1 <h1 id="releasenotesforkoha16.11.07">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.11.07</h1>
5 <p>Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
6 package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
7 and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
8 website for the Koha project is:</p>
11 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org">Koha Community</a></li>
14 <p>Koha 16.11.07 can be downloaded from:</p>
17 <li><a href="http://download.koha-community.org/koha-16.11.07.tar.gz">Download</a></li>
20 <p>Installation instructions can be found at:</p>
23 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation">Koha Wiki</a></li>
24 <li>OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball</li>
27 <p>Koha 16.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.</p>
29 <p>It includes 38 bugfixes.</p>
31 <h2 id="criticalbugsfixed">Critical bugs fixed</h2>
33 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
36 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18242">[18242]</a> Remove primary key on old_issues.issue_id</li>
37 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18364">[18364]</a> LOCK and UNLOCK are not transaction-safe</li>
38 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18373">[18373]</a> <code>make upgrade</code> is broken</li>
41 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
44 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18022">[18022]</a> Empty barcode causes internal server error</li>
45 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18266">[18266]</a> Internal Server Error when paying fine for lost item</li>
46 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18372">[18372]</a> transits are not created at check in despite user responsing Yes to the prompt</li>
49 <h3 id="holdrequests">Hold requests</h3>
52 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18001">[18001]</a> LocalHoldsPriority can cause multiple holds queue lines for same hold request</li>
55 <h3 id="notices">Notices</h3>
58 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18439">[18439]</a> Resend button for notices being hidden by CSS and never unhidden</li>
61 <h3 id="sip2">SIP2</h3>
64 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17758">[17758]</a> SIP checkin does not handle holds correctly</li>
67 <h3 id="tools">Tools</h3>
70 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12913">[12913]</a> Fix wrong inventory results</li>
71 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18312">[18312]</a> Export is broken unless a file is supplied</li>
72 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18329">[18329]</a> Batch record deletion broken</li>
75 <h2 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h2>
77 <h3 id="acquisitions">Acquisitions</h3>
80 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14535">[14535]</a> Late orders does not show orders with price = 0</li>
81 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17872">[17872]</a> Fix small error in GetBudgetHierarchy and one of its calls</li>
82 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18429">[18429]</a> Receiving an item should update the datelastseen</li>
85 <h3 id="architectureinternalsandplumbing">Architecture, internals, and plumbing</h3>
88 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17814">[17814]</a> koha-plack --stop should make sure that Plack really stop</li>
89 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18443">[18443]</a> Get rid of warning 'uninitialized value $user' in C4/Auth.pm</li>
92 <h3 id="circulation">Circulation</h3>
95 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12972">[12972]</a> Transfer slip and transfer message (blue box) can conflict</li>
96 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17309">[17309]</a> Renewing and HomeOrHoldingBranch syspref</li>
97 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18321">[18321]</a> One more checkouts possible than allowed by rules</li>
98 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18335">[18335]</a> Check in: Make patron info in hold messages obey syspref AddressFormat</li>
101 <h3 id="command-lineutilities">Command-line Utilities</h3>
104 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18058">[18058]</a> 'borrowers-force-messaging-defaults --doit --truncate ' gives DBI error</li>
107 <h3 id="installationandupgradecommand-lineinstaller">Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)</h3>
110 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17911">[17911]</a> Message and timeout mismatch at the end of the install process</li>
113 <h3 id="installationandupgradeweb-basedinstaller">Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)</h3>
116 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12930">[12930]</a> Web installer does not show login errors</li>
119 <h3 id="labelpatroncardprinting">Label/patron card printing</h3>
