RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.01

20 Dec 2018

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 18.11.01 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 18.11.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancement and 35 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Adds a business logic level routine for reconciling user account balances.

Critical bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Cache::Memory fails to work correctly under a plack environment as the cache cannot be shared between processes.

Authentication

Cataloging

Circulation

This patch adds an Apply Credits button to the accounts interface to allow a librarian to apply outstanding credits against outstanding debits.

Database

Hold requests

I18N/L10N

Installation and upgrade (web-based installer)

MARC Authority data support

OPAC

Patrons

Reports

Searching - Elasticsearch

Staff Client

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

About

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

This patch results in a proper offset always being recorded for auditing purposes when a user is refunded after returning a previously lost item.

Command-line Utilities

Fines and fees

I18N/L10N

MARC Authority data support

OPAC

Packaging

System Administration

Test Suite

Tools

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 18.11.01 is

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.01.

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.01

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 20 Dec 2018 12:12:58.