18 Aug 2020
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.11.09.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
25 Aug 2020
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.14.
This is a security and maintenance release which contains various bugfixes and
enhancements.
As always you can download the release from: https://download.koha-community.org
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
Please continue reading for the details this release.
31 Aug 2020
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 20.05.03 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
Koha 20.05.03 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 3 security fixes, 44 enhancements, 67 bugfixes.
Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
deployment:
Additional notes:
This change improves the wording and grammar for automatic renewal error messages.
This patchset updates a syspref name to be clearer about what it does and to follow community guidelines on using inclusive language.
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#TERM3:InclusiveLanguage
This patch adds an option to show or not show a CSV profile in the OPAC cart and lists download formats list.
This fixes a problem with the OPAC cart – it should now work correctly when opened, instead of generating an error message.
Syndetics provides enhanced content which is displayed in the OPAC under the tabs ‘Title Notes’, ‘Excerpt’, ‘About the author’, and ‘Editions’. They provide this information as HTML but Koha currently displays the content with the HTML tags. This fixes this so that the enhanced content displays correctly.
The Google Transliterate API has been deprecated by Google in 2011. This removes the remaining code and GoogleIndicTransliteration system preference from Koha as this is no longer functional.
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
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
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:
The release team for Koha 20.05.03 is
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 20.05.03:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.03.
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.05.03
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
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.
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 rmain2005.
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 31 Aug 2020 21:01:34.
croseburgPosted on
Posted in 19.05, 19.11, 20.05, Announcements, Events, IRC Meetings, Koha, Koha News, Koha Newsletter, Koha Tips & Tricks, release, Release management, releases, Support Company Press
Volume 11, Issue 7
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
Please submit news items to 
by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 20.05.02.
Koha 20.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release, including 17 enhancements
and 25 bugfixes.
The full release notes can be viewed here:
Debian packages should be available in a couple days!
by Aleisha Amohia
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.08.
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
Koha 19.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release that includes 8
enhancements and 18 bugfixes.
Full release notes can be found here:
by Victor Grousset
The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 19.05.13.
Koha 19.05.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 16 bugfixes.
The full release notes can be found at:
Debian packages will be available shortly.
Thanks to everyone involved 🙂
Developer, Aleisha Amohia, writes about the amazing work being done in Koha 20.05.
HealthNet Nepal has released a Live DVD version of Koha for testing and educational purposes.
Duluth, Ga., July 29, 2020: Equinox Open Library Initiative is honored to
announce the successful migration of the Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico, a
division of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan, Puerto Rico to the
Koha Integrated Library System. They were one of two 2019 Equinox Open Source
Grant recipients.
The Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico was created in 1967, a division of the
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. In 2003 it became the National Library to
preserve and provide access to resources related to Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.
The ir migration encompassed 56001 bibliographic records. Equinox services
included: project management, system configuration, extraction and migration of
bibliographic data, and staff training. Equinox also provided Koha support, hosting,
and auxiliary services.
“We are extremely happy and thankful for this extraordinary work,” said Carlos Ruiz
Cortés, Executive Director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. “The
catalogue is modern and very comfortable for research. It is also a great
opportunity as we are implementing new services for our users, while promoting
access to our valuable cultural resources.”
The Equinox Open Source Grant was offered for the first time in 2019 providing
Koha migration, support and training to two successful grantees. The grant was
inspired by the vibrant open source community and the belief that every community
deserves to benefit from an accessible and thriving library.
“Staff from the National Library and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, led by
Hilda Teresa Ayala-González, worked diligently for many months migrating data,
making configuration decisions, testing, and training to prepare for the new
system,” said Jennifer Weston, Implementation Project Manager at Equinox. “The
new Koha database inspired additional projects as the staff took advantage of the
library’s recent closing to launch a new website, and plan for a digitization project
to be linked with Koha to coincide with the 65th anniversary celebration of the
Cultural Institute. It has been both a pleasure and an honor to work with the
Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico to provide these new opportunities for their
community.”
