The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 22.11.28.
This is a maintenance 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.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 22.11.28

25 Jun 2025

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 Community

Koha 22.11.28 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 22.11.28 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 10 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

• 35629 Redundant code in includes/patron-search.inc
• 35702 Reduce DB calls when performing authorities merge

Cataloging

Other bugs fixed

• 24424 Advanced editor – interface hangs as “Loading” when given an invalid bib number

  Sponsored by Ignatianum University in Cracow

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

• 34091 Typo in help for cleanupdatabase.pl: –log-modules needs to be –log-module

Hold requests

Critical bugs fixed

• 35489 Holds on items with no barcode are missing an input for itemnumber

Notices

Critical bugs fixed

• 39184 Server-side template injection leading to remote code execution

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

• 25835 Include overdue report (under circulation module) as a staff permission
• 38772 Typo ‘minPasswordPreference’ system preference

  This fixes a typo in the code for OPAC password recovery – ‘minPasswordPreference’ to ‘minPasswordLength’ (the correct system preference name). It has no noticeable effect on resetting an account password from the OPAC.

REST API

Other bugs fixed

• 32551 API requests don’t carry language related information

Tools

Other bugs fixed

• 35438 Importing records can create too large transactions

Enhancements

Database

Enhancements

• 31143 We should attempt to fix/identify all cases where ‘0000-00-00’ may still remain in the database

  This enhancement:

  1. Updates the misc/maintenance/search_for_data_inconsistencies.pl script so that it identifies any date fields that have 0000-00-00 values.

  2. Adds a new script misc/maintenance/fix_invalid_dates.pl that fixes any date fields that have ‘0000-00-00’ values (for example: dateofbirth) by updating them to ‘NULL’.

  Patron, item, and other date fields with a value of ‘000-00-00’ can cause errors. This includes:
  – API errors
  – stopping the patron autocomplete search working
  – generating a 500 internal server error:
  . for normal patron searching
  . when displaying item data in the holdings table

Documentation

The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is

• Koha Documentation
  As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:

• English (USA)

• French (73%)
• German (98%)
• Greek (100%)
• Hindi (70%)

The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at

• Koha Git Repository

Translations

Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:

Partial translations are available for various other languages.

The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see

• Koha Translation Info

For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
list to volunteer:

• Koha Translate List

The most up-to-date translations can be found at:

• Koha Translation

Release Team

The release team for Koha 25.05.01 is

• Release Manager: Lucas Gass

• QA Manager: Martin Renvoize

• QA Team:

  • Andrew Fuerste-Henry
  • Andrii Nugged
  • Baptiste Wojtkowski
  • Brendan Lawlor
  • David Cook
  • Emily Lamancusa
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Julian Maurice
  • Kyle Hall
  • Laura Escamilla
  • Lisette Scheer
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Nick Clemens
  • Paul Derscheid
  • Petro V
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Victor Grousset

• Documentation Manager: David Nind

• Documentation Team:

  • Aude Charillon
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Donna Bachowski
  • Heather Hernandez
  • Kristi Krueger
  • Philip Orr

• Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart

• Wiki curators:

  • George Williams
  • Thomas Dukleth

• Release Maintainers:

  • 25.05 — Paul Derscheid
  • 24.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 24.05 — Jesse Maseto
  • 22.11 — Catalyst IT (Wainui, Alex, Aleisha)

• Release Maintainer assistants:

  • 25.05 — Martin Renvoize
  • 24.11 — Baptiste Wojtkowski
  • 24.05 — Laura Escamilla

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 22.11.28

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 22.11.28

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 22.11.28

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

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:

• Koha Git Repository

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 22.11.x.

Bugs and feature requests

Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at:

• Koha Bugzilla

He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)

Autogenerated release notes updated last on 25 Jun 2025 07:33:34.