How often do upgrades happen to Koha?
One final question... on average, how frequently is Koha updated (so I can determine support requirements if we have to move to Red Hat as opposed to Debian)? It looks from the schedule I see that every month there is an update. Is that true? As we mentioned in previous thread, our Corporate IT support will only support Red Hat so if I only need to update every 6 months or over, then that would be fine to have them support for that long interval. We are also looking at a hosted solution.... Thanks again for your time and patience! David W. Hartman
Koha has minor updates every month and major updates every 6 months. Minor updates include bug fixes and small changes. Major updates have new features and enhancements. Nicole On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library < David.W.Hartman@disney.com> wrote:
One final question... on average, how frequently is Koha updated (so I can determine support requirements if we have to move to Red Hat as opposed to Debian)?
It looks from the schedule I see that every month there is an update. Is that true? As we mentioned in previous thread, our Corporate IT support will only support Red Hat so if I only need to update every 6 months or over, then that would be fine to have them support for that long interval.
We are also looking at a hosted solution.... Thanks again for your time and patience!
David W. Hartman
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Greetings,
One final question... on average, how frequently is Koha updated (so I can determine support requirements if we have to move to Red Hat as opposed to Debian)?
Roughly, every month is a BUG fix, no enhancements are added, as far as I understand. Every 6 months is a new version, enhancements that were held back and are tested and Q/A make it in plus bug fixes. I do not believe you have to update every month (unless you find something fixed that you are encountering), and you may even be able to get along nicely skipping a new version (unless that new fangled enhancement is just a necessity you can't live without). Annual updates keep you from falling too far behind and keep your system administration needs to a minimum. Though under debian-based OS'es, two or three commands monthly isn't so bad. ;) GPML, Mark Tompsett
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