Koha 24.11.17 LTS released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 24.11.17

24 Jun 2026

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 24.11.17 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 24.11.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security patches.

It includes 7 bugfixes (5 security).

System requirements

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

Security bugs

  • 42360 SQL Injection in reports/acquisitions_stats.pl via Filter parameter
  • 42363 SQL Injection in reports/catalogue_stats.pl via the Line request parameter
  • 42368 SQL Injection in reports/issues_avg_stats.pl via the Filter request parameter (unvalidated string context, no placeholders)
  • 42369 SQL Injection in reports/bor_issues_top.pl via the Filter request parameter (unvalidated string context, no placeholders)
  • 42735 SQL Injection in reports/issues_stats.pl via PeriodTypeSel / PeriodDaySel / PeriodMonthSel / Filter parameters (unvalidated string context, no placeholders)

Bugfixes

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

  • 39301 pseudonymize_statistics.pl script generates too many background jobs

Patrons

Critical bugs fixed

  • 41045 Suggestions manage permissions added to patrons who previously had no permissions in that category

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) (95%)
– Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
– Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
– Chinese (Simplified Han script) (86%)
– Chinese (Traditional Han script) (99%)
– Czech (68%)
– Dutch (88%)
– English (100%)
– English (New Zealand) (63%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (99%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (99%)
– German (100%)
– Greek (68%)
– Hindi (97%)
– Italian (83%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (73%)
– Persian (fa_ARAB) (96%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
– Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
– Russian (94%)
– Slovak (61%)
– Spanish (99%)
– Swedish (88%)
– Telugu (67%)
– Tetum (52%)
– Turkish (83%)
– Ukrainian (76%)
– Western Armenian (hyw_ARMN) (62%)

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 24.11.17 is

  • Release Manager: Pedro Amorim
  • QA Manager: Lisette Scheer
  • QA Team:
    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Jonathan Druart
    • Laura Escamilla
    • Lucas Gass
    • Tomás Cohen Arazi
    • Lisette Scheer
    • Nick Clemens
    • Paul Derscheid
    • Emily Lamancusa
    • David Cook
    • Matt Blenkinsop
    • Andrew Fuerste-Henry
    • Brendan Lawlor
    • Pedro Amorim
    • Kyle M Hall
    • Aleisha Amohia
    • David Nind
    • Baptiste Wojtkowski
    • Jan Kissig
    • Katrin Fischer
    • Thomas Klausner
    • Julian Maurice
    • Owen Leonard
    • Lucas Gass
  • Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon
  • Documentation Team:
    • Philip Orr
    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • David Nind
    • Marion Durand
  • Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart
  • Wiki curators:
    • George Williams
    • Thomas Dukleth
  • Release Maintainers:
    • 26.05 — Lucas Gass
    • 25.11 — Baptiste Wojtkowski
    • 25.05 — Wainui Witika-Park
    • 24.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • Release Maintainer assistants:
    • 26.05 –Jacob O’Mara
    • 25.05 — Alex Buckley & Aleisha Amohia

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 24.11.17

– David Cook (6)
– Jonathan Druart (5)
– Fridolin Somers (2)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 24.11.17

– [BibLibre](https://www.biblibre.com) (2)
– Koha Community Developers (5)
– [Prosentient Systems](https://www.prosentient.com.au) (6)

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

– Jonathan Druart (3)
– Emily Lamancusa (1)
– Sanjar Tulkinov Anvar o’g’li (6)
– Jacob O’Mara (1)
– Martin Renvoize (4)
– Fridolin Somers (8)
– Emmi Takkinen (1)
– Wainui Witika-Park (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 24.11.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 2026 08:30:39.