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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.07

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 18.05.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

  • Koha Wiki
  • OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 18.05.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 28 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

  • [21853] Internal software error when exporting basket group as PDF with Perl > 5.24.1

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21869] Bad update statement loses values for MarkLostItemsAsReturned
  • [21910] Koha::Library::Groups->get_search_groups should return the groups, not the children
  • [21955] Cache::Memory should not be used as L2 cache

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

Cataloging

  • [21774] Cloned item subfields disappear when editing an item

Circulation

  • [21796] Patron Restriction do not restrict checkouts if patron also has a fee/fine on their account

MARC Authority data support

  • [21962] The searching entire record option in authority searches is currently failing

Notices

  • [21529] Fix display of HTML tags in print notices

OPAC

  • [805] OPAC no longer offers subject search
  • [21911] Scoping OPACs by branch does not work with new library groups

Patrons

  • [21778] Sorting is inconsistent on patron search based on permissions

Staff Client

  • [21405] Pagination in authorities search broken for Zebra and broken for 10000+ results in ES

Test Suite

  • [21567] WebService:ILS related tests fail during package build

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21867] Replace remaining document.element.onchange calls in marc_modification_templates.js
  • [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered

Circulation

  • [18677] issue_id is not added to accountlines for lost item fees
  • [20598] Accruing fines not closed out by longoverdue.pl if WhenLostForgiveFine is not enabled

Fines and fees

  • [21849] Offsets not stored correctly in _FixOverduesOnReturn

Lists

  • [21874] Encoding broken in list and cart email subjects

MARC Authority data support

  • [21644] UNIMARC XSLT display of 210 in intranet

Packaging

  • [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/18.05.x)

Patrons

  • [21649] Add child button in the staff client is no longer automatically populating the parent address

Reports

  • [21837] Overdues report shoudln't set homebranchfilter as holdingbranchfilter

System Administration

  • [21730] PA_CLASS missing from list of authorized values categories
  • [21815] Rephrase HidePersonalPatronDetailOnCirculation a little bit

Tools

  • [21819] Marc modification templates action always checks Regexp checkbox
  • [21854] Patron category is not showing during batch modification
  • [21861] The MARC modification template actions editor does not always validate user input

System requirements

Important notes:

  • Perl 5.10 is required
  • Zebra is required

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:

  • Arabic (98.8%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Basque (72.6%)
  • Chinese (China) (77.1%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
  • Czech (92.5%)
  • Danish (63.7%)
  • English (New Zealand) (95.6%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (92.5%)
  • French (98.9%)
  • French (Canada) (94.1%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (98.5%)
  • Greek (80.4%)
  • Hindi (98.8%)
  • Italian (97.4%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (67.7%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
  • Persian (53%)
  • Polish (93.8%)
  • Portuguese (99.9%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.6%)
  • Slovak (94.5%)
  • Spanish (98.8%)
  • Swedish (94%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Vietnamese (65.2%)

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 18.05.07 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.05.07:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.07.

  • Nightly Build Bot (1)
  • Nick Clemens (12)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (8)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • “Lucas Gass” (3)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (6)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (6)
  • Josef Moravec (1)
  • Andreas Roussos (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (1)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.07

  • (0)
  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • BibLibre (3)
  • BSZ BW (4)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (8)
  • ByWater-Solutions (20)
  • bywatersolution.com (6)
  • bywatetsolutions.com (1)
  • Lucass-MacBook-Pro.local (1)
  • PTFS-Europe (1)
  • Rijksmuseum (8)
  • unidentified (5)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.

  • Devinim (2)
  • Nick Clemens (47)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (5)
  • Michal Denar (3)
  • Marcel de Rooy (35)
  • Jonathan Druart (5)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Lucas Gass (4)
  • “Lucas Gass” (3)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Pasi Kallinen (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Ere Maijala (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (32)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (25)
  • Andreas Roussos (5)
  • Maryse Simard (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (4)
  • Mirko Tietgen (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (2)

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 rmain1805.

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 14:49:52.