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
The team at ByWater Solutions has some great new tutorials for you:
From PTFS Europe
Developing Accessibility:
A current project that really encapsulates the strengths of the Koha community is work PTFS Europe developers are doing on enhancing Koha accessibility. This project is being funded by a Koha library at the UK Houses of Parliament, fixes for identified bugs are being developed by PTFS Europe and signed-off and quality assured at pace by a wide group of members of the Koha community. Bugs fixed include making headings semantically correct, adding ‘skip to main content’ links, adding aria labels to search results and making aria labels translatable. Full details of progress on this tree of bugs can be found here.
From Equinox
#ChatOpenS: August 19, 2020, 12-1pm EDT. Networking Twitter Chat bringing those interested in open source in libraries together.
Tēnā koutou,
It’s 84 days to Kohacon! The programme has changed since we first launched it in February of this year and we would encourage you to take another look https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/
Kohacon2020 will be a mix of in-person and online presentations. Speakers will deliver talks at the Tiakiwai Conference Centre venue and streamed online.
Our guest speakers hail from Finland, Pakistan, the USA, France, Bangladesh, Canada, Turkey, Australia, England, and New Zealand. Please register your intention to attend online or in-person at: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/
There is professional development goodness for everyone – documentation, accessibility, linked data, creative problem solving, cataloguing plugins, integration, and marketing tips to name just a few talks/workshops. You can register to receive programme updates, follow @nzkoha on twitter, and keep an eye on the website: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/
Details
If you have any questions, please contact us at kohacon2020@catalyst.net.nz
Nā mātou noa, nā,
Koha team at Catalyst NZ
Sent with thanks to our Kohacon sponsors: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/sponsors/
by Heather Hernandez
The next Koha-US Cataloging SIG (Special Interest Group) round table will look at MARC frameworks (we’ll edit one live!) followed by our usual open discussion of cataloging issues–this month, submitted questions already include: Why use cutters instead of author’s last names? And, what’s the difference between “form, subfield v” and “topic subfield x” in a subject heading–what makes something a “form” or a “topic?”. Please bring your questions, tips, tricks, ideas, and comments and let’s chat and learn from each other! You don’t have to be a member of Koha-US to participate, nor do you have to be a cataloger! We often work in real, live, in production Koha catalogs, and are happy to try things out live–it’s loads of fun! So please join us on Thursday, August 6, 2020 @ 8am – 9am PT (9 MT/10 CT/11 ET in the United States). Can’t make it? No problem–it will be recorded and available on the Koha US YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV58VVGJH5V1wNHZqYpAfX7y1dU9eWTXq
More information on the Koha-US SIGs is here: http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ You can join via the “Join” button on this page, or email info@koha-us.org for assistance with joining any of the SIGs.
Upcoming topics of the Cataloging SIG meetings include Related formats (e.g. print/online) (September), Languages and record displays (October), Reports (November), Workarounds and documentation (December).
Please also feel free to address questions, tips, tricks, ideas for topics, etc. to the group or to me, heather_hernandez@nps.gov, via email at anytime. And guest presenters & hosts are most welcome if you have something you’d like to share! Full details on our SIG meetings (with the link to join), as well as those of the other SIGS, are on the Koha US calendar, http://koha-us.org/calendar/
The August General IRC meeting will be held the 5th of August 2020, 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The August Development IRC meeting will be held the 12th of August 2020, 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The August Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 13th August 2020, 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The July General IRC meeting was held the 17th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The July Development IRC meeting was held the 1st at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The July Documentation IRC meeting was held the 2nd at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.05.13. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
As always you can download the release from: https://download.koha-community.org
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
22 Jul 2020
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 20.05.02 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
Koha 20.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 17 enhancements, 25 bugfixes.
Koha is continuously tested against the following configurations and as such these are the recommendations for
deployment:
Additional notes:
Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy
This enhancement adds the OPAC cart download format options into the dropdown menu, rather than opening in a separate pop up window. (This also matches the behaviour in the staff interface.)
Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy
OpenSearch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch) allows you to search your library’s catalog directly from the browser address bar or search box. This fixes the OpenSearch feature so that it now works correctly in Firefox. Note: make sure OPACBaseURL is correctly set.
This fixes the OPAC’s MARC21 search results XSLT so that OPAC search result information is correctly labelled based on the OpacItemLocation preference.
