# RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.5.11

17 Mar 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 Community

Koha 16.5.11 can be downloaded from:

- Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 16.5.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 7 bugfixes.

## Enhancements

### System Administration

- [18122] Audio alerts: Add hint on where to enable sounds

## Critical bugs fixed

### Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

- [17260] updatedatabase.pl fails on invalid entries in ENUM and BOOLEAN columns

## Other bugs fixed

### About

- [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

### Circulation

- [16202] Rental fees can be generated for fractions of a penny/cent
- [17840] Add classes to internal and public notes in checkouts table

### OPAC

- [17895] Small typo -'re-set'
- [17947] Searching my library first shows the branchcode by the search bar rather than branchname

### System Administration

- [13968] Branch email hints are misleading

## System requirements

Important notes:

- Perl 5.10 is required
- Zebra is required

## Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook.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:

- English (USA)
- Arabic (99%)
- Armenian (94%)
- Chinese (China) (89%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (99%)
- Czech (97%)
- Danish (73%)
- English (New Zealand) (97%)
- Finnish (99%)
- French (99%)
- French (Canada) (94%)
- German (99%)
- German (Switzerland) (99%)
- Greek (84%)
- Hindi (99%)
- Italian (99%)
- Korean (54%)
- Kurdish (52%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (59%)
- Occitan (81%)
- Persian (61%)
- Polish (99%)
- Portuguese (99%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
- Slovak (95%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (92%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Vietnamese (75%)

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 16.5.11 is

- Release Manager: Brendan Gallagher
- QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
- QA Team:
  - Kyle Hall
  - Jonathan Druart
  - Tomás Cohen Arazi
  - Marcel de Rooy
  - Nick Clemens
  - Jesse Weaver
- Bug Wranglers:
  - Amit Gupta
  - Magnus Enger
  - Mirko Tietgen
  - Indranil Das Gupta
  - Zeno Tajoli
  - Marc Véron
- Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
- Documentation Manager: Nicole C. Engard
- Translation Manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
- Wiki curators:
  - Brook
  - Thomas Dukleth
- Release Maintainers:
  - 16.05 -- Frédéric Demians
  - 3.22 -- Julian Maurice
  - 3.20 -- Chris Cormack

## Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.5.11:

- Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.5.11.

- Blou (1)
- Aleisha Amohia (2)
- Colin Campbell (1)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (1)
- Jonathan Druart (1)
- Katrin Fischer (1)
- Mason James (2)
- Emma Smith (1)
- Mark Tompsett (1)
- Marc Véron (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 16.5.11

- BSZ BW (1)
- bugs.koha-community.org (1)
- KohaAloha (2)
- Marc Véron AG (2)
- PTFS-Europe (1)
- Rijksmuseum (1)
- Solutions inLibro inc (1)
- Theke Solutions (1)
- unidentified (4)

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

- Caitlin Goodger (1)
- Claire Gravely (1)
- Jonathan Druart (9)
- Katrin Fischer (9)
- Mark Tompsett (7)
- Martin Renvoize (1)
- Mason James (2)
- Mehdi Hamidi (1)
- Owen Leonard (2)
- Tomas Cohen Arazi (2)
- Kyle M Hall (10)

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 16.05.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 17 Mar 2017 13:26:06.