RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.02

25 Jul 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 24.05.02 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 24.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 6 security fixes, 6 enhancements, and 91 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

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

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

Other bugs fixed

Developer documentation

Other bugs fixed

ERM

Other bugs fixed

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

ILL

Other bugs fixed

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

Label/patron card printing

Critical bugs fixed

Notices

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

REST API

Other bugs fixed

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

Searching

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Self checkout

Other bugs fixed

Serials

Critical 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

Transaction logs

Other bugs fixed

Enhancements

Cataloging

Enhancements

OPAC

Enhancements

REST API

Enhancements

Staff interface

Enhancements

Templates

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:

- Arabic (ar_ARAB) (98%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Traditional) (89%) - Czech (69%) - Dutch (76%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (63%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (99%) - French (Canada) (96%) - German (100%) - German (Switzerland) (51%) - Greek (57%) - Hindi (99%) - Italian (83%) - Norwegian Bokmål (76%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (94%) - Polish (98%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (91%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (91%) - Slovak (60%) - Spanish (99%) - Swedish (87%) - Telugu (69%) - Turkish (80%) - Ukrainian (72%) - 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 24.05.02 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.02

- Athens County Public Libraries - National Library of Greece

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.02

- Pedro Amorim (9) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (8) - Matt Blenkinsop (9) - Phan Tung Bui (1) - Nick Clemens (8) - David Cook (7) - Chris Cormack (1) - Jonathan Druart (4) - Marion Durand (1) - Katrin Fischer (1) - Matthias Le Gac (1) - Eric Garcia (1) - Lucas Gass (11) - Victor Grousset (1) - Kyle M Hall (5) - Andreas Jonsson (1) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Jan Kissig (1) - Denys Konovalov (1) - Emily Lamancusa (6) - Sam Lau (3) - Laurae (1) - Brendan Lawlor (3) - Owen Leonard (11) - Julian Maurice (3) - David Nind (8) - Andrew Nugged (1) - Martin Renvoize (22) - Phil Ringnalda (14) - Adolfo Rodríguez (1) - Marcel de Rooy (4) - Fridolin Somers (3) - Lari Strand (2) - Emmi Takkinen (1) - George Veranis (1) - Hammat Wele (3) - Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.02

- Athens County Public Libraries (11) - [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (8) - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (1) - BigBallOfWax (1) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (25) - [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org) (3) - Chetco Community Public Library (14) - [Dataly Tech](https://dataly.gr) (1) - David Nind (8) - denyskon.de (1) - Independant Individuals (6) - Koha Community Developers (5) - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) (3) - Kreablo AB (1) - [Montgomery County Public Libraries](montgomerycountymd.gov) (6) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (7) - [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (40) - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (4) - [Solutions inLibro inc](https://inlibro.com) (5) - [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (8) - Wildau University of Technology (1) - [Xercode](https://xebook.es) (1)

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

- Aleisha Amohia (3) - Pedro Amorim (5) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (8) - Matt Blenkinsop (14) - Nick Clemens (28) - Chris Cormack (10) - Roman Dolny (1) - Jonathan Druart (17) - Magnus Enger (1) - Laura Escamilla (1) - Katrin Fischer (78) - Eric Garcia (4) - Lucas Gass (168) - Victor Grousset (1) - Kyle M Hall (3) - Jan Kissig (1) - Emily Lamancusa (16) - Sam Lau (8) - Brendan Lawlor (2) - Owen Leonard (7) - CJ Lynce (1) - Julian Maurice (3) - David Nind (41) - Martin Renvoize (70) - Phil Ringnalda (1) - Marcel de Rooy (9) - Michaela Sieber (1) - Tadeusz „tadzik” Sośnierz (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 25 Jul 2024 17:23:39.