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<h1 id="releasenotesforkoha24.11.19">RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.11.19</h1>
<p>25 Aug 2026</p>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org">Koha Community</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Koha 24.11.19 can be downloaded from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://download.koha-community.org/koha-24.11.19.tar.gz">Download</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Installation instructions can be found at:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation">Koha Wiki</a></li>
<li>OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball</li>
</ul>
<p>Koha 24.11.19 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security patches.</p>
<p>It includes 5 bugfixes (3 security).</p>
<p><strong>System requirements</strong></p>
<p>You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the <a href="https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations">community wiki</a>.</p>
<h4 id="securitybugs">Security bugs</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=42736">42736</a> SQL Injection in reports/cat_issues_top.pl via Criteria / Filter request parameters (unvalidated string context, no placeholders)</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=42800">42800</a> Potential XSS in shelf list in the erm module</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=42904">42904</a> Prevent XSS in patron restriction comments</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="bugfixes">Bugfixes</h2>
<h3 id="marcbibliographicdatasupport">MARC Bibliographic data support</h3>
<h4 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h4>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=43085">43085</a> Fix typo in data/marc21_field_006.xml</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This fixes the text label shown in the plugin/value builder for MARC21 006 tag when "CF - Computer Files" is selected. The label "12-18 - Undefined" was changed to "12-17 - Undefined".</p>
<p>(Change only for Koha 25.05 - made to later releases by Bug 40284 - MARC21: Adjust maxlength for 005, 006 and 007.)</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Sponsored by</strong> <em>Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand</em></p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="reports">Reports</h3>
<h4 id="otherbugsfixed">Other bugs fixed</h4>
<p><ul>
<li><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8127">8127</a> Most-circulated items report doesn't work when limited by library</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This fixes some of the filters for the "Most-circulated items" report so that using limits (the Limits section with "Limit to" and "By") now works.</p>
<p>Previously some options for "By" (such as Library and Week) generated an error message or there were no results (when results were expected).</li>
</ul></p>
<h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
</blockquote>
<p>The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://koha-community.org/documentation/">Koha Documentation</a>
As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/en/html/">English (USA)</a></p></li>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/fr/html/">French</a> (83%)</li>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/de/html/">German</a> (84%)</li>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/el/html/">Greek</a> (91%)</li>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/hi/html/">Hindi</a> (62%)</li>
<li><a href="https://koha-community.org/manual/24.11/pt_BR/html/">Portuguese (Brazil)</a> (28%)</li>
</ul>
<p>The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="translations">Translations</h2>
<p>Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:</p>
<div style="column-count: 2;">
- Arabic (ar_ARAB) (95%)
- Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
- Azerbaijani (62%)
- Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
- Chinese (Simplified Han script) (86%)
- Chinese (Traditional Han script) (99%)
- Czech (68%)
- Dutch (89%)
- English (100%)
- English (New Zealand) (63%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (99%)
- French (100%)
- French (Canada) (99%)
- German (100%)
- Greek (68%)
- Hindi (97%)
- Italian (84%)
- Khmer (Central) (55%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (73%)
- Persian (fa_ARAB) (96%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
- Russian (95%)
- Slovak (61%)
- Spanish (99%)
- Swedish (88%)
- Telugu (67%)
- Tetum (52%)
- Turkish (83%)
- Ukrainian (77%)
- Uzbek (52%)
- Western Armenian (hyw_ARMN) (62%)
</div>
<p>Partial translations are available for various other languages.</p>
<p>The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha">Koha Translation Info</a></li>
</ul>
<p>For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
list to volunteer:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate">Koha Translate List</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The most up-to-date translations can be found at:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://translate.koha-community.org/">Koha Translation</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="releaseteam">Release Team</h2>
<p>The release team for Koha 24.11.19 is</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Release Manager: Pedro Amorim</p></li>
<li><p>QA Manager: Lisette Scheer</p></li>
<li><p>QA Team:</p>
<ul>
<li>Marcel de Rooy</li>
<li>Martin Renvoize</li>
<li>Jonathan Druart</li>
<li>Laura Escamilla</li>
<li>Lucas Gass</li>
<li>Tomás Cohen Arazi</li>
<li>Lisette Scheer</li>
<li>Nick Clemens</li>
<li>Paul Derscheid</li>
<li>Emily Lamancusa</li>
<li>David Cook</li>
<li>Matt Blenkinsop</li>
<li>Andrew Fuerste-Henry</li>
<li>Brendan Lawlor</li>
<li>Pedro Amorim</li>
<li>Kyle M Hall</li>
<li>Aleisha Amohia</li>
<li>David Nind</li>
<li>Baptiste Wojtkowski</li>
<li>Jan Kissig</li>
<li>Katrin Fischer</li>
<li>Thomas Klausner</li>
<li>Julian Maurice</li>
<li>Owen Leonard</li>
<li>Lucas Gass</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon</p></li>
<li><p>Documentation Team:</p>
<ul>
<li>Philip Orr</li>
<li>Caroline Cyr La Rose</li>
<li>David Nind</li>
<li>Marion Durand</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart</p></li>
<li><p>Wiki curators:</p>
<ul>
<li>George Williams</li>
<li>Thomas Dukleth</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Release Maintainers:</p>
<ul>
<li>26.05 -- Lucas Gass</li>
<li>25.11 -- Baptiste Wojtkowski</li>
<li>25.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park</li>
<li>24.11 -- Fridolin Somers</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Release Maintainer assistants:</p>
<ul>
<li>26.05 -- Jacob O'Mara</li>
<li>25.05 -- Alex Buckley &amp; Aleisha Amohia</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 24.11.19</p>
<div style="column-count: 2;">
- Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand
</div>
<p>We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.19</p>
<div style="column-count: 2;">
- Jonathan Druart (1)
- Amit Gupta (1)
- Sanjar Tulkinov Anvar o'g'li (1)
- Martin Renvoize (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (1)
- Fridolin Somers (3)
- Baptiste Wojtkowski (4)
</div>
<p>We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 24.11.19</p>
<div style="column-count: 2;">
- [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (7)
- Independant Individuals (1)
- informaticsglobal.ai (1)
- Koha Community Developers (1)
- [OpenFifth](https://openfifth.co.uk) (1)
- Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (1)
</div>
<p>We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha</p>
<div style="column-count: 2;">
- Aleisha Amohia (1)
- David Cook (3)
- Lucas Gass (2)
- David Nind (3)
- Lawrence O'Regan-Lloyd (1)
- Martin Renvoize (2)
- Fridolin Somers (7)
- Wainui Witika-Park (1)
</div>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="revisioncontrolnotes">Revision control notes</h2>
<p>The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the main branch of:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.koha-community.org/koha-community/koha">Koha Git Repository</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 24.11.x.</p>
<h2 id="bugsandfeaturerequests">Bugs and feature requests</h2>
<p>Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org">Koha Bugzilla</a></li>
</ul>
<p>He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)</p>
<p>Autogenerated release notes updated last on 01 Sep 2026 10:10:44.</p>