Koha 18.05.10 released
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.05.10
28 Feb 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 18.05.10 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 18.05.10 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 bugfixes.
Critical bugs fixed
Cataloging
- [22395] Data in 245 field (subfield a or b) will be deleted if it has Quotation Marks
Database
- [13515] Table messages is missing FK constraints and is never cleaned up
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 (99.7%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Basque (72.5%)
- Chinese (China) (77%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (98.7%)
- Czech (92.4%)
- Danish (63.6%)
- English (New Zealand) (95.5%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (92.4%)
- French (98.7%)
- French (Canada) (94%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (98.3%)
- Greek (80.5%)
- Hindi (99.8%)
- Italian (97.3%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (67.5%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (70.2%)
- Persian (52.9%)
- Polish (93.7%)
- Portuguese (99.8%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (87.4%)
- Slovak (97.6%)
- Spanish (98.7%)
- Swedish (93.8%)
- Turkish (99.8%)
- Vietnamese (65.1%)
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 18.05.10 is
- Release Manager: Nick Clemens
- Release Manager assistants:
- QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
- QA Team:
- 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: Caroline Cyr La Rose
-
Documentation Team:
- David Nind
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
-
Translation Managers:
-
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 18.05.10.
- Alex Arnaud (1)
- Jonathan Druart (2)
- Lucas Gass (4)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.05.10
- BibLibre (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (4)
- Koha Community Developers (2)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
- Alex Arnaud (1)
- Nick Clemens (3)
- Lucas Gass (5)
- Martin Renvoize (3)
- Marcel de Rooy (3)
- Nazlı Çetin (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:
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 28 Feb 2019 00:43:12.