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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.05.14
16 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 19.05.14 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 19.05.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 5 bugfixes.
System requirements
Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for deployment:
- Debian Jessie with MySQL 5.5 (End of life)
- Debian Stretch with MariaDB 10.1
- Debian Buster with MariaDB 10.3
- Ubuntu Bionic with MariaDB 10.1
- Debian Stretch with MySQL 8.0 (Experimental MySQL 8.0 support)
Additional notes:
- Perl 5.10 is required (5.24 is recommended)
- Zebra or Elasticsearch is required
Critical bugs fixed
Circulation
- [25566] Change in DecreaseLoanHighHolds behaviour
Packaging
- [17084] Automatic debian/control updates (master)
- [25591] Update list-deps for Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04
Test Suite
- [26033] framapic is closing
Other bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [26270] XISBN.t is failing since today
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:
- Arabic (98.6%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (99.9%)
- Basque (59.2%)
- Chinese (China) (59.7%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (99.4%)
- Czech (92.8%)
- Danish (52%)
- English (New Zealand) (82.7%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (79%)
- French (98.3%)
- French (Canada) (99%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (85.7%)
- Greek (73.5%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (90.2%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (88.4%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (55.9%)
- Polish (82.7%)
- Portuguese (99.9%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (94.2%)
- Slovak (86.5%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (87.9%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (73.7%)
- Vietnamese (50.7%)
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 19.05.14 is
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Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
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Release Manager assistants:
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
- Marcel de Rooy
- Joonas Kylmälä
- Josef Moravec
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Nick Clemens
- Kyle Hall
- Martin Renvoize
- Alex Arnaud
- Julian Maurice
- Matthias Meusburger
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Topic Experts:
- Elasticsearch -- Frédéric Demians
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
- CAS/Shibboleth -- Matthias Meusburger
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Bug Wranglers:
- Michal Denár
- Holly Cooper
- Henry Bolshaw
- Lisette Scheer
- Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
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Packaging Manager: Mason James
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Documentation Managers:
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- David Nind
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Documentation Team:
- Martin Renvoize
- Donna Bachowski
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Kelly McElligott
- Jessica Zairo
- Chris Cormack
- Henry Bolshaw
- Jon Drucker
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Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
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Release Maintainers:
- 20.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 19.11 -- Aleisha Amohia
- 19.05 -- Victor Grousset
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Release Maintainer mentors:
- 19.11 -- Hayley Mapley
- 19.05 -- Martin Renvoize
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.14.
- Nick Clemens (1)
- Jonathan Druart (2)
- Mason James (2)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.05.14
- ByWater-Solutions (1)
- Koha Community Developers (2)
- KohaAloha (2)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- Aleisha Amohia (5)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
- Christopher Brannon (1)
- Jonathan Druart (2)
- Katrin Fischer (1)
- Lucas Gass (3)
- Victor Grousset (5)
- Martin Renvoize (3)
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:
- Koha Git Repository
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 16 Sep 2020 11:09:32.