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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 19.11.17
26 Apr 2021
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 19.11.17 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 19.11.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 bugfixes.
System requirements
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) for running Koha here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations
Critical bugs fixed
Patrons
- [26517] Avoid deleting patrons with permission
Other bugs fixed
System Administration
- [27798] Independent branches should have a warning
Documentation
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
Translations
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:
- Arabic (98%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (100%)
- Basque (55.7%)
- Catalan; Valencian (50.5%)
- Chinese (China) (56.9%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (98.6%)
- Czech (90.8%)
- English (New Zealand) (78.3%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (74.2%)
- French (99.5%)
- French (Canada) (93.8%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (80.8%)
- Greek (71.2%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (87%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (85.5%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (83.3%)
- Occitan (post 1500) (53%)
- Polish (85.4%)
- Portuguese (99.4%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (100%)
- Slovak (83.1%)
- Spanish (99.7%)
- Swedish (85%)
- Telugu (100%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (74.5%)
- Vietnamese (51.5%)
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:
Release Team
The release team for Koha 19.11.17 is
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Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
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Release Manager assistants:
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
- David Cook
- Agustín Moyano
- Martin Renvoize
- Marcel de Rooy
- Joonas Kylmälä
- Julian Maurice
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Josef Moravec
- Nick Clemens
- Kyle Hall
- Victor Grousset
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Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
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Bug Wranglers:
- Amit Gupta
- Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
- Indranil Das Gupta
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Packaging Managers:
- David Cook
- Mason James
- Agustín Moyano
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Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose
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Documentation Team:
- Marie-Luce Laflamme
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Henry Bolshaw
- David Nind
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Translation Managers:
- Indranil Das Gupta
- Bernardo González Kriegel
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Release Maintainers:
- 20.11 -- Fridolin Somers
- 20.05 -- Andrew Fuerste-Henry
- 19.11 -- Victor Grousset
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.17.
- Victor Grousset (2)
- Kyle M Hall (1)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Koha Translators (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 19.11.17
- BibLibre (2)
- ByWater-Solutions (1)
- Koha Community Developers (2)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha.
- Nick Clemens (2)
- Jonathan Druart (3)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
- Victor Grousset (3)
- David Nind (3)
- Marcel de Rooy (1)
- Fridolin Somers (1)
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.
Revision control notes
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 19.11.x.
Bugs and feature requests
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 26 Apr 2021 17:44:15.