RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.04

25 Mar 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 18.11.04 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.11.04 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 new features, 5 enhancements, 84 bugfixes.

New features

REST api

Serials

Allows the user to set a quantity for a serial order, useful in the case where payments are made per receipt of individual issues. This development also allows for altering the total expected quantity for a serial in the case of a periodicity change.

Enhancements

Acquisitions

Prior to this patch, internal and vendor notes would not be visible for received orders, but only for pending orders.

Patrons

Correction to update statement, feature actually added in 16.11.

REST api

Test Suite

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

This patch introduces to new system preference to govern how rounding is applied to values in acquisitions. It defaults to the american practice of rounding to the nearest 'cent' but future options should become available as we start to understand how other nations round for accounting purposes.

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

Command-line Utilities

Database

Label/patron card printing

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

Searching

Searching - Elasticsearch

Sponsored by Gothenburg University Library

This patchset makes some changes to Elasticsearch mappings in the database. The changes alter existing indices and are intended to fix issues with the current mappings, however, if you have done customization of mappings you may want to back them up before upgrading.

System Administration

Web services

Other bugs fixed

About

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Command-line Utilities

Developer documentation

Hold requests

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

OPAC

Please note, this patch fixes issues going forward. It includes a maintenance script to allow you to fix any possible existing cases. Please see bugzilla for details.

Patrons

Reports

SIP2

Searching

Searching - Elasticsearch

Self checkout

Serials

Staff Client

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

Tools

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 18.11.04 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.11.04:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.04.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.04

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 18.11.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 25 Mar 2019 17:15:20.