1 # RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.5.15
4 Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
5 package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
6 and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
7 website for the Koha project is:
9 - [Koha Community](http://koha-community.org)
11 Koha 16.5.15 can be downloaded from:
13 - [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-16.05.15.tar.gz)
15 Installation instructions can be found at:
17 - [Koha Wiki](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation)
18 - OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
20 Koha 16.5.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
22 It includes 2 enhancements, 68 bugfixes.
29 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
31 - [[17974]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17974) Add the Koha::Item->biblio method
32 - [[18931]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18931) Add a "data corrupted" section on the about page
35 ## Critical bugs fixed
39 - [[18482]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18482) False duplicates detected on adding a batch from a stage file
40 - [[18756]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18756) Users can view aq.baskets even if they are not allowed
42 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
44 - [[18663]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18663) Missing db update for ExportRemoveFields
45 - [[18727]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18727) System preferences loose part of values because of double quotes
46 - [[18966]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18966) Move of checkouts - Deal with duplicate IDs at DBMS level
50 - [[18204]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18204) Authority searches are not saved in Search history
51 - [[18572]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18572) Improper branchcode set during OPAC renewal
52 - [[18955]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18955) autocomplete is on in OPAC password recovery
56 - [[18512]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18512) GetAuthorisedValues.GetByCode Template plugin should return code (not empty string) if value not found
60 - [[18807]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18807) www/batch.t is failing
64 - [[12913]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12913) Fix wrong inventory results
65 - [[16295]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16295) marc_modification_templates permission doesn't allow access to modify template
66 - [[18689]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18689) Fix calendar error with double quotes in title or description of holiday
67 - [[18806]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18806) Cannot revert a batch
69 ### Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
71 - [[18910]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18910) Regression: Z39.50 wrong conversion in Unimarc by Bug 18152
78 - [[15465]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15465) README for github
82 - [[11122]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11122) Fix display of publication year/copyrightdate and publishercode on various pages in acquisitions
83 - [[18722]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18722) Subtotal information not showing fund source
84 - [[18830]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18830) Message to user is poorly constructed
86 ### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
88 - [[14572]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14572) insert_single_holiday() forces a value on an AUTO_INCREMENT column, during an INSERT
89 - [[18584]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18584) Our legacy code contains trailing-spaces
90 - [[18669]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18669) RewriteCond affecting wrong rule in koha-httpd.conf
91 - [[18771]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18771) CGI.pm: Subroutine multi_param redefined
93 ### Command-line Utilities
95 - [[18548]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18548) running koha-create --request-db without an instance name should abort
99 - [[18690]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18690) Typos in Koha database description (Table "borrowers")
101 ### Developer documentation
103 - [[5395]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5395) C4::Acquisition::SearchOrder POD inconsistent with function
107 - [[18554]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18554) Adjust a few typos including responsability
111 - [[18641]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18641) Translatability: Get rid of template directives in translations for *reserves.tt files
112 - [[18644]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18644) Translatability: Get rid of pure template directives in translation for memberentrygen.tt
113 - [[18648]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18648) Translatability: Get rid of tt directives in translation for macles.tt
114 - [[18675]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18675) Translatability: Get rid of [%% in translation for csv-profiles.tt
115 - [[18682]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18682) Translatability: Get rid of [%% in translation for 2 files av-build-dropbox.inc
116 - [[18695]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18695) Translatability: Get rid of [%% INCLUDE in translation for circulation.tt
117 - [[18699]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18699) Get rid of %%] in translation for edi_accounts.tt
118 - [[18800]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18800) Patron card images: Add some more explanation to upload page and fix small translatability issue
119 - [[18901]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18901) Sysprefs translation: translate only *.pref files (not *.pref*)
121 ### Label/patron card printing
123 - [[17181]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17181) Patron card creator replaces existing image when uploading image with same name
124 - [[18611]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18611) Create labels action fails in manage-marc-import.pl if an item has been deleted from the import batch
128 - [[18214]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18214) Cannot edit list permissions of a private list
130 ### MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
132 - [[17710]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17710) C4::Matcher::get_matches and C4::ImportBatch::GetBestRecordMatch should use same logic
136 - [[18478]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18478) Some notices sent via SMS gateway fail
140 - [[13913]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13913) Renewal error message in OPAC is confusing
141 - [[18400]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18400) Noisy warns in opac-search.pl during itemtype sorting
142 - [[18634]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18634) Missing empty line at end of opac.pref / colliding translated preference sections
146 - [[18569]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18569) Quick add patron will not copy over details from cities and towns pull down into patron details
147 - [[18858]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18858) Warn when deleting a borrower debarment
151 - [[11235]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11235) Names for reports and dictionary are cut off when quotes are used
