Koha 3.20.12 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.20.12

22 Jun 2016

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 3.20.12 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 3.20.12 is a securty and bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 16 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Notices

  • [12752] OVERDUE notice mis-labeled as “Hold Available for Pickup”

Templates

  • [14632] Incorrect alert while deleting single item in batch

Tools

  • [16426] Import borrowers tool warns for blank and/or existing userids

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [13041] Can’t add user as manager of basket if name includes a single quote

Cataloging

  • [15682] Merging records from cataloguing search only allows to merge 2 records

OPAC

  • [16220] The view tabs on opac-detail.pl are not responsive
  • [16315] OPAC Shelfbrowser doesn’t display the full title
  • [16597] Reflected XSS in [opac-]shelves and [opac-]shareshelf
  • [16599] XSS found in opac-shareshelf.pl

Patrons

  • [12721] Prevent software error if incorrect fieldnames given in sypref StatisticsFields

Serials

  • [13877] seasonal predictions showing wrong in test

Staff Client

  • [16709] [3.20.x] Bug 11038 is not applied correctly

Templates

  • [15194] Drop-down menu ‘Actions’ has problem in ‘Saved reports’ page with language bottom bar
  • [16159] guarantor section missing ID on patron add form

Test Suite

  • [14362] PEGI 15 Circulation/AgeRestrictionMarkers test fails
  • [16407] Fix Koha_borrower_modifications.t

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 (99%)
  • Armenian (99%)
  • Chinese (China) (98%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (97%)
  • Czech (98%)
  • Danish (81%)
  • English (New Zealand) (99%)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (94%)
  • French (Canada) (94%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (99%)
  • Greek (85%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Korean (62%)
  • Kurdish (59%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (60%)
  • Occitan (95%)
  • Persian (68%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (98%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (97%)
  • Slovak (99%)
  • 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 3.20.12 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.20.12:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.12.

  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Chris Cormack (6)
  • Marcel de Rooy (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (7)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)
  • Marc Véron (3)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 3.20.12

  • ACPL (4)
  • BibLibre (4)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (7)
  • ByWater-Solutions (2)
  • Catalyst (6)
  • Marc Véron AG (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (1)
  • unidentified (2)

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

  • Aleisha (2)
  • Brendan Gallagher (17)
  • Chris Cormack (32)
  • Frédéric Demians (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (10)
  • Julian Maurice (23)
  • Katrin Fischer (9)
  • Marc Véron (3)
  • Nick Clemens (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (5)
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (4)

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 22 Jun 2016 22:08:45.