RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.08
22 Jan 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 18.05.08 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 18.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 23 bugfixes.
Critical bugs fixed
Acquisitions
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers
Cataloging
- [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places
Circulation
- [21065] Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports
- [21928] CircAutoPrintQuickSlip 'clear' is not working
- [22020] Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal
Database
- [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script
OPAC
- [22030] OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username
REST api
- [22071] authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case
Reports
- [21984] Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters
- [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters
Other bugs fixed
Acquisitions
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t
Command-line Utilities
- [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list
MARC Bibliographic data support
- [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn't work on MARC tab
Notices
- [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS
Packaging
- [17108] Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)
- [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/18.05.x)
Searching - Zebra
- [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)
Templates
- [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert
Test Suite
- [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests
- [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
- [22022] Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)
New sysprefs
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
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:
- Arabic (99.9%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Basque (72.6%)
- Chinese (China) (77.1%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
- Czech (92.5%)
- Danish (63.7%)
- English (New Zealand) (95.6%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (92.5%)
- French (98.9%)
- French (Canada) (94.1%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (98.5%)
- Greek (80.5%)
- Hindi (99.1%)
- Italian (97.5%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (67.7%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
- Persian (53%)
- Polish (93.8%)
- Portuguese (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (87.6%)
- Slovak (94.5%)
- Spanish (98.8%)
- Swedish (94%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Vietnamese (65.2%)
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 18.05.08 is
Credits
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.05.08:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.08.
- Nightly Build Bot (2)
- Colin Campbell (1)
- Nick Clemens (8)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
- Marcel de Rooy (3)
- Jonathan Druart (11)
- Lucas Gass (2)
- Andrew Isherwood (1)
- Jesse Maseto (2)
- Julian Maurice (1)
- Martin Renvoize (1)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Koha translators (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.08
- abunchofthings.net (2)
- BibLibre (5)
- bugs.koha-community.org (11)
- ByWater-Solutions (12)
- PTFS-Europe (3)
- Rijksmuseum (3)
- Theke Solutions (4)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
- Hugo Agud (1)
- Alex Arnaud (2)
- Nazlı Ãetin (1)
- Nick Clemens (32)
- Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (8)
- Jonathan Druart (6)
- Charles Farmer (4)
- Katrin Fischer (4)
- Lucas Gass (24)
- âLucas Gassâ (1)
- Owen Leonard (4)
- Jesse Maseto (15)
- Julian Maurice (3)
- Kyle M Hall (2)
- Josef Moravec (3)
- Eric Phetteplace (1)
- Martin Renvoize (47)
- Pierre-Marc Thibault (3)
- Mirko Tietgen (2)
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 Jan 2019 17:06:47.