RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.11.10

25 Jul 2017

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 16.11.10 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 16.11.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 35 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

OPAC

Test Suite

Tools

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Database

Documentation

I18N/L10N

Label/patron card printing

Lists

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

SIP2

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"

Serials

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

Tools

System requirements

Important notes:

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:

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 16.11.10 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.11.10:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.10.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.10

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

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:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 16.11.x. The last Koha release was 16.11.09, which was released on June 22, 2017.

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 25 Jul 2017 18:14:00.