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 withinteroperable 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.