Koha Community Newsletter: January 2021
Koha Community Newsletter: January 2021 
Volume 12, Issue 1
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
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Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions and revisions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 22 January 2021 | Koha 20.11.02 | stable |
| 22 January 2021 | Koha 20.05.08 | oldstable |
| 23 January 2021 | Koha 19.11.14 | oldoldstable |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
Release of new Koha revisions
On 23 January 2021 Victor Grousset announced the release of Koha 19.11.14. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 12 bugfixes.
On 22 January 2021 Fridolin Somers announced the release of Koha 20.11.02. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 10 enhancements and 50 bugfixes. This revision contains 5 critical bugfixes, especially Bug 27509 – cn_sort value is lost when editing an item without changing cn_source or itemcallnumber.
On 22 January 2021 Andrew Fuerste-Henry announced the release of Koha 20.05.08. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 4 enhancements and 35 bugfixes.
On 7 January 2021 Andrew Fuerste-Henry announced the release of Koha 20.05.07. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 2 enhancements and 53 bugfixes.
On 6 January 2021 Fridolin Somers announced the release of Koha 20.11.01. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 45 bugfixes. It was especially noted that the Git repository now has moved to https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha.git
On 6 January 2021 Victor Grousset announced the release of Koha 19.11.13. This bugfix/maintenance release includes 15 bugfixes.
Community
Notes, gossip & announcements
- MLA 2020: Fred and the Avenging Chicken spend a week in the basement (Fred King)
- Library prank (RAFLIMTS)
- 2020 Bywater staff holiday cookie recipes (Bywater Solutions)
New Koha libraries
Germany
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, via Admin Kuhn
United Kingdom
- College of Optometrists in London, via PTFS Europe
USA
- Washington State Law Library in Olympia (WA), via Bywater Solutions
- Sacramento County Public Law Library in Sacramento (CA), via Bywater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- Accessibility in Koha – part 1 (PTFS Europe)
- Accessibility in Koha – part 2 (PTFS Europe)
- Call number brows while cataloging (Bywater Solutions)
- Creating a new branch in Koha (Bywater Solutions)
- CSS and Koha – part 2 (PTFS Europe) – for part 1 see Google Chrome’s CSS tools and Koha
- Inter Library Loan availability (PTFS Europe)
- Item alerts and messages (Bywater Solutions)
- Item types in Koha (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha Community announces 20.11 release (Bywater Solutions)
- Learn SQL for Koha reports (Bywater Solutions)
- Notices and slips (Bywater Solutions)
- Super librarian – Recover or create admin-user credentials and set staff permissions (RAFLIMTS)
- Training table of contents (Bywater Solutions)
- Using the logs (Bywater Solutions)
- Using the reports Plus plugin (Bywater Solutions)
Support provider news
Bywater Solutions
- Bywater Solutions welcomes Valerie Burnett as a data migration librarian
- Introducing: Open Source Live – a quarterly conversation about libraries and open source
- We are hiring in our Sales Department
- 2020 ByWater Solutions summary and year in review
RAFLIMTS
Upcoming events
KohaCon 2021
According to https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon21_Proposals no decision has yet been made where to hold KohaCon 2021.
Upcoming meetings
For all upcoming IRC meetings see Next IRC meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
Past events
Past meetings
For all past IRC meetings see the following links or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.