Koha Community Newsletter: December 2015

Koha Community Newsletter
December 2015

Volume 6, Issue 12
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Development
Community
Upcoming Events
- Kohacon 2016 Dates
- January General IRC Meeting
Past Events
- December General IRC Meeting

Development

Koha 3.22.1 Released

by Julian Maurice
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.1. This
is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes.

The Koha community dedicates its version 3.22.1 to the memory of 31-year
old Santu Mandal. Santu Mandal, an Indian who was a committed Koha user,
as well as a Koha translator into Bengali, passed away on December 15th.
Our warmest support goes to his fiancée, and to his parents.

Read the release notes.

Koha 3.20.7 Released

by Frédéric Demians
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Koha 3.20.7, a
maintenance release of the Koha open source integrated library system.

Koha 3.20.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 20 bugfixes.

The Koha community dedicates its version 3.20.7 to the memory of 31-year old
Santu Mandal, Santu Mandal, an Indian who was a committed Koha user, as well
as a Koha translator into Bengali, passed away on December 15th. Our warmest
support goes to his fiancée, and to his parents.

See the full release notes here.

Download: http://koha-community.org/download-koha/

Koha 3.18.13 Released

by Liz Rea
The Koha team is pleased to announce the happy holiday release of Koha
3.18.13.

Please refrain from putting down your holiday beverage of choice to install
this version, it will be waiting for you when you get back from your time
away.

Read the release notes

Have a very jolly holiday period, stay safe, and we’ll see you all back in
the new year, when I know you are all going to be refreshed and ready to
contribute patches, signoffs, opinions, and good humour to the Koha
community.

Koha Offline Circulation 1.3 Released

by Kyle Hall
I’ve updated the original desktop Koha Offline Circulation app for the
first time in 5 years!

Coeur d’Alene Public Library has sponsored the addition of a new feature.
The “Database” menu has now been renamed “Settings” and has a new option to
pre-set a default directory to save your .koc files in. When you set this
directory, by default the program will now save your files in that
directory with timestamp as the file name!

You can download the installer here:
https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-offline-circulation/releases

If you are upgrading from a previous version, you will want to uninstall
the old version first, as I had to create a new installer from scratch.
You’ll also need to reselect your borrowers.db file if you had previously
selected one.

Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Did you remember to participate in Marshall Breeding’s International Library Automation Perceptions Survey?

How To

Vimal Kumar explains how to attach files to catalog records.
Let Nick Clemens show you how to level up your reports with HTML, CSS and Koha Links.
Nicole Engard can help you integrate the Ebsco Discovery Service into Koha. Check out her video tutorial.
Check out this video tutorial from Jessie Zairo to get some tips on inventory in Koha 3.20.

Support Provider News

Nick Clemens joins Bywater Solutions as Development Support.

Upcoming Events

Kohacon 2016 Dates

by Γιάννης Κουρμούλης
We are pleased to announce that Kohacon 2016 will be held from Monday 30/5/2016 to Saturday 4/6/2016 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It will consist of 3 general conference days with presentations, 2 hackfest days and also by an excursion day. We are looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Stay tuned for updates!

January General IRC Meeting

The January general IRC meeting will be held on the 13th at 20:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Past Events

December General IRC Meeting

The December general IRC meeting was held on the 2nd at 20:00 UTC.