RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.08

24 Mar 2025

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 24.05.08 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 24.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 14 bugfixes and 2 security fixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

Bugfixes

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

Circulation

Other bugs fixed

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

MARC Bibliographic data support

Critical bugs fixed

Packaging

Other bugs fixed

REST API

Other bugs fixed

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

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:

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 24.05.08 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.08

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.08

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.08

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

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.

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 24 Mar 2025 08:05:00.