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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.05

07 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 24.05.05 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 24.05.05 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 28 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

  • 37786 members/cancel-charge.pl needs CSRF protection
  • 33339 Formula injection (CSV Injection) in export functionality
  • 37724 Remove Koha version number from public generator metadata
  • 37861 Fix XSS vulnerability in barcode append function

Bugfixes

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

  • 38183 Can't set suggestion manager when there are multiple tabs

Cataloging

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35125 AutoCreateAuthorities creates separate authorities when thesaurus differs, even with LinkerConsiderThesaurus set to Don't
  • 37536 Cataloging add item js needs to update conditional that checks op
  • 37947 Import from Z39.50 doesn't open the record in editor
  • 38076 Librarians with only fast add permission can no longer edit or create fast add records
  • 38094 Librarians with only fast add permission can no longer edit existing fast add records
  • 38211 New bibliographic record in non-default framework opens in default on first edit

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

  • 37290 Deleting circulation rule for a specific library deletes for All libraries instead

Other bugs fixed

  • 37055 WaitingNotifyAtCheckout should only trigger on patrons with waiting holds
  • 38199 Printing transfer slips from circ/returns.pl doesn't set focus properly ( 24.05.x and below )

Fines and fees

Other bugs fixed

  • 34585 "When to charge" columns value not copied when editing circulation rule

    Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

  • 38126 Holds queue is allocating holds twice when using TransportCostMatrix and LocalHoldsPriority

  • 38148 Check value of holdallowed circ rule properly (Bug 29087 follow-up)

    Sponsored by Whanganui District Council

Other bugs fixed

  • 37587 Wrong priority when placing multiple item-level holds

I18N/L10N

Critical bugs fixed

  • 38164 Translation process is broken

MARC Authority data support

Other bugs fixed

  • 38056 Search term after deleting an authority shouldn't be URI encoded

    Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Notices

Other bugs fixed

  • 37891 Editing a notice's name having SMSSendDriver disabled causes notice to be listed twice

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

  • 37150 Can't delete single title from a list using the "Remove from list" link

    Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

Other bugs fixed

  • 37339 Default messaging preferences are not applied when self registering in OPAC

    This fixes a regression in Koha 24.05, 23.11, and 23.05 (caused by Bug 30318). Default messaging preferences for the self registraton patron category were not set for patron's self-registering using the OPAC.

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

  • 32530 When duplicating child card, guarantor is not saved

Reports

Critical bugs fixed

  • 37197 Batch patron modification from reports fails by using GET instead of POST

  • 37270 Deleting a report from the actions menu on a list of saved reports does not work

    Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

Searching

Other bugs fixed

  • 37801 Search results with limits create URLs that cause XML errors in RSS2 output

    Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

  • 37979 typo in PQF index : index.koha.classification-soruce

    Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

  • 37953 Incorrect handling of DisplayLibraryFacets in previous database update 23.12.000.36

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

  • 37375 Holdings table not loading if MARC framework is missing certain 952 subfields

    This fixes the loading of the holdings table for a record in the staff interface, where the framework for a MARC21 instance is missing certain 952 subfields (8, a, b, c, or y). The holdings table will still now load, before it would display as "Processing" and not display any holding details.

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

  • 37483 Batch extend due dates tool not working

  • 37961 Inventory followup fails by POSTing without an op or csrf_token

    Sponsored by Chetco Community Public Library

Enhancements

Staff interface

Enhancements

  • 35191 Make entries per page configurable for items table on staff detail page

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) (98%)
  • Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
  • Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (88%)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (90%)
  • Czech (69%)
  • Dutch (87%)
  • English (100%)
  • English (New Zealand) (63%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (99%)
  • French (99%)
  • French (Canada) (99%)
  • German (99%)
  • German (Switzerland) (51%)
  • Greek (58%)
  • Hindi (99%)
  • Italian (83%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (76%)
  • Persian (fa_ARAB) (96%)
  • Polish (99%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
  • Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
  • Russian (94%)
  • Slovak (61%)
  • Spanish (99%)
  • Swedish (87%)
  • Telugu (69%)
  • Turkish (82%)
  • Ukrainian (73%)
  • hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (64%)

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 24.05.05 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 24.05.05

  • Athens County Public Libraries
  • Chetco Community Public Library
  • KillerRabbitAos
  • Koha-Suomi Oy
  • Whanganui District Council

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.05

  • Aleisha Amohia (1)
  • Pedro Amorim (3)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (4)
  • Artur (1)
  • Nick Clemens (8)
  • David Cook (1)
  • Paul Derscheid (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (4)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Lucas Gass (4)
  • Kyle M Hall (4)
  • Janusz Kaczmarek (1)
  • Emily Lamancusa (1)
  • Brendan Lawlor (1)
  • Owen Leonard (3)
  • Phil Ringnalda (6)
  • Emmi Takkinen (1)
  • Lari Taskula (1)
  • Baptiste Wojtkowski (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.05

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

  • Aleisha Amohia (2)
  • Pedro Amorim (1)
  • andrewa (2)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
  • Sukhmandeep Benipal (1)
  • Matt Blenkinsop (2)
  • Sonia Bouis (1)
  • Nick Clemens (3)
  • Chris Cormack (3)
  • Ray Delahunty (2)
  • Paul Derscheid (1)
  • Roman Dolny (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (9)
  • Magnus Enger (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (32)
  • Eric Garcia (1)
  • Lucas Gass (44)
  • Victor Grousset (4)
  • Bo Gustavsson (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (3)
  • Janusz Kaczmarek (1)
  • Jan Kissig (1)
  • Emily Lamancusa (4)
  • Brendan Lawlor (5)
  • Julian Maurice (1)
  • David Nind (6)
  • Martin Renvoize (10)
  • Phil Ringnalda (4)
  • Jason Robb (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (5)
  • Emmi Takkinen (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 24.05.x-security.

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 07 Nov 2024 23:14:30.