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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.05.16
+
+05 Nov 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 23.05.16 can be downloaded from:
+
+
+
+Installation instructions can be found at:
+
+
+- Koha Wiki
+- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
+
+
+Koha 23.05.16 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
+
+It includes 5 bugfixes.
+
+System requirements
+
+You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.
+
+Security bugs
+
+
+
+Bugfixes
+
+Architecture, internals, and plumbing
+
+Other bugs fixed
+
+
+- 38234 Remove unused vulnerable jszip library file
+
+
+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) (86%)
+- Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
+- Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
+- Chinese (Simplified) (95%)
+- Chinese (Traditional) (99%)
+- Czech (70%)
+- Dutch (88%)
+- English (100%)
+- English (New Zealand) (68%)
+- English (USA)
+- Finnish (99%)
+- French (99%)
+- French (Canada) (99%)
+- German (100%)
+- German (Switzerland) (55%)
+- Greek (62%)
+- Hindi (99%)
+- Italian (91%)
+- Norwegian Bokmål (78%)
+- Persian (fa_ARAB) (99%)
+- Polish (99%)
+- Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
+- Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
+- Russian (98%)
+- Slovak (67%)
+- Spanish (100%)
+- Swedish (88%)
+- Telugu (76%)
+- Turkish (89%)
+- Ukrainian (80%)
+- hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (69%)
+
+
+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 23.05.16 is
+
+
+Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
+Release Manager assistants:
+
+
+- Tomás Cohen Arazi
+- Martin Renvoize
+- Jonathan Druart
+
+QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
+QA Team:
+
+
+- Marcel de Rooy
+- Kyle M Hall
+- Emily Lamancusa
+- Nick Clemens
+- Lucas Gass
+- Tomás Cohen Arazi
+- Julian Maurice
+- Victor Grousset
+- Aleisha Amohia
+- David Cook
+- Laura Escamilla
+- Jonathan Druart
+- Pedro Amorim
+- Matt Blenkinsop
+- Thomas Klausner
+
+Topic Experts:
+
+
+- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
+- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
+- ERM -- Matt Blenkinsop
+- ILL -- Pedro Amorim
+- SIP2 -- Matthias Meusburger
+- CAS -- Matthias Meusburger
+
+Bug Wranglers:
+
+
+- Aleisha Amohia
+- Jacob O'Mara
+
+Packaging Managers:
+
+
+- Mason James
+- Tomás Cohen Arazi
+
+Documentation Manager: Philip Orr
+Documentation Team:
+
+
+- Aude Charillon
+- Caroline Cyr La Rose
+- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
+- Emmanuel Bétemps
+- Marie-Luce Laflamme
+- Kelly McElligott
+- Rasa Šatinskienė
+- Heather Hernandez
+
+Wiki curators:
+
+
+- Thomas Dukleth
+- George Williams
+
+Release Maintainers:
+
+
+- 24.05 -- Lucas Gass
+- 23.11 -- Fridolin Somers
+- 23.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park
+- 22.11 -- Fridolin Somers
+
+
+
+Credits
+
+We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
+new features in Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+
+- KillerRabbitAos
+
+
+We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+
+- Artur (1)
+- David Cook (1)
+- Jonathan Druart (1)
+- Kyle M Hall (1)
+- Lisette Scheer (1)
+- wainuiwitikapark (1)
+
+
+We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
+patches to Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+
+- [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (2)
+- [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (1)
+- Independant Individuals (1)
+- Koha Community Developers (1)
+- [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1)
+
+
+We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
+for Koha
+
+
+
+- Nick Clemens (1)
+- David Cook (1)
+- Chris Cormack (2)
+- Magnus Enger (1)
+- Victor Grousset (1)
+- Bo Gustavsson (1)
+- Kyle M Hall (1)
+- Brendan Lawlor (1)
+- Martin Renvoize (1)
+- Marcel de Rooy (1)
+- wainuiwitikapark (5)
+
+
+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 23.05.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 05 Nov 2024 22:48:49.
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+# RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.05.16
+05 Nov 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 Community](http://koha-community.org)
+
+Koha 23.05.16 can be downloaded from:
+
+- [Download](http://download.koha-community.org/koha-23.05.16.tar.gz)
+
+Installation instructions can be found at:
+
+- [Koha Wiki](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation)
+- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
+
+Koha 23.05.16 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
+
+It includes 5 bugfixes.
+
+**System requirements**
+
+You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the [community wiki](https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations).
