Koha Community Newsletter: April 2025
Koha Community Newsletter: April 2025 
Volume 16, Issue 4
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
Please submit news items to mik (at) adminkuhn.ch
Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 28 April 2025 | Koha 24.11.04 stable |
5 enhancements 22 enhancements, 99 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 28 April 2025 | Koha 24.05.09 oldstable |
2 enhancements 8 bugfixes |
| 28 April 2025 | Koha 23.11.14 | 2 enhancements 5 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 12 November 2024 | Koha 23.05.16 | 5 bugfixes |
| 28 April 2025 | Koha 22.11.26 | 19 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
Community
New Koha libraries
USA
- Carrollton Public Library in Carrollton (TX), via Bywater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- Build your digital library with free e-books (RAFLIMTS)
- Customising your Koha catalogue (updated 2025) (Catalyst)
- Enhancing security and performance : leveraging Cloudflare for your library systems (Bywater Solutions)
- Enhancing the staff login instructions (koha-US)
- Harvesting in Koha using Open Archives (OAI-PMH) (Open Fifth)
- How come I see different numbers between total checkouts and item’s checkout history? (Bywater Solutions)
- How do I make my Koha catalog a Z39.50 target? (Bywater Solutions)
- Jquery: Making item group holds better (koha-US)
- JSON reports (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha vs. Dspace : understanding basic differences (RAFLIMTS)
- Making holds easy for staff (Bywater Solutions)
- New Koha module dashboards (ERM) (Open Fifth)
- Preferred name (Bywater Solutions)
- Single sign-on for Koha (updated 2025) (Catalyst)
- What happens to claim return history on deleted items? (Bywater Solutions)
- What is scoping a catalog? (Bywater Solutions)
- What software integrations are available? (Open Fifth)
- Will Koha check for record duplicates within a staged file? (Bywater Solutions)
Support provider news
- Live from Acrl : [interviews with interoperable partners TDNet, CollectionHQ, StackMap and Bibliotheca] (Bywater Solutions)
Upcoming events
- Call for koha-US 2025 presentation proposals (Bywater Solutions)
- Kohacon 25 registration open (Chris Cormack)
For all upcoming IRC meetings see Next IRC meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
Kohacon25 – 17 to 23 November 2025, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
Join us in celebrating 25 years of open source innovation and community collaboration.
Registration is now open for in-person attendees: https://koha-community.org/kohacon25-registrations-open/
The provisional programme is available: https://koha-community.org/the-provisional-programme-for-kohacon25-is-now-available/
Kohacon25 is made possible through the generous support of our partners and sponsors:
- Pounamu Sponsors: Bywater Solutions, Catalyst IT, Biteca, Open Fifth
- Tūhua Sponsors: Auckland University of Technology (AUT), LMSCloud
- Pāua Sponsors: Bob and Irma Birchall, Chris Cormack
Past events
- Koha Community Hackfest (Bywater Solutions)
- Livge from Koha Hackfest (Bywater Solutions)
- 2025 Koha Hackfest in Marseille Wrap-Up (Bywater Solutions)
- Retour sur le hackfest Koha 2025 (Biblibre)
- Retour sur le Symposium Koha 2025 (Biblibre)
For all past IRC meetings see the following links or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.