122 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18209">[18209]</a> Patron's card manage.pl page is not fully translatable</li>
123 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18244">[18244]</a> Patron card creator does not take in account fields with underscore (B_address etc.)</li>
126 <h3 id="notices">Notices</h3>
129 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17995">[17995]</a> HOLDPLACED notice should have access to the reserves table</li>
132 <h3 id="opac">OPAC</h3>
135 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17945">[17945]</a> Breadcrumbs broken on opac-serial-issues.pl</li>
136 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18307">[18307]</a> Branchname is no longer displayed in subscription tab view</li>
139 <h3 id="patrons">Patrons</h3>
142 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18263">[18263]</a> Make use of syspref 'CurrencyFormat' for Account and Pay fines tables</li>
143 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18423">[18423]</a> Add child button not always appearing - problem in template variable</li>
146 <h3 id="sip2">SIP2</h3>
149 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12021">[12021]</a> SIP2 checkin should alert on transfer and use CT for return branch</li>
152 <h3 id="searching">Searching</h3>
155 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17821">[17821]</a> due date in intranet search results should use TT date plugin</li>
158 <h3 id="serials">Serials</h3>
161 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7728">[7728]</a> Fixing subscription endddate inconsistency: should be empty when the subscription is running</li>
162 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14932">[14932]</a> serials/serials-collection.pl-page is very slow. GetFullSubscription* checks permission for each serial!</li>
165 <h3 id="systemadministration">System Administration</h3>
168 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17346">[17346]</a> Enable the check in option in Columns settings</li>
171 <h3 id="templates">Templates</h3>
174 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17290">[17290]</a> Standardize on "Patron categories" when referring to patron category</li>
177 <h3 id="testsuite">Test Suite</h3>
180 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18460">[18460]</a> Remove itemtype-related Serials.t warnings</li>
183 <h2 id="systemrequirements">System requirements</h2>
185 <p>Important notes:</p>
188 <li>Perl 5.10 is required</li>
189 <li>Zebra is required</li>
192 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
194 <p>The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.The home page for Koha
195 documentation is </p>
198 <li><a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a></li>
201 <p>As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
202 Koha manual is available:</p>
205 <li><a href="http://manual.koha-community.org//en/">Koha Manual</a></li>
208 <p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
211 <li><a href="http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
214 <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
216 <p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
217 interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
220 <li>English (USA)</li>
221 <li>Arabic (100%)</li>
222 <li>Armenian (97%)</li>
223 <li>Chinese (China) (86%)</li>
224 <li>Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)</li>
226 <li>Danish (71%)</li>
227 <li>English (New Zealand) (94%)</li>
228 <li>Finnish (99%)</li>
229 <li>French (99%)</li>
230 <li>French (Canada) (94%)</li>
231 <li>German (100%)</li>
232 <li>German (Switzerland) (100%)</li>
235 <li>Italian (100%)</li>
236 <li>Korean (52%)</li>
237 <li>Norwegian Bokmål (57%)</li>
238 <li>Occitan (79%)</li>
239 <li>Persian (59%)</li>
240 <li>Polish (100%)</li>
241 <li>Portuguese (99%)</li>
242 <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (87%)</li>
243 <li>Slovak (92%)</li>
244 <li>Spanish (100%)</li>
245 <li>Swedish (99%)</li>
246 <li>Turkish (100%)</li>
247 <li>Vietnamese (72%)</li>
250 <p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
252 <p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
255 <li><a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
258 <p>for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
259 list to volunteer:</p>
262 <li><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
265 <p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
268 <li><a href="http://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
271 <h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
273 <p>The release team for Koha 16.11.07 is</p>
276 <li>Release Managers:
278 <li><a href="mailto:brendan@bywatersolutions.com">Brendan Gallagher</a></li>
279 <li><a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
281 <li>QA Manager: <a href="mailto:Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de">Katrin Fischer</a></li>
