RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.11.28

25 Jun 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 22.11.28 can be downloaded from:

Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.11.28 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 10 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

35629 Redundant code in includes/patron-search.inc
35702 Reduce DB calls when performing authorities merge

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

24424 Advanced editor - interface hangs as "Loading" when given an invalid bib number

Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

34091 Typo in help for cleanupdatabase.pl: --log-modules needs to be --log-module

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

35489 Holds on items with no barcode are missing an input for itemnumber

Notices

Critical bugs fixed

39184 Server-side template injection leading to remote code execution

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

25835 Include overdue report (under circulation module) as a staff permission
38772 Typo 'minPasswordPreference' system preference

This fixes a typo in the code for OPAC password recovery - 'minPasswordPreference' to 'minPasswordLength' (the correct system preference name). It has no noticeable effect on resetting an account password from the OPAC.

REST API

Other bugs fixed

32551 API requests don't carry language related information

Tools

Other bugs fixed

35438 Importing records can create too large transactions

Enhancements

Database

Enhancements

31143 We should attempt to fix/identify all cases where '0000-00-00' may still remain in the database
This enhancement:
1. Updates the misc/maintenance/search_for_data_inconsistencies.pl script so that it identifies any date fields that have 0000-00-00 values.
2. Adds a new script misc/maintenance/fix_invalid_dates.pl that fixes any date fields that have '0000-00-00' values (for example: dateofbirth) by updating them to 'NULL'.
Patron, item, and other date fields with a value of '000-00-00' can cause errors. This includes: - API errors - stopping the patron autocomplete search working - generating a 500 internal server error: . for normal patron searching . when displaying item data in the holdings table

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 (73%)
German (98%)
Greek (100%)
Hindi (70%)

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) (90%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Simplified Han script) (96%) - Chinese (Traditional Han script) (83%) - Czech (72%) - Dutch (89%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (70%) - English (USA) - English (United Kingdom) (99%) - Finnish (96%) - French (100%) - French (Canada) (96%) - German (100%) - German (Switzerland) (56%) - Greek (72%) - Hindi (99%) - Italian (92%) - Norwegian Bokmål (69%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (77%) - Polish (100%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (94%) - Slovak (68%) - Spanish (100%) - Swedish (88%) - Telugu (78%) - Tetum (54%) - Turkish (91%) - Ukrainian (79%) - Western Armenian (hyw_ARMN) (70%)

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 22.11.28 is

Release Manager:

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 22.11.28

- Ignatianum University in Cracow

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.11.28

- Pedro Amorim (2) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (2) - Nick Clemens (5) - David Cook (1) - Paul Derscheid (2) - Roman Dolny (1) - Kyle M Hall (2) - Andrew Fuerste Henry (1) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Fridolin Somers (1) - wainuiwitikapark (2) - Wainui Witika-Park (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 22.11.28

- [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (1) - [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (7) - [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (3) - Dubuque County Library District (1) - Independant Individuals (1) - [Jezuici, Poland](https://jezuici.pl/) (1) - [LMSCloud](https://www.lmscloud.de) (2) - [Open Fifth](https://openfifth.co.uk/) (2) - [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1) - [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (2)

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

- Nick Clemens (6) - Paul Derscheid (1) - Jonathan Druart (2) - Magnus Enger (1) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1) - Lucas Gass (1) - Victor Grousset (2) - Owen Leonard (1) - Jesse Maseto (1) - David Nind (8) - Martin Renvoize (1) - Marcel de Rooy (3) - wainuiwitikapark (15) - Shi Yao Wang (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 22.11.x.

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 25 Jun 2025 07:33:34.