RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.09

22 Feb 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 18.05.09 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.05.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 new features, 3 enhancements, 62 bugfixes.

New features

REST api

This adds http BASIC authentication as an optional auth method to the RESTful APIs. This greatly aids developers when developing against our APIs.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Templates

A simple string patch that clarifies the intention of the CheckPrevCheckout system preference options.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Circulation

Hold requests

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

About

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

Circulation

Developer documentation

Holidays

ILL

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

MARC Authority data support

Notices

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

Searching

Serials

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

Tools

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 18.05.09 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.09.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.09

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 rmain1805.

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 22 Feb 2019 12:43:27.