Koha 18.11.08 release

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 18.11.08

23 Jul 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 18.11.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 18.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 17 bugfixes.

Critical bugs fixed

Hold requests

  • [13640] Holds To Pull List includes items unreserveable items
  • [23116] Cannot place overridden holds

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

  • [23090] MySQL validate_password plugin breaks koha-create
  • [23250] koha-create generates broken mysql password

OPAC

  • [23150] GDPR feature breaks patron self modification on OPAC
  • [23151] Patron self modification sends null dateofbirth

Patrons

  • [23283] cannot view/edit additional attributes in 18.11.x

SIP2

  • [23057] If checked_in_ok is set and item is not checked out, alert flag is supressed for any reason

Tools

  • [15814] Templates for MARC modification: Edit action does not work when Description contains ‘

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

  • [23144] Bad POD breaks svc/barcode

Circulation

  • [23097] Circulation Overdues report patron link goes to patron’s holds tab
  • [23140] Typo in returns.tt prevents printing branchcode in transfer slips

OPAC

  • [22946] Markup error in OPAC search results around selection links

Self checkout

  • [23198] [18.11] Wrong icons/paths in 18.11 for self check modules

Serials

  • [23065] ‘New subscription’ button in serials sometimes uses a blank form and sometimes defaults to current serial

System Administration

  • [23153] In framework management action subfields goes directly to edition

Templates

  • [22851] Navigation links in the serials module should be styled the same as other modules

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

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 18.11.08 is

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

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 18.11.08.

  • Nick Clemens (2)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Lucas Gass (4)
  • Kyle Hall (3)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (3)
  • Fridolin Somers (1)
  • Mark Tompsett (6)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 18.11.08

  • ACPL (3)
  • BibLibre (2)
  • BSZ BW (1)
  • ByWater-Solutions (9)
  • Independant Individuals (6)
  • Koha Community Developers (6)
  • Rijks Museum (3)

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

  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • Nick Clemens (6)
  • Chris Cormack (2)
  • Michal Denar (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (2)
  • Martha Fuerst (1)
  • Lucas Gass (27)
  • Claire Gravely (1)
  • Kyle Hall (7)
  • Owen Leonard (1)
  • Martin (1)
  • Julian Maurice (2)
  • Martin Renvoize (25)
  • Marcel de Rooy (15)
  • Fridolin Somers (24)
  • Mark Tompsett (4)

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 rmain1811.

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 23 Jul 2019 16:58:23.