Koha Community Newsletter: November 2020

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November 2020

Volume 11, Issue 11
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Table of Contents

Development

Koha 20.11.00 Released

by Jonathan Druart
It is with great pleasure that the Koha community announces the
release of Koha 20.11, a major release of the Koha open source
integrated library system.

Koha 20.11.00 is a major release, that comes with many new features.

It includes 9 new features, 354 enhancements, 412 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes here:

Koha 20.11 released

The Debian packages for this new version will be available soon. Stay tuned!

Koha 20.05.06 Released

by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 20.05.06.

Koha 20.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 3 enhancements, 73 bugfixes.

The full release notes can be viewed here:

Koha 20.05.06 release

Debian packages should be available in a few days!

Koha 19.11.12 Released

by Aleisha Amohia
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.12.

Koha 19.11.12 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 security fixes, 1 enhancements, 22 bugfixes.

The full release notes are available here:

Koha 19.11.12 released

Koha 19.05.17 Released

by Victor Grousset
The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 19.05.17.

Koha 19.05.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.

It includes 1 security fixes, 15 bugfixes.

The full release notes can be found at:

Koha 19.05.17 released

Debian packages will be available shortly.

Thanks to everyone involved 🙂

Italian Translation

by Romana Franziska Wallner
Koha Gruppo Italiano would like to inform the International Koha Community that the translation of the software instructions to Italian has been completed at 100%. A big thank you to Stefano Bargioni and Zeno Tajoli for this excellent work.

Community

Notes, Gossip & Announcements

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:

Using Google Chrome tools for CSS in Koha
On Andrew Isherwood’s mind this week are the Google Chrome CSS tools and how you can use them to help make tweaks to the Koha CSS (style sheets) to customise the OPAC and staff side of your Koha installation.

The team at ByWater Solutions has some great new tutorials for you:

Support Provider News

From ByWater Solutions

Upcoming Events

December General IRC Meeting

The December General IRC meeting will be held the 2nd at 15:00 UTC.

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

December Development IRC Meeting

The December Development IRC meeting will be held the 2nd at 20:00 UTC.

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

December Documentation IRC Meeting

The December Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 10th at 18:00 UTC.

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

Past Events

Linked Open (wiki)Data: Add Your Catalog to the Semantic Web

by Romana Franziska Wallner
On November 9th, the Koha Gruppo Italiano organized a webinar entitled “Linked Open (wiki)Data: Add Your Catalog to the Semantic Web.”

The meeting consisted of two parts:

  • Camillo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (Scuola Normale di Pisa / Wikimedian): Origins and purpose of Wikidata; structure of Wikidata; Wikidata’s authority control function; visualizing Wikidata elements through SPARQL queries.
  • Stefano Bargioni (Deputy Director of the Library of the P. UniversitĂ  della Santa Croce, Rome): Integrating Wikidata & Koha.

The recording of the webinar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VInfp9MwUb4 (the video is in Italian)

100 people joined the meeting.

November General IRC Meeting

The November General IRC meeting was held the 4th at 20:00 UTC.

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

November Documentation IRC Meeting

The November Documentation IRC meeting was held the 12th at 18:00 UTC.

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

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