Koha 23.05.16 released

Posted on Posted in 23.05, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 23.05.16.
This is a security release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org

Please continue reading for the details this release.

Koha 23.05.16 is a security 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

  • 33339 Formula injection (CSV Injection) in export functionality
  • 37724 Remove Koha version number from public generator metadata
  • 37737 Users with ‘execute_reports’ permission can create reports 23.11 and lower
  • 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

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.