marcel de Rooy (6)
– Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 22.05.16

– ByWater-Solutions (6)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
– Chetco Community Public Library (2)
– Koha Community Developers (4)
– KohaAloha (1)
– Prosentient Systems (5)
– PTFS-Europe (1)
– Rijksmuseum (6)

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

– Pedro Amorim (6)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (16)
– Matt Blenkinsop (9)
– Nick Clemens (3)
– Jonathan Druart (4)
– Katrin Fischer (9)
– Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
– Lucas Gass (24)
– Kyle M Hall (1)
– Sam Lau (1)
– Owen Leonard (2)
– David Nind (2)
– Martin Renvoize (13)
– Marcel de Rooy (8)
– 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:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 22.05.x-security.

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 28 Sep 2023 16:36:33.