Bibliotheca 1.8

Update to Bibliotheca.

It is a self hosted collection management tool. You can manage different types of collections and as many as you want. It comes with a default set of fields which define your collection entries.

Some features:

• Self hosted media management. Runs even on a raspberry (see requirements).
• Supports multiple collections. Eg. movies, games and music.
• Each collection has their own fields, which can freely be arranged to store the information needed for each entry.
• Multiple user accounts and rights on collection and each entry.
• Theme support.
• Export and import of everything, collection or only selective entries.
• Search within default field and advanced search in every field.
• Lightwight.

Update

Each release has its own file in the upgrade folder. Basic flow would be to extract the new release and copy over the following files and directories:

webclient/config/
webclient/lib/
webclient/view/
webclient/.htaccess
webclient/api.php
webclient/index.php

and follow the upgrade file(s).

In those files there are the steps needed to make an upgrade. If you upgrade multiple versions make sure to read all the files in the correct order. Within the upgrade files itself there is an order. Make sure to follow.

Why no automatic updates

Doing so, the process serving the application needs write access to the files. Which can be a security risk. Providing write access only to storage or temporary files and not the application files itself, it is more secure (there is no complete security). The downside are manual updates.

Changelog

1.8 - Dark Arena 2025-08-30
    * Config change: See upgrade/from-version-1.7.md
    * Updated requirements information. Mentions gd now, which should be a default setting for most PHP installs.
    * Fixed: Usage of default sorting in dashboard and collection view.
    * Updated to uikit-3.23.11
    * Upgrade information files are markdown files.
    * Updated PHP-IMDB-Grabber to https://github.com/FabianBeiner/PHP-IMDB-Grabber/tree/v6.2.6
        with some heavy modifications.

Download

Download: 1.8 - The Ceremonial Chambers 2025-08-30, Checksum sha1

Further information

More information about bibliotheca can be found here.

Want to contribute? Project also on Github as a mirror.