RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.07

27 Jun 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 18.11.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 30 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Authentication

MARC Authority data support

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

This bugfix modifies the basic MARC editor so that required fields have the standard "Required" label on them instead of a small red asterisk.

Circulation

Database

ILL

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

Lists

MARC Authority data support

MARC Bibliographic data support

OPAC

This fix allows the OPAC maintenance page to use JavaScript included in the OPACUserJS system preference.

Patrons

SIP2

Searching

Serials

Sponsored by Plant and Food Research Limited

Staff Client

System Administration

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

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 18.11.07 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.11.07:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.07.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.07

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 new-security-release-18.11.07.

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 27 Jun 2019 17:59:52.