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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 17.11.05
24 Apr 2018
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 17.11.05 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 17.11.05 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 4 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.
Enhancements
Command-line Utilities
- [19955] Add ability to process only one 'type' of message ( sms, email, etc ) for a given run of process_message_queue.pl
I18N/L10N
- [20295] Allow translating link title in ILL module
- [20296] Untranslatable "All" in patrons table filter
Staff Client
- [19953] Add column for invoice in acquisition details tab
Critical bugs fixed
Acquisitions
- [18593] Suggestions aren't updated when one biblio is merged with another
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [20229] Remove problematic SQL modes
Command-line Utilities
- [12812] Longoverdue.pl --mark-returned doesn't return items
- [17717] Fix broken cronjobs due to permissions of the current directory
OPAC
- [20286] Subscribing to a search via rss goes to an empty page
Patrons
- [19908] Password should not be mandatory
Other bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [19739] Add default ES configuration to koha-conf.xml
Cataloging
- [20067] Wrong display of authorised value for items.materials on staff detail page
- [20341] Show authorized value description for withdrawn like damaged and lost
Command-line Utilities
- [11936] Consistent log message for item insert
- [20234] Make maintenance scripts use koha-zebra instead of koha-*-zebra
Database
- [19547] Maria DB doesn't have a debian.cnf
I18N/L10N
- [20140] Allow translating more of OAI sets
- [20141] Untranslatable string in Transport cost matrix
- [20142] Allow translating offline circ message
- [20147] Allow translating prompt in label edit batch
- [20301] Allow translating "View" in manage MARC import
- [20302] Allow translating Delete button in Patron batch mod tool
MARC Authority data support
- [20430] Z39.50 button display depends on wrong server count
Notices
- [18570] Password recovery e-mail only sent after message queue is processed
Serials
- [20461] New subscription form: "Item type" and "item type for older issues" fields are ignored
System Administration
- [20383] Hide link to plugin management if plugins are not enabled
Templates
- [20239] Fix spelling on authority linker plugin
- [20240] Remove space before : when searching for a vendor in serials (Vendor name :)
- [20290] Fix capitalization: Routing List
- [20372] Correct toolbar markup on some pages
Test Suite
- [20311] get_age tests can fail on February 28th
- [20474] Passwordrecovery.t should mock Mail::Sendmail::sendmail
Tools
- [20376] "Select all" button no longer selects disabled checkboxes in Batch Record Deletion Tool
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:
- Arabic (99.7%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Basque (75.5%)
- Chinese (China) (79.9%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
- Czech (94%)
- Danish (65.8%)
- English (New Zealand) (99.7%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (95.8%)
- French (98.4%)
- French (Canada) (92.2%)
- German (99.9%)
- German (Switzerland) (99.6%)
- Greek (79.8%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (100%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (54.6%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (73%)
- Persian (54.9%)
- Polish (97.5%)
- Portuguese (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (80.7%)
- Slovak (96.6%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (91.9%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Vietnamese (67.5%)
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 17.11.05 is
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Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
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Release Manager assistant: Nick Clemens
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QA Team:
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Bug Wranglers:
- Amit Gupta
- Claire Gravely
- Josef Moravec
- Marc Véron
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Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
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Documentation Team:
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Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
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Release Maintainers:
- 17.05 -- Fridolin Somers
- 16.11 -- Katrin Fischer
- 16.05 -- Mason James
Credits
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 17.11.05:
- Orex Digital
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.05.
- Nick Clemens (2)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
- Marcel de Rooy (2)
- Jonathan Druart (5)
- Magnus Enger (1)
- Charles Farmer (1)
- Katrin Fischer (3)
- Victor Grousset (2)
- Pasi Kallinen (7)
- Owen Leonard (4)
- Julian Maurice (1)
- Kyle M Hall (2)
- Josef Moravec (3)
- Maksim Sen (1)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Mark Tompsett (7)
- Koha translators (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.05
- ACPL (4)
- BibLibre (5)
- BSZ BW (3)
- bugs.koha-community.org (5)
- ByWater-Solutions (2)
- bywatetsolutions.com (2)
- joensuu.fi (7)
- Libriotech (1)
- Rijksmuseum (2)
- Solutions inLibro inc (2)
- Theke Solutions (4)
- unidentified (10)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- delaye (2)
- Hugo Agud hagud@orex.es (1)
- Hugo Agud hagud@orex.es (1)
- JM Broust (1)
- Nick Clemens (36)
- Tomas Cohen Arazi (3)
- Roch D'Amour (2)
- Marcel de Rooy (8)
- Jonathan Druart (38)
- Charles Farmer (1)
- Katrin Fischer (10)
- Brendan Gallagher (3)
- Lucie Gay (1)
- Claire Gravely (1)
- Dilan Johnpullé (1)
- Pasi Kallinen (8)
- Jesse Maseto (2)
- Julian Maurice (10)
- Kyle M Hall (4)
- Josef Moravec (7)
- Séverine QUEUNE (3)
- Maksim Sen (1)
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:
- Koha Git Repository
The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 17.11.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 24 Apr 2018 00:32:43.