# RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.11.15

22 Apr 2026

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 24.11.15 can be downloaded from:

- Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 24.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 2 enhancements, 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

- 34000 Don't allow auto-generated cardnumbers to be re-used, it may give access of services to the next patron created
- 42136 User-entered Template::Toolkit allows information disclosure
- 42252 Stored XSS when deleting a list or removing a list share
- 42253 Stored XSS in advanced editor in Macro name
- 42254 DOM XSS via tag search

## Bugfixes

## Enhancements

### Continuous Integration

#### Enhancements

- 41368 Tools/ManageMarcImport_spec.ts is failing

  > 26.05.00

## New system preferences

- autoMemberNumValue

## Documentation

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

- Koha Documentation As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

- English (USA)

- French (80%)
- German (89%)
- Greek (93%)
- Hindi (63%)

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

- Koha Git Repository

## Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:

- Arabic (ar_ARAB) (95%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Simplified Han script) (86%) - Chinese (Traditional Han script) (99%) - Czech (68%) - Dutch (88%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (63%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (100%) - French (Canada) (99%) - German (100%) - Greek (67%) - Hindi (97%) - Italian (83%) - Norwegian Bokmål (73%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (96%) - Polish (99%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (94%) - Slovak (61%) - Spanish (99%) - Swedish (88%) - Telugu (67%) - Tetum (52%) - Turkish (83%) - Ukrainian (76%) - Western Armenian (hyw_ARMN) (62%)

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 24.11.15 is

- Release Manager: Lucas Gass

- QA Manager: Martin Renvoize

- QA Team:

  - Marcel de Rooy
  - Martin Renvoize
  - Jonathan Druart
  - Laura Escamilla
  - Lucas Gass
  - Tomás Cohen Arazi
  - Lisette Scheer
  - Nick Clemens
  - Paul Derscheid
  - Emily Lamancusa
  - David Cook
  - Matt Blenkinsop
  - Andrew Fuerste-Henry
  - Brendan Lawlor
  - Pedro Amorim
  - Kyle M Hall
  - Aleisha Amohia
  - David Nind
  - Baptiste Wojtkowski
  - Jan Kissig
  - Katrin Fischer
  - Thomas Klausner
  - Julian Maurice
  - Owen Leonard

- Documentation Manager: David Nind

- Documentation Team:

  - Philip Orr
  - Aude Charillon
  - Caroline Cyr La Rose

- Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart

- Wiki curators:

  - George Williams
  - Thomas Dukleth

- Release Maintainers:

  - 25.11 -- Jacob O'Mara
  - 25.05 -- Laura Escamilla
  - 24.11 -- Fridolin Somers
  - 22.11 -- Wainui Witika-Park (Catalyst IT)

- Release Maintainer assistants:

  - 25.11 -- Chloé Zermatten
  - 24.11 -- Baptiste Wojtkowski
  - 22.11 -- Alex Buckley & Aleisha Amohia

## Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.15

- David Cook (3) - Jonathan Druart (4) - Lucas Gass (1) - Jacob O'Mara (3) - Martin Renvoize (4) - Marcel de Rooy (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.15

- [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (1) - Koha Community Developers (4) - [OpenFifth](https://openfifth.co.uk) (7) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (3) - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (1)

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

- Nick Clemens (1) - David Cook (3) - Jonathan Druart (1) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3) - Lucas Gass (1) - Brendan Lawlor (1) - David Nind (1) - Jacob O'Mara (13) - Phil Ringnalda (2) - 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 24.11.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 22 Apr 2026 19:35:08.