Previously, search results showed the label “Location(s)” whether the
setting was “collection code” or “location.”
This updates the text on the cataloging main page so that in the menu for each search result the “Edit biblio” link is now “Edit record.”
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
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
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:
The release team for Koha 20.05.02 is
We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 20.05.02:
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.05.02.
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 20.05.02
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha.
We thank the following individuals who mentored new contributors to the Koha project.
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.
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 rmain2005.
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 22 Jul 2020 21:03:08.
22 Jul 2020
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.11.08. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
As always you can download the release from: https://download.koha-community.org
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
croseburgPosted on
Posted in 19.05, 19.11, 20.05, Announcements, Events, IRC Meetings, Koha, Koha News, Koha Newsletter, Koha Tips & Tricks, release, Release management, releases, security
Volume 11, Issue 6
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
Please submit news items to
by Jonathan Druart
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 20.05.01.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
Koha 20.05.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 11 enhancements, 48 bugfixes.
The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-01-released/
by Aleisha Amohia
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.07.
This is my first release as the 19.11.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.
Koha 19.11.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 enhancements, 48 bugfixes.
The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-07-released/
by Victor Grousset
The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 19.05.12.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
This is my first release as the 19.05.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. And in particular to those who helped me on the community IRC channel to solve the various issues and confusions that I encountered for my first release ever.
It includes 1 enhancement, 30 bugfixes.
The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-05-12-released/
Take a look at these new tutorials from PTFS Europe:
The team at ByWater Solutions has some great new tutorials for you:
From PTFS Europe
Our successful FEstival online conference on 3 June was attended by a large number of delegates from the UK Further Education sector interested in what Koha offers their libraries. Particularly enjoyed were sessions from existing Koha libraries, Leeds City College and City of Glasgow College. All sessions are available to view on the PTFS Europe YouTube channel.
From Equinox
The next #ChatOpenS date is July 15, 2020 from 12-1pm EDT. It’s for discussing topics relating to open source in libraries – all communities welcome.
by Heather Hernandez
The next Koha-US Cataloging SIG (Special In terest Group) round table will look at archives and Koha. Please bring your questions, tips, tricks, and let’s chat about catalog records for finding aids hosted elsewhere, finding aids hosted in Koha, value of finding aids, objects (not just paper collections), using MarcEdit, EAD/MARC conversion, and as usual, any other tips, tricks, topics, or questions! You don’t have to be a member of Koha-US to participate, nor do you have to be a cataloger! We often work in real, live, in production Koha catalogs, and are happy to try things out live–it’s loads of fun! So please join us on Thursday, July 2, 2020 @ 8am – 9am PT (9 MT/10 CT/11 ET in the United States). Can’t make it? No problem–it will be recorded and available on the Koha US YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV58VVGJH5V1wNHZqYpAfX7y1dU9eWTXq
More information on the Koha-US SIGs is here: http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ You can join via the “Join” button on this page, or email info@koha-us.org for assistance with joining any of the SIGs.
Upcoming topics of the Cataloging SIG meetings include MARC frameworks (August), Related formats (e.g. print/online) (September), Languages and record displays (October), Reports (November), Workarounds and documentation (December).
Please also feel free to address questions, tips, tricks, ideas for topics, etc. to the group or to me, heather_hernandez@nps.gov, via email at anytime. And guest presenters & hosts are most welcome if you have something you’d like to share! Full details on our SIG meetings, as well as those of the other SIGS, are on the Koha US calendar, http://koha-us.org/calendar/
The July General IRC meeting will be held the 17th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The July Development IRC meeting will be held the 1st at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The July Documentation IRC meeting was held the 2nd at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The June General IRC meeting was held the 17th at 15:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The June Development IRC meeting was held the 3rd at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
The June Documentation IRC meeting was held the 7th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is
here.
23 Jun 2020
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 19.05.12.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
This is my first release as the 19.05.x release maintainer. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. And in particular to those who helped me on the community IRC channel to solve the various issues and confusions that I encountered for my first release ever.
23 Jun 2020
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 20.05.01.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.