+
+
+#### Security bugs
+
+- [33339](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33339) Formula injection (CSV Injection) in export functionality
+- [37724](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37724) Remove Koha version number from public generator metadata
+- [37737](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37737) Users with 'execute_reports' permission can create reports 23.11 and lower
+- [37861](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37861) Fix XSS vulnerability in barcode append function
+
+ **Sponsored by** *KillerRabbitAos*
+
+## Bugfixes
+
+### Architecture, internals, and plumbing
+
+#### Other bugs fixed
+
+- [38234](http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=38234) Remove unused vulnerable jszip library file
+
+## Documentation
+
+The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
+documentation is
+
+- [Koha Documentation](http://koha-community.org/documentation/)
+As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:
+
+- [Chinese (Traditional)](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/zh_Hant/html/) (77%)
+- [English](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05//html/) (100%)
+- [English (USA)](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/en/html/)
+- [French](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/fr/html/) (49%)
+- [German](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/de/html/) (38%)
+- [Greek](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05//html/) (73%)
+- [Hindi](https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/hi/html/) (73%)
+
+The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
+
+- [Koha Git Repository](https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual)
+
+## Translations
+
+Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
+interface are available in this release for the following languages:
+
+
+- Arabic (ar_ARAB) (86%)
+- Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
+- Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
+- Chinese (Simplified) (95%)
+- Chinese (Traditional) (99%)
+- Czech (70%)
+- Dutch (88%)
+- English (100%)
+- English (New Zealand) (68%)
+- English (USA)
+- Finnish (99%)
+- French (99%)
+- French (Canada) (99%)
+- German (100%)
+- German (Switzerland) (55%)
+- Greek (62%)
+- Hindi (99%)
+- Italian (91%)
+- Norwegian Bokmål (78%)
+- Persian (fa_ARAB) (99%)
+- Polish (99%)
+- Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
+- Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
+- Russian (98%)
+- Slovak (67%)
+- Spanish (100%)
+- Swedish (88%)
+- Telugu (76%)
+- Turkish (89%)
+- Ukrainian (80%)
+- hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (69%)
+
+
+Partial translations are available for various other languages.
+
+The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
+
+- [Koha Translation Info](http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha)
+
+For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
+list to volunteer:
+
+- [Koha Translate List](http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate)
+
+The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
+
+- [Koha Translation](http://translate.koha-community.org/)
+
+## Release Team
+
+The release team for Koha 23.05.16 is
+
+
+- Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
+
+- Release Manager assistants:
+ - Tomás Cohen Arazi
+ - Martin Renvoize
+ - Jonathan Druart
+
+- QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
+
+- QA Team:
+ - Marcel de Rooy
+ - Kyle M Hall
+ - Emily Lamancusa
+ - Nick Clemens
+ - Lucas Gass
+ - Tomás Cohen Arazi
+ - Julian Maurice
+ - Victor Grousset
+ - Aleisha Amohia
+ - David Cook
+ - Laura Escamilla
+ - Jonathan Druart
+ - Pedro Amorim
+ - Matt Blenkinsop
+ - Thomas Klausner
+
+- Topic Experts:
+ - UI Design -- Owen Leonard
+ - Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
+ - ERM -- Matt Blenkinsop
+ - ILL -- Pedro Amorim
+ - SIP2 -- Matthias Meusburger
+ - CAS -- Matthias Meusburger
+
+- Bug Wranglers:
+ - Aleisha Amohia
+ - Jacob O'Mara
+
+- Packaging Managers:
+ - Mason James
+ - Tomás Cohen Arazi
+
+- Documentation Manager: Philip Orr
+
+- Documentation Team:
+ - Aude Charillon
+ - Caroline Cyr La Rose
+ - Lucy Vaux-Harvey
+ - Emmanuel Bétemps
+ - Marie-Luce Laflamme
+ - Kelly McElligott
+ - Rasa Šatinskienė
+ - Heather Hernandez
+
+- Wiki curators:
+ - Thomas Dukleth
+ - George Williams
+
+- Release Maintainers:
+ - 24.05 -- Lucas Gass
+ - 23.11 -- Fridolin Somers
+ - 23.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park
+ - 22.11 -- Fridolin Somers
+
+## Credits
+
+We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
+new features in Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+- KillerRabbitAos
+
+
+We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+- Artur (1)
+- David Cook (1)
+- Jonathan Druart (1)
+- Kyle M Hall (1)
+- Lisette Scheer (1)
+- wainuiwitikapark (1)
+
+
+We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
+patches to Koha 23.05.16
+
+
+- [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (2)
+- [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (1)
+- Independant Individuals (1)
+- Koha Community Developers (1)
+- [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1)
+
+
+We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
+for Koha
+
+
+- Nick Clemens (1)
+- David Cook (1)
+- Chris Cormack (2)
+- Magnus Enger (1)
+- Victor Grousset (1)
+- Bo Gustavsson (1)
+- Kyle M Hall (1)
+- Brendan Lawlor (1)
+- Martin Renvoize (1)
+- Marcel de Rooy (1)
+- wainuiwitikapark (5)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+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](https://git.koha-community.org/koha-community/koha)
+
+The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
+line is (HEAD detached from security-23.05.x-security).
+
+## Bugs and feature requests
+
+Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
+tracker at:
+
+- [Koha Bugzilla](http://bugs.koha-community.org)
+
+He rau ringa e oti ai.
+(Many hands finish the work)
+
+Autogenerated release notes updated last on 05 Nov 2024 22:48:49.