Koha Community Newsletter: July 2024
Koha Community Newsletter: July 2024 
Volume 15, Issue 7
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
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Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 30 July 2024 | Koha 24.05.02 stable |
6 enhancements 97 bugfixes (6 security fixes) |
| 30 July 2024 | Koha 23.11.07 oldstable |
4 enhancements 66 bugfixes (4 security fixes) |
| 30 July 2024 | Koha 23.05.13 | 6 bugfixes |
| 30 July 2024 | Koha 22.11.19 | 4 bugfixes |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
Community
Notes, gossip and announcements
- Koha Foundation vote
- Mattermost – the new place to be for all things Koha Community (Bywater Solutions)
Koha Project Foundation vote
The Koha Project Foundation vote has finished and the community has voted 93.2% in favour of the proposal that the project has a new home in the Open Library Foundation. Brendan Gallagher and Jonathan Field will follow up with next steps.
New Koha libraries
Germany
Great Britain
- Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Liverpool Women’s Hospitals Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, via PTFS Europe
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, via PTFS Europe
Koha tips and tricks
- Ability to send emails from patron’s account (Bywater Solutions)
- Analyse web open source et respectueuse de la vie privée (Matomo) (Biblibre)
- Automatic holds on purchase suggestions (Bywater Solutions)
- Automatic renewal circulation rule (Bywater Solutions)
- Automatically renewing patron’s membership (Bywater Solutions)
- Can libraries just collect year of birth? (Bywater Solutions)
- Check previous issues in Koha (PTFS Europe)
- Comments and tags (koha-US)
- Data protection options in Koha (PTFS Europe)
- Did you mean? : Libguides in Koha (RAFLIMTS)
- Enhancements to Elasticsearch (Bywater Solutions)
- ERM module (PTFS Europe)
- How are long overdue lost and overdue notice triggers timed? (Bywater Solutions)
- How do I revert a waiting hold? (Bywater Solutions)
- How do I suggest a development for the crowdfunding page? (Bywater Solutions)
- How to choose the best library management software 2024 (Catalyst)
- Implementing Koha in your library (PTFS Europe)
- Koha circulation (RAFLIMTS)
- Koha testing Docker (Bywater Solutions)
- Maybe you need an ILS! : introducing Koha (PDF file) (Fred King)
- Maybe you need an ILS! : introducing Koha (PPTX file) (Fred King)
- Patron accounting (Bywater Solutions)
- Release of Koha 24.05 ()
- Report link changes (koha-US)
- What does marking a library location as public do? (Bywater Solutions)
Upcoming events
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.
Past events
- Hackfest Koha du 8/04/24 au 12/04/24 (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.