Koha 24.05.12 Released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.05.12

24 Jul 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 24.05.12 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 24.05.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 7 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Bugfixes

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

  • 39887 Improve documentation of overdue_notices.pl

    This improves the help for the misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl script.

    It tidies the text and clarifies some options, including:
    – improving the descriptions for the help –test, –date, –email, and –frombranch options
    – adding some more usage examples (shown when run with the –man option)

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

  • 38184 OpacTrustedCheckout module does not show due date

    This fixes the self checkout pop-up window when using the OpacTrustedCheckout system preference – the due date is now shown in the due date column, previously it was not showing the due date.

    Sponsored by Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

  • 39331 Guarantor relationships not removed when changing patron category from memberentry.pl

    This fixes changing a patron with guarantors from a patron category that allows guarantees to one that doesn’t (for example, from Kid to a Patron). Currently, the guarantor relationships are kept (when they shouldn’t be).

Staff interface

Critical bugs fixed

  • 39305 About page must warn if Plack is not running

Other bugs fixed

  • 39987 Batch item deletion breadcrumb uses wrong link

    This fixes the ‘Batch item deletion’ breadcrumb link when batch deleting items in cataloguing. If you clicked on the link, it would incorrectly take you to the ‘Batch item modification’ page.

Templates

Other bugs fixed

  • 38127 Missing column headings in ‘Add user’ pop-up modal

    This fixes the “Add user” pop-up window when adding a user to a new order in acquisitions. The table now shows the column headings, such as card, name, category, and library.

    Sponsored by Athens County Public Libraries

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

  • 39295 Patron card creator infinite loop during line wrapping in template/layout incompatibility

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

  • 39772 Background jobs page lists unknown job types for jobs implemented by plugins

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) (99%)
– 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 (99%)
– French (Canada) (99%)
– German (99%)
– Greek (69%)
– Hindi (99%)
– Italian (83%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (75%)
– Persian (fa_ARAB) (97%)
– Polish (99%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
– Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
– Russian (95%)
– Slovak (62%)
– Spanish (99%)
– 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 24.05.12 is

  • Release Manager:

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 24.05.12

– Athens County Public Libraries
– Reserve Bank of New Zealand

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.05.12

– Aleisha Amohia (1)
– Nick Clemens (1)
– David Cook (1)
– Jonathan Druart (2)
– Lucas Gass (1)
– Owen Leonard (2)
– Jesse Maseto (1)
– Martin Renvoize (1)
– Tadeusz „tadzik” Sośnierz (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 24.05.12

– Athens County Public Libraries (2)
– [ByWater Solutions](https://bywatersolutions.com) (3)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
– Koha Community Developers (2)
– openfifth.co.uk (1)
– [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (1)
– sosnierz.com (2)

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

– Roman Dolny (1)
– Owen Leonard (1)
– Jesse Maseto (11)
– Julian Maurice (2)
– David Nind (8)
– Martin Renvoize (2)
– Marcel de Rooy (1)
– Baptiste Wojtkowski (4)

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 Jul 2025 13:59:41.