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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
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33339 Formula injection (CSV Injection) in export functionality
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37724 Remove Koha version number from public generator metadata
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37737 Users with 'execute_reports' permission can create reports 23.11 and lower
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37861 Fix XSS vulnerability in barcode append function
Sponsored by KillerRabbitAos
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
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Koha Documentation As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:
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Chinese (Traditional) (77%)
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English (100%)
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French (49%)
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German (38%)
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Greek (73%)
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Hindi (73%)
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
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Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
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Release Manager assistants:
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Martin Renvoize
- Jonathan Druart
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QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
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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
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Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- ERM -- Matt Blenkinsop
- ILL -- Pedro Amorim
- SIP2 -- Matthias Meusburger
- CAS -- Matthias Meusburger
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Bug Wranglers:
- Aleisha Amohia
- Jacob O'Mara
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Packaging Managers:
- Mason James
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
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Documentation Manager: Philip Orr
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Documentation Team:
- Aude Charillon
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Emmanuel Bétemps
- Marie-Luce Laflamme
- Kelly McElligott
- Rasa Šatinskienė
- Heather Hernandez
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Wiki curators:
- Thomas Dukleth
- George Williams
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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 (2)
- Catalyst (1)
- Independant Individuals (1)
- Koha Community Developers (1)
- Prosentient Systems (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 (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:
He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)
Autogenerated release notes updated last on 05 Nov 2024 22:48:49.