284 <li><a href="mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com">Kyle Hall</a></li>
285 <li><a href="mailto:jonathan.druart@biblibre.com">Jonathan Druart</a></li>
286 <li><a href="mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com">Tomás Cohen Arazi</a></li>
287 <li><a href="mailto:m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl">Marcel de Rooy</a></li>
288 <li><a href="mailto:nick@bywatersolutions.com">Nick Clemens</a></li>
289 <li><a href="mailto:jweaver@bywatersolutions.com">Jesse Weaver</a></li>
293 <li><a href="mailto:amitddng135@gmail.com">Amit Gupta</a></li>
294 <li><a href="mailto:magnus@enger.priv.no">Magnus Enger</a></li>
295 <li><a href="mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net">Mirko Tietgen</a></li>
296 <li><a href="mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in">Indranil Das Gupta</a></li>
297 <li><a href="mailto:z.tajoli@cineca.it">Zeno Tajoli</a></li>
298 <li><a href="mailto:veron@veron.ch">Marc Véron</a></li>
300 <li>Packaging Manager: <a href="mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net">Mirko Tietgen</a></li>
301 <li>Documentation Manager: <a href="mailto:nengard@gmail.com">Nicole C. Engard</a></li>
302 <li>Translation Manager: <a href="mailto:bgkriegel@gmail.com">Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel</a></li>
305 <li><a href="mailto:abesottedphoenix@yahoo.com">Brooke Johnson</a></li>
306 <li><a href="mailto:kohadevel@agogme.com">Thomas Dukleth</a></li>
308 <li>Release Maintainers:
310 <li>16.11 -- <a href="mailto:katrin.fischer.83@web.de">Katrin Fischer</a></li>
311 <li>16.05 -- <a href="mailto:mtj@kohaaloha.com">Mason James</a></li>
312 <li>3.22 -- <a href="mailto:julian.maurice@biblibre.com">Julian Maurice</a></li>
316 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
318 <p>We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
319 new features in Koha 16.11.07:</p>
321 <p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.07.</p>
325 <li>pongtawat (1)</li>
327 <li>Christopher Brannon (1)</li>
328 <li>Alex Buckley (1)</li>
329 <li>Nick Clemens (9)</li>
330 <li>Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)</li>
331 <li>Marcel de Rooy (10)</li>
332 <li>Jonathan Druart (19)</li>
333 <li>Katrin Fischer (1)</li>
334 <li>Luke Honiss (1)</li>
335 <li>Olli-Antti Kivilahti (1)</li>
336 <li>David Kuhn (1)</li>
337 <li>Owen Leonard (1)</li>
338 <li>Julian Maurice (1)</li>
339 <li>Grace McKenzie (1)</li>
340 <li>Kyle M Hall (2)</li>
341 <li>Paul Poulain (2)</li>
342 <li>Benjamin Rokseth (2)</li>
343 <li>Fridolin Somers (3)</li>
344 <li>Mark Tompsett (1)</li>
345 <li>Marc Véron (5)</li>
348 <p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
349 patches to Koha 16.11.07</p>
353 <li>BibLibre (6)</li>
355 <li>bugs.koha-community.org (19)</li>
356 <li>ByWater-Solutions (11)</li>
357 <li>Catalyst (1)</li>
358 <li>cdalibrary.org (1)</li>
360 <li>Marc Véron AG (5)</li>
361 <li>Oslo Public Library (2)</li>
362 <li>punsarn.asia (1)</li>
363 <li>Rijksmuseum (10)</li>
364 <li>Solutions inLibro inc (1)</li>
365 <li>Theke Solutions (1)</li>
366 <li>translate.koha-community.org (1)</li>
367 <li>unidentified (4)</li>
370 <p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
374 <li>Alex Buckley (1)</li>
376 <li>Cédric Vita (2)</li>
377 <li>Chris Cormack (2)</li>
378 <li>Christopher Brannon (2)</li>
379 <li>Claire Gravely (1)</li>
380 <li>Colin Campbell (1)</li>
381 <li>Jesse Maseto (1)</li>
382 <li>Joel Sasse (1)</li>
383 <li>Jonathan Druart (31)</li>
384 <li>Josef Moravec (2)</li>
385 <li>Julian Maurice (3)</li>
386 <li>Katrin Fischer (61)</li>
387 <li>Lari Taskula (1)</li>
388 <li>Marc Véron (16)</li>
389 <li>Mark Tompsett (1)</li>
390 <li>Martin Renvoize (1)</li>
391 <li>Mirko Tietgen (1)</li>
392 <li>Nick Clemens (14)</li>
393 <li>Owen Leonard (3)</li>
394 <li>Paul POULAIN (1)</li>
395 <li>Sonia BOUIS (1)</li>
397 <li>Brendan A Gallagher (3)</li>
398 <li>Kyle M Hall (60)</li>
399 <li>Marcel de Rooy (23)</li>
402 <p>We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
403 please send a patch against these release notes to
404 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.</p>
406 <h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
408 <p>The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
409 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:</p>
412 <li><a href="git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
415 <p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
417 The last Koha release was 16.11.06, which was released on March 27, 2017. </p>
419 <h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
421 <p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
425 <li><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
428 <p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
429 (Many hands finish the work)</p>
431 <p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Apr 2017 05:29:51.</p>