RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.16

04 Dec 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 Community

Koha 24.05.16 can be downloaded from:

Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha Wiki
OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 24.05.16 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 4 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

35830 Add separate permission for Merging Patrons

Sponsored by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing
40524 Stored XSS run by DataTables Print button in staff interface

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

40525 CSV formula injection - client side (DataTables) in OPAC
40818 marc_lib is mostly used raw in templates

Documentation

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

Koha Documentation

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

Koha Git Repository

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

Koha Translation Info

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:

Koha Translate List

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 24.05.16 is

Release Manager:

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.05.16

- [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org)

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.16

- David Cook (2) - Jonathan Druart (1) - Lucas Gass (1) - Brendan Lawlor (1) - Jesse Maseto (4) - Fridolin Somers (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.16

- [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (1) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (5) - [Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing](https://info.clamsnet.org) (1) - Koha Community Developers (1) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (2)

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

- David Cook (2) - Paul Derscheid (2) - Brendan Lawlor (1) - Owen Leonard (1) - Jesse Maseto (5) - Marcel de Rooy (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:

Koha Git Repository

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:

Koha Bugzilla

He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 04 Dec 2025 09:16:29.