Koha-clms/misc/release_notes/release_notes_17_11_18.md

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 17.11.18

30 avril 2019

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 Community

Koha 17.11.18 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 17.11.18 is a bugfix/maintenance release containing security fixes.

It includes 3 security fixes and 4 bugfixes.

+## Security bugs + +### Koha + +- [22068] Canceling article request should verify the request belongs to the borrower +- [22478] Cross-site scripting vulnerability in paginations +- [22542] Back browser should not allow to see other patrons details (see bug 5371)

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

• [21049] Rancor 007 field does not retain value

Course reserves

• [22652] Editing Course reserves is broken

Web services

• [21832] Restore is_expired in ILS-DI GetPatronInfo service

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

• [19497] Translatability: Get rid of "Edit [% field.name |html %] field"

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

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

• Koha Documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available:

• Koha Manual

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

• Koha Git Repository

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

• Arabic (99.2%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (75.1%)
• Chinese (China) (79.4%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
• Czech (93.7%)
• Danish (65.4%)
• English (New Zealand) (99.1%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (95.2%)
• French (99%)
• French (Canada) (91.8%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (99%)
• Greek (82.9%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (99.9%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (54.2%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (72.5%)
• Persian (54.6%)
• Polish (97.1%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (84.2%)
• Slovak (96.2%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (91.4%)
• Turkish (99.9%)
• Vietnamese (67.1%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

• Koha Translation Info

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:

• Koha Translate List

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

• Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 17.11.18 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens

• Release Manager assistants:

  • Jonathan Druart
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi

• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

• QA Team:

  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Chris Cormack

• Topic Experts:

  • SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
  • EDI -- Colin Campbell
  • Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
  • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard

• Bug Wranglers:

  • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Jon Knight
  • Indranil Das Gupta

• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen

• Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose

• Documentation Team:

  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel

• Wiki curators:

  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose

• Release Maintainers:

  • 18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
  • 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
  • 17.11 -- Fridolin Somers

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 18.05 -- Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 17.11.18:

• Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.18.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Hayley Mapley (1)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Fridolin Somers (5)
• Lyon 3 Team (1)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 17.11.18

• BibLibre (7)
• Catalyst (1)
• Koha Community Developers (3)
• Rijks Museum (1)
• Theke Solutions (1)
• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (1)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
• Mikaël Olangcay Brisebois (1)
• Nick Clemens (9)
• Chris Cormack (2)
• Michal Denar (1)
• Jonathan Druart (3)
• Katrin Fischer (4)
• Lucas Gass (12)
• Ere Maijala (1)
• Josef Moravec (4)
• Liz Rea (3)
• Martin Renvoize (13)
• Marcel de Rooy (2)
• Maryse Simard (1)
• Fridolin Somers (12)

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:

• Koha Bugzilla

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 30 avril 2019 08:06:13.