RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.05.04

28 Sep 2023

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 23.05.04 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

Koha 23.05.04 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 10 enhancements, 114 bugfixes including 4 security fixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

Bugfixes

Acquisitions

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Authentication

Critical bugs fixed

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

Circulation

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Command-line Utilities

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

ERM

Other bugs fixed

Fines and fees

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

I18N/L10N

Other bugs fixed

ILL

Other bugs fixed

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Label/patron card printing

Other bugs fixed

Lists

Other bugs fixed

Notices

Other bugs fixed

OPAC

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

REST API

Other bugs fixed

Reports

Other bugs fixed

SIP2

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Searching - Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

Serials

Critical bugs fixed

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

System Administration

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Templates

Other bugs fixed

Test Suite

Other bugs fixed

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

Other bugs fixed

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

Circulation

Enhancements

Command-line Utilities

Enhancements

ERM

Enhancements

OPAC

Enhancements

Patrons

Enhancements

REST API

Enhancements

Templates

Enhancements

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 (70.9%) - Armenian (100%) - Armenian (Classical) (63.7%) - Bulgarian (91.7%) - Chinese (Taiwan) (99.5%) - Czech (57.9%) - English (New Zealand) (67.6%) - English (USA) - Finnish (100%) - French (99.8%) - French (Canada) (99.7%) - German (100%) - Hindi (100%) - Italian (90.8%) - Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (80.5%) - Norwegian Bokmål (74.7%) - Persian (93.5%) - Polish (94.5%) - Portuguese (89.5%) - Portuguese (Brazil) (100%) - Russian (96.5%) - Slovak (60.9%) - Spanish (99.9%) - Swedish (83.8%) - Telugu (76%) - Turkish (85.9%) - Ukrainian (78.2%)

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 23.05.04 is

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 23.05.04

- [Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC)](http://www.bulac.fr) - Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.04

- Aleisha Amohia (2) - Pedro Amorim (17) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (16) - Matt Blenkinsop (9) - Kevin Carnes (1) - Nick Clemens (22) - David Cook (22) - Frédéric Demians (1) - Jonathan Druart (17) - Laura Escamilla (3) - Katrin Fischer (8) - Lucas Gass (10) - Evan Giles (1) - Victor Grousset (4) - Michael Hafen (1) - Kyle M Hall (6) - Janusz Kaczmarek (1) - Emily Lamancusa (1) - Per Larsson (1) - Owen Leonard (21) - Julian Maurice (3) - Matthias Meusburger (1) - Martin Renvoize (12) - Marcel de Rooy (6) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (2) - Andreas Roussos (3) - Fridolin Somers (7) - Arthur Suzuki (2) - Petr Svoboda (1) - Emmi Takkinen (1) - Lari Taskula (2) - Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.04

- Athens County Public Libraries (21) - BibLibre (13) - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (8) - ByWater-Solutions (41) - Catalyst (1) - Catalyst Open Source Academy (2) - Dataly Tech (3) - Göteborgs Universitet (1) - Hypernova Oy (2) - Independant Individuals (2) - Koha Community Developers (21) - Koha-Suomi (1) - montgomerycountymd.gov (1) - Prosentient Systems (22) - PTFS-Europe (38) - R-Bit Technology (1) - Rijksmuseum (6) - Solutions inLibro inc (2) - Tamil (1) - Theke Solutions (16) - ub.lu.se (1)

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

- Aleisha Amohia (4) - Pedro Amorim (11) - Andrew (2) - Tomás Cohen Arazi (186) - Matt Blenkinsop (6) - Christopher Brannon (1) - Barry Cannon (1) - Christine (1) - Nick Clemens (8) - David Cook (5) - Chris Cormack (3) - Ray Delahunty (1) - Michal Denar (1) - Jonathan Druart (22) - Laura Escamilla (4) - Katrin Fischer (52) - Émily-Rose Francoeur (2) - Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1) - Lucas Gass (11) - Salah Ghedda (3) - Nicolas Giraud (1) - Victor Grousset (16) - Kyle M Hall (8) - Inkeri (1) - Jason (1) - joubu (2) - Emily Lamancusa (2) - Sam Lau (10) - Owen Leonard (17) - Christian Nelson (1) - David Nind (31) - Martin Renvoize (21) - Marcel de Rooy (53) - Caroline Cyr La Rose (7) - Andreas Roussos (2) - Michaela Sieber (4) - Fridolin Somers (196) - Lari Taskula (1) - Alexander Wagner (1) - Anneli Österman (1)

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 master 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 28 Sep 2023 18:27:32.