Koha 24.05.11 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.11

24 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 24.05.11 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 24.05.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 4 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

Critical bugs fixed

  • 36736 Add ability to load DBIx::Class Schema files found in plugins

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

  • 36978 Upgrade fails at 23.06.00.007 [Bug 34029]

Other bugs fixed

  • 37820 Upgrade fails at 23.12.00.023 [Bug 36993]

Searching – Elasticsearch

Other bugs fixed

  • 38101 ES skips records with huge fields

    This fixes indexing of subfields with a large amount of text (such as 500$a) – the text is now indexed, and the record can now be found. Previously, subfields with a large amount of text were not correctly indexed.

Enhancements

REST API

Enhancements

  • 37809 Add missing embeds to checkouts endpoints

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) (97%)
– Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
– Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
– Chinese (Simplified Han script) (88%)
– Chinese (Traditional Han script) (99%)
– Czech (69%)
– Dutch (88%)
– English (100%)
– English (New Zealand) (64%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (100%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (99%)
– German (100%)
– Greek (69%)
– Hindi (98%)
– Italian (83%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (75%)
– Persian (fa_ARAB) (97%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
– Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
– Russian (95%)
– Slovak (62%)
– Spanish (100%)
– Swedish (87%)
– Telugu (69%)
– Tetum (53%)
– Turkish (85%)
– Ukrainian (74%)
– hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (63%)

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 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 individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.11

– Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– Jesse Maseto (2)
– Martin Renvoize (1)
– Emmi Takkinen (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 24.05.11

– [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (3)
– [Koha-Suomi Oy](https://koha-suomi.fi) (1)
– [PTFS Europe](https://ptfs-europe.com) (1)
– [Theke Solutions](https://theke.io) (5)

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

– Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– David Cook (3)
– Chris Cormack (1)
– Jonathan Druart (1)
– Jesse Maseto (5)
– Julian Maurice (1)
– Martin Renvoize (4)
– Marcel de Rooy (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 main branch of:

The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 24.05.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 24 Jun 2025 14:51:24.