RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.15

22 Sep 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 19.05.15 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 19.05.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 enhancements, 26 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Additional notes:

Enhancements

OPAC

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Database

Label/patron card printing

OPAC

Packaging

REST API

Reports

Searching - Zebra

Test Suite

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

OPAC

Searching - Elasticsearch

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

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 19.05.15 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.15.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.15

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 19.05.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 22 Sep 2020 13:41:51.