RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.05

07 Nov 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 24.05.05 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 24.05.05 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 28 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

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Fines and fees

Other bugs fixed

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Critical bugs fixed

MARC Authority data support

Other bugs fixed

Notices

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

Reports

Critical bugs fixed

Searching

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

Enhancements

Staff interface

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 (Simplified) (88%) - Chinese (Traditional) (90%) - Czech (69%) - Dutch (87%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (63%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (99%) - French (Canada) (99%) - German (99%) - German (Switzerland) (51%) - Greek (58%) - Hindi (99%) - Italian (83%) - Norwegian Bokmål (76%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (96%) - Polish (99%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (94%) - Slovak (61%) - Spanish (99%) - 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 24.05.05 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.05

- Athens County Public Libraries - Chetco Community Public Library - KillerRabbitAos - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) - Whanganui District Council

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.05

- Aleisha Amohia (1) - Pedro Amorim (3) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (4) - Artur (1) - Nick Clemens (8) - David Cook (1) - Paul Derscheid (1) - Jonathan Druart (4) - Magnus Enger (1) - Lucas Gass (4) - Kyle M Hall (4) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Emily Lamancusa (1) - Brendan Lawlor (1) - Owen Leonard (3) - Phil Ringnalda (6) - Emmi Takkinen (1) - Lari Taskula (1) - Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.05

- Athens County Public Libraries (3) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (16) - [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org) (1) - Catalyst Open Source Academy (1) - Chetco Community Public Library (6) - [Hypernova Oy](https://www.hypernova.fi) (1) - Independant Individuals (2) - Koha Community Developers (4) - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) (1) - laposte.net (1) - [Libriotech](https://libriotech.no) (1) - [LMSCloud](lmscloud.de) (1) - [Montgomery County Public Libraries](montgomerycountymd.gov) (1) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1) - [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (3) - [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (4)

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

- Aleisha Amohia (2) - Pedro Amorim (1) - andrewa (2) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (2) - Sukhmandeep Benipal (1) - Matt Blenkinsop (2) - Sonia Bouis (1) - Nick Clemens (3) - Chris Cormack (3) - Ray Delahunty (2) - Paul Derscheid (1) - Roman Dolny (1) - Jonathan Druart (9) - Magnus Enger (1) - Katrin Fischer (32) - Eric Garcia (1) - Lucas Gass (44) - Victor Grousset (4) - Bo Gustavsson (1) - Kyle M Hall (3) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Jan Kissig (1) - Emily Lamancusa (4) - Brendan Lawlor (5) - Julian Maurice (1) - David Nind (6) - Martin Renvoize (10) - Phil Ringnalda (4) - Jason Robb (1) - Marcel de Rooy (5) - Emmi Takkinen (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 07 Nov 2024 23:14:30.