RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.11.12
26 Feb 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 23.11.12 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 23.11.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 enhancements, 2 bugfixes and 11 security fixes.
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
- 38680 [24.05.x] copyno not copied over when set in MarcItemFieldsToOrder system preference
ERM
Other bugs fixed
- 37810 Some SUSHI providers return ServiceActive instead of Service_Active
Fines and fees
Other bugs fixed
- 28097 t/db_dependent/Koha/Account/Line.t test fails with FinesMode set to calculate
Enhancements
Test Suite
Enhancements
- 39007 Add last_audit to the sushi_service API spec
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 (Simplified) (89%)
- Chinese (Traditional) (99%)
- Czech (70%)
- Dutch (88%)
- English (100%)
- English (New Zealand) (64%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (99%)
- French (100%)
- French (Canada) (99%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (52%)
- Greek (66%)
- Hindi (99%)
- Italian (84%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (76%)
- Persian (fa_ARAB) (98%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
- Russian (95%)
- Slovak (62%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (87%)
- Telugu (70%)
- Tetum (52%)
- Turkish (85%)
- 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 23.11.12 is
Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
Release Manager assistants:
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Martin Renvoize
- Jonathan Druart
QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
QA Team:
- Victor Grousset
- Lisette Scheer
- Emily Lamancusa
- David Cook
- Jonathan Druart
- Julian Maurice
- Baptiste Wojtowski
- Paul Derscheid
- Aleisha Amohia
- Laura Escamilla
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Kyle M Hall
- Nick Clemens
- Lucas Gass
- Marcel de Rooy
- Matt Blenkinsop
- Pedro Amorim
- Brendan Lawlor
- Thomas Klausner
Security Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
Bug Wranglers:
- Michaela Sieber
- Jacob O'Mara
- Jake Deery
Packaging Manager: Mason James
Documentation Manager: Philip Orr
Documentation Team:
- Aude Charillon
- David Nind
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
Wiki curators:
- George Williams
- Thomas Dukleth
- Jonathan Druart
- Martin Renvoize
Release Maintainers:
- 24.11 -- Paul Derscheid
- 24.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park
- 23.11 -- Fridolin Somers
- 22.11 -- Laura Escamilla
Credits
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 23.11.12
- Chetco Community Public Library
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.11.12
- Pedro Amorim (2)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (3)
- Matt Blenkinsop (2)
- Nick Clemens (1)
- David Cook (4)
- Jonathan Druart (8)
- Magnus Enger (1)
- Lucas Gass (1)
- Julian Maurice (1)
- Phil Ringnalda (3)
- Marcel de Rooy (3)
- Fridolin Somers (2)
- Lari Taskula (9)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 23.11.12
- [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (3)
- [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (2)
- Chetco Community Public Library (3)
- [Hypernova Oy](https://www.hypernova.fi) (9)
- Koha Community Developers (8)
- [Libriotech](https://libriotech.no) (1)
- [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (4)
- [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (4)
- Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (3)
- [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (3)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
- Alex Buckley (29)
- Nick Clemens (2)
- David Cook (1)
- Paul Derscheid (1)
- Jonathan Druart (5)
- Magnus Enger (11)
- Victor Grousset (15)
- Emily Lamancusa (1)
- Brendan Lawlor (2)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Julian Maurice (4)
- David Nind (2)
- Martin Renvoize (6)
- Phil Ringnalda (2)
- Marcel de Rooy (19)
- Fridolin Somers (38)
- wainuiwitikapark (8)
- Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)
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 26 Feb 2025 13:09:09.