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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 17.11.12
18 Dec 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 17.11.12 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 17.11.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 1 new features, 1 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.
New features
REST api
- [21116] Add API routes through plugins
Allows the extension of the Koha API via plugins. This can allow for custom vendor integrations and prototyping of new routes.
Enhancements
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [20968] Plugins: Add hooks to enable plugin integration into catalogue
Sponsored by PTFS Europe
Critical bugs fixed
Acquisitions
- [21282] Ordered/spent lists should use prices including tax for calculations
Corrects the prices shown on the ordered/spent lists for each fund in acquisitions to show the price with taxes included. This will make the total shown on these pages match the total shown in the table on the acq start and fund pages.
Other bugs fixed
About
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [18584] Our legacy code contains trailing-spaces
- [18720] Get rid of "die" in favor of exceptions in C4::Acquisition::GetBasketAsCsv
Cataloging
- [20592] updateitem.pl causes database errors when empty non-public item notes updated
- [21556] Deleting same record twice leads to fatal software error
- [21666] Advanced editor search- error is given for 'Unsupported Use attribute' when searching on title + author
Circulation
- [18677] issue_id is not added to accountlines for lost item fees
- [20598] Accruing fines not closed out by longoverdue.pl if WhenLostForgiveFine is not enabled
Command-line Utilities
Course reserves
- [21349] Instructors with special characters (e.g. $, ., :) in their cardnumber cannot be removed from course reserves
Database
- [21015] Members.pm slow because it loads twice Koha::Schema
ILL
- [21497] Dates should be correctly formatted for ILL requests in OPAC
- [21585] Missing firstnames should be gracefully ignored in ILL requests table
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
- [21654] Installer is loading a non-existent file
Lists
- [21629] List sort on call number does not use cn_sort
With this patch lists sorted on call number will now use the machine sortable form of the callnumber from items.cn_sort for better results.
MARC Authority data support
- [21581] Matching rules for authorities do not respect 'Search index' setting
Patrons
- [21080] patron attribute classes break patron's edit view
- [21634] "Circulation" option is lost when viewing patron's logs
Reports
- [21005] Missing row/column defaults cause unexpected results in report wizards
System Administration
- [21625] Fix wording and typo in SMSSendDriver system preference description
Templates
- [10442] Remove references to non-standard "error" class
- [21186] Incorrect Bootstrap modal event name in multiple templates
- [21740] Fixed-length fields show _ instead of @ when editing subfields
Test Suite
- [18959] Text_CSV_Various.t must skip if Text::CSV::Unicode is not installed
- [21787] GetHardDueDate.t has a silly test
System requirements
Important notes:
- Perl 5.10 is required
- Zebra is required
Documentation
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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 (99.1%)
- Armenian (99.7%)
- Basque (75.1%)
- Chinese (China) (79.5%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
- Czech (93.8%)
- Danish (65.5%)
- English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (95.3%)
- French (98.6%)
- French (Canada) (91.8%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (99.1%)
- Greek (82.6%)
- Hindi (99.7%)
- Italian (99.5%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (54.3%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (72.6%)
- Persian (54.7%)
- Polish (97.2%)
- Portuguese (99.7%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
- Slovak (96.3%)
- Spanish (99.7%)
- Swedish (91.4%)
- Turkish (99.7%)
- Vietnamese (67.2%)
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 17.11.12 is
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Release Manager: Nick Clemens
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Release Manager assistants:
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
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Topic Experts:
- SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
- EDI -- Colin Campbell
- Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
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Bug Wranglers:
- Luis Moises Rojas
- Jon Knight
- Indranil Das Gupta
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Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
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Documentation Manager:
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Documentation Team:
- David Nind
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
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Translation Managers:
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Wiki curators:
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
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Release Maintainers:
- 18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
- 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
- 17.11 -- Fridolin Somers
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Release Maintainer assistants:
- 18.05 -- Kyle Hall
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.12.
- Dimitris Antonakis (1)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
- Nick Clemens (4)
- David Cook (3)
- Jonathan Druart (11)
- Magnus Enger (2)
- Katrin Fischer (2)
- Kyle Hall (5)
- Andrew Isherwood (3)
- Joonas Kylmälä (1)
- Owen Leonard (4)
- Thatcher Leonard (1)
- Josef Moravec (3)
- Martin Renvoize (3)
- Marcel de Rooy (2)
- Fridolin Somers (6)
- Mark Tompsett (3)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.12
- ACPL (4)
- BibLibre (6)
- BSZ BW (2)
- ByWater-Solutions (9)
- debian.diman (1)
- Independant Individuals (8)
- Koha Community Developers (11)
- Libriotech (2)
- Prosentient Systems (3)
- PTFS-Europe (6)
- Rijks Museum (2)
- Theke Solutions (5)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
- Alex Arnaud (2)
- Cori Lynn Arnold (4)
- Nick Clemens (51)
- Michal Denar (5)
- Devinim (1)
- Jonathan Druart (13)
- Charles Farmer (1)
- Katrin Fischer (15)
- Stephen Graham (5)
- Kyle Hall (5)
- Andrew Isherwood (5)
- Jesse Maseto (4)
- Josef Moravec (8)
- Martin Renvoize (49)
- Benjamin Rokseth (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (9)
- Andreas Roussos (2)
- Maryse Simard (1)
- Fridolin Somers (53)
- Myka Kennedy Stephens (1)
- Pierre-Marc Thibault (3)
- Mark Tompsett (7)
We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
- Owen Leonard
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 18 Dec 2018 10:41:57.