152 - [[13452]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13452) Average checkout report always uses biblioitems.itemtype
156 - [[18755]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18755) Allow empty password fields in Patron Info requests
158 > Some SIP devices expect an empty password field in a patron info request to be accepted as OK by the server. Since patch for bug 16610 was applied this is not the case. This reinstates the old behaviour for sip logins with the parameter allow_empty_passwords="1"
164 - [[13747]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13747) Fix problems with frequency descriptions containing quotes
165 - [[18356]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18356) Prediction pattern wrong, skips years, for some year based frequencies
166 - [[18607]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18607) Fix date calculations for monthly frequencies in Serials
167 - [[18697]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18697) Fix date calculations for day/week frequencies in Serials
169 ### System Administration
171 - [[18600]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18600) Missing db update for TalkingTechItivaPhoneNotification
172 - [[18700]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18700) Fix ungrammatical sentence
173 - [[18934]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18934) Warns in Admin -> SMS providers
177 - [[17639]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17639) Remove white filling inside of Koha logo
178 - [[18656]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18656) Require confirmation of deletion of files from patron record
182 - [[18601]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18601) OAI/Sets.t mangles data due to truncate in ModOAISetsBiblios
183 - [[18746]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18746) Text_CSV_Various.t parse failure
184 - [[18759]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18759) Circulation.t is failing randomly
185 - [[18761]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18761) AutomaticItemModificationByAge.t tests are failing
186 - [[18767]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18767) Useless debugging info in GetDailyQuote.t
187 - [[18804]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18804) Selenium tests are failing
191 - [[18613]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18613) Deleting a Letter from a library as superlibrarian deletes the "All libraries" rule
192 - [[18704]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18704) File types limit in tools/export.pl is causing issues with csv files generated by MS/Excel
193 - [[18706]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18706) subfields to delete not disabled anymore in batch item modification
194 - [[18752]](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18752) Automatic item modifications by age should allow 'blank' values
198 ## System requirements
202 - Perl 5.10 is required
207 The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.The home page for Koha
210 - [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/)
212 As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the
213 Koha manual is available:
215 - [Koha Manual](http://manual.koha-community.org//en/)
217 The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
219 - [Koha Git Repository](http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary)
223 Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
224 interface are available in this release for the following languages:
230 - Chinese (China) (88%)
231 - Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
234 - English (New Zealand) (96%)
237 - French (Canada) (92%)
239 - German (Switzerland) (99%)
245 - Norwegian Bokmål (59%)
250 - Portuguese (Brazil) (89%)
257 Partial translations are available for various other languages.
259 The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
261 - [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha)
263 for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
266 - [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate)
268 The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
270 - [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/)
274 The release team for Koha 16.5.15 is
276 - Release Manager: [Brendan Gallagher](mailto:brendan@bywatersolutions.com)
277 - QA Manager: [Katrin Fischer](mailto:Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de)
279 - [Kyle Hall](mailto:kyle@bywatersolutions.com)
280 - [Jonathan Druart](mailto:jonathan.druart@biblibre.com)
281 - [Tomás Cohen Arazi](mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com)
282 - [Marcel de Rooy](mailto:m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl)
283 - [Nick Clemens](mailto:nick@bywatersolutions.com)
284 - [Jesse Weaver](mailto:jweaver@bywatersolutions.com)
286 - [Amit Gupta](mailto:amitddng135@gmail.com)
287 - [Magnus Enger](mailto:magnus@enger.priv.no)
288 - [Mirko Tietgen](mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net)
289 - [Indranil Das Gupta](mailto:indradg@l2c2.co.in)
290 - [Zeno Tajoli](mailto:z.tajoli@cineca.it)
291 - [Marc Véron](mailto:veron@veron.ch)
292 - Packaging Manager: [Mirko Tietgen](mailto:mirko@abunchofthings.net)
293 - Documentation Manager: [Nicole C. Engard](mailto:nengard@gmail.com)
294 - Translation Manager: [Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel](mailto:bgkriegel@gmail.com)
297 - [Thomas Dukleth](mailto:kohadevel@agogme.com)
298 - Release Maintainers:
299 - 16.05 -- [Frédéric Demians](mailto:f.demians@tamil.fr)
300 - 3.22 -- [Julian Maurice](mailto:julian.maurice@biblibre.com)
301 - 3.20 -- [Chris Cormack](mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz)
305 We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
306 new features in Koha 16.5.15:
310 We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.5.15.
318 - Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
321 - Christophe Croullebois (1)
322 - Olivier Crouzet (1)
323 - Marcel de Rooy (17)
324 - Jonathan Druart (27)
331 - Rodrigo Santellan (1)
332 - Fridolin Somers (6)
336 - Baptiste Wojtkowski (2)
338 We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
339 patches to Koha 16.5.15
341 - abunchofthings.net (1)
346 - bugs.koha-community.org (27)
347 - ByWater-Solutions (10)
351 - Prosentient Systems (2)
357 - Theke Solutions (2)
359 - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)
361 We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
370 - Dilan Johnpulle (2)
371 - Frédéric Demians (1)
372 - Fridolin Somers (36)
374 - Jonathan Druart (46)
377 - Katrin Fischer (45)
388 - Tomas Cohen Arazi (10)
389 - Brendan A Gallagher (2)
390 - Indranil Das Gupta (L2C2 Technologies) (1)
392 - Marcel de Rooy (45)
393 - Israelex A Veleña for KohaCon17 (1)
395 We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
396 please send a patch against these release notes to
397 koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org.
399 ## Revision control notes
401 The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
402 version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
404 - [Koha Git Repository](git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git)
406 The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
409 ## Bugs and feature requests
411 Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
414 - [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org)
416 He rau ringa e oti ai.
417 (Many hands finish the work)
419 Autogenerated release notes updated last on 30 Jul 2017 16:07:37.