Koha Community Newsletter: July 2018
Koha Community Newsletter 
July 2018
Volume 9, Issue 7
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
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Table of Contents
- Development
- Community
- Upcoming Events
- Past Events
Development
Koha 18.05.02 Released
by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.02.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes, updates to the
shipped marc frameworks to fall in line with the latest recommendations
and some minor architectural enhancements to aid ongoing maintanence
and translation.
This is my second release as the 18.05.XX release maintainer. Thank you
very much to everyone involved in this release.
Koha 18.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 7 enhancements, 57 bugfixes.
Koha 17.11.08 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 17.11.08.
Koha 17.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 3 enhancements, 41 bugfixes.
Community
New Koha Libraries
Koha Tips and Tricks
Vimal Kumar shows you how to install the latest version of MariaDB with Koha.
Follow along with Vimal Kumar as he guides you through creating a Super Librarian user account using the command line.
Alex Buckley explains how you can use parameters in SQL reports as well as how to merge bibliographic records in this article.
Upcoming Events
September General IRC Meeting
The September General IRC meeting will be held the 5th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Developers IRC Meeting
The August Developers IRC meeting will be held the 8th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Documentation IRC Meeting
The August Documentation IRC meeting will be held 14th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
French Koha Symposium in Paris
by Sonia Bouis
The French Koha Symposium in Paris was held the 25th through the 26th of June. There were around 70 people attending. As usual, there was lots of feedback from libraries who had gone live with Koha during the last year. We focused on the choice of the BULAC (University Library for Languages and Civilizations Studies) to go live with a 18.05 Koha version with Elastic Search. They explained how the search was really relevant to their collection (mainly oriental languages) and their staff was so impatient to give up zebra. We also focused on the new EU regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation, and what it’s going to change for libraries and how Koha is prepared to it. There were also several presentations on Koha modules and a lot of exchange during coffee and lunch. More information in french is here.
July General IRC Meeting
The July General IRC meeting was held the 11th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Developers IRC Meeting
The July Developers IRC meeting was held the 11th at 15:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Documentation IRC Meeting
The July Documentation IRC meeting was held 13th at 21:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter