koha-release-notes/release_notes_18_12_00.md

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.12.00

30 Nov 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 Community

Koha 18.12.00 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.12.00 is a major release, that comes with many new features.

It includes 1 enhancements, 7 bugfixes.

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [21896] Add Koha::Account::reconcile_balance

Critical bugs fixed

(This list includes all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

Circulation

• [18805] Add ability to use up account credits

I18N/L10N

• [21895] translations fail on upgrade to 18.11.00 (package installation)

Other bugs fixed

(This list includes all bugfixes since the previous major version. Most of them have already been fixed in maintainance releases)

About

• [7143] Bug for tracking changes to the about page

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [21905] Plugin hook intranet_catalog_biblio_enhancements_toolbar_button incorrectly filtered

I18N/L10N

• [21736] Allow translating the localization widget messages

Packaging

• [21897] Typo in postinst

Tools

• [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 Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is

• Koha Documentation

As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available:

• Koha Manual

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

• Koha Git Repository

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

• Arabic (98.9%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (72.7%)
• Chinese (China) (77.2%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.9%)
• Czech (92.6%)
• Danish (63.7%)
• English (New Zealand) (95.7%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (92.6%)
• French (98.9%)
• French (Canada) (93.7%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (98.6%)
• Greek (80.4%)
• Hindi (98.9%)
• Italian (97.5%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (67.8%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
• Persian (53.1%)
• Polish (93.9%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (87.7%)
• Slovak (94.5%)
• Spanish (98.9%)
• Swedish (94%)
• Turkish (98.9%)
• Vietnamese (65.3%)

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

• Koha Translation Info

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:

• Koha Translate List

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

• Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 18.12.00 is

• Release Manager: Nick Clemens
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Josef Moravec
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Chris Cormack
• Topic Experts:
  • SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
  • EDI -- Colin Campbell
  • Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
  • REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Luis Moises Rojas
  • Jon Knight
  • Indranil Das Gupta
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager:
• Documentation Team:
  • David Nind
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
• Translation Manager:
• Wiki curators:
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
• Release Maintainers:
  • 18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
  • 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
  • 17.11 -- Fridolin Somers
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 18.05 -- Kyle Hall

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.12.00.

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
• Nick Clemens (1)
• Kyle Hall (1)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Julian Maurice (2)
• Martin Renvoize (1)
• Andreas Roussos (2)
• Fridolin Somers (1)
• Mirko Tietgen (1)
• Nazlı Çetin (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.12.00

• abunchofthings.net (1)
• BibLibre (3)
• ByWater-Solutions (2)
• Devinim (1)
• PTFS-Europe (1)
• The City of Joensuu (1)
• Theke Solutions (5)
• unidentified (2)

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
• Christopher Brannon (3)
• Nick Clemens (15)
• Pasi Kallinen (1)
• Owen Leonard (1)
• Martin Renvoize (9)
• Marcel de Rooy (4)
• Mirko Tietgen (2)
• Mark Tompsett (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 master.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at:

• Koha Bugzilla

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 30 Nov 2018 16:48:02.