RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.14

This is a security release

27 Jun 2019

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 18.05.14 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 5 bugfixes.

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

• [7862] Warns when creating a new notice

Sponsored by Catalyst IT

Cataloging

• [22886] Missing space between fields from Keyword to MARC mapping in cataloguing search

Label/patron card printing

• [22878] Cannot add a patron card layout with mysql strict mode on

Patrons

• [20514] Searching for a patrons using the address option doesn’t work with streetnumber
• [22781] Fields on patron search results should be html/json filtered

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 (99.3%)
• Armenian (100%)
• Basque (72.1%)
• Chinese (China) (77.9%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (98.3%)
• Czech (92.4%)
• Danish (63.3%)
• English (New Zealand) (95.1%)
• English (USA)
• Finnish (92%)
• French (98.4%)
• French (Canada) (93.6%)
• German (100%)
• German (Switzerland) (97.9%)
• Greek (80.4%)
• Hindi (100%)
• Italian (96.9%)
• Norwegian Bokmål (67.2%)
• Occitan (post 1500) (70.1%)
• Persian (52.8%)
• Polish (93.3%)
• Portuguese (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (87.1%)
• Slovak (97.5%)
• Spanish (100%)
• Swedish (93.5%)
• Turkish (99.4%)
• Vietnamese (64.8%)

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 18.05.14 is

• Release Manager: Martin Renvoize
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Nick Clemens
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Alex Arnaud
  • Nick Clemens
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Kyle Hall
  • Julian Maurice
  • Josef Moravec
  • Marcel de Rooy
• Topic Experts:
  • REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • SIP2 — Kyle Hall
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Elasticsearch — Alex Arnaud
  • ILS-DI — Arthur Suzuki
  • Authentication — Martin Renvoize
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Michal Denár
  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Jon Knight
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Arthur Suzuki
• Packaging Manager: Mirko Tietgen
• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Andy Boze
  • Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

• Translation Managers:

  • Indranil Das Gupta
  • Bernardo González Kriegel
• Release Maintainers:
  • 19.05 — Fridolin Somers
  • 18.11 — Lucas Gass
  • 18.05 — Liz Rea
    

    Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 18.05.14:

• Catalyst IT

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.14.

• Aleisha Amohia (1)
• Jonathan Druart (9)
• Katrin Fischer (1)
• Liz Rea (2)
• Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.14

• BSZ BW (1)
• ByWater-Solutions (2)
• Independant Individuals (1)
• Koha Community Developers (9)

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

• Nick Clemens (11)
• Jonathan Druart (1)
• Katrin Fischer (9)
• Hayley Mapley (1)
• Liz Rea (17)
• Martin Renvoize (10)
• Marcel de Rooy (1)
• Maryse Simard (1)

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 27 Jun 2019 21:10:33.