RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 16.11.08

17 May 2017

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 16.11.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 16.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 5 enhancements, 50 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Circulation

Label/patron card printing

Packaging

System Administration

This patch set adds: - a reference to Hea at the end of the installation process - a link to the new page from the admin home page - a new page to easily configure shared statistics

Hea is a website to collect usage data from libraries using Koha. With this development Hea can collect the geolocations of the libraries in your installation create a map. A new configuration page allows to configure easily what information is shared with the Koha community.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Authentication

Circulation

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

MARC Bibliographic record staging/import

OPAC

System Administration

Tools

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cataloging

Command-line Utilities

Database

Hold requests

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

Label/patron card printing

Notices

OPAC

Packaging

Patrons

Reports

Self checkout

Serials

System Administration

Templates

Test Suite

Tools

New sysprefs

System requirements

Important notes:

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:

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 16.11.08 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.11.08:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.08.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 16.11.08

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 16.11.x. The last Koha release was 16.11.07, which was released on April 22, 2017.

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 17 May 2017 02:04:15.