Koha 18.05.08 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.08

22 Jan 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 18.05.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 23 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [22052] DeleteExpiredOpacRegistrations should skip bad borrowers

Cataloging

  • [21986] Quotation marks are wrongly escaped in several places

Circulation

  • [21065] Data in account_offsets and accountlines is deleted with the patron leaving gaps in financial reports
  • [21928] CircAutoPrintQuickSlip ‘clear’ is not working
  • [22020] Configure Columns for Patron Issues checkin hides renewal

Database

  • [21931] Upgrade from 3.22 fails when running updatedatabase.pl script

OPAC

  • [22030] OverDrive requires configuration for field passed as username

REST api

  • [22071] authenticate_api_request does not stash koha.user in the OAuth use case

Reports

  • [21984] Unable to load second page of results for reports with reused parameters
  • [21991] Displaying more rows on report results does not work for reports with parameters

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [21848] Resolve unac_string warning from Circulation.t

Command-line Utilities

  • [21908] biblio_metadata is missing from the rebuild_zebra.pl tables list

MARC Bibliographic data support

  • [22034] Viewing record with Default framework doesn’t work on MARC tab

Notices

  • [21571] Translate notices fail on ACCTDETAILS

Packaging

  • [17108] Automatic debian/control updates (stable/18.11.x)
  • [17111] Automatic debian/control updates (oldstable/18.05.x)

Searching – Zebra

  • [22073] Diacritics Ž and ž not being mapped for searching (Non-ICU)

Templates

  • [21990] No background color for div.error, must be .alert

Test Suite

  • [14334] DBI fighting DBIx over Autocommit in tests

Tools

  • [21465] Cannot overlay patrons when matching by cardnumber if userid exists in file and in Koha
  • [22022] Authorised values on the batch item modification page are not displayed in order (order by code, not lib)

New sysprefs

  • OverDriveUsername

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 (99.9%)
  • 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 (80.5%)
  • Hindi (99.1%)
  • Italian (97.5%)
  • Norwegian BokmÃ¥l (67.7%)
  • Occitan (post 1500) (70.4%)
  • Persian (53%)
  • Polish (93.8%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • 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 18.05.08 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 18.05.08:

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.08.

  • Nightly Build Bot (2)
  • Colin Campbell (1)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • TomÃs Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Jonathan Druart (11)
  • Lucas Gass (2)
  • Andrew Isherwood (1)
  • Jesse Maseto (2)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Fridolin Somers (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 18.05.08

  • abunchofthings.net (2)
  • BibLibre (5)
  • bugs.koha-community.org (11)
  • ByWater-Solutions (12)
  • PTFS-Europe (3)
  • Rijksmuseum (3)
  • Theke Solutions (4)

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

  • Hugo Agud (1)
  • Alex Arnaud (2)
  • Nazlı Çetin (1)
  • Nick Clemens (32)
  • Tomas Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (8)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Charles Farmer (4)
  • Katrin Fischer (4)
  • Lucas Gass (24)
  • Lucas Gass (1)
  • Owen Leonard (4)
  • Jesse Maseto (15)
  • Julian Maurice (3)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Josef Moravec (3)
  • Eric Phetteplace (1)
  • Martin Renvoize (47)
  • Pierre-Marc Thibault (3)
  • Mirko Tietgen (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:

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 22 Jan 2019 17:06:47.