25 Sep 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 24.11.09 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
Koha 24.11.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security bugs.
It includes 5 enhancements, 41 bugfixes (2 security).
System requirements
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.
This fixes the export option for the acquisition's late orders table (Acquisitions > Late orders). Export now works as expected - previously, a progress spinner was shown and the table data was not exported.
Fixes the "Manage bundle" feature broken by Bug 40127
40156 Advanced editor should not create empty fields and subfields
Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow
This fixes checking out, checking in, and renewing items for a patron where a guarantor is required, and they don't have one (where the ChildNeedsGuarantor system preference is enabled).
These actions are now completed correctly, and a warning message is now shown on the patron's page where a guarantor is required and they don't have one: "System preference 'ChildNeedsGuarantor' is enabled and this patron does not have a guarantor.".
Previously: - checking items in or out generated a 500 error message, even though the actions were successfully completed - attempting to renew items generated this message "Error: Internal Server Error" and the items were not renewed - no message was shown on the patron page warning that they needed a guarantor
This patchset fixes a problem where hold priority could be incorrectly updated depending on how the table is sorted on reserve/request.tt.
38412 Koha should warn when hold on bibliographic record requires hold policy override
Sponsored by BibLibre and Westlake Porter Public Library
This fixes the status message when a hold is cancelled on the patron's holds history page in the staff interface. It displayed "Cancelled(FIXME)", instead of the actual reason. (This is related to bug 35560 - Use the REST API for holds history, added in Koha 25.05.00 and 24.11.05.)
40488 "Public lists" breadcrumb link doesn't work when editing public list in staff interface
Fixes breadcrumb link when editing public lists in staff interface.
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
This fixes the terminology used in the overdue notice (ODUE) to change 'branch' to 'library': "Please return or renew your overdue items at the library as soon as possible.".
Note: The notice is not automatically updated for existing installations. Update the notice manually to change the wording if required, or replace the default notice using "View default" and "Copy to template" if you have not customized the notice.
40540 OPAC generates warnings in logs when no results are found
Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow
40590 OPACAuthorIdentifiersAndInformation shows empty list elements for unknown 024$2
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
This fixes the default UNIMARC XSLT files so that the AuthorLinkSortBy and AuthorLinkSortOrder system preferences now work with UNIMARC, not just MARC21.
A note was also added to the system preference for those that use custom XSLT (for OPACXSLTDetailsDisplay, OPACXSLTResultsDisplay, XSLTDetailsDisplay, and XSLTResultsDisplay) - they need to update their templates to support these features for both MARC21 and UNIMARC.
(These preferences were added in Koha 23.11 by Bug 33217 - Allow different default sorting when click author links, but only the default XSLT files for MARC21 were updated.)
40081 textareas appear to now be fixed width
This fixes OPAC and staff interface forms with text area fields. You can now adjust the size both vertically and horizontally - after the Bootstrap 5 upgrade you could only adjust the size vertically. (This is related to the OPAC and staff interface Bootstrap 5 upgrade in Koha 24.11.)
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
This fixes a spelling error in the class name on the reports home page in the staff interface: "rep_dictonary" to "rep_dictionary".
40114 Can't select new library when editing a desk
This patch fixes a problem that made it impossible to select a new library/branch when editing a desk from Administration -> Desks.
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
38964 Fix column span in footer of staff interface account payment page
This fixes an alignment problem on the 'Make a payment' screen where the table footer had an inconsistent number of columns.
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
40222 Bootstrap popover components not updated for BS5
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
40413 Patron list input missing "Required" label
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
40451 Link patron restriction types to correct section in manual
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
This fixes adding or removing items to a rotating collection (Tools > Patrons and circulation > Rotating collections). If a barcode has a space before it, it is now ignored instead of generating an error message.
It is now possible to export any basket to CSV, even the closed ones or those linked to a group.
This enhancement adds an ID to the "Skip bibliographic records with open acquisition orders" checkbox on the batch record deletion page (Cataloging > Batch editing > Batch record deletion").
This is required so that when selecting or unselecting the checkbox, the focus remains on the checkbox. The ID semantically links the checkbox to its label so machines (screenreaders and computers) can tell they are related elements.
39923 Add classes to email and phone in overdue report to allow for customization
This patches adds a overdue_email and overdue_phone to the overdue report making it easier to target the phone/email with CSS or JavaScript.
Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries
cancellation_reason to holds strings embedThe 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:
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:
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:
The release team for Koha 24.11.09 is
Release Manager: Lucas Gass
QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
QA Team:
Documentation Manager: David Nind
Documentation Team:
Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart
Wiki curators:
Release Maintainers:
Release Maintainer assistants:
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 24.11.09
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.09
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.09
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha
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.
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 24.11.x.
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 25 Sep 2025 14:49:50.