RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.11.06

11 Jun 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 23.11.06 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 23.11.06 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 36 enhancements, 162 bugfixes with 4 security.

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

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Authentication

Other bugs fixed

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Command-line Utilities

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Database

Other bugs fixed

ERM

Other bugs fixed

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

ILL

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

MARC Authority data support

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

MARC Bibliographic data support

Other bugs fixed

Notices

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Preservation

Other bugs fixed

REST API

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Reports

Other bugs fixed

SIP2

Other bugs fixed

Searching

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Zebra

Other bugs fixed

Self checkout

Other bugs fixed

Serials

Other bugs fixed

Staff interface

Other bugs fixed

System Administration

Other bugs fixed

Templates

Other bugs fixed

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

Tools

Other bugs fixed

Web services

Other bugs fixed

Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers

Other bugs fixed

translate.koha-community.org

Other bugs fixed

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

Cataloging

Enhancements

Circulation

Enhancements

Command-line Utilities

Enhancements

Hold requests

Enhancements

MARC Authority data support

Enhancements

OPAC

Enhancements

Patrons

Enhancements

REST API

Enhancements

Reports

Enhancements

SIP2

Enhancements

Searching - Elasticsearch

Enhancements

Searching - Zebra

Enhancements

Staff interface

Enhancements

Templates

Enhancements

Test Suite

Enhancements

New system preferences

Deleted system preferences

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) (99%) - Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%) - Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%) - Chinese (Traditional) (91%) - Czech (69%) - Dutch (77%) - English (100%) - English (New Zealand) (64%) - English (USA) - Finnish (99%) - French (99%) - French (Canada) (96%) - German (99%) - German (Switzerland) (52%) - Greek (52%) - Hindi (99%) - Italian (84%) - Norwegian Bokmål (76%) - Persian (fa_ARAB) (92%) - Polish (99%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (92%) - Portuguese (Portugal) (88%) - Russian (92%) - Slovak (62%) - Spanish (100%) - Swedish (87%) - Telugu (70%) - Turkish (81%) - Ukrainian (74%) - hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (65%)

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 23.11.06 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 23.11.06

- Auckland University of Technology - Education Services Australia SCIS - HKS3 / koha-support.eu - Ignatianum University in Cracow - [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) - Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association (KIT) - Écoles nationales supérieure d'architecture (ENSA)

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.11.06

- Aleisha Amohia (2) - Pedro Amorim (19) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (19) - Alex Arnaud (1) - Stefan Berndtsson (1) - Matt Blenkinsop (9) - Jérémy Breuillard (1) - Phan Tung Bui (2) - Nick Clemens (48) - David Cook (1) - Chris Cormack (2) - Jonathan Druart (35) - Magnus Enger (2) - Laura Escamilla (3) - Katrin Fischer (16) - Matthias Le Gac (3) - Lucas Gass (16) - Victor Grousset (2) - Thibaud Guillot (5) - David Gustafsson (2) - Kyle M Hall (7) - Andreas Jonsson (1) - Janusz Kaczmarek (17) - Jan Kissig (2) - Thomas Klausner (2) - Emily Lamancusa (9) - Brendan Lawlor (4) - Owen Leonard (9) - Julian Maurice (7) - David Nind (1) - Philip Orr (1) - Katariina Pohto (2) - Liz Rea (1) - Martin Renvoize (30) - Phil Ringnalda (4) - Marcel de Rooy (22) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (3) - Andreas Roussos (1) - Danyon Sewell (1) - Fridolin Somers (15) - Lari Strand (1) - Emmi Takkinen (4) - Hammat Wele (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 23.11.06

- Athens County Public Libraries (9) - BibLibre (29) - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (16) - BigBallOfWax (2) - ByWater-Solutions (75) - Catalyst (1) - Catalyst Open Source Academy (2) - Chetco Community Public Library (4) - clamsnet.org (4) - Dataly Tech (1) - David Nind (1) - Göteborgs Universitet (2) - Independant Individuals (21) - Koha Community Developers (37) - Koha-Suomi (6) - Kreablo AB (1) - Libriotech (2) - lmscloud.de (1) - montgomerycountymd.gov (9) - Prosentient Systems (1) - PTFS-Europe (58) - Rijksmuseum (22) - Solutions inLibro inc (9) - th-wildau.de (2) - Theke Solutions (19)

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

- Michael Adamyk (1) - Hebah Amin-Headley (1) - Pedro Amorim (26) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (12) - BabaJaga (1) - Donna Bachowski (1) - Baptiste Bayche (1) - Matt Blenkinsop (9) - Christopher Brannon (1) - Nick Clemens (56) - Chris Cormack (2) - Ray Delahunty (1) - Frédéric Demians (3) - Paul Derscheid (2) - Roman Dolny (12) - Jonathan Druart (17) - Laura Escamilla (6) - Jonathan Field (1) - Katrin Fischer (295) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (9) - Matthias Le Gac (1) - Lucas Gass (22) - Victor Grousset (27) - Amit Gupta (2) - Kyle M Hall (20) - Sally Healey (2) - Barbara Johnson (1) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Sabrina Kiehl (1) - Kristi Krueger (1) - Emily Lamancusa (17) - Brendan Lawlor (4) - Owen Leonard (17) - Esther Melander (3) - David Nind (70) - Martin Renvoize (58) - Phil Ringnalda (2) - Marcel de Rooy (51) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (12) - Fridolin Somers (317) - Tadeusz Sośnierz (2) - Michelle Spinney (2) - Myka Kennedy Stephens (1) - Anneli Österman (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 23.11.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 11 Jun 2024 07:02:05.