Koha 3.20.11 released

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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 3.20.11 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 3.20.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 37 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Notices

  • [15967] Print notices are not generated if the patron cannot be notified

OPAC

  • [14614] Multiple URLs (856) in cart/list email are broken
  • [16210] Bug 15111 breaks the OPAC if JavaScript is disabled

Packaging

  • [14633] apache2-mpm-itk depencency makes Koha uninstallable on Debian Stretch
  • [15713] Restart zebra when rotating logfiles

Tools

  • [16040] Quote deletion never ending processing

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [15962] Currency deletion doesn’t correctly identify currencies in use

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [15809] versions of CGI < 4.08 do not have multi_param
  • [15930] DataTables patron search defaulting to ‘starts_with’ and not getting correct parameters to parse multiple word searches

Cataloging

  • [16171] Show many media (856) in html5media tab

Circulation

  • [14841] Columns settings on checkouts table have 2 bugs
  • [15741] Incorrect rounding in total fines calculations
  • [15832] Pending reserves: duplicates branches in datatable filter

Command-line Utilities

  • [15113] koha-rebuild-zebra should check USE_INDEXER_DAEMON and skip if enabled

I18N/L10N

  • [16133] Translatability of database administrator account warning

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

  • [15745] C4::Matcher gets CCL parsing error if term contains ? (question mark)

OPAC

  • [14076] Noisy warns in opac-authorities-home.pl
  • [14441] TrackClicks cuts off/breaks URLs
  • [15888] Syndetics Reviews preference should not enable LibraryThing reviews
  • [16179] Clicking Rate me button in OPAC without selecting rating produces error

Patrons

  • [15722] Patron search cannot deal with hidden characters ( tabs ) in fields
  • [15928] Show unlinked guarantor
  • [16214] Surname not displayed in serials patron search results

Reports

  • [1750] Report bor_issues_top erroneous and truncated results
  • [16184] Report bor_issues_top shows incorrect number of rows

Searching

  • [14816] Item search returns no results with multiple values selected for one field

Self checkout

  • [11498] Prevent bypassing sco timeout with print dialog

Serials

  • [15838] syspref SubscriptionDuplicateDroppedInput does not work for all fields

System Administration

  • [15773] Checkboxes do not work correctly when creating a new subfield for an authority framework
  • [16047] Software error on deleting a group with no category code

Templates

  • [15984] Correct templates which use the phrase “issuing rules”
  • [16029] Do not show patron toolbar when showing the “patron does not exist” message

Test Suite

  • [14158] t/db_dependent/www/search_utf8.t hangs if error is returned
  • [15323] ./t/Prices.t fails without a valid database
  • [16191] t/Ris.t is noisy

Tools

  • [15866] No warning when deleting a rotating collection using the toolbar button
  • [15868] Ask for confirmation before deleting MARC modification template action

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.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:

  • English (USA)
  • Arabic (97%)
  • Armenian (99%)
  • Chinese (China) (86%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
  • Czech (96%)
  • Danish (81%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95%)
  • Finnish (86%)
  • French (93%)
  • French (Canada) (89%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (100%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (62%)
  • Kurdish (59%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (60%)
  • Occitan (95%)
  • Persian (69%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (98%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (91%)
  • Slovak (100%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (88%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (84%)

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 3.20.11 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 3.20.11:

  • Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.11.

  • Aleisha (3)
  • Alex Arnaud (3)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (19)
  • Mason James (3)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • Julian Maurice (5)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • John Seymour (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Marc Véron (3)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 3.20.11

  • ACPL (2)
  • BibLibre (8)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (19)
  • ByWater-Solutions (3)
  • KohaAloha (3)
  • Marc Véron AG (3)
  • nal.gov.au (1)
  • Prosentient Systems (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (1)
  • unidentified (4)
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1)

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

  • Brendan Gallagher (8)
  • Chris Cormack (6)
  • Frédéric Demians (45)
  • Hector Castro (2)
  • Jesse Weaver (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (13)
  • Joonas Kylmälä (2)
  • Julian Maurice (44)
  • Katrin Fischer (23)
  • Marc Véron (10)
  • Mark Tompsett (6)
  • Mason James (1)
  • Mirko Tietgen (2)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)
  • Owen Leonard (5)
  • Sally Healey (1)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (8)
  • Brendan Gallagher brendan@bywatersolutions.com (10)
  • Brendan A Gallagher (18)
  • Kyle M Hall (5)
  • Your Full Name (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)

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 3.20.x.
The last Koha release was 3.16.9, which was released on March 29, 2015.

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 27 avril 2016 15:29:40.