RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.11

22 May 2020

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 19.05.11 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 19.05.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 13 enhancements, 72 bugfixes.

System requirements

Koha is continiously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for deployment:

Additional notes:

Enhancements

Cataloging

Command-line Utilities

Course reserves

Fines and fees

Hold requests

Lists

Reports

Searching - Elasticsearch

Staff Client

Templates

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Cataloging

Circulation

ILL

MARC Authority data support

OPAC

Patrons

SIP2

Searching - Elasticsearch

System Administration

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

Circulation

Command-line Utilities

Course reserves

Developer documentation

Documentation

I18N/L10N

Label/patron card printing

MARC Bibliographic data support

Notices

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

SIP2

Searching

Self checkout

Serials

Staff Client

System Administration

Templates

Tools

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 19.05.11 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 19.05.11:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.11.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.11

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 rmain1905.

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 May 2020 20:09:52.