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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.06
18 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 18.05.06 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 18.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 enhancements, 19 bugfixes.
Enhancements
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [10306] Koha to MARC mappings (Part 1): Allow multiple mappings per kohafield (for say 260/RDA 264)
This patchset adds the ability to map several MARC fields to a single Koha field. The first existing mapped field will be saved into the database. This allows for flexibility in a system using RDA and AACR2 records where some store the publication data in the 260 fields and others in the 264.
- [19933] Move C4::Members::patronflags to the Koha namespace - part 1
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
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
Notices
- [21529] Fix display of HTML tags in print notices
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
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
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 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 (98.8%)
- Armenian (99.9%)
- 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 (94.4%)
- Spanish (98.8%)
- Swedish (94%)
- Turkish (99.3%)
- 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 18.05.06 is
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Release Manager: Nick Clemens
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Release Manager assistants:
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
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Topic Experts:
- SIP2 -- Colin Campbell
- EDI -- Colin Campbell
- Elasticsearch -- Ere Maijala
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
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Bug Wranglers:
- Luis Moises Rojas
- Jon Knight
- Indranil Das Gupta
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Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
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Documentation Manager:
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Documentation Team:
- David Nind
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
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Translation Managers:
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Wiki curators:
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
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Release Maintainers:
- 18.11 -- Martin Renvoize
- 18.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 18.05 -- Jesse Maseto
- 17.11 -- Fridolin Somers
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Release Maintainer assistants:
- 18.05 -- Kyle Hall
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.06.
- Nick Clemens (5)
- Jonathan Druart (4)
- Katrin Fischer (3)
- Lucas Gass (4)
- Kyle Hall (3)
- Andrew Isherwood (1)
- Jesse Maseto (1)
- Julian Maurice (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (7)
- Andreas Roussos (3)
- Fridolin Somers (1)
- Mirko Tietgen (2)
- Mark Tompsett (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.06
- abunchofthings.net (2)
- BibLibre (2)
- BSZ BW (3)
- ByWater-Solutions (11)
- bywatersolution.com (1)
- Independant Individuals (4)
- Koha Community Developers (4)
- Lucass-MacBook-Pro.local (1)
- PTFS-Europe (1)
- Rijks Museum (7)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
- Nick Clemens (29)
- Michal Denar (3)
- Devinim (1)
- Katrin Fischer (2)
- Lucas Gass (3)
- Andrew Isherwood (1)
- Pasi Kallinen (1)
- Owen Leonard (3)
- Jesse Maseto (22)
- Josef Moravec (1)
- Martin Renvoize (6)
- Marcel de Rooy (25)
- Andreas Roussos (4)
- Maryse Simard (1)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Pierre-Marc Thibault (2)
- 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 18.05.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 18 Dec 2018 10:41:41.