RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.06

26 Nov 2018

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 18.05.06 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 10 enhancements, 78 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

To aid in catching possible SQL issue's early in development, this patch allows enabling the strictest of SQL modes for development (and makes it the default for continuous integration) environments.

Sponsored by PTFS Europe

Authentication

Cataloging

This adds default indicators to bibliographic frameworks. The table marc_tag_structure is adjusted. In order to make effective use of this enhancement, you may want to add values in your MARC frameworks administration.

Circulation

Patrons

Searching

Staff Client

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Corrects the prices shown on the ordered/spent lists for each fund in acquisitions to show the price with taxes included. This will make the total shown on these pages match the total shown in the table on the acq start and fund pages.

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Authentication

It is good security practice to not provide details which could confirm or deny the existence of an account. Previously, the simple "This account has been locked!" confirmed its existence which would only encourage more attacks by hackers.
To prevent aiding malicious attacks, the message has been changed to something that does not expressly state the account has been locked. It only mentions that accounts will be locked after a number of failed attempts, instead of saying whether it is locked or not.
So while a successful attempt will seem to have an invalid username or password suggestion after the account is locked, users should be reminded that they can always reset their password or contact library staff for help.

Cataloging

Circulation

Course reserves

Database

Fines and fees

MARC Bibliographic data support

OPAC

SIP2

Serials

Staff Client

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

About

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

Circulation

Command-line Utilities

Course reserves

Database

I18N/L10N

ILL

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Lists

With this patch lists sorted on call number will now use the machine sortable form of the callnumber from items.cn_sort for better results.

MARC Authority data support

Notices

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

Searching

Serials

Staff Client

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

Tools

Web services

New sysprefs

System requirements

Important notes:

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. 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 18.05.06 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.06.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.06

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

We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.

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 18.05.x.

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 26 Nov 2018 12:10:26.