Koha Community Newsletter: December 2025
Koha Community Newsletter: December 2025 
Volume 16, Issue 12
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
Please submit news items to mik (at) adminkuhn (dot) ch
Table of contents
Development
- Roadmap 26.05 (Koha Wiki)
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 8 December 2025 | Koha 25.11.00 stable |
3 new features, 224 enhancements, 433 bugfixes |
| 5 December 2025 | Koha 25.05.06 stable |
58 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 5 December 2025 | Koha 24.11.11 (LTS) oldstable |
76 bugfixes (1 security fix) |
| 5 December 2025 | Koha 24.05.16 | 2 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 5 December 2025 | Koha 22.11.33 (LTS) | 2 bugfixes |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
New Koha version 25.11
On 5 December 2025 Lucas Gass announced the release of Koha 25.11. This major release includes 3 new features, 224 enhancements and 433 bugfixes.
- Roles for 25.11
- Release notes for Koha 25.11.00
- System requirements and recommendations Koha 25.11 (…but still without entry for Koha 25.11)
- Download Koha
- Installation documentation
- Koha 25.11 database schema
- Koha 25.11 manual (en) – also see more documentation
New developments
Koha advent
- Making a list (and checking it twice) with the Koha Dashboard (Martin Renvoize)
- Unwrapping Koha’s translation workflow (Jonathan Druart)
- Automatic screenshots (Aude Charillon, Marion Durand)
- Rethinking Koha’s Vue.js Architecture (Bug 38201) (Matt Blenkinsop)
- Level up your dev game with multiple KTD instances (Tomás Cohen Arazi)
- Plugin development with KTD – your complete toolkit (Tomás Cohen Arazi)
- Naughty or nice: security vulnerabilities (David Cook)
- Contributing with security in mind (David Cook)
- Mana gets an upgrade (Elias Lorgnier, Martin Renvoize)
- Continuous integration in Koha (Jonathan Druart)
- Donate (Mark Hofstetter)
- Te Hokinga Mai : Coming home: Celebrating 25 years of Koha at Kohacon25 (Aleisha Amohia)
- Greetings from Santa’s office (Johanna Räisä)
- Managing npm dependencies in Koha (Paul Derscheid)
- A Perl-wrapped present (Martin Renvoize)
- Becoming a release manager (what it takes and what you learn) (Lucas Gass)
AIbox
By Stefano Bargioni
The Library at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome) added a box to its Koha catalogue. In the OPAC detail view of a bibliographic record, the AIbox (Artificial Intelligence box) gathers links to AI services related to authors and title of the displayed record. An example: https://catalogo.pusc.it/bib/210075. The following screenshot shows the AIbox alone.
How does AIbox work? A set of precompiled questions, defined by our Reference Office, are filled in with authors’ names and title, and sent to Perplexity or You.com AI engine, opening a new web page. The response, of course, doesn’t contain data from our catalogue, and the user can foster the question, or continue the dialogue. Perplexity and you.com are the only engines, as far as we know, that offer to start a conversation through a query URL.
Suggestions are welcome, especially about how to add new engines.
This new service, available in the user language (up to now, English, Italian, Spanish), is a Javascript loaded using the OPACUserJS system preference. Developers can read it at https://catalogo.pusc.it/api/v1/contrib/pusc/static/js/pusc_aibox.js. Feel free to use it in other Koha catalogues, or fork it. Please, click on the Info icon 
for licence and credits.
AIbox is also installed in the URBS Koha catalogue.
Community
Notes, gossip and announcements
- Koha, une communauté autant qu’un produit (BibLibre)
- 25 years of progress in supporting libraries (koha-US)
New Koha libraries
Germany
- Bücherei Tamm via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbibliothek Grossröhrsdorf via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbücherei Glinde via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbücherei Quickborn via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbücherei Schleswig via LMS Cloud
USA
- Kanawha County Public Library in Charleston (WV), via ByWater Solutions
- Norfolk Public Library in Norfolk (NE), via ByWater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- Als die Zettel laufen lernten : Therapie eines Medienbruchs (A. Wagner)
- Anubis, protection contre les robots malveillants (BibLibre)
- Blocking Koha attacks with Anubis (Mark Alexander)
- Blocking Koha attacks with iptables (Mark Alexander)
- Building a better way to manage Koha LMS cron jobs (Open Fifth)
- Can Koha display the last seen date on a patron record? (ByWater Solutions)
- Can libraries upload digital files to a Koha MARC record? (ByWater Solutions)
- Decoding Koha (koha-US)
- Do we need to copy holidays to new branches added in Koha? (ByWater Solutions)
- Easy Koha upgrade to the latest version (2025-26) (RAFLIMTS)
- Festive portals: Customising Aspen Discovery and Koha LMS (Open Fifth)
- How to migrate Koha library system to a new installation (2025-2026) (RAFLIMTS)
- Koha tips and tricks 7 (Catalyst)
- Overview of vue.js in Koha (Open Fifth)
- Practical Koha customizations for staff workflows (koha-US)
- Protecting a web site with Anubis and Apache (Mark Alexander)
- Pseudonymization: Use it, don’t spell it (koha-US)
- Release of Koha 25.11 (Catalyst)
- SQL: Mana-tized reports (koha-US)
- SQL: Importing external reports (koha-US)
- The Koha Community announces 25.11 release (ByWater Solutions)
- Using XML in authorized values for heat zone usage analysis (103) (koha-US)
- Using XML in authorized values for heat zone usage analysis (104) (koha-US)
- UX, bugs, etc. (koha-US)
Support provider news
- Bywater Solutions’ partners sponsor development in Koha 25.11 release (ByWater Solutions)
- Developed for you: Bespoke software development for Koha and Aspen Discovery (Open Fifth)
Upcoming events
For all upcoming meetings, see next meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meetings, see the Koha Community calendar.
Documentation drop-in session
Thursday 15th January 2026, any time between 13:30-16:00 UTC (check the times in your timezone)
Philip Orr and Aude Charillon, on behalf of the Documentation team, invite you to try your hand at Koha documentation! We can walk you through making your first (or second, or third) contribution to the Koha manual, help you troubleshoot on GitLab, show you how to analyse screenshots so they are generated automatically, chat with you about the work of the Documentation team… It’s also a good time for questions – not just for beginners but anyone taking part in documentation – and generally for working together on expanding and improving the manual.
All the details are on the wiki. We hope to see you in January!
Past events
- KohaCon 2025 – 17-23 November 2025 – photos (Kristina D. C. Hoeppner)
- KohaCon25 – presentation recordings from day 1 and 2 (Koha Community)
- KohaCon25 in New Zealand wrap-up (ByWater Solutions)
- Te Hokinga Mai : Coming home: Celebrating 25 years of Koha at KohaCon25 (Aleisha Amohia)
For all past meetings, see the following links or the Koha Community calendar:
For any other Koha-related meetings, see the Koha Community calendar.