Koha 23.05.13 released

Posted on Posted in 23.05, release, security

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 23.05.13.
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 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 23.05.13 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 23.05.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 6 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

  • 37018 SQL injection using q under api/

    24.05.02

  • 37146 plugin_launcher.pl allows running of any Perl file on file system
    24.05.02
  • 37210 SQL injection in overdue.pl
    24.05.02
  • 37247 On subscriptions operation allowed without authentication
    24.05.02

Bugfixes

ERM

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35115 ERM – Potential MARC data loss when importing titles from list

Patrons

Other bugs fixed

  • 36816 OPAC – Patron ‘submit update request’ does not work for clearing patron attribute types

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 (Traditional) (99%)
– Czech (70%)
– Dutch (83%)
– English (100%)
– English (New Zealand) (68%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (99%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (99%)
– German (100%)
– German (Switzerland) (55%)
– Greek (61%)
– Hindi (99%)
– Italian (91%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (78%)
– Persian (fa_ARAB) (99%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
– Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
– Russian (98%)
– Slovak (66%)
– Spanish (99%)
– Swedish (88%)
– Telugu (76%)
– Turkish (88%)
– 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 23.05.13 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 individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.05.13

– Pedro Amorim (1)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– David Cook (1)
– Jonathan Druart (4)
– Julian Maurice (1)
– Martin Renvoize (4)
– Fridolin Somers (2)
– wainuiwitikapark (2)
– Hammat Wele (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 23.05.13

– [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (3)
– [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (1)
– [Catalyst](https://www.catalyst.net.nz/products/library-management-koha) (2)
– Koha Community Developers (4)
– [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1)
– [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (5)
– [Solutions inLibro inc](https://inlibro.com) (2)
– [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (5)

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

– Pedro Amorim (3)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– Chris Cormack (4)
– Jonathan Druart (10)
– Katrin Fischer (2)
– Victor Grousset (2)
– Martin Renvoize (8)
– Marcel de Rooy (4)
– Fridolin Somers (2)
– wainuiwitikapark (21)

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 28 Jul 2024 23:44:35.