Koha 22.05.17 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.05.17

28 Nov 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 22.05.17 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.05.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 6 bugfixes, and 2 security bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

  • 35290 SQL Injection vulnerability in ysearch.pl
  • 35291 File Upload vulnerability in upload-cover-image.pl

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34959 Translator tool generates too many changes

Other bugs fixed

  • 32978 ‘npm install’ fails in ktd on aarch64, giving unsupported architecture error for node-sass
  • 35024 Do not wrap PO files

MARC Authority data support

Critical bugs fixed

  • 33404 Authorities imported from Z39.50 in encodings other than UTF-8 are corrupted

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

  • 33848 Enabling Coce in the OPAC breaks cover images on bibliographic detail page

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

  • 26611 Required match checks don’t work for authority records

    Sponsored by Waikato Institute of Technology

    This fixes match checking for authorities when importing records, so that the required match checks are correctly applied. Previously, match checks for authority records did not work.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

  • 35043 Handling of \t in PO files is confusing
  • 35079 Add option to gulp tasks po:update and po:create to control if POT should be built
  • 35103 Add option to gulp tasks to pass a list of tasks
  • 35174 Remove .po files from the codebase

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

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 22.05.17 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 22.05.17

– Waikato Institute of Technology

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.05.17

– Aleisha Amohia (2)
– David Cook (3)
– Jonathan Druart (14)
– Lucas Gass (1)
– Mason James (1)
– Owen Leonard (3)
– Julian Maurice (2)
– Marcel de Rooy (3)
– Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 22.05.17

– Athens County Public Libraries (3)
– BibLibre (2)
– ByWater-Solutions (1)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (2)
– Koha Community Developers (14)
– KohaAloha (1)
– Prosentient Systems (3)
– Rijksmuseum (3)

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

– Aleisha Amohia (3)
– Pedro Amorim (2)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (12)
– Matt Blenkinsop (4)
– Nick Clemens (10)
– David Cook (1)
– Paul Derscheid (1)
– Jonathan Druart (5)
– Katrin Fischer (2)
– Lucas Gass (11)
– Kyle M Hall (2)
– Owen Leonard (3)
– David Nind (4)
– Martin Renvoize (5)
– Marcel de Rooy (2)
– Fridolin Somers (2)

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 Nov 2023 16:00:35.