RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.06

06 Jan 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 24.05.06 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 24.05.06 is a bugfix/maintenance and security release.

It includes 5 enhancements, 251 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

Authentication

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

Hold requests

Other bugs fixed

Holidays

Critical bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

ILL

Other bugs fixed

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Other bugs fixed

Label/patron card printing

Other bugs fixed

Lists

Other bugs fixed

MARC Authority data support

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

MARC Bibliographic data support

Other bugs fixed

Notices

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Plugin architecture

Critical bugs fixed

REST API

Other bugs fixed

Reports

Other bugs fixed

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

Searching

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Self checkout

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

Other bugs fixed

Web services

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Enhancements

Database

Enhancements

ERM

Enhancements

MARC Bibliographic data support

Enhancements

SIP2

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) (97%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Simplified) (88%) - Chinese (Traditional) (89%) - Czech (68%) - Dutch (87%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (63%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (99%) - French (Canada) (99%) - German (100%) - Greek (58%) - Hindi (98%) - Italian (82%) - Norwegian Bokmål (75%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (97%) - Polish (100%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (94%) - Slovak (61%) - Spanish (100%) - Swedish (87%) - Telugu (69%) - Turkish (82%) - Ukrainian (72%) - hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (63%)

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 24.05.06 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.06

- Athens County Public Libraries - [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) - Chetco Community Public Library - Education Services Australia SCIS - Ignatianum University in Cracow - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) - [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) - Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand - Westlake Porter Public Library - kohawbibliotece.pl

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.06

- Aleisha Amohia (6) - Pedro Amorim (38) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (16) - Noémie Ariste (1) - Oliver Behnke (1) - Matt Blenkinsop (11) - Alex Buckley (3) - Kevin Carnes (1) - Nick Clemens (42) - David Cook (21) - Paul Derscheid (7) - Jonathan Druart (43) - Michał Dudzik (1) - Magnus Enger (3) - Laura Escamilla (1) - Eugene Jose Espinoza (1) - Katrin Fischer (5) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (2) - Eric Garcia (4) - Lucas Gass (27) - Didier Gautheron (1) - Thibaud Guillot (1) - Bo Gustavsson (1) - Kyle M Hall (10) - Andrew Fuerste Henry (3) - Mason James (2) - Andreas Jonsson (2) - Janusz Kaczmarek (14) - Jan Kissig (8) - Thomas Klausner (1) - Michał Kula (1) - Emily Lamancusa (7) - Sam Lau (5) - Brendan Lawlor (1) - Owen Leonard (26) - Yanjun Li (2) - CJ Lynce (1) - Julian Maurice (7) - Matthias Meusburger (1) - David Nind (2) - Alexandre Noel (2) - Andrew Nugged (1) - Katariina Pohto (1) - Martin Renvoize (14) - Phil Ringnalda (23) - Adolfo Rodríguez (2) - Marcel de Rooy (7) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (5) - Johanna Räisä (2) - Fridolin Somers (7) - Catalyst Bug Squasher (1) - Lari Strand (1) - Raphael Straub (2) - Emmi Takkinen (6) - Lari Taskula (3) - Petro Vashchuk (1) - George Veranis (1) - Hinemoea Viault (1) - wainuiwitikapark (5) - Hammat Wele (4) - Wainui Witika-Park (8) - Baptiste Wojtkowski (6) - Chloe Zermatten (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.06

- Athens County Public Libraries (26) - [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (21) - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (5) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (85) - [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org) (1) - [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (19) - Catalyst Open Source Academy (5) - Chetco Community Public Library (23) - [Dataly Tech](https://dataly.gr) (1) - David Nind (2) - Dubuque County Library District (2) - gustavsson.one (1) - [Hypernova Oy](https://www.hypernova.fi) (3) - Independant Individuals (30) - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2) - Koha Community Developers (43) - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) (8) - KohaAloha (2) - kohawbibliotece.pl (1) - Kreablo AB (2) - laposte.net (2) - [Libriotech](https://libriotech.no) (3) - [LMSCloud](lmscloud.de) (7) - Lund University Library, Sweden (1) - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (1) - [Montgomery County Public Libraries](montgomerycountymd.gov) (7) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (21) - [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (64) - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (7) - [Solutions inLibro inc](https://inlibro.com) (12) - [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (16) - westlakelibrary.org (1) - Wildau University of Technology (8) - [Xercode](https://xebook.es) (2)

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

- Alyssa (1) - Aleisha Amohia (11) - Pedro Amorim (23) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (13) - Sukhmandeep Benipal (6) - Catrina Berka (1) - Matt Blenkinsop (8) - Philippe Blouin (1) - Sonia Bouis (2) - Alex Buckley (1) - Nick Clemens (19) - David Cook (6) - Chris Cormack (15) - Jake Deery (2) - Paul Derscheid (28) - Roman Dolny (24) - Jonathan Druart (24) - Magnus Enger (5) - Laura Escamilla (4) - Katrin Fischer (367) - Eric Garcia (1) - Lucas Gass (403) - Victor Grousset (7) - Kyle M Hall (12) - Olivier Hubert (1) - Thomas Klausner (6) - Kristi Krueger (2) - Michał Kula (1) - Emily Lamancusa (16) - Sam Lau (6) - Laura_Escamilla (2) - Brendan Lawlor (16) - Owen Leonard (14) - Yanjun Li (3) - Lucas (1) - CJ Lynce (3) - Martha (1) - Jesse Maseto (1) - Julian Maurice (6) - Kelly McElligott (1) - Esther Melander (1) - David Nind (112) - Laura ONeil (1) - Eric Phetteplace (1) - Hannah Prince (1) - Martin Renvoize (129) - Riomar Resurreccion (1) - Phil Ringnalda (29) - Marcel de Rooy (34) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (8) - Michaela Sieber (1) - Fridolin Somers (1) - Sam Sowanick (7) - Tadeusz „tadzik” Sośnierz (1) - Michelle Spinney (2) - Emmi Takkinen (4) - Olivier V (15) - Loïc Vassaux-Artur (1) - Olivier Vezina (1) - wainuiwitikapark (15) - Shi Yao Wang (4) - Baptiste Wojtkowski (6) - Chloe Zermatten (2) - Anneli Österman (5)

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 06 Jan 2025 05:02:40.