RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.02

22 Jan 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 18.11.02 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.11.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 6 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Authentication

Architectural enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

I18N/L10N

Test Suite

Test suite enhancement backported to 18.11.x series to aid future backports. There should be no noticeable effects for the end user.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Circulation

Sponsored by ByWater Solutions

In the past, if a patron had any credit existing on their account (newly added, or pre-existing), if debts were present then the credit balance would always be immediately applied to the debt. This functionality was inadvertently removed during refactoring efforts which debuted in 16.11.
This patch adds code to restore the functionality and allows it to be optionally applied to the system via a new system preference, AccountAutoReconcile.
Note: The new preference defaults to the post 16.11 behaviour, if you wish to restore the 16.11 functionality then you will need to update the preference after the upgrade.

OPAC

REST api

Templates

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

MARC Bibliographic data support

Notices

Packaging

Searching - Zebra

Staff Client

Templates

Test Suite

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 18.11.02 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.11.02:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.02.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.02

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 22 Jan 2019 15:42:52.