RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.04

02 Oct 2024

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 24.05.04 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 24.05.04 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 7 security fixes and 92 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Security bugs

Bugfixes

About

Other bugs fixed

Accessibility

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Command-line Utilities

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Course reserves

Other bugs fixed

Database

Other bugs fixed

ERM

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Critical bugs fixed

ILL

Critical bugs fixed

Label/patron card printing

Critical bugs fixed

Lists

Other bugs fixed

MARC Authority data support

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Point of Sale

Other bugs fixed

REST API

Other bugs fixed

Reports

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Serials

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Templates

Other bugs fixed

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is

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 (ar_ARAB) (98%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Simplified) (88%) - Chinese (Traditional) (90%) - Czech (69%) - Dutch (83%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (63%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (99%) - French (Canada) (99%) - German (99%) - German (Switzerland) (51%) - Greek (57%) - Hindi (99%) - Italian (83%) - Norwegian Bokmål (76%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (94%) - Polish (99%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (93%) - Slovak (61%) - Spanish (100%) - Swedish (87%) - Telugu (69%) - Turkish (82%) - Ukrainian (73%) - hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (64%)

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 24.05.04 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.04

- Athens County Public Libraries - Chetco Community Public Library - Gothenburg University Library - Ignatianum University in Cracow - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) - Pymble Ladies' College - Reformational Study Centre - Westlake Porter Public Library

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.04

- Aleisha Amohia (1) - Pedro Amorim (9) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (7) - Matt Blenkinsop (7) - Rudolf Byker (1) - Nick Clemens (13) - David Cook (4) - Paul Derscheid (1) - Jonathan Druart (6) - Eric Garcia (5) - Lucas Gass (24) - Victor Grousset (2) - Thibaud Guillot (1) - David Gustafsson (1) - Kyle M Hall (4) - Mason James (1) - Andreas Jonsson (1) - Janusz Kaczmarek (2) - Jan Kissig (1) - Emily Lamancusa (3) - Sam Lau (6) - Laura_Escamilla (3) - Brendan Lawlor (4) - Owen Leonard (7) - CJ Lynce (4) - Julian Maurice (7) - Vicki McKay (1) - PerplexedTheta (2) - Martin Renvoize (19) - Phil Ringnalda (6) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (1) - Andreas Roussos (1) - Johanna Räisä (1) - Fridolin Somers (1) - Catalyst Bug Squasher (3) - Jennifer Sutton (1) - Emmi Takkinen (3) - Hammat Wele (1) - Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.04

- Athens County Public Libraries (7) - [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (9) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (44) - [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org) (4) - [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (5) - Catalyst Open Source Academy (1) - Chetco Community Public Library (6) - [Dataly Tech](https://dataly.gr) (1) - Göteborgs Universitet (1) - Independant Individuals (15) - Koha Community Developers (8) - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) (3) - KohaAloha (1) - Kreablo AB (1) - laposte.net (1) - llownd.net (2) - [LMSCloud](lmscloud.de) (1) - [Montgomery County Public Libraries](montgomerycountymd.gov) (3) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (4) - [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (35) - [Solutions inLibro inc](https://inlibro.com) (2) - [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (7) - westlakelibrary.org (4) - Wildau University of Technology (1)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha

- Belal Ahmadi (1) - Pedro Amorim (3) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (6) - Matt Blenkinsop (4) - Mary Blomley (1) - Nick Clemens (21) - David Cook (9) - Chris Cormack (2) - Jake Deery (3) - Paul Derscheid (5) - Roman Dolny (16) - Jonathan Druart (1) - Katrin Fischer (73) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1) - Eric Garcia (1) - Lucas Gass (146) - Victor Grousset (9) - Kyle M Hall (16) - Barbara Johnson (2) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Kelly (1) - Jan Kissig (1) - Emily Lamancusa (8) - Sam Lau (2) - Laura_Escamilla (3) - Brendan Lawlor (5) - Owen Leonard (10) - Julian Maurice (5) - David Nind (36) - Laura ONeil (1) - Hayley Pelham (3) - Martin Renvoize (76) - Phil Ringnalda (5) - Jason Robb (1) - Marcel de Rooy (37) - Johanna Räisä (1) - Michaela Sieber (1) - Sam Sowanick (1) - Emmi Takkinen (2) - Alexander Wagner (2)

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@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 main branch of:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 24.05.x-security.

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 02 Oct 2024 14